Friday, July 10, 2009

leaving in a fortnight

Two weeks from now I will be hundreds of feet above the ground on an Emirates Airlines Boeing 777. Twelve-thousand miles and two days later, I will land in Accra, Ghana.

Ghana:

geographic coordinates: 5 33 N, 0 13 W (closest country to the center of the world)

idependence: March 6, 1957 (from the UK)

population: 23,832,495 (I like people)

GDP per capita: $1,500 (compared to $48,000 in the US)

coldest ever: 64 degrees F (perfect amount of cold)

warmest ever: 102 degrees F (it gets hotter than this in California)


I will return in 15,120,000 heartbeats. 70 heartbeats per minute.

2 comments:

  1. and my heart will beat 71 times per minute until my best friend returns.

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  2. You should swim out into the ocean and put your limbs in each hemisphere. It would be awesome! ^_^

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