Miss Kangwato

From my previous posts, ( This one especially ) you'll notice that I have a thing for the outdoors. Outdoors and I go way back, our love keeps getting deeper and more real. I actually set goals to go for adventures in a year, that's how serious this love is to me. In 2021 the plan is to do a major hike/adventure every two months. Elephant Hill was the first of many to come and boy, do I have a story to tell?!  Preparations | My first trip to the Aberdare: It just occurred to me as I'm writing this that in high school our dorms had mountain names. We had Elgon, Kilimanjaro, Kenya and Aberdare dorms and I was a proud Aberdarian. They probably had a vision that I'd one day hike it and saw it best to put me there 😎.  After successfully hiking Mt. Longonot last year we opted for a more challenging hike and settled on Rurimeria. Now, when we went to Longonot the weather was really good to us we only complained about the dust while going round the crater. It was only right fo...

Research says that as many as 50% of adults make New Year's resolutions but fewer than 10% keep them for more than a few months  (Reference) . Research also indicates that in January, goals will be set and by the second week of February they are forgotten about at best, abandoned at worst (Reference) . These statements couldn't be truer! Sticking to resolutions is such a hard task. I am a resolutions setter - if there were a word like that, I confirm those findings. Every so often and not necessarily at the beginning of the year, I write down the things I intend to work on. Sometimes I manage to accomplish a huge part of the listed goals, other times I get nothing done. I figured that the only way to stick to my resolutions is to set realistic ones.  I was a sales & marketing exec for a furniture company for about 2 years after campus. I was overjoyed to have found placement in my field which is marketing and sales and had so much fun selling furniture. Every other month w...