Skid List

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“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!”

-Hunter S. Thompson

I have always hated the term Bucket List. It just sounds so unexciting. Even when I was little and picked blueberries, I always put them into a pail, not a bucket, so I sure wouldn’t put a dream or a wish into one.

So, anyway, inspired by Mr. Thompson, I think that Skid List is a better term for that list of things I want to do before I die.

So – here goes. My List of Ten Places I Want to Go and Things I Want To Do:

Burning Man – the event, not the action

Florence, Italy – particularly want to see some of Bernini’s work. (aside: I did a paper on The Ecstasy of St. Teresa a long time ago :). Very interesting saint.)

Bus across America - I don’t care where. I have not seen enough of it!

Go back to Kings Falls NY and see if I am brave enough to jump off the cliff into the water again, like when I was 17. (Yes, I really did.  Would I do it again?)

Parasailing  just because

See New Orleans. This part of the post would have been longer except I got distracted watching Big Easy video clips.

Take a steamboat ride on the Mississippi River.

Go to the Big E. 

Whale watch! I have never been!

well, except for this one...

Lilac Sunday at Arnold Arboretum

I guess it is not too crazy a list. I have no great desire to, say, conquer Everest. I kind of feel like there is so much conquering going on on a day-to-day basis that extreme challenges like that hold no real excitement for me. I just want to see new things, beautiful things… even the hang gliding idea is less to do something daring and more to experience more of the world, from a different point of view.

What’s on your Skid List?

Oh, and if we have time later on we could always go catfish noodling: 

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