With the arrival of 2018, I decided to start an official To Do List. I think this may be a list of things that are big and ambitious, as well as small everyday things I want to include more of in my life.
For inspiration I did a search for “bucket list” and came across this site. So I used it as a baseline and to get ideas going. It’s interesting to be reminded how much my job as a newspaper photographer exposed me to so many cool things. Most of the things on the list are as a result of my job (do they still count?).
Here are some things I still want to do;
- visit Thula Thula, Sheldrick Trust, or safari in Africa
Hold a chicken- Albuquerque Balloon Festival
Teach a college level photography coursesee stalactites and stalagmites- visit Morocco
- visit the Galapagos Islands
- visit the White House (at a better time)
- Visit the Memorial for Peace and Justice, and the Legacy Museum in Montgomery AL
- eat at a farm to table restaurant outdoors
- see the Northern Lights
- see the grand canyon
- drive the coast of CA
- visit Seattle
- Visit Portland OR
- white water rafting
- visit a temple in a foreign country
commit an act of kindness to a stranger- give blood
- visit a cranberry bog
- take more cooking classes in foreign countries
make ice cream- make cheese
make a gingerbread house(decorating one is close enough I think!)- eat at a pitch black restaurant
- learn a line dance
- attend a live recording of a podcast I like
walk on a black sand beach- See the baby elephants at DSWT in Kenya
- zip-line
play Escape the Room- fly in hot air balloon
- fly on a trapeze
explore a cave- tell a story at a Moth Radio Hour
- ride an ATV
- ride a waverunner
- feed/touch/visit a chimpanzee
relax in a natural hot springswim with manatees or sea turtles- go on a whale watch
- get published?
- be an extra in a movie, or a member of a studio audience
be a Big Sister in the BBBS program(Click on “Little Sister” tag in the footnotes)- ride a bike across a major bridge (Golden Gate?)
see Hamilton- stand under a waterfall
- attend or host a murder mystery dinner
- Ride in a helicopter
Ride a horse (on the beach?)Done with Libby in FL Feb 26, 2018
And here are the things from her list, and things I thought of myself, that I’ve already done (and were worth writing down)…
- photograph a president (Bill and Hillary Clinton, and George W Bush)
- been in a shelter during a hurricane
- fly in a biplane (while on assignment for The Cleveland Plain Dealer)
- Ride in a bucket of a fire truck (also on assignment)
- snorkel
- get a henna tattoo
- police ride along
- ride in a sailboat
- attend a rodeo (must find that negative, too!)
- hike in Muir Woods
- have a crepe in Paris
- feed a giraffe
- ride a horse (it wasn’t a good experience so I plan on adding it to the new To Do list with hopes for a better one
- ride in a boat with manatee nearby
- take a guitar class
- throw pottery on a wheel (my family members have lots of heavy ugly mugs to prove it)
- learn to silversmith
- learn to watercolor
- built something out of wood
- learn how to garden
- view bioluminescence (Puerto Rico)
- take a self-defense class
- march in a protest
- teach a photography class
- learn to sew
- skinnydip
- learn to play trombone
- attend a music festival
- participate in a street painting festival
- attend a renaissance faire
- attend a poetry reading
- learn how to block print
- go to a drive in movie
- go to a dog racetrack (not by choice)
- go to a paint party
- join a flash mob
- see a famous person play tennis (George Bush vs. Chris Evert at a charity game)
- get Thai massage (curiously enough it was in Croatia)
- dye hair purple
- go to a psychic
- have my tea leaves read
- eat pig/lamb from a spit
- go tea tasting
- eat lobster ice cream
- drink from a fresh coconut
- take a cooking class (in Nice, France and Barcelona)
- learn to juggle
- be present at a birth (twice!)
- ride in an airboat
- visit an alligator farm
- touch a starfish in Monterey (I’m not sure it was legal but I didn’t know at the time)
- ski in the Swiss Alps (doesn’t totally count since I was a grumpy hormonal unappreciative 12 year old at the time, but it did happen)
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