Many ways to say the same thing.
Yesterday it could also be called
the difference between life and death.
I’ll explain,
As our Adventure day we choose to go to Rainbow mountain, and our tour people said we’d leave 7:15, hit the road at 7:30. That way we should start climbing no later than 11am.
EXCITING!!!
As we head out, still in Cusco, there traffic jam due to an accident and that delays us for 30min. As we finally start moving our drivers does everything he can to gain that 30min.
That’s when the peeing busyness started. I’ve always had a small blather, but I broke record on the times I had to use the restroom within that drive. The thing is that it wasn’t just me, at least four of us had to go every time we stopped.
Consequently every time we started to make up on time, we’d delayed by stopping.
We start our hike at somewhere in the 15000 feet level going up to 17000 feet, about 30min behind on schedule. Making so that once we were half way up the mountain we were eligibly supposedly be at the top of Rainbow Mountain.
11:30 is when the storm hit us, for the past 10min as we hike we had a little of snow and ice coming down, it was fun and exciting. We walked slow because it was very slippery.
However soon came thunder and sleet. And our guide had us start heading back, five minutes after we start back, our visibility goes way down and there’s lightning coming down few feet away from us, reason I know is due to the light and sound being almost at the same time.
The trail we were following no longer noticeable, we now are following the foot prints of those in front of us.
As a teammate said “I felt like a storm chaser”.
That’s when you notice 30min can go from time stuck in traffic, to the time God saved the lives of my teammates and me.
We didn’t get to see rainbow Mountain but we definitely saw God’s protection.
We also had tons of fun, me probably a little more the rest.
