Top 5 Bucket List items, for Life!
If you’ve been following me on my blog Dusty’s Musings, you’ve seen that I’ve been working through my top 5 bucket list items over the past couple weeks. It took some serious brain power and a little bit of smoking ears here and there, but my list is complete!
Top 5 Bucket List Items
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Details and plans collude at Dusty’s Musings. Life won’t just happen on it’s own. Okay, at least a life worth living won’t just happen on it’s own!
Thanks again to Lesley Carter at Bucket List Publcations!
30 of My Best Adventures
One of my favorite WordPress blogs is Bucket List Publications by Lesley Carter. She has the right attitude and the get-go to live a full life that she’ll never regret. Recently, Lesley challenged her readers to make their own “Top 5 Bucket List.” Something short and doable in a hectic world.
As someone who’s never actually sat down and put pen to paper on a bucket list, I thought that I should first recall some of the most exciting experiences of my life before I look to the future. So, giving leeway for my memory, here are my top 30 of a lifetime! (Not in any order of importance!)
1. Did touch-and-goes in a Blackhawk on a snow-top mountain, Kosovo
2. Admired the Mona Lisa, The Louvre, Paris, France
3. Climbed a rock, only to rappel back down a cliff leading straight into a kayak, L’Al’Legne, Belgium
4. Slept inches from the home of a monster, Loch Ness, Scotland
5. Played on a glacier, Briksdalsbreen, Norway
6. Took an off-road jungle tour, Kualoa Ranch, O’ahu
7. Watched Old Faithful let off some steam, Yellowstone NP, Wyoming
8. Went to the top of a mountain, Gstaad, Switerzerland
9. Ate pirogues in Boleslawiec, pasties in Newquay, enchiladas in Juarez and drank hefeweizen at the Brauhaus and gluhwein in Wiesbaden. Too many are the gastronomical delights!
10. Petted an alligator, Beaumont, Texas
11. Saw the musical Grease performed live, London’s West End, England
12. Cruised a river aflame, Rhein River, Germany
13. Watched the ‘boys ride the bulls, National Finals Rodeo, Las Vegas, Nevada
14. Drove on a dangerous mountain pass, Macedonia to Albania
15. Hydroplaned on the open water, English Channel, Calais to Dover
16. Rode bareback in a desert monsoon storm, San Pedro River Valley, Arizona
17. Glided on a bullet train, Thalys, Brussels to Paris
18. Sailed on a Catamaran, Honolulu, Hawai’i
19. Became a United States Marine, Parris Island, South Carolina
20. Hiked along the North Rim, Grand Canyon NP, Arizona
21. Got my first tattoo, Budingen, Germany
22. Looked down on the Colorado Rockies from the cockpit of a C-130, Chicago to L.A.
23. Rode my horse in a PRCA Grand Entry and Rodeo Parade, El Paso, Texas
24. Collected rocks and minerals 1,000+ feet under the surface of the earth, Meikle Gold Mine, Carlin, Nevada
25. Cruised a BMW on the German Autobahn
26. Bouldered the day away, Coronado National Forest, Oracle, Arizona
27. Lived in an extinct volcano, Aliamanu, O’ahu
28. Rambled the Scottish Highlands
29. Rode the coasters, Roller Coaster Capital of the World, Cedar Point, Sandusky, Ohio
30. Spent an entire year traveling fulltime in an RV
Wow, that was more difficult than I expected! So many more locations and countries and experiences are bouncing in my head–far too many to list here. My life has truly been an adventure thus far!
And now, to accept Lesley’s challenge …
Co-posted from Dusty’s Musings, Writing my own Bucket List.
One Assembly, Two Assembly
Today was filled with applications, registrations and reservations for both the MidAmerica Regional Assembly-Bloomington, Indiana, to be held on April 12th, and the UUA General Assembly, June 25th-29th, in Providence, Rhode Island.
As some of you may recall, I attended GA last year in Louisville as a volunteer and I’ve applied to volunteer again this year. With registration as costly as a campsite or dorm room, the price to attend can add up too quickly when one is not sponsored by a congregation.
Volunteering is a great way to get access to most of the Assembly (less the 24 hours working spread out over up to 6 days), and as I found out last year, it’s a great way to quickly meet a large number of dedicated UUs with a strong desire to play an active role in the Assembly.
So here’s hoping to see you at GA! Last year’s memories are still here too!
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For more info on GA, visit the GA 2014 page.
Interested in volunteering? Check out these ‘Volunteer Opportunities.’
Find your UUA Region here.
Maple Syrup Festival
Enjoyed a busy day at the Maple Syrup Festival in Southern Indiana! Anyone nearby can still drop by LM Sugarbush next weekend and visit this family run farm to see the syrup making process and an old-fashioned outdoor festival.
What’s in a logo?
Everyone is up in arms over the new UUA logo. Is it better or worse than the last? More representative? There are even those questioning a phallic representation!
I’m undecided. I know that change is good but I also know that I love the history of longstanding logos and rarely like the new better than the old. I’m a little stodgy that way.
Maybe the people to ask are those not already associated with UU. See what outsiders think, how they react, since they are our future growth. Just a thought.
So to give a taste of what’s out there in the UU world of logos, I scoured the Web to find some of my favorites, not so favorites, and unique twists by both UUA groups and local congregations.
*All of the above logos were found at Bing images.
my permi love
As UUs, we as a group are deeply concerned about our environment and the love we provide to it. Of course personally, I’m no different! Through my love of our environment, and in finding some roots, I’ve started a new blog, permie love, to follow me in my quest for supporting the permaculture movement while developing and growing my personal patch of six acres lent to me by Mother Earth.
permie love will give regular “love tips,” or small steps that each of us can take in everyday life to support and sustain the environment, while also following me along my quest to become a Purdue Master Gardener.
I also plan to begin inventories of my surroundings in picture form. Wildlife, native and introduced fauna inventories, and even practical suggestions and projects for reducing waste and using the land to support humans in an Earth friendly ecosystem.
So please go visit the new site and give me some permie love!
Buddha’s eye view
Last night the latest wave of storms delivered what looks like a beautiful cover of 5″ of snow, but what is truly 5″ of crusted ice and sleet that I walked out on without even leaving a trace. Inside and wanting to take photos, I found the view of some friends.
Joe’s eye view of the birds … and the bird’s eye view of Joe!
Atlanta’s World of Coca Cola
I don’t know if I’ve said this before, but Austin is a Coca Cola fanatic. At just 12-years-old he has the impressive starts of a lifelong memorabilia collection. That said, here are some pictures from our most recent trip to the World of Coca Cola in beautiful downtown Atlanta, Georgia.
traveling tUUsome 