Just came across some old photos....
July of 1982, me and a buddy hiked north across the Afram Plains, an area historically depopulated due to Ashanti slave raids. Seventy miles of roadless bush, then home to a remnant West African elephant population. This was at the top end, a town of 1,000 people who hadn't seen a White man in five years..
Skinny as a frickin' rail due to the food, climate and lifestyle.
Going on forty years later an actual road cuts along that route we took now, prob'ly not for the better