Dear Friends at the Daily Graphic,
I recently had the pleasure of returning to Ghana for a three week trip. I traveled with three friends. All of us were Peace Corps Volunteers in Ghana from 1968-70. During this trip we visited all of our former towns and the schools where we taught. We also took in many tourist sites and visited a variety of national parks which did not exist when we first lived there.
In general, it was a wonderful trip: we found Ghanaians to be as warm, friendly, and welcoming as ever; many of the roads had been improved, making our travels easier and more efficient; and we enjoyed numerous points of interest and beautiful scenery. Ghana is indeed a wonderful country, and we were happy and proud to visit again.
There was one aspect of the country which distressed us, however. There was garbage left on the ground, on beaches, and in gutters everywhere. We walked through neighborh
