Finally, on Sunday, May 15, 2004, the Akron team left Cleveland on the 19 hour journey to Accra via Detroit and Amsterdam, arriving at SchipolAirport in Holland on the morning of May 16. After a seven hour flight from Amsterdam, across southern Europe and across the Sahara, we arrived at KotokaInternationalAirport in Accra, Ghana. The weather was hot and humid but we had already prepared for this after all the group discussions we had before we left Akron. Within two hours of our arrival, we were comfortably checked in at the Holiday Hotel in Dzorwulu, Accra.