Do you know how to ride a bike?

Another blog post so soon!

Things are still going well in Adoteiman, we'll now be leaving here on the weekend so we get to spend a few more days with our family.

Linds and I took the day off yesterday and had an amazing day that I must share. We thought we would go into the mountains to visit Aburi (pronounced Eh-bree). This is a small town at the top of the escarpment and among other things, had a botanical gardens and a bike shop.

So we decided to take a bike "tour". It was a 3-hour tour with a local guide. But they didn't warn us that it would be 60% mountain biking!! Harry, you would have died of joy!

It was probably one of the coolest things I've ever done and I highly recommend anyone in Ghana to check it out, as long as you are prepared for a pretty great work out. It started out biking through Aburi and seeing some of the town, which was very beautiful. Then, you take a turn and suddenly you are biking through the jungle down a single, rocky path! It was pretty surreal, we were biking on a little path in this valley and when we looked up on either side of us all we could see were cliffs covered in rain forest. We went over streams, up and down huge, muddy, rocky hills, and around farmers fields of maize and cassava. Our guide stopped at many trees and bushes to explain how cassava is grown, or what a cocoa pod looks like (I had no idea they grew on trees!). We met farmers on their way to their fields with machetes and women coming home from the stream with a bucket full of crabs. We biked by the town where Bob Marley's wife, Rita, lives when she comes to Ghana. She has built a health centre and school and brought light there so she was named the Queen Mother. We walked by a little rasta shop where apparently, Bob Marley's personal body guard lives and works.

By the end of the three hours, we were totally covered in mud and dripping with sweat, although of course guide exactly the same as when we stared, even though that was his first tour in three months. When we got back to the shop they gave us fresh pineapple, and of course the taste is so much better than home!

It was truly a lovely day and gave Linds and me a little boost in morale.

Then last night, we tried to bake our family some banana bread. We had to go on a sort of wild goose chase to find baking soda, so we felt a lot of pressure to make this bread worth the trouble. But, it turns out many Ghanaians aren't big on the baking, and their oven only had a broiler!! If you can believe it, we ended up microwaving it, and it tasted ok, so I guess all was not lost. But we might not try to bake anything again for a while.

That is all of the update from my end. We are sort of feeling uncertain about our next location, since as of now we don't have any place confirmed, so if we aren't sure, I guess we'll head back to Accra after this weekend. If all goes well, though, we'll be in Central Region on Monday!

Amy