Along the coast we find wide stretches of untouched sand, in which remain only our footsteps and those of birds searching for food.
Some words come to mind, those of another walking couple, a great source of inspiration.
“Rarely I felt so strongly how essential it is to leave a trace. Not for personal pride, later generations or ego; but for creation itself, to mark our own existence, not to live exclusively for ourselves.”
Sonia and Alexandre Poussin had this thought while walking from Cape Town to Israel across the African continent. One couple, two years walk, 14 thousands kilometres.
Their book, Africa Trek, is a vivid and uplifting report interweaving multiple topics: African wilderness in all its aspects, even the harshest and most real, the return to the essential through traveling on foot, but also the power of love that unites these two adventurers.
“Every day traveling beside her is a declaration of love,” writes Alexandre about Sonia.
In fact, what amazes is less the wildness of their trip than the energy that keeps them together, encouraging them to overcome any difficulty.
Moved by this romantic story we continue our march in search of a clearer vision of the world, the people and the landscape.
We follow the desire to leave a trace that represents ourselves faithfully, to become the people that our wisest self would like us to be.
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