Why I Chose This Goal: It's always nice to have a dream list of places you'd like to see. I read over the book "1,000 Places To See Before You Die" by Patricia Schultz to get some ideas. I can recommend this book to any traveller out there who wants to explore the cool, exotic and special places out there in this big, big world of ours.
What I Did: I made this list:
The first 51 not so local places to visit:
1. Holy Land
2. Florence, Italy (uffizi gallery)
3. Peru or Argentina
4. Yellowstone park
5. alaska
6. Venice, italy
7. drive route 66
8. grand teton park
9. mt rushmore
10. lovells, MI
11. train trip th/ canadien rockies
12. sydney, australia
13. new orleans
14. scottish highlands/ islands
15. tour of europe
16. roswell, nm
17. great wall of china
18. north dakota
19. rodeo in wyoming
20. bullfight in spain
21. paris, france
22. rome, italy
23. naples, italy (vieled christ)
24. berlin, germany
25. croatia
26. poland
27. africa (safari)
28. cairo, egypt (pyramids)
29. take a boat cruise
30. smithsonian institute
31. henry ford/greenfield village,MI
32. hockey game at joe louis arena
33. montreal, canada
34. sea of cortez, mexico
35. acapulco or other mex resort
36. galapogos islands
37. fiji island
38. new zealand
39. carlsbad caverns, nm
40. glacier national park
41. badlands, sd
42. greece
43. swiss alps
44. budapest, Hungary
45. stockholm, sweden
46. oslo, norway
47. ireland
48. dracula castle, romania
49. vienna, austria
50. stonehenge, england
51. boston, mass
The 50 local spots to visit:
1. Yosemite Park
2. Tijuana
3. Phoenix
4. temecula wine country
5. Getty Museum
6. Drive up highway 1
7. venice beach
8. baseball game at dodger stadium
9. football game at Q
10. saltom sea
11. death valley
12. grand canyon
13. las vegas/hoover dam
14. LA chinatown
15. santa monica
16. gruman's chinese theater
17. la brea tar pits
18. spring training in peoria
19. padres game
20. kobey swap meet
21. parade of ships
22. star of india @ halloween
23. midway museum
24. golf at coronado
25. catalina island
26. idyllwild
27. el centro
28. march AFB museum
29. state capitol in sacramento
30. grunion run in pismo beach
31. QM in long beach
32. tour LA
33. san candreas fault
34. balloon ride
35. movie studio in hollywood
36. santa barbara
37. edwards AFB (shuttle landing)
38. pasadena--- rose parade
39. julian bluegrass festival
40. anza borrego desert
41. zion national park
42. disneyland
43. san juan capistrano
44. night in little italy/ gaslamp
45. all day @ boomers
46. ronald reagan library
47. nixon library
48. solvang danish village
49. torrey pines reserve
50. outlet malls
so there it is Item #42 checked off and another book read... making it 3 of 12 for goal #30.
Remember... Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body- but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "holy s***...what a ride!" ----->Don't let your tombstone read: Died at 30- Buried at 80.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
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1 comment:
so hey! you have this daughter that goes to school in LA, and all these places you want to visit... =) Next year, plan on trips to those places!
As for Santa Monica, you have to see the pier!
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