It's been awhile since this has been deciding. I'm climbing in less than a month. The group has been introduced etc. I read the group leader's blog and gulped at the summit day -- it lasts 15 hours and starts at 11pm at night...am reasonably fit...much fitter than before Bhutan.
I workout (weights at the gym) three times a week (tue, thur, sat). The rest of the days I run on Juhu beach. I nearly ran the entire stretch of Juhu beach today....it's wonderful. Sarah, the group leader says stairs, stairs, stairs...if possible I must climb or do a short hike with a backpack. Let's see.
I want to read/ learn a bit about Kili before I go. I worry if it'll be too touristy. I miss the wilderness of Bhutan. I worried about EBC being touristy too but it was an amazing journey. Regardless it'll be me and Nature...climbing a volcano...that too one of the seven summits will be interesting.
I want to write the other blogs/ notes...Bhutan, Laos, Sri Lanka, Varanasi...the travels I did. Actually even small trips do a lot, make a lot of impact...went to Pune for Aaryana's birthday for a day and Bhaskar told me a story about a 68 year old wealthy businessman who left everything to look after stray dogs. Comes home over the weekend to buy groceries etc for his wife and then spends the rest of the week along with a caretaker at the kennel he built near Mahboobnagar. He looks after 350 or so dogs. It's the most interesting story I've heard in awhile.
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tue 12.29am jan 14th
am finally done with all the booking, planning stuff related to kili...it took a lot of time for some reason...mainly because things seem a little unreliable but expensive...for example a car ride from Arusha to Dar-es-salaam costs $650 v/s the bus costs $30 v/s the flight (there's no flight from Arusha) from Kilimanjaro to Dar-es-salaam costs $210. Anyways, it's all done.
I workout (weights at the gym) three times a week (tue, thur, sat). The rest of the days I run on Juhu beach. I nearly ran the entire stretch of Juhu beach today....it's wonderful. Sarah, the group leader says stairs, stairs, stairs...if possible I must climb or do a short hike with a backpack. Let's see.
I want to read/ learn a bit about Kili before I go. I worry if it'll be too touristy. I miss the wilderness of Bhutan. I worried about EBC being touristy too but it was an amazing journey. Regardless it'll be me and Nature...climbing a volcano...that too one of the seven summits will be interesting.
I want to write the other blogs/ notes...Bhutan, Laos, Sri Lanka, Varanasi...the travels I did. Actually even small trips do a lot, make a lot of impact...went to Pune for Aaryana's birthday for a day and Bhaskar told me a story about a 68 year old wealthy businessman who left everything to look after stray dogs. Comes home over the weekend to buy groceries etc for his wife and then spends the rest of the week along with a caretaker at the kennel he built near Mahboobnagar. He looks after 350 or so dogs. It's the most interesting story I've heard in awhile.
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tue 12.29am jan 14th
am finally done with all the booking, planning stuff related to kili...it took a lot of time for some reason...mainly because things seem a little unreliable but expensive...for example a car ride from Arusha to Dar-es-salaam costs $650 v/s the bus costs $30 v/s the flight (there's no flight from Arusha) from Kilimanjaro to Dar-es-salaam costs $210. Anyways, it's all done.
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