{"id":1048,"date":"2017-11-01T00:12:06","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T00:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana\/?p=1048"},"modified":"2018-10-19T19:09:17","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T19:09:17","slug":"home-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/2017\/11\/01\/home-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Home!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Home! We are all safely home. The brisk Chicago air is both refreshing and quite a surprise. The smells of Fall, of leaves and wilting gardens, replaces the heat, humidity, and livestock of northern Ghana. Our trip has ended, and we look forward to the studio work to improve the audio tracks and prune, edit, and arrange the photos and video. Over the last 5 years we have completed 3 languages: Komba, Mampruli, and Dagbani. There are many more unreached people in Ghana, and Ray would like us to begin preparing to meet and record the Bimoba people of Northeastern Ghana. It will take months of planning and preparation, but we look forward to the opportunity! <\/p>\n

I leave you with some pictures of Ray\u2019s family, from our last day in Ghana, and then a surprise video at the end\u2026<\/p>\n

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The Mensa Family: Ray and Cynthia, and their children Joseph and Essi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Essi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Joseph<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Joseph and Ray goofing off<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A good friend from work loaned me a small DJI Spark drone. We used it to get some fun footage of the northern regions. Here is a few minutes of the edited video. FYI: We are not actually terrorizing the kids :-) They were giggling and laughing, and loved being chased by the drone. Also, you might notice when we flew the drone high, birds would begin to swarm it and come very close to colliding with it, as some form of harassment.<\/p>\n