Mission Aviation Fellowship allowed two of its pilots that fly in the jungles of Indonesia to take a trek on foot to one of the villages that they fly to. The point was to see what kind of trouble these flights are saving the missionaries who use them. The place they were headed normally took them 30 minutes to get to by air. However the trek on foot took them several days, with too much drama to even begin to mention here. But they documented and described the whole trip with pictures and it is rather exciting. And it was cool for me because it reminded me of why we are doing all of this to prepare to fly airplanes in the middle of no-where. And more than that why we are preparing to leave our families to go do it. That is one particular part of the whole thing Heather and I have been struggling with more and more as the time draws near for us to go. It gave me a good description, with pictures, of the reason the airplane is such a blessing in the remote parts of the world. I remember the first time I heard about this kind of flying, and the excitement I got when I found out how much trouble and time these flights save people who want to help those in remotest parts of the world. The pilot who told the story, Dave, said he was still dealing with wounds and infections that were a result from the trip a month afterwards! Here's a little pic of Dave I took off his website as a sort of "teaser"
