It’s official…next April I’m participating in a trek to Mount Everest Base Camp.

A few months ago, I decided to shake things up a bit. Rattle the status quo. Find a new goal that was big and hairy. Something challenging. A goal that would excite me on many different levels. After weeks of pondering the possibilities, I decided that I wanted something that would help me get (and hopefully stay) in shape, involve travel, expose me to a new culture and be difficult enough that it would require me to work to achieve it.

Okay, what would this new goal be? Many, many options were considered, but the one that kept creeping to the forefront was a trek to Mount Everest Base Camp.

In one year, hopefully I’ll be blogging from Nepal. And, so it begins…