I went to climb Mount Kilimanjaro 48 hours after getting out of the Marine Corps. My confidence and ego were at all time high’s coming into Mount Kilimanjaro, but by the end of it, confidence and ego were at all time lows.

I was in Africa 48 hours after my last official day in the Marine Corps. I went there to fill a void in my soul that yearned for a stinky ass, poverty stricken, polluted, primitive, shithole, with really nice people.