Pat's sabbatical adventure

Follow along a journey of a lifetime

  • WAY outside the comfort zone, part 1

    I tend to over-plan; or as I might argue, properly plan… Vacations, large purchases, where we’ll go to eat. These come with quite a bit of research and prep. After all, if you’re making an investment of time & money, don’t you want it to have a strong ROI!? (Ok, I’ve only been off of…

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  • Choosing our route

    tl;dr: we’re doing the Lemosho route & Crater Camp One of the first decisions we had to make when deciding to hike Kilimanjaro was what route to take. There are quite a few routes up the mountain & multiple considerations to weigh: We ending up choosing the Lemosho route, with a stop at Crater camp.…

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  • More like Bobby SLAY…

    TL;DR – I had dinner. It was good. Ok, first a quick blog update. I’m officially on sabbatical! I’ve gotten multiple questions on when I’m actually going to write something so I’m going to ::attempt:: to do a daily post! I kicked off sabbatical with an amazing dinner at Next restaurant with Ana, Tim, and…

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  • One week until sabbatical!

    I don’t know how to build a website. I can’t promise this will look good, nor do I ::really:: have the time to learn, BUT it will be fun to chronicle my adventures, even if I’m the only one to ever read them! I am very lucky to work for a company that after ten…

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  • Training through all the elements!

    Training for Kilimanjaro brings us through every single type of climate! I feel a bit like I’m in Avatar with Earth, Rain, Ice, and Fire!

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