Some travel highlights of my time in Butkina were: - An 18 hour trip to get roughly 300km. On the very last leg we took a detour in our bush taxi down what was

Some travel highlights of my time in Butkina were: - An 18 hour trip to get roughly 300km. On the very last leg we took a detour in our bush taxi down what was very clearly only a bike trail. The van got stuck on a tree and as we waited one of the drivers took my bike off and just rode away. Turned out he was riding out to get someone from the village we were detouring to. - During a 20 some hour bus ride to Ghana, a dude popped out in the road and shot at the bus. After the driver pulled over the guy came in and fired a few times down the center of the bus and husseled everyone off. I was just starting a vacation with a number of friends so they got _a lot_ of cash. Eventually when I felt brave enough to look up I saw the Ghana police firing randomly in the woods (Impressively they got there is about 10 minutes). As we were telling the police how much they toke, one of them said in adorable English, "Oh! They sure had a field day, haha". - On a trip from Ghana we ended up hitch hiking and got a ride from a former head of the presidential guard in a sweet minivan. The dude was super nice but a crazy driver. Among the multiple times I thought we would die, he went to pass a long truck while another huge one was hurtling towards us for a head on collision. Instead of backing off or slowing down, he casually jammed the gas and swerved off road (which had a solid six inch drop) to get around it. So many more hilariously insane experiences. Lots of fun.