Hi Everyone!
So sorry that it has been a while since I’ve updated my
blog. I’ve been away and am now back
but discovered I need to do major catch-up with all that’s needed to be done
before Spencer and I leave for
Kilimanjaro in September.
Yes, it is coming up fast. Only two months away. July and August are going to be very busy
months. In the past two weeks, I’ve been doing major catch-up (see below) and
will be restarting my blog posting as well.
I didn’t realize I had so much to do:
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Meet with a personal trainer, put together a training program for mid-June all the way through July and August
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Started a diet program to get healthier and to lose some major pounds to reduce the
weight I’m carrying up Kilimanjaro
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Go on multiple hikes weekdays and weekends, hiking must now be
ramped up
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Connecting with more people who have been to
Kilimanjaro and back. One can never get
too much heads up information for a successful climb. I will be blogging more on this moving
forward.
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Lots of planning and meeting putting together a
charity event for August 21st titled Answering The Call - a charity event
for Alzheimer Society of BC and the Down Syndrome Research Foundation
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Nailing down the travel plans for Africa,
Kilimanjaro and the details of the actual climb dates, September 10 – 18. Initially, the climb was targeted for the beginning of
October but certain plans did not come
through resulting in us shifting the climb
to the September dates as noted previously. It may prove to be better as a full
moon is expected on the date of our ascent to the very top. Not sure if I’d
mentioned it but the ascent date to the
top starts around midnight and we will be hiking in the dark with a full moon
lighting our path way up (ok, I know it won’t make much of a difference)
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Begin to start pulling all the necessary equipment
together. It is a long list given we have to accommodate all weather conditions
from very hot temperatures at the bottom of Kilimanjaro, to potential heavy rain as we climb through
the rain forest area, to desert like weather. Then we will be experiencing
possible -10 temperatures with snow at the very top.
Can you tell I am behind and have a lot of fast track
ramping up to do for July and August before we depart early September?
Until the next post , be happy…
Bill (The Blind Guy
who thinks he can climb Kilimanjaro!)
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