On the day of Denise’s Easter Egg hunt we went a bit earlier and took some of our hospital volunteers on a hike to see the escarpment. It’s still pretty dry and brown but Nakpanduri has had a couple showers so the green is starting to appear.
Camping at the Escarpment on Boxing Day
Trey has been asking to go camping at the scarp for a long time now. We finally set aside Boxing Day as the day to do it. We drove out to our favorite spot at Gingana Mountain, north of Namaasim, and set up camp. The above 360° photo is of us on the edge of […]
Hiking Along the Gambaga Escarpment
I took my friend Mattis to the Scarp and we hiked over to a new point. It allowed for a nice walk along the edge of the cliffs.
Showing the Pinecrest Gang Around
While our team from Pinecrest Baptist Church was here it wasn’t all work. We had some play time as well! We took them to experience the views at our amazing Escarpment. We also gave them a tour of the market and our town. They got to meet our friends and see how they do life […]
Visitors from IMB
This weekend we had the privilege of hosting two of our colleagues from the US. Ted and Allan are personnel consultants for the IMB who were in southern Ghana speaking at conference on missions. After their conference, they decided to come up north to visit us. They were only here for two days but were […]
Escarpment Visit with Georgia Regents Students
We have a pretty sizable group of volunteers this month so we made sure we took them all to our favorite local landmark. As always, the group was impressed by the view from the Escarpment and had a fun time hiking and climbing the rocks. William, still recovering from typhoid, had to skip this hike. […]
The Escarpment at Nakpanduri
Heidi took a well-deserved break one afternoon this week and we drove north-east with Elizabeth Faile to visit the escarpment near Nakpanduri. The escarpment is a long ridge that stretches west to east and on into Togo. Dr. Faile used to hike and camp here when he was a kid growing up in Nalerigu. Back […]