Driving Around

The streets the streets the streets! Where to begin. I don't think i could ever drive in Ghana. Even if the majority of drivers here didn't drive so erratically the next thing you'd have to worry about would be the pavement. I'm surprised we've gotten to all the places we've been to thus far in the Toyota corolla that we've ridden around in. I don't know who to give props to, Toyota for making a reliable car (lol) or the owner of the car Asante for maneuvering it the way he has(lol). You would think with all the pot holes (and by pot holes i mean craters..lol) that the car would have been tore up by now. A 4x4 or even better yet an all terrain vehicle is definitely necessary. Although i must say that the kid in me does like riding around through town. Aside from the traffic its kind of like being on a roller coaster (it may sound like an exaggeration but raise your hand if you've tried it?....didn't think so..lol) Buckle up and hold on! This morning we went to church and it was literally on a mountain, which made the name all the more ironic (MT. Zion Assembly COP). Now you would think that we'd park somewhere and walk to the church since the majority of the terrain surrounding the church was rough but no, Asante bobbed and weaved that corolla right to the bottom of the church and i was definitely impressed.The shocks on his car, on the other hand,...we'll have to dedicate another blog post to those...lol.

We drove through places that i wasn't sure we'd even be able to drive out of. For example this hill that we approached i thought we weren't going to make it. Talk about steep. But we made it.

So now that I've talked about the pot holes, let me speak about the stoplights, or should i say lack thereof..lol. When we went out during the day, I saw all of 12 stoplights, 2 of which were actually working and mind you we'd been driving around for about an hour. Driving through town during the day is sort of like playing Russian roulette...lol. If your not an aggressive driver, with quick hand-eye coordination (that you'll need to get to your horn) i suggest you call a cab. But thankfully no accidents have happened,and i haven't seen any. Its sort of like a system that they all have. Interesting nonetheless.