Chapter photos from Crocodile Love, my new travel memoir
byThese photographs from our trip through Pakistan, India, Ghana, The Gambia serve as the chapter openers to CROCODILE LOVE: Travel tales from an Extended Honeymoon.
Ghana
Ghana Will Always Win! Africa story wins the silver in 2012 Solas travel writing awards
byTravel and Sports Silver Winner: “Ghana Will Always Win” by Joshua Berman The author experiences World Cup fever on the Gold Coast It was…
Go Black Stars! Ghana goes bananas! Tranquilo Traveler digs up World Cup 2006 posts
byAs Ghana celebrates its first win in the 2010 World Cup, I thought I’d take a look back. Exactly four years ago, my wife…
Ghana girls dorm is finished!
byLast October, I posted a plea from Peace Corps Volunteer Carl Allen in Northern Ghana, who was raising funds to build a girls’ dorm…
Help girls go to school in Northern Ghana
byLast year, Tay and I met Peace Corps Volunteer Carl “Ka” Allen in Northern Ghana, in the village of Nakpanduri where Carl was living…
Ghana Black Stars Goal against the USA sparks mass happiness
byThis is video of Ghanaians watching the 2006 World Cup. I was in Accra and every single goal the Black Stars scored throughout the…
Plant a Tree in Ghana: Contribute to the Keta Coconut Project
byA while back, I reported on the devastation of the trees in the village of Keta as a result of tidal surges. The community…
New Ghana Youth Blog!
byCongratulations to the PPAG Young & Wise Media Committee for creating the Ghana Youth Blog!
Buying Bread
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That I am ready to go home does not matter to Africa, which persists in being everywhere I look and all around me.
Cape Coast, Canopy, and College Kids
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The dust has not settled from our trip north when we reconfigure our daypacks and we set out before sunrise, searching for transport to Cape Coast. There’s not much traffic in Accra before six a.m. on a Saturday morning, not the kind that grinds to a halt for 15 minutes at a time, gridlocked in noxious exhaust, as happens in the afternoons. No, the air is actually cool and the streets gray and empty as we go from the STC bus station to Kwame Nkumrah Circle, then to Kaneshie Market, until we finally find a westbound tro-tro and climb in for the 3-hour cruise.