Food.

I can’t tell if I’m hungry. Today we went to the canopy walk in Kakum National Park. It’s one of five canopy walks in the world! And it’s the largest!

What is a canopy walk? It is a series of bridges between trees in the canopy – or highest part – of the tree. So we were 130 feet off the ground walking between the treetops. They were originally intended for research, but now are a source of tourism.

We spent 8 hours in the car getting to and from our treetop hike. I spent most of those eight hours feeling nauseous from the ups and downs of an unpaved road. I had rolls for breakfast, and spaghetti with beef for lunch, and even though it has been hours since I ate I can’t tell if I’m up for dinner…maybe it was that heavenly Twix bar I scavenged from a gas station today. Ghanaian’s don’t like sweets…so the once every 2 weeks I can lay my hands on a piece of candy is a joyous day.

Ghanaian food has started to get to me. It’s very repetitive. I’ve eaten every combination of rice and protein you can image – rice and fish, rice and chicken, rice and beef, rice and goat. Not to mention rice balls (banku). I’ve also eaten more plantains in more combinations then I can remember – fried, roasted, broiled, thinly sliced, thickly sliced, with beans, and of course…with rice.

What I realized about the states that I hadn’t before is that we have a lot of good food. So many cultures come from so many places to provide a dizzying amount of cuisines! Well, for now I’ll feast on my rice-plantain-meat creations…