Day 75 (wednesday)

Maureen's cousins and me.

Got up around 3 and had a bit of a rough time falling asleep again and heard a little noise outside. I later learned that it was Maureen's aunt just getting home, whom I met later in the morning. I laid around for a few more hours and then Maureen came to get me up for breakfast. I learned that uncle Joe, as he's referred to, was waiting for me to join him for coffee. We had spoken for awhile last night and I learned that he too loves coffee and was excited to have a coffee drinking friend. Uncle Joe is a beautiful man and I learned that recently he suffered a stroke so he has been spending a lot of time in New York receiving treatment and speech therapy. What a wonderful, pleasant and kind person, I feel so fortunate to have such a great host. I enjoyed spending my breakfast time having coffee with him and talking to him. Maureen was outside doing some chores along with some of her cousins. As we were heading in for breakfast, I told Maureen that I would rather just stay in today which means that I will forgo the trip to the mountainous region where we were set to hike to the tallest peak in Ghana (which isn't much by my standards reaching just a few thousand feet) and visit one of the largest waterfalls in west Africa. It was certainly something that I had planned on doing throughout the duration of my trip but we have done so much traveling that I am a bit overwhelmed and exhausted. I figured that it would also give Maureen a little bit of time to get reacquainted with her family. Today I will likely visit the U.S. Embassy and will probably head west as we will visit nzulezo tomorrow which is a village on the water referred to as the village on stilts and requires a one hour canoe ride to get there.