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July 2, 1998 Thursday - The Marimba Band yesterday at the Cyrene Mission School was practicing and we heard them. Picture is shown on previous day. It was very nice. Today we pedaled on a very sandy tough road 24 km through Matopos National park. The park was beautiful. We saw a nice cave painting that we had to hike 6 km to get to but it was worth it. It was real hot, but the scenery was incredible. The cave painting made by the San people of 30,000 years ago showed girafe, kudu and other animals being hunted and some pictures of dwellings. Some of the San people are still alive today in Botswana and Namibia with a few in Zimbabwe. At one time they were the entire half of the African Continent extending up to Zaire. The people at the school we are staying at are quite nice. This was the most grueling day on the bicycle. We were sliding all over the sand and had to push the bike a lot. At one point I fell and the bike was plastered on top of me. I asked Elisha who was behind me to pull it off me which she did. I did not get hurt, just was covered in sand from head to toe. Today was also one of our hotter days temperature wise. I never thought that dirt road would end, but it did. Tomorrow is another day.
