“A bucket list can be your best friend or your worst enemy.”
Did you ever watch Wheel of Fortune when you were younger (or perhaps you still do)?  Every once in awhile they would have categories called “Before and After”, well here is my bucket list before and after.
The Before: Bucket List.
My Bucket List has been pretty much the one thing about this site that has remained fairly constant since the beginning.  Sure about 6 months back I did a bit of a remodel of it, but if there has been …

Wow, this has been a long week.  It is quarterly report time at my job, and as usually happens every three months, I am swamped.  With that being said, it is amazing this post made it out on time (this is an assumption, it is 5:30 on Wednesday and I am still not sure if I will be able to finish it tonight).  So, if you are reading this on Thursday morning, feel free to congratulate me, as I wasn’t sure if this one was going to meet the deadline!
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So the time has come for me to do my first video blog.  On my recent trip where my friend Brian and I summited the third highest peak in Oregon, we took a lot of video.  The result is my first attempt at any sort of  video editing since I took a multimedia class in 8th grade.  I just ask that you be patient with my amateur attempt at cinematography!  I would also ask that you will forgive the wind noise from the last few scenes, as I couldn’t get …

I realize that I just wrote a post about accomplishing #16 on my list, but I felt this one deserved a mention even though I really did it for the first time a few years back.  The Gorge Amphitheater in George, Washington is one of the most  beautiful places I have ever been.  The venue holds about 25,000 people and the stage is set directly above the Columbia River.
For as long as I can remember I have had friends that would drive up there on Labor Day weekend to camp …

Did you know that it was possible for alarms to go off at 2:30 in the morning? Until Saturday, I had no clue. However, that is what needed to happen in order for me to accomplish #16 on my list: climb a mountain. It was a two and a half hour drive to the Devil’s Lake Trail head, just outside of Bend, Oregon. The goal was to hike the South Sister, which is the third highest peak in Oregon at 10,358 feet.
I don’t think I have been on a hike …

In my first carnival of blogs I wrote about some of the sites and posts that have inspired me to continue down the path that I am currently on.  In this next iteration of the carnival I wanted to focus on articles that I have read that provide motivation for me personally.  Maybe someone has become successful at being location independent, or perhaps they are doing something on my list.   Either way something about their writing has motivated me enough to want to share it with you.  A few …

As most of you know, one of my biggest reasons for starting this blog is to hold myself accountable for accomplishing things on “My List“.  I have realized that for being such a big part of my adventure, I have spent very little time talking about it.  The creation of this list has actually been on going for quite some time, and by the time I published it there had already been a few that were crossed off.  So this is an update on some of the things I have …

Since I began my site a few months ago, I have been fortunate to speak with numerous other bloggers in my niche.  Speaking with them and spending time on their blogs has been extremely valuable when it comes to getting this site on solid ground.  If you search through my archives, you will undoubtedly find links to many of their sites, but I wanted to recognize all of those people/posts that have helped inspire me and keep me moving forward.  So without further adieu I would like to introduce my …

Have you ever wanted to learn how to sail?  Experience exotic destinations?  Embark on an adventure?  We all have at some point or another.  Well I would like to tell you about a website that enables these things.
Findacrew.net is a website that is designed to match up sailors (you) looking for a boat to work on, and boats looking for crew members.  You can sign up for a free account that then allows you to send very basic emails expressing your interest in working aboard the ship.  You can’t customize …

Typically on Wednesdays I post my “Happy Hour of the Week”.  Due to all the new readers that have checked out the site over the last couple days I thought I would postpone my Happy Hour post until Thursday and write about something a little more interesting.
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#27: Golf at Augusta National Golf Club
They say nothing is impossible if you put your mind to it.  Well I am going to test this theory.  Long regarded as one of the best and most exclusive golf courses in the world, Augusta National is …