I used to maintain some photo galleries that were separate from my blog. After a while I stopped creating new photo galleries—so I decided to import the photos into new (and sometimes existing) posts.
In the spirit of windowseat photography, I bring you the much more dangerous, driver’s seat photography.
I left Carrboro, NC and started driving towards Santa Rosa, California during nine days in May 2005. Though I had several intermediate destinations in mind (Grand Canyon, Zion), the journey itself was really the destination. As such I treated it like any tourist/explorer would. I took lots of pictures (through my windshield).
this weekend jane and i had nearly 7000 acres of hanging rock state park pretty much to ourselves. we hiked. we found a country-living-style bed and breakfast for the night. we feasted on baked spaghetti, fried chicken, and hushpuppies at duke’s family restaurant in walnut cove. we ate ham biscuits for breakfast. we hiked some more as it snowed.
and none of this was planned. we just headed out on a whim saturday morning and came back sunday evening.
i haven’t posted any images of life on the street in accra, so i wanted to end with some i took today, coming back from the art centre.
this man is selling coconuts out of a wheelbarrow on oxford street in osu. people in ghana are serious about selling things. from handmade items to sneakers to plastic buckets, you can get almost anything just walking down a well-traveled street.
After visiting the Kakum canopy walk, we drove to Elmina, Ghana to visit the old slave-trading fort.
I can’t even begin to describe today other than to say that what was supposed to be a two and a half hour drive from our hotel in Accra to Kakum National Park was actually a four and a half hour drive—one way. I feel like I’ve seen all of Africa through the window of an old Mercedes on a potholed, dirt road. We left around 7:30am and got back by 8:30pm. So that means we were gone for about thirteen hours and literally ten of that we spent driving. Or in traffic. At least I was able to take some pictures in the three hours that we actually spent at the park and the Elmina slave trading castle.
