I think what typically happens when someone goes on a 'big trip,' they only want to remember/photo/document/describe/share all the 'cool' and exciting things that happened.
Which is dope.
No one wants to see photos of you at your all-inclusive hotel sitting on a toilet from food poisoning or putting aloes on your sunburn.
Well, maybe some people might get some kicks out of that, but for the rest of us? Not so much.
And ya, we see all the breathtaking landscape photos. The cool IGable poses. The 'I-took-10-tries-to-get-the-exact-selfie-I-wanted' photo.
But for me, I think the candid photos that are representative of the 'mundane' travels are the best.
And this photo sums up our trip to a T.
On the side of the road. On the way out of Kumasi. Eatng lunch.
Not so exciting, eh?
Mind you, this photo was taken about 20 minutes after some folks on the trip had a first time experience of peeing in a concrete hole in the ground/wall, but it sums up how we built our communitas.
It was a long bus ride (much longer than anyone expected). It was hot. Bellies were rumbling. Nerves were fraying.
But we all managed to chill out and have a nice lunch of quasi-lethal bone-in chicken kebabs, fried fish, and fried casava.
What makes this even more impactful? Especially as of May 2020?
How what we can think as mundane and take for granted - sharing food with a group of people - can shift in a matter of weeks.
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