The trip begins

5/25 Wednesday

We left Boston for the first leg of out trip missing one member of our group. He had not paid for his visa to be expedited. This is a choice option on the check off. According to his friends, he also procrastinated and mailed the application very late. The day of the trip NO PASSPORT! After many phone calls to the embassy and post offices he found out that his visa was already in the mail but traveling by camel. Oh, also the camel was headed for Shrewsbury MA. The earliest he could pick up his visa was at 9 or 10 AM. He was not going to make the first flight Boston to NY with the group, check in was 9:15 for a 10:15 flight. What an incredible ‘supermom to the rescue moment’, she put on her cape and schlepped to Shrewsbury and then to New York for a 4:45PM boarding of the second flight to Accra. By the way the accent is on the ‘cra’ the second syllable of Accra. Oh, she then had to drive back home to Fitchburg, MA. What a mom. That was my first encounter with Adam.