15 Highway

Are you the type of person that likes excitement? Do you enjoy the challenge of difficult tasks? Well if you do, but still are conservative in many things there is a challenge in Africa that you will find interesting, exciting, and a one-of-a-kind experience. That’s climbing to the top of a mountain. Not just any mountain, mind you, but the famous Mt. Kilimanjaro.

Some dream of reaching the summit of the largest free standing mountain in the world, Mt. Kilimanjaro, affectionately known in this region as Mt. Kili or ‘Kili’. Whatever you call it, it is one of the most spectacular mountains and mountain treks you can make.

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My girlfriend and I had taken a little side trip to Eleuthera, Bahamas, a small island in the Bahamas, while killing a few days waiting for our conference in Orlando. We were really enjoying ourselves. The next morning when I asked the hotel manager why they were boarding up the windows is when I found out that apparently the hurricane, Hurricane Andrew, was fast approaching our island and we didn’t know it.

The hotel manager said “You are the only travel agent on property so if you want to leave the Bahamas, you will have to get to the airport and list the first twenty passengers on the list to be evacuated.” Was I hearing correctly? We had to be evacuated? We had to get off this island? We were right in the midst, in the path of an oncoming hurricane! And on top of all of this, I was to be in charge of those leaving the island. How could this impossible situation have occurred, and so fast?

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