Trekking Alaska 1: Off and away!

Off to Shishmaref for a couple days tomorrow! High of -5 for the week, lows in the -30s. Bring it on!

Get inspired...

“Life is short. The world is big. It awaits your exploration. If you're not living on the edge, you're just taking up way too much space.” ― Paul Beaver

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"The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun."

– Chris McCandless

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"There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself."

- Henry David Thoreau

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"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary"

-Steve Jobs

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"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."

- Henry David Thoreau

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"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. "

- T. S. Eliot

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"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Not all those who wander are lost.”

- J.R.R. Tolkien

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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

- Mark Twain

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“To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.”

– Bill Bryson

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There's no such thing as an unwritten life. Just a badly written one... You know what we're gonna do? We're gonna live like we're telling the best story in the whole world. Are you ready? - The Brothers Bloom

Awesome-Things-To-Do List

This is my bucket list, an on-going and frequently updated compilation of things I hope to accomplish in my lifetime. Feel free to suggest additions

*Bold = mission accomplished

Backpack around the world
Road trip across the US (Nov. 2013-Jan. 2014)
Stand on the Eastern and Western hemispheres simultaneously* (Spring 2010)
Live in England (Spring 2010)
Visit Stonehenge (Spring 2010)
Visit Ireland (Spring 2010)
Climb a mountain
Meet a past president (Fall 2008)
Meet a current president
Go to Scotland
Go to Spain
Visit every state in the US (33/50)
Live in Alaska (2012-13)
Live in Colorado
Live in California
Swim in a coral reef (Jan. 2012)
Learn to sail
Become fluent in another language
Walk on the Great Wall of China
Visit Thailand
Visit Africa
Stand on the equator
Visit the Galapagos Islands
Visit Machu Pichu
Visit Mayan ruins (Jan. 2012)
Visit the Tikal ruins
Visit Mexico
Visit Antarctica
Visit the North Pole
Visit Canada (Feb 2015)
Live in Maine
Master a new instrument
Visit India
Visit Russia
Visit Northern Europe
Live in New Zealand
Visit Australia
Swim in the Great Barrier Reef
Go skydiving (when I'm really old)
Go bungee jumping (also when I'm really old)
Go white water rafting
Visit a rain forest (Mar. 2011)
Zipline through a rain forest
See 1,000 species of birds
Discover something new
Publish a book
Learn to rock climb (Summer 2011)
Build my own house in the woods (preferably a tree house)
Live a completely self-sustainable lifestyle
See a whale in the wild (July 2012)
Set foot in every continent at least once
Hike the Appalachian Trail
Hike the Pacific Crest Trail
Learn to ski
Learn to snowboard
Go sledding (Winter 2012)
Visit Iceland (March 2012)
Visit Greenland
Visit Cuba
Learn to surf
Learn filmmaking
Visit Japan
Volunteer overseas
Visit an active volcano
Ride an elephant
Ride a camel
Play in the snow (Dec. 2011)
Experience zero gravity
Become a better public speaker
Go ice skating (Feb. 2014)
Visit the Great Pyramids
Go on an archaeological dig
Overcome a fear
Become an expert photographer
Visit Tibet
Visit Nepal
Learn fencing
Go hang gliding
Go on a cruise
Visit Norway
Live in Hawaii
Work in a developing country
Write an ethnography
Befriend a narwhal
Go into outer space (optional)

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Off and away!

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