Monday, November 23, 2009

Ghana pt 2


Carter and I rented a cab to go to El Mina, where there was supposd to be some scenery. It was just an old fort that they used to ship slaves out of, nothing really spectacular there. Funny story along they way, we got stopped by about 4 or 5 different cops because they saw Carter's white self and wanted a mad bribe from our cabby. Of course the cops were friendly to us and our cabby was a fox so we didn't pay the cops squat. Lol@ police corruption. Another funny thing that happened is outside of the castle in El Mina there were some kids up to no good trying to sham us out of money. They pretended they were part of a school collection drive or some crap like that, an offical SAS trip had come to the castle before we did and we had SAS branded items on us so they figured we were part of the same SAS group. Anyways one of these guys had a shirt that said "Fuck all of my enemies"… If you're trying to get "charity" donations that kinda shirt probably doesn’t help. Anyways they gave us seashells with our names written in sharpie as a gift for donations. I told them I didn't have any money but I had a bottle of Deet. One of the guys thought I was going to give the bottle to him in return, but I gave him a spray in the chest, got in my cab and left. He didn't get ripped off, the marker rubbed off of the shell 1/2 hour later and they didn't clean the insides so those shells stunk horribly a day later. We got back to town right at the beginning of rushhour so we missed most of that, but traffic was backed up for at least a good 4 miles in some places, shitty roads man. I gave our cabbie my pair of fOakleys I got in Morocco as a departing gift. Nothing much happened after this, met up with Prosperity again to try to trade my Puma hat for a mask but he wouldn't budge on the negotiations so I just left. Chilled out some more, went back to the ship, and sailed off.

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