...and Mondays

“The rainy season” is a term used often when speaking of tropical climates. It means different things in different places. In some places it’s thunderstorms every afternoon at 4:00. In other places it is rain day in and day out. In Ghana, it is a mixture of some of both but still with many days of sunshine and many days with both sunshine and rain and yet more overcast days with no rain at all.

On one route day (the day we go around to our agents and exchange batteries) it began to rain when we were about ½ way home. I had to remind 36 year-old Philip, who has had his driver’s license for three months and thinks he’s the king of the road, that if you can’t see the safest thing to do is pull over. These were views through our windshield and one flooded view off the road. Because it’s just the way things are here, people just find some shelter and wait it out – then clean things up after.

And, for a little added rainy-day blog bonus, here is a photo of a literal “flagger” – no sign with STOP on one side and SLOW on the other – just flags. I’m not sure how much training they get either. Sometimes the flags wave around so randomly it’s hard to tell whether to stop or go.
XO