Entries Posted in March, 2006
March 31st, 2006
Funny Records on Kilimanjaro
THIS CRACKS ME UP!
Carrie and I sat here just laughing our heads off… well, maybe not literally, but you know the expresssion…
Here are our suggestions for the list…
How about “first snail to get to Kilimanjaro” – Getting to the top of Kili might be an issue for a snail…
or
“First person to read Green Eggs and Ham in less than one breath per page at the top of Kilimanjaro”
Or “First three-legged race up Kilimanjaro”…
Thanks for the funny posting!
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March 29th, 2006
eBaying Kilimanjaro
So this is kind of cool! In our first 24 hours, we received over 200 visitors to our eBay auction. At this rate, over 2,000 people will visit our auction. I plan to have 100x that amount.
We’ll see what happens!
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March 28th, 2006
Kilimanjaro Auction Live!
Well, we did it! Our auction is live!
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March 26th, 2006
Antelope meets tree
I sort of feel like this antelope today. I’ve been moving along about a million miles an hour, getting prepped for Kilimanjaro, avoiding the lions of finances and my own mind telling me that it’s okay to take today off, and getting jazzed and motivated for our intense workout and diet regimen (which begins April 1 – if not sooner). But, I didn’t get a lot of sleep over the weekend due to a corporate convention. As a result, I’ve come down with something that has me feeling yicky.
I’m sure I’ll feel better after getting some sleep, but for now, I feel like the antelope!
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March 23rd, 2006
Do not believe in Giraffes
I do not believe in giraffes…
This was just too wierd to be excluded from the series on giraffes. I found it funny and amusing… not really laugh out loud funny, but totally worth watching once.
Hope you agree!
Oh, stay tuned too… next week, we have some huge news to share with you about the sponsorship of the trip!
If you want to know about it, make sure to put your email address on the mailing list.
So this might wrap up the series on giraffes temporarily, but not to worry. The areas around Kilimanjaro afford plenty of opportunity for giraffe viewing, and fortunately for us, the videos are available! We have plenty more giraffe material to share with you in the time between now and when we leave for Tanzania.
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March 22nd, 2006
Feeding giraffes
So this video isn’t from the wild, but rather, is directly from a wild game park somewhere in the UK.
That giraffe is seriously tame! Now, there’s probably something wrong with this, and the environmentalists will probably dislike even having to see this video, as it may encourage unknowing individuals to try and approach animals like this in the wild.
However, this is the giraffe series, and while I don’t expect to be feeding wild giraffes, I do hope to have the oportunity to see one, or a few, in their natural state.
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March 21st, 2006
The Mouth of a Giraffe
This is what I would consider an up close and personal shot of a giraffe’s mouth.
Why someone took this video of a giraffe eating, is beyond me, but it fits in with the giraffe series!
These animals have ALWAYS fascinated me, and I am looking forward to seeing one actually in the wild, and not just in pictures or in the zoo!
So, without further ado, a giraffe’s mouth.
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March 20th, 2006
Giraffes running across the African plain
When we go to Africa, we will be going on safari. And while on Safari, we will see giraffes. Or, at least, we hope to see giraffes on the African plain. I have no real experience with giraffes outside of the zoo, so it would really be amazing.
Over the next few days, I’ll be sharing some more great giraffe videos!
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March 19th, 2006
Changing the blog layout
For those of you who have been reading the blog the past few days, BE READY!
A change is in the wind!
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March 19th, 2006
Flights
I just spent over an hour looking for flights. You can’t really book directly from your hometown to Kilimanjaro International Airport (JRO), so you have to look in stages. For us, these stages consisted of from New York to Amsterdam, from Washington DC to Amsterdam, from New York to London, from Washington DC to London, from London to Amsterdam, and from Amsterdam to Kilimanjaro. Holy cow are flights expensive! I guess it doesn’t really help that we’re flying from the middle of June to the end of July — peak travel season. But, I really thought our flights would be about half what they were (at least to/from Amsterdam). The cheapest combination I found was $1800.00 per person! Plus we already bought flights out to the east coast for over $220 per person. Over $2,000 just in flight costs. I wasn’t expecting it to be over $1500 per person, so that came as a bit of a shock. I did put in a call to our leader’s travel agent to see what prices she can come up with, but I’m a pretty good flight hunter, and I honestly don’t know if she will be able to do any better. I certainly hope she can though.
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