Kpalame

So, it was about time for adventure and Saturday was the day. I headed with 6 other girls from the ship out for a day trip to hike in a place about 3 hours north called Kpalame. We headed out early found the local "bus stop" and headed north.

We wanted to hike up a mountain here. Now when you tell African's you are going to go hiking you get a strange reaction, they just can't understand why in the world you would want to go hiking in this heat. So after our 2 hour bus ride, we then got a taxi and a "guide" to take us to the mountain. Now there was a little miscommunication between the taxi driver and us and he ended up driving us all the way up the mountain. So instead of hiking up..... we walked down. The thing about a day like this is you just have to be prepared to take the twists and turns of the day as they come. 

It was so nice to get out and get into the green. I find I miss the green when I live in the city or live on this ship. Every now and then I just need some fresh air and some green surroundings. It was Easter weekend and it was just good to have some time to talk to God and be away, even if just for a day.                                                                                      

As we walked down through some of the villages and met some of the local people on the roadside. I was struck again by how vastly different growing up here is compared to how and where I grew up, but yet the God I serve is here on a mountain side in central Togo, just as much as he is in the plains of central Illinois. What a great God we serve!

For more pictures from the weekend you can check out my facebook album