"This could indeed be 'the path less traveled by'."

"Well I didn't come all this way for nothing. I've paid four thousand dollars to get here. That's about a thousand dollars per thousand miles from my home."

Ten minutes prior I had gone through the bamboo gates to the Montana Machu Picchu. Many of us didn't know one another. We were from all around the world with adventurous hearts. We kept asking those who had come down passed us going up, "How much further is it to the top?" The stairs molded stone of the mountain were very steep and narrow. Few minutes earlier my heart was beating fast, and i was losing my breath, "My God I hope I don't have a heart attack and die up here. " Then I heard, a group of girls behind me talking about the same things I was experience. It was just altitude sickness. A couple from Australia told us that they came back down because the stairs got steep at almost a ninety degree angle.

"Well I didn't come all this way for nothing. I've paid four thousand dollars to get here. That's about a thousand dollars per thousand miles from my home."

"You're a better man than me mate." he replied.

I had already accomplished the "I uh think Imma' go to Peru. Take a selfie at Machu Pichu," thang'.
The view from higher ground was much better.
I was moving very slow. This wasn't like my normal jogging. The air gets thin as the altitude gets higher.

There were sisters from Japan struggling.  I told them, "You got this man," and they replied in the cutest way with their thick Asian accents, "You got this man."
Came close, I suspected, when a group was coming down, "You are so close. Don't quit. You aren't even sweating."

Those words gave me the willpower I needed to keep going.

"This is indeed the path less traveled by." So psyched up and I didn't even have coffee. Didn't even have my walkman mp3 player in my ears. Reckon, the motivation was inside me. I remember "To The Top" the University of Southern Mississippi's slogan. Reminisced Tony Robin's Get The Edge course teaching me to take action toward my goals.

 "Being Grateful and having resentments is like being in a Valley.  Being grateful and being humble is like standing atop a mountain."-honea byrne

Thought about stages of my life and all i needed tp get rid of. Will I be rid of these things when I get to the top? This is all about making my life in Recovery be more than my life when I was drinking and using drugs. Never would have dreamed in the 90's of ever having come this far. Used to be enough to just live off the dreaming-not taking actions to make those dreams a reality. "Gotta' ways to go," I thought to myself, "and I ain't quitting till I get to the top." Drink and drug enough you can convince yourself of anything. Unfortunately, I had to stay wasted to keep believing. Wonder if this is why so many famous folk die early. "It's about faith and strategy," I came up with that in 2013 in Clarksdale while working out to that Flashdance theme  "What a Feeling."-Irene Cara
Made it to the top and had my photo taken by the sign, "Montana Machu Picchu."

On the way down there was this chick from California who was scared of the skinny steps and the altitude. Told her she was, "Thinking too much about it." Got to the bottom of the mountain around one pm. Took me four hours.
Then I explored the ruins of Machu Picchu.