My First 'Trotro' Ride
This is an article that I published for The Finder.
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My First “Trotro” Ride
Coming from the States, I am accustomed to a very different kind of public transportation. I pay as soon as I enter the bus and I pull a string overhead my seat that informs the driver that I would like for the bus to stop so I may get off at my stop. There are Read More …
Tro-Tro Adventures
Every day I use a tro-tro as a form of transportation, and it can take anywhere from 30 minutes to two hours to get to work or home. But that’s only the beginning. Every time it’s an adventure and something different happens, so here are of my two most memorable tro-tro rides thus far. To Read More …
Monday Jams
I have been in traffic jams before, but no amount of traffic in Los Angeles or New York could have prepared me for the chaos that is in Accra. It’s so normal too, so you’d expect the Ghanaians to be used to it. I’m sure they are, but they get just as frustrated. Especially when Read More …
My First Experience on a Tro-Tro
When my boss at Today newspaper offered that the company driver take me home after my first day, I said I wanted to take the tro-tro. The response I got was laughs and confused looks. I had never been on the tro-tro before, and I was anxious to experience Ghana’s public transportation system first-hand. Ever Read More …
Dust, Humidity, and Bright Colors
As my first month in west Africa comes to a close, I’m finding things are beginning to settle. Flying into Accra with Morgan, we arrived in the night to an airport crowded with people and humidity. Eventually we made it through a long customs line and received a very minor taste of the well-orchestrated chaos Read More …
How I Reached Rock Bottom Taking My First Trotro
There’s this episode of the Nickelodeon kids show SpongeBob SquarePants in which SpongeBob, on the way back from visiting a glove-themed amusement park, gets lost in an unfamiliar town called Rock Bottom and has to try to find his way back home to Bikini Bottom. Finding the right bus proves to be next to impossible, Read More …
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Ghana
I’ve been putting off my blog posts until something spectacular happened. Finally, the day has come and it’s time to write about my experiences. Today was our second day of internships and it started early in the day, as expected. I was personally expected at the office by 9am, and was told that with travel Read More …
Bro, do you even tro-tro?
Way back when I first applied for the Media in Ghana program, I had some preliminary thoughts about what Ghana would be like. One of the first thoughts I had was what public transportation would be like in Accra. The public transportation is expert level here compared to many parts of my home state, California. Read More …
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It’s midday in Accra. I’m stuck in traffic on Liberation Road, one of Accra’s main arteries in and out of the city. Wedged between two Ghanaians on the first of four overly-occupied rows of seating behind the driver, I can feel sweat dripping down my shins beneath the denim I regretfully opted for this morning.