Quite what it was that inspired yours truly to utter the words "Hey lets climb Kilimanjaro!" in February last year has yet to be ascertained, as does the response "Yes lets!" rather than go away you annoying person, but thats what happened which is why on a cold and snowy Friday the 13th, ideal for international air travel yours truly left the safe haven of Rock HQ for sunnier climes south of the equator.
Naturally not all adventures get off to a smooth start
as the flast tyre on Stan proved.
Spotty the action Berner tried to stow away and had to be evicted.
After a final farewell pic with my beautiful and oh so patient wife and our boys
yours truly, along with lil Bef met the other partners in crime at Red Kite HQ, said our goodbyes and headed off to the airport. 30 minutes later we were back again as the Jim Royal lookalike had forgotten his phone.
Airport found we quenched our pre flight nerves
and before you could say that was 10 hours well spent were in Nairobi transferring to a flight to KIlimanjaro.
The terrain changed dramatically
as did the weather, scorchio.
A quick bus ride through the local town
and we found cool beers,
cool vehicles,
and took every opportunity to commend ourselves on our physical shape, honed over the previous 11 months.
How big a challenge lies ahead, well Kilimanjaro is this massive lump of rock in the centre of the pic, zoom in its quite something!
And so to bed, the adventure begins tomorrow!
and before you could say that was 10 hours well spent were in Nairobi transferring to a flight to KIlimanjaro.
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