live to explore life

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