This is a video from our hike on the Wild Coast. What a breath taking view. We got up early Friday morning and hiked about two hours down the coast toward Hole in the Wall. About halfway, we were greated by a young local boy who offered to guide two lost American's such as our selves. He was good company. His name was Aaron, quite fitting for the setting, seeing as we were surrounded by open pastures filled with grazing cattle, sheep and goats. The dog that decided to acompany us (who by the way thought he was our guide and was thus ticked off when Aaron suddenly took over the role), took it upon himself to systematically herd every four legged beast in the area, which needless to say didn't make us very popular amongst the local herdsmen and herdschildren, which was the more common of the too. At one point I though we were going to have to surrender to three young boys who wanted to cane us for the dog chasing their goats down over a very steap hill. We barely escaped with our lives as we fought of their attack dogs for the next 100 meters. No joke. Anyway, it was an amazing hike filled with great beauty and many questions. I am forever challenged by the way of living in rural Africa, the contrast between the beauty and poverty of life. A place where so many tourist flock to see such great beauty is also the very same place where many suffer from extreme and absolute poverty. Many questions that are not going to be answered here in this post but that come to mind when I watch this video. How can I reflect on God's ever present Spirit which inhabits this beautiful earth without at the same time questioning what my place is in the whole thing, where is God in the lives of those who suffer on the edge of this most beautiful coast line? But that's a question for another time.

Our South Africa leg of the quest is over and tomorrow we jump on a chicken bus and head for chiredzi Zimbabwe, where we will meet up with many friends, and face a whole new set of questions. We are still trying to work out why we have joined together for this crazy quest, why are we traveling through Africa; is it for our own enjoyment, our own pleasure; is it to benifit others; is it to find something in the faces and lives of those we meet that will reveal the very nature of God and this life? Maybe it is just a little bit of everything, and is yet to be revealed to us. We wait in eager anticipation to discover why we have taken up this quest and we hope that our imaginations will be streched, that our hope will be expanded, and that our lives will be changed. I hope that we might become dear friends, and truly learn how to serve others and enjoy God's great gift of life. I have truly come to love Africa, and this is only the beginning.

Dan