There is one road in Mahadaga.   It is name-less but everyone knows it well.  The Burkinabe live their lives on it, near it, around it, beside it.  They buy and sell and visit each other on it, work their fields beside it, and celebrate important events under the shade of the mango trees along it. …

  On our long bus ride to Ghana, Jason and I started reading a book that has started us reflecting on how we want to live differently when we get back to Canada.  It talks about making choices based on values: choosing contentment over consumerism, stop and play over fast forward, talking over technology, so…

Shannon put a bunch more pictures from our Ghana trip on Facebook – check out the photo album here: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=66215&id=502659080&l=61d03.

So what DOES one do on a 30 hour bus trip anyways?  Jason and I just arrived back from a mini-Ghana excursion.  We had a bit of time to take a “break” and put on our adventurous travel backpacks and hit the road.  SO we started with a 16 hour bus ride from Ouagadougou to Kumasi…