They released me from the hospital on Thursday, just a handful of hours before I was supposed to board a plane for Africa. The simple task of going into Walmart in Frisco to pick up my medications and grab some food that conforms to my mandated restricted diet, wiped me out. I found myself leaning…
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The Beginning of the End
On Sunday night I got a tummy ache, my belly ballooned up and I thought, “Damn, I must have eaten something bad.” I woke up several times with my stomach distended and pain down my right side. By morning, it seemed a little better, but still there. I had some diarrhea and thought, “Yep, I…
Yes! Maybe I CAN do this?
If you read the first post for this trip, then you know how deeply I doubt my ability to do this (hike Kilimanjaro). But I came to New Mexico and Colorado to acclimate to high altitude and do some training hikes…hoping that maybe it would give me a better shot. On my last full day…
Ending my first post with, “What will I forget to pack?” totally jinxed it!!!
I spent three days packing and re-packing for what felt like four different trips. First, the twelve days in New Mexico and Colorado to camp and do some training hikes while acclimating to altitude (increasing my chances of summiting Kili without the dreaded altitude sickness). Then, it’s off to Tanzania! Trip #2 is hiking Kilimanjaro,…
Act my age? Never. Feel my age? Sometimes. (Part 2: Banff, Jasper, and the Icefields Parkway)
Link to the old/original blog post. After the Via Ferrata – we were both pretty tired and sore, and we kept saying we would take an easy day to recover…but then there was just too much to see and do! Every day we said, “tomorrow, tomorrow we will take it easy” but we never did. …
Act my age? Never. Feel my age? Sometimes.(Part 1)
Link to the original/old blog post. It has been a wonderful, busy, tiring, exhilarating, thrilling, exhausting week. So much has happened since my last post I can’t possibly do it justice, but I can try! So the day after my super funtastic day in Revelstoke, I drove through Golden to the Radium Hot springs in…
A Lovely Older Couple, Some Perspective, and Van Coffee on the Balcony
Here’s a link to the original post on my old blog: Original Post When I first arrived at Harrison Hot Springs, I was feeling pretty punchy from a long day of driving but I was clinging to the fantasy of staying at the resort and soaking in the springs. It didn’t disappoint! First I was…
Super FUNtastic day!
Wow, today was the most fun I’ve had in a while. It started out a little meh because most of the main road in Revelstoke National Park is still closed due to snow. I drove up until the road was blocked and they had a big turnaround post. Some people were parking and then walking…
Chuckanut, Chilliwack…Is today Tuesday?
Here’s a link to the original post on my old blog: Original Post If you count my last day of work (Friday 6/10/22) as my first road trip day, then this is 6 am on day 5 of my soon-to-be-epic road trip to Alaska in Rosie. Have you met Rosie? She’s my 2017 Nissan NV…
Camino Day 9: a day to rest and reflect
“You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.” -James Allen It is early morning still, the day has only just begun. Yet, a monumental shift is taking place. Maybe I needed rest, maybe I needed a break in the “get up early and get walking”…