Hello all!
So it has rained more than it hasn’t over the last few days. So I haven’t done jack shit.
I mean yes I have made some progress on the house, but not enough to warrant talking about.
The Tiny Terrorist and I have had some quality time in “time out”.
But not a whole lot of excitement… So I’ve been reading. Some of it has been conspiracy theories on Facebook (when I’m bored I like to educate idiots and cite my sources). Some of it has been rereading books from my past, and some of it has been reading books that are supposed to inspire. The one quote that has inspired me is actually from the Lord of The Ring series.
“‘It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.” -JRR Tolkien
So of course I have started contemplating the direction of my adventures. I mean in the current environment, going out and about is not exactly advisable. However my fernweh is as strong as ever…
Don’t get me wrong, I love hanging out with Tiny Terrorist. Working on the house with my Dad is an adventure all in it’s self… But I don’t do well sitting still. So, starting this month I am going to have at least one adventure a month. It may be just a day trip or it may be an epic adventure across the country. I might go solo, or Pretty Lady and Tiny Terrorist may join. The trip may have a plan, or I might just wake up one morning and declare I am driving east till I run out of gas, then heading south and we’ll see what happens.
As part of this, I am going to create a scoring system similar to the one I had for my epic trip in 2018. Obviously things like “pick up a Whovian style companion”, “kiss a stranger within an hour of meeting”, and “convince strangers to go skinny dipping” are no longer options, so the list has to change. So, here is my first draft of a scoring system. Please let me know what you think about it. I want to add more things to the list.
(2) See Cliff Palace
(4) See Flamingo in wild
(4) See Alligator in wild
(3) Pee off edge of Grand Canyon
(1) Take selfie in Assembly Room of Independence Hall
(3) Touch a glacier
(5) Sky Dive
(5) Bungee Jump
(3) Spend a night sleeping against a redwood
(1) Walk into Mammoth Cave
(5) Barter while on the road
(2) Stand on top of Monks Mound at Cahokia
(3) Swim just downstream of Rainbow Falls in Great Smokey Mountain National Park
(1) Take Selfie at Statue of Liberty
(1) Take Selfie on Ellis Island
(5) Take Selfie in front of Trump tower wearing Fuck Trump shirt
(1) 102 minutes of silence at 9/11 memorial
(3) Selfie with El Capitan in background
(2) Stand in Center of Chaco Ceremonial Center
(1) Drive 1000 miles
(2) Walk the gardens of Monticello
(2) Walk the old village at Taos Pueblo
(2) See an Opera
(2) See a concert
(2) See a straight play
(2) see a musical
(2) see a dance show
(2) Walk the Big Room at Carlsbad Caverns
(2) Stand in Central Plaza of Poverty Point
(3) Walk into all 5 missions at the San Antonio Missions historical site
(1) Survive a day with the Tiny Terrorist on the road
(2) Allow a family member to ride shotgun for a week
(1) Allow a friend to ride shotgun for a week
(5) spend a night sleeping on a port-o-ledge
(5) hang glide
(3) spend a night above the tree line (12,000 feet above sea level in the Rockies)
(2) Take a hot air balloon ride
(1) visit a friend
(1) volunteer for a day
(2) Dance in rain with strangers
(2) Hike 100 miles
(3) Do a Sky Swing
(1) Go Sailing
(5) Cliff Jump
(3) Stay out till the sun comes out on Bourbon Street
(1) Eat something strange that I’ve never had before
(2) Eat out of a road side stand
(5) pilot an ultra light
(5) Crash a wedding
(5) Make the local news somewhere
(3) repair jeep on side of road (may repeat)
(2) Hitch hike to retrieve jeep
(1) repair jeep in parking lot
(5) See a Grizzly in the wild
(10) See an endangered species in the wild
(1) talk my way out of a speeding ticket
(1) climb on something that could get me arrested
(5) pick up a hitchhiker
(10) drive historic Route 66 from begging to end
(1) take a selfie with a historic site/landmark/monument
(1) take a selfie with a celebrity
(5) Wild Card (must be an amazing story and can only be used once per trip)
Days Unemployed: 50
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