At the start of 2020, I had high hope and dreams. You know how the story goes, because we all did. 2019 changed us and walking into the new year we were all optimistic and ready to be showered in blessings…lol.

Hiking there was surreal for the broke, naive girl who used to work her ass off while trying to find ways to travel the world. Another “I can’t believe I’m really here,” moment for sure. And more immediately, it was a nice reward after hiking for close to 4 hours uphill. Let’s just say my body was suffering while my brain was on cloud 9.

Normally I’d be ecstatic to arrive in a place like this, but as a tired traveler ready to go home who also had a bad head-cold, initially