One of my bucket list items is to one day go on The All-American Road Trip. I wanna go full throttle on the open road in a bright red 1965 Ford Mustang convertible: American flag bandanna around my head Rambo-style and a bald eagle hovering auspiciously in the periphery. Along the way I pass Peter…
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States Visited in the USA
Airports don’t count ya’ll Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee…
Go Curling
Ever since watching the 1998 Winter Olympics as a girl, I’ve wanted to try out Curling. So I was a little excited when, while at work, I received a meeting notice for a team-building activity at the Granite Curling Club of Seattle, which turns out to be a mere 3 miles from my house! Here…
Invent a Drink
I’ve invented many many many drinks over the years, many with dubious results… but this one is going down in the books: a drink I call The Toucan. How did I come up with that name? Well initially it was because the drink is colorful and tropical tasting. And then I later discovered it’s also…
Summer Break
There is nothing like summer break and as an adult it is heartbreaking when you no longer can take two and a half months off during the best part of the year. And this is Washington so there are like three months of good weather. The last summer I didn’t work full-time was back in…
All the Countries
I found a book titled 198: How I Ran Out of Countries and decided to create yet another travel list–this one just a simple list of countries. I haven’t read the book yet but will probably be getting around to it soon. Countries I have visited: Afghanistan Albania Algeria Andorra Angola Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Armenia…
Business Insider’s 100 trips everyone should take in their lifetime
I found another great travel list on Business Insider. Definitely more fodder for my bucket list. Here is the list with the ones I’ve done crossed out: Ride a dogsled through the backcountry of Sweden. Taste some of the best pizza in the world in Naples, Italy. See the great wildebeest migration in Africa’s Serengeti National…
The Northwest Bucket List
I snagged this list from discoverthenw.com and thought I should tackle some if not all of it since I live here. Mount Si Trail – WA Grand Sawtooths Loop – ID Wallace Falls Hike – WA Sky Lakes Wilderness – OR Hall Of Mosses Trail – WA Boulder Chains Lake Trail – ID Oyster Dome Trail…
Cities to visit in your lifetime
As a supplement to my To-Do list, here is a list I stole from a HuffPost article about the top 50 cities to visit in your lifetime. I’ve striked out the places I’ve been. 13/50! Venice, Italy Seville, Spain New York City, USA Lhasa, China (the spiritual center of Tibetan Buddhism) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil…
UNESCO World Heritage List
As a supplement to my To-Do list, here is a list of UNESCO World Heritage sites, a good list of more places to visit. I have bolded and striked-out the ones I’ve done so far. The links lead to a handy map to interact with. Enjoy! Afghanistan Minaret and Archaeological Remains of Jam Cultural Landscape…
Hit the Bucket List 