funday quote

"Climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean." ~ John Muir


I have to say, my spirit's feeling pretty clean :)

catching up....

JAMBO!
So i guess my post i tried to do from botswana didn't work so well...
but to fill you in, both mom and i made it to the summit of mount kilimanjaro on the morning of the 21st!!! woohooo! and we did it in good time and a day earlier than expected :) but our world's best guides and perfect weather are to be greatly accredited!  so now we have an extra day here in moshi then will head off to the ngoragora crater tomorrow. maybe a bit frostbitten and bruised, but my toes are all on my feet and legs are still sorta working...

first we spent a day with some masai people

lookin good at 94 years old

 then to begin our climb:

start: the rainforest with the welcoming calls of monkeys

world's best guides: Gift and Arnold

getting closer...

cold, dark trek to the summit

and we made it! all 5895 m

 

our sweet porters and guides sang us goodbye songs

day 6

day 5

taking care of debi

almost there- you can even see the sign

posing for GQ

the crater

our welcome back greeting

day 4

"good mornin, beautiful..."

the long and dusty road

our new friends

debi couldn't handle it

day 4-success

a rather shitty situation. pun intended