Showing posts with label Kentucky. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kentucky. Show all posts

Friday, April 13, 2007

To Do 141-150


141 - visit Valley Forge in a winter as severe as that of 1777-78
142 - get a cosmetic makeover (done)
143 - cut my own firewood with a chain saw
144 - cross the Cumberland Gap of the Appalachian Mountains, following Danial Boone's Wilderness Road to the Old West
145 - drive a four-wheeler up a mountain
146 - dig a pond on my property and stock it wth fish
147 - celebrate Mardi Gras in New Orleans
148 - have a shipboard romance
149 - own a portable global positioning system and never get lost
150 - snowmobile in Finland

Monday, April 9, 2007

To Do 101-110


101 - help preserve a landmark
102 - smell the freshness of the desert fater a rain (done)
103 - sail a sleek white yacht into the Bay of Naples at sunset
104 - fly over the "roof of the world" - the 96 Himalayan peaks, reaching over 24,000 feet high
105 - see where the Hatfields feuded with the McCoys
106 - learn to box
107 - visit every continent (in progress)
108 - surf the big waves off Australia's west coast
109 - summer in a villa in Tuscany
110 - with the Odyssey as my travel guide, retrace Ulysses' route home