One of the best things about all of the time that I have spent in Colorado is all of the great people that I have met and have the opportunity with which to work. I am excited every year to meet new people, and see friends from previous years. It is such a great experience to meet people from all over the world and spend time together in one place. It's really because we all are looking for an adventure of some sort. It's the mountains that inspire us to these ends. Some of us will remain friends through the years, and some of us will undoubtedly loose touch with one another. It's just the natural process of things. Where else can a group of people from all over the nation and from all over the world stay together together and have this much fun? At work sometimes we might get on each other nerves, but it's all good in the end. We have our differences, but that doesn't have to be a negative issue. Most of the time we are either working hard, or out having a good time in the little mountain town of Estes Park. It's really such an experience and I'm certainly thankful for that.
In the mean time, I can't wait to share more adventures this season with all of these great people! :) Hopefully one of those adventures will be to summit Longs Peak. It's been almost 15 months since the idea popped into my head that I wanted to summit Longs Peak, and I still haven't even set foot at the base. Last year I merely ran out of time here in Colorado to attempt it. There was this emptiness in me because I hadn't given it a shot. I had to come back and climb it. Now here I am a week shy of the same time last year when I planned on doing it, and I am sick again! Grrrr! I hope that I will be feeling better by my coming weekend, Tuesday August 13th, to give it a shot. The weather has to hold of course, and I have to be well enough to attempt it, and I need to have the energy to make it to the top. Maybe all of these great people around me will help me out this week, (they have been all season!). That would be nice. :) I am getting a little tired of my job here in Colorado for the first time in the four seasons. I sure hope that there will be a reward waiting for me at the summit, in the form of something great, that will inspire me to keep going out and exploring. I hope that the people here will be able to help me out on the next chapter of my life, whatever that might be! ;)
