Ammon:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We went to the airport and got to the small airport lounge. I found out that airport lounges sometimes have showers! (Didn\u2019t use it.) Then got on our prop plane flight. Then we landed, and took a taxi to Becky\u2019s house. Met the one-week old puppies (German Shepherds). Dad did work, and mom met people, so just screen day for me. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pictures from Saturday<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n LaReita:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yes, it was a screen afternoon for Ammon. I take consolation that it was Saturday, and at home Ammon would be playing on the computer anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Getting to Kumasi from Accra options:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Option 1 (most economical): The VIP bus = 5 hours on crowded roads.Five hours does not include getting to the station and sitting\/waiting on the hot bus. Once on the road, you get the adrenaline bonus experiencing the bus driver driving at kamikaze, break-neck speeds on partially unpaved or pot-holed roads. Then once you reach the station, getting to your final destination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Option 2 (fastest method): Passion Airways (propeller-jet plane) = 30-40 minutes domestic flight. We can use our Priority Pass benefit to sit in an air conditioned lounge with a buffet, drinks, and strong wifi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We chose Option 2. The fastest, but also more expensive. The flights to Kumasi used to be $120 round-trip. Pretty Then in January, a Chinese company bought the airline. It now is $250 round-trip. Sigh. The flights were still full (mostly Ghanaians), so apparently people are able and willing to pay. What was most frustrating to me is I tried to buy the tickets a month ago at cheaper prices, but since I was on an African website, using my USA Visa card, it kept being rejected as fraud. Ugh. So I relented and bought the tickets at their window when we landed in Ghana a few days ago. I probably could have called Visa to let the purchase go through, but\u2026. I didn\u2019t. Can\u2019t win them all I suppose. We supported the Chinese businessmen and the locals they employ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At Becky\u2019s house I trained three of our managers on the new website Dave built for us to manage people, hours, courses, classes and attendance \u2013 FMFed.org. Also training them on the regular website for blogging and requisition forms. I\u2019m learning how to delegate better and give others technology skills that will make them more employable. After-all, mentoring is in our name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I wanted to train them all at the same time to be efficient with my time. However, they all arrived according to African Standard Time. My planned 2 hour training became 6 hours. Akwaaba (ah-kwa-bah) Ghana (translation: \u201cWelcome to Ghana.\u201d)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dave happily connected to Becky\u2019s Starlink and made some good progress on his real work project (Medicare data code-sets).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ammon: We went to the airport and got to the small airport lounge. I found out that airport lounges sometimes have showers! (Didn\u2019t use it.) Then got on our prop plane flight. Then we landed, and took a taxi to Becky\u2019s house. Met the one-week old puppies (German Shepherds). Dad did work, and mom met … Continue reading “Sept 20, 2025 (Sat) \u2013 Ghana Day 3 \u2013 short flight to Kumasi”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ammon","category-david_berky","category-lareita_berky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10704,"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10703\/revisions\/10704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}