{"id":411864,"date":"2018-03-22T09:39:58","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T09:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=411864"},"modified":"2018-03-22T09:44:07","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T09:44:07","slug":"heritagecaravan-who-doesnt-love-a-good-road-trip-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/03\/heritagecaravan-who-doesnt-love-a-good-road-trip-article\/","title":{"rendered":"#HeritageCaravan: Who doesn’t love a good road trip? [Article]"},"content":{"rendered":"
I have a growing intimacy for travelling, and especially for great road trips, indeed if travelling were free, I bet you would never see me again.<\/p>\n
For me, there is nothing more appealing than the wonderful memories of a great road trip of a lifetime.<\/p>\n
It was therefore not surprising to learn that as far back as 1888, the inventor Karl and her wife Bertha Benz would take frequent road trips even in the then phase of global road development.<\/p>\n
Today, around the world, the statistics of road trips are increasingly thrilling.<\/p>\n
Presently in Ghana, one cannot mention the thrills of road trips and obliterate the stories from the \u2018Citi FM’s Heritage Caravan\u2019<\/strong>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Citi FM Heritage Caravan is an annual road trip that gives a rare opportunity to tourism enthusiasts to experience and discover Ghana.<\/p>\n Personally, this year\u2019s road-trip makes for me the second count of a super exciting journey across Ghana, and in the company\u00a0of amazing patrons who were bent-on touring Ghana in a seven (7) \u2013 day \u201cSee Ghana\u201d road trip.<\/p>\n Indeed, \u201cGood company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.\u201d \u2014Izaak Walton<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I had signed up, and was getting all set-to-go, with tickling emotions! Packing became\u00a0the unloved part. As a traveller, travelling light is my thing.<\/p>\n I became my own mum, I ordered myself around, got a few items for my trip, packed and unpacked a few more, and like the Spanish proverb \u201con a long journey even a straw weighs heavy\u201d it becomes funny when the thought of all the \u201cJust-in-case\u201d essentials translates into a heavy load (only travellers would understand this).<\/p>\n I just couldn\u2019t wait for a day to break, in fact, I had returned from the pre-trip concert at the Alisa Hotel and up, ready to \u201cSee Ghana!\u201d Sunday, 4th March 2018 was the starting line for the 2018 trip, and in the words of Charles Warner \u201cThere is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like its beginning.\u201d<\/p>\n It is said that \u201ca traveller without observation is a bird without wings.\u201d<\/p>\n Ghana, as I observe, has an incredible countryside topography and an appealing aesthetic outlook which is best explored through inland travels, and that is exactly what I experienced on the Heritage Caravan! The many breathtaking sights across Ghana. I said to myself, this Country is really resourcefully big, lots to see, and more miles unseen.<\/p>\n \u201cLike all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.\u201d \u2013\u00a0Benjamin Disraeli.<\/p>\n Covering 2,620 kilometres by road is sure an adventure for me!<\/p>\n My goal apart from making travel buddies was to better understand the culture of natives at each destination and their unique way of life, and the special stories as I visit as many attraction sights and explore the unknown.<\/p>\n For me, road trips are just perfect opportunities to forget about all my worlds\u2019 worries, escape from the small busy capital city to see the sun rise and set in different regions of Ghana.<\/p>\n It was day one; our journey began in Accra at 10am. We had two Intercity Coaches STC buses for the trip, they were tagged bus A and B.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I made myself comfortable in Bus B in my little one corner as we rode towards Colonial Accra, driving along the Coast through Accra central all the way to Sesemi Museum within Accra\u2019s Abokobi township.<\/p>\n