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My Adventure List
Here’s what I’d like to do at some point in my lifetime!
In no particular order…
Hike the 3 week Annapurna Sanctuary Trek in Nepal
Learn how to ride a scooter
Snorkel with sea turtles (very very soon! Mexico January 2014!)
Backpack a 7 day section of the John Muir Trail (maybe next summer?)
Get an article or blog post published somewhere other than my own blog
See the Northern Lights (Iceland, Canada, Norway?)
Break a board with a knife-hand strike (in my 4 years of martial arts training, I have yet to do this, but someday…)
Try stand-up paddleboarding
Visit family in Holland and combine that with a trip to explore Iceland and hike in the Swiss Alps (ya know, while I’m over there…)
Enjoy one night of total luxury in a fancy hotel-spa with a 5 course meal, massage, and a pedicure (yes, I did just say that… I’m allowed to have one girly goal)
Try paragliding
Get paid for writing something, anything…
See the wildflower bloom in Death Valley
See a whale in the wild up close and personal
Hike the Napali coast in Kauai
Learn how to use Quickbooks
Live abroad in one place for at least 6 months (not backpacking)
Invite and treat a total stranger to a meal
Volunteer at the Elephant Nature Park in Thailand
Explore the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico (doing this in 3 weeks! boo-yah!)
Sip tea in the Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park in SF (how have I not done this in 8 years of living in SF?)
Create a martial arts form and teach it to someone else
Visit a tropical island in the South Pacific
Get a free tour, hotel stay, or meal for writing about it
Save up enough money (again) to buy a new (used) car (my car is 17 years old and has 170,000 miles… it’s not gonna last forever)
Explore Glacier National Park and road trip around Montana and Idaho (in said new car)
Become proficient in Spanish
Explore Cambodia and Vietnam
Backpack in the Yolla Bolly wilderness (Northern California)
Fall in love
Break-fall properly without fear while being taken down during sparring (my most intense, scary part of my martial arts training… I’m still scared that I’m gonna get hurt)
Hut to hut hike on the East Coast (next October 2014!)
Get one of my pictures published in a travel magazine
I’m with you on wanting articles published in other media outlets and getting PAID for it.
I also want to go to Death Valley… been thinking of joining Green Tortoise tour but think last one is next week until November. Boo!
And I also want to “fall in love,” again! I still have some letting go of my past and a lot of self love and care to give to me first…
Nice list! I have a hang-up about breaking a board with a punch. I’ve been able to do it with a knife-strike, but that punch break eludes me. It’s mind over matter, but my mind can’t figure out what’s the matter with itself! :P
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I’m with you on wanting articles published in other media outlets and getting PAID for it.
I also want to go to Death Valley… been thinking of joining Green Tortoise tour but think last one is next week until November. Boo!
And I also want to “fall in love,” again! I still have some letting go of my past and a lot of self love and care to give to me first…
Nice list! I have a hang-up about breaking a board with a punch. I’ve been able to do it with a knife-strike, but that punch break eludes me. It’s mind over matter, but my mind can’t figure out what’s the matter with itself! :P