Keep the good - leave the bad...

In all my travels I think one overriding trend is that the lasting memories are the good ones.

Here's two of them from my last week.

Fresh pineapple juice in a pineapple - It happened when I walked into the Marina Beach Hotel in Cotonou after 7 hours driving into Benin. At check in, I forgot that I was in the best hotel in the capital, still familiar with bumpy pot holes roads and bottles water for refreshments...as I paid the cash room deposit a porter brought to the check in desk this, freshly squezzed pineapple juice with ice in a half pineapple, I nearly jumped at the surprise, I was still a bit tense, since I had driven the lead 4WD through Togo and Benin for the second half of our jouney.

A Gold Coast Panorama 800m above sea level - About 45 minutes north of Accra is a town called "Aburi" pronounced "ebree" (- e for egg and bree like the french cheese) It sits as a barrier to northern Ghana and as the entrance to a lush green terrain resembling jungle. This afternoon I went was exploring and I pulled over and bought some boiled corn to eat, then tried something called "sweet apple" in the left of the picture. I sat with the stall owner and chatted for an hour, they introduced me to the sweet apple, and the view was spectacular...