This is a teaser of my walk along the East Coast of South Africa from Cape Town to the Mozambican border. I had to make do with what I had left after losing most of my footage in an iCloud backup and then half again when I lost my phone.
I travelled by foot, (half of that barefoot), for over 8 months. Hugging the coast, walking on beaches, over rocky headlands, through forests and swam across rivers. My journey exposed me to my own country in a way I don't normally get to see it. Walking unaided, alone, with nothing but what I could carry, made me vulnerable and exposed me to the world. It was in this way that I got to experience South Africa on a grass roots level. The real South Africa, a land of great beauty and curious contrasts with a technicolour soul. I was met by warm people with big hearts and bright smiles. That opened their homes to me and encouraged me on. It is probably the greatest gift I've ever given myself: To leave the comfort of the world I knew, to walk away from the stable job I had and embrace the unknown (even if it was sometimes reluctantly) was incredibly empowering. It dissolved the barriers between my dreams and reality and made me realise just how possible things really are.
Freedom is there for those that choose it and fortune favours the brave. Not the stupid. There's a difference. So keep moving in the Directions of your dreams. The life you want is on the other side of fear.
