March 22nd, 2018 by tarakorff

I am currently in the London Heathrow airport passing the time before my flight to Accra, the capital of Ghana.  While I have been on quite a few overnight flights before, this was my first in a while and I have forgotten how difficult it is to sleep comfortably on a plane for long periods of time! In all though, the travel so far has been uneventful, which is the way I think I like it.  Total flight time before I get to Ghana will be about 18 hours and then add layover time on top. I left St. Louis, Missouri on Wednesday afternoon. That means I will arrive in Accra later today, Thursday night!  Then on Saturday I will take a flight to Tamale in northern Ghana followed by a trip by road to finish the journey to the Baptist Medical Centre.

If you are interested in reading more about the Baptist Medical Centre where I am headed, their website is www.baptistmedicalcenter.org.  And of course, I will be posting more about it once I get there and have some first-hand experience.

International travel is not foreign to me, but this will be the first time to Ghana for me and the first time to Africa as well. The medical experience is sure to be new, enlightening, and exhausting.  The culture I am especially excited to experience because that will be essentially completely new to me!

I appreciate all your thoughts and continued prayers for safe travel.  I hope you all will enjoy following along on my journey.