{"id":2373,"date":"2023-01-20T01:11:15","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T01:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana\/?p=2373"},"modified":"2024-09-24T00:31:22","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T00:31:22","slug":"tune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/2023\/01\/20\/tune\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuna"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Full days. Great days. Exhausting days. Days with adversity \u2014 just the way we like it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Quickly catching everyone up\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yesterday<\/strong> (Wednesday) we drove across Ghana, from East to West.  From Chereponi, just a few miles from the Togo border, we meandered back down to Tamale, and then on to Tuna, on the far West side of Ghana.  We are less than 20 miles from Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast. Once again, to give Ray a break from driving the punishing roads of Northern Ghana, I sat behind the wheel as we dodged goats, donkey carts, lorries teetering across speed bumps, and holes that can swallow wheels and break axels. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As we pulled out of Chereponi, we had prepared a surprise for Ray\u2026. Even with the greatest care, Ray\u2019s Nissan HardBody pickup truck has been beaten, battered, and bruised over the years.  The hard life of Northern Ghana quickly rattles everything loose, from the rear-view mirror and battery cable to the passenger\u2019s kidneys and teeth.   Ray\u2019s CD player stopped working years ago.  So as we pulled out of Chereponi I turned on the Bluetooth speaker we brought into the cab, and from my phone, fired up the Wheaton Gospel Choir: Legacy 25  \u2013 one of Ray\u2019s all time favorite CDs.  The first song is ideal for a 10 hour trip across harsh paths to land of the Birifor. The lyrics begin:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Who will go?\nI Will\u2026\nWho will go? \nI will\u2026\nWho will go?\nI will\u2026\nCarry on!\nTake his message of love to the Nations, every man, woman, boy and girl\n[\u2026]\nI need to go, wanna go, gotta go\u2026\nCarry on!\nI need to go, wanna go, gotta go\u2026\n<\/pre>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
You can listen to the track below…..<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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