Ready

WE are ready and I am nervous. To imagine ourselves at 13000 ft high, climbing 6500 of them in 3 days, while sleeping on the ground every night and carrying a weeks worth of stuff, is to imagine the near impossible for me. It is so much easier to plop down on a beach and have margaritas delivered with ease. But this trip is different. I have a sense of nervousness that I have not experienced before. The reality of the challenge ahead of me has certainly sunk in. This is going to be the most difficult yet most rewarding trips of my life thus far.

In the end, the rucksacks have been packed and re-packed, the trek site memorized, the travel blogs read. There is only so much planning one can do, and then it is time to just go and do it, with no regrets and only success within our reach...

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” - Mark Twain