{"id":223,"date":"2013-01-19T17:28:29","date_gmt":"2013-01-19T17:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/?p=223"},"modified":"2024-09-24T01:11:42","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T01:11:42","slug":"preparing-for-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/2013\/01\/19\/preparing-for-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparing for Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our trip to Ghana is less than a week away. \u00a0When I close my eyes, the smiles and aromas of Africa slowly return.<\/p>\n

\"DSC_8534\"Emily and Paul were with us on our last adventure, and oh how we wish this
\nwas another family trip. \u00a0From our first day<\/a> to the last evening<\/a> in Ghana it was trip filled with joy. \u00a0Looking though the photo album, my pulse begins to quicken with anticipation.<\/b> Africa!<\/p>\n

Tempering my excitement is the very real work ahead for Beth and I. \u00a0We have but a few days to complete packing and preparing — audio recording equipment for the Komba villages we will be visiting, satellite maps to help aid in some of the navigation, camping supplies (food, stove, mosquito netting, etc.), software toolchains for editing the Komba praise songs and stories and loading them onto the \"DSC_0091\"solar-powered BIBLEplus units, planning field tests for the water filtration units, and of course preparing Emily and Paul for our absence. \u00a0We are naturally concerned about what could happen while Beth and I are on the other side of the planet, however, our preparations reveal two important lessons: our illusion of control is self-inflicted and God has blessed us with wonderful children.<\/p>\n

So, we prepare both our hearts and our gear. \u00a0As is our custom, we have set up “the packing table” in our kitchen, and begin to slowly accumulate all the pieces… passports, visas, yellow-fever vaccination cards, camera gear, and of course my headlight :-) \u00a0Africa! \u00a0We hear your joyful songs and rumbling drums. \u00a0We are coming.<\/p>\n

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Our trip to Ghana is less than a week away. \u00a0When I close my eyes, the smiles and aromas of Africa slowly return. Emily and Paul were with us on our last adventure, and oh how we wish this was another family trip. \u00a0From our first day to the last evening in Ghana it was … Continue reading Preparing for Africa<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2908,"href":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions\/2908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}