Conception

Blood pounding in your temples, sweat drenching your brow, the jungle reverberating with howler monkey cries. Sometimes it all seems too much; like you´re reading an adventure novel, instead of traveling. But as my shredded shoes and sore legs will attest, climbing an active volcano is a very real experience. At the top the rocky trail is too hot to touch, and the sulphur fumes too potent to breathe for long. But the view-- well, hazy and cloudy. And such is travel. You don´t know what you´ll see from the top, but it´ll be a long, hard (worthwhile) journey.