We're going to spend the next week or so getting acclimatized to the altitude here before we head off to Tanzania to climb Kilimanjaro, and having spent the last 17 years in Dallas the altitude here is killing me. It's a struggle going up and down stairs. Each morning, though, we get up and take a hike with the in-laws (and the dogs) and we gradually increase the length and altitude differential. The picture below is from Lake Isabelle, "in the heart of the Indian Peaks." The amazing thing to me is how much snow there is on the ground at the beginning of July. It's also surprising, especially since my dog Jackson pulled me off of my feet at one point.
I'm also starting a regular feature, called where in the world is Man-Ox. The T-shirt in the picture was given to me for Christmas by my good friend Jeremy, who moved to San Francisco at the beginning of this year. We ran together, and he had the good grace to encourage me and slow his own pace to match mine. I choose to believe that he gave me the T-shirt because of my unusual strength, and not because I am hirsute, or because my "running" resembles the plodding of a beast of burden.
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Man-Ox triumphant!
Looks like a nice place to hang out
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