Alright, "iRecommend" is something I used to do on my old LiveJournal and I'm bringing it back. Essentially it's just me recommending things on a weekly basis. I'm not going to promise that it will always be on the same day but I'm definitely going to shoot for once a week. To get it started i'm going to do some record recommending. Hope you like it....
(Limiting myself to 25, in no particular order)
1. Tom Gabel- Heart Burns
2. xLooking Forwardx- What This Means To Me
3. Good Clean Fun- Between Christian Rock And A Hard Place
4. Betrayed- Substance
5. Diehard Youth- Four Years The Hard Way
6. Harder The Fight- Might of The Merrimack
7. Have Heart- The Things We Carry
8. Wake Up Call- One Eye Open
9. Against Me!- Crime
10. The Riot Before- Horseshoes And Hand Grenades
11. Dead Hearts- No Love, No Hope
12. Energy- Punch The Clock
13. Street Dogs- Back To The World
14. The Geeks- Every Time We Fall
15. In Remembrance- We'll Always Have The Memories
16. Inside Out- No Spiritual Surrender
17. Insted- Proud Youth
18. Kingdom- EP
19. Judge- Bringin It Down
20. Resist- We Want Our World Back
21. Since The Flood- No Compromise
22. Kids Like Us- Outta Control
23. Sidewalk- Time Spent
24. Signs of Hope- First And Foremost
25. Verse- From Anger And Rage
These are the best prices that I could find for all of them that I actually could find
So, i said in my last post that i would probably eventually put up the bucket list... I've decided to go ahead and do that now. Here goes....
Before We Die
1. Cross a rope bridge
2. Skydive
3. bungee jump
4. write a book
5. learn an instrument
6. learn two other languages... become fluent in at least one
X7. become a published photographer ~ X
8. produce my own documentary ~
9. edit a major motion picture ~
10. surf north shore, and not die
11. drive over 250mph on the salt flats in Utah
12. own a Harley
13. have more than one dog at a time
14. have kids
15. go to a show in Europe
16. make my parents proud
17. get married
18. build my own house
19. climb everest
20. snowboard back country in oregon and in BC
21. hike the Appalachian
22. get my degree ~
23. hitch hike
24. never buy a puppy from a pet store... only from a shelter
X25. know exactly what to do or say if you're mad at me to make you feel better ~ X
26. watch the sunrise over the ocean and set over the ocean in the same day (rise on east coast set on west)
27. swim with dolphins... in the ocean not in a pool with trained dolphins
28. Volunteer in Africa *
29. Become a Captioner *
30. Join CIA *
31. Become President *
32. Adopt a kid
33. Live in Savannah for a while
34. Hunt for treasure
35. Spend all night in a cemetery
36. Scuba dive
37. Go through the jungle with a monkey
38. Go down the Amazon
X39. Get a degree in something cool * X
40. Run for an elected position *
41. Read the entire bible*
42. Play with a wild kangaroo
43. Ride an elephant in Africa or Asia
44. Learn how to snowboard *
45. Learn how to skateboard *
46. Drive a racecar
47. Bench 100 lbs *
48. See real polar bears in the wild
49. Sleep in an igloo
50. Dance with a penguin
51. Eat a habanero
52. Visit the Great Wall
53. Ride a camel through the desert
54. Snorkel in a cave
55. Swim with dolphins
56. Jump in a giant sinkhole
57. Ride up the Nile
58. Totally change my hair*
59. Shower in the rain
X60. See Will Smith * X
X61. Get attacked by fireants X
X62. Touch someone famous * X
63. Skinny dip
X64. See Nelson Mandela* X
X65. Go to a Queen concert* X
66. Ride in a hot air balloon
67. Race through Egypt on donkeys
68. Go to Stonehenge
X69. Beat a bunch of British people in a kayak race* X
70. Race four-wheelers in the mountains in Greece
71. Sit down with a random group of Brazilian women in a restaurant and sing the Frito Bandito song
72. Own an alternative powered vehicle
73. Build our own library
74. Rope swing into a body of water
75. Jump a house on a snowboard ~
76. Own a vegan bakery or restaurant
77. Complete a triathlon
78. Pose nude for a portrait ~
79. Yell at the top of my lungs and have it carry for miles~
80. Make a fool of myself and be happy doing it
81. Win over a crowd
82. Protest
83. Be part of a revolution
84. Bowl a perfect game
85. Be an extra in a movie
86. Win on a scratch ticket and give it to someone else
87. Ride a train cross country
88. Attend a live recording of a stand-up comedian
89. Make vegan ice cream
90. Build a tree house with our kids
91. Humiliate someone who deserves it
92. Rescue a baby deer that's injured and take care of it...then release it.
93. Rescue an animal that's on its way to a slaughter house and keep it as a pet
94. Be self-sustainable
95. Kiss under a waterfall
96. Learn to blow glass
X97. Finish a game of Monopoly X
98. Go white water rafting
99. Build and fly a kite
100. Spend 24 hours with a homeless person
101. Talk with an accent for a day
102. See 24 hours of light and 24 hours of dark
103. Stay awake for 48 hours
104. Receive my Final Cut Pro Certification ~
105. Make a piece of art in a public place and destroy it the next day
106. Put on a hardcore show
107. Eat a Raw diet for a week
108. Do something so romantic that complete strangers talk about it to someone else ~
109. Get ¾ sleeves… at least one anyway ~
110. Get a really stupid tattoo ~
111. Give a month’s income to charity
112. Stand with one foot in the northern hemisphere and one in the southern hemisphere
113. Stand with one foot in the eastern hemisphere and one in the western hemisphere
114. Start a country
X115. Make an extensive family tree X
116. Go urban camping
117. Base jump with wing suits
118. Perform at an open mic
119. Be a Best Man ~
120. Attend a gay or lesbian wedding~
121. Perform a magic trick
122. Be on a game show
123. Make and complete a list of things to photograph~
124. While doing something else on the list, inspire someone else to make a list
X125. Go on a road trip X
126. Tell you something without saying a word~
127. Learn to ballroom dance
128. Hold or own a monkey
129. Attend a class reunion
130. Christmas at the North Pole
131. Go to every country in Africa
132. Travel Route 1 start to finish
133. Be on Google maps (XDericX)
134. Save someone's life
135. Scuba dive around a shipwreck
136. Give someone a kidney, etc.
137. Win an eating contest
138. Ride in a submarine
139. Fly a plane
140. Ride in a helicopter
141. Dress up in camo and sabotage hunting stands, etc. during deer season
142. Get a Mohawk
143. Spend all night in a cave
144. Go to all 50 states
145. Pet a moose
146. Wrestle a gorilla....a little one*
147. Learn how to pogo stick*
148. Teach yourself an awesome magic trick and keep it a secret forever
149. Restore a junk car and make it awesome
150. Build a model train village
151. Make a whole bunch of toys and give them to an orphanage
152. Learn how to build something...anything*
153. Be interviewed on national tv
154. Break a World Record
155. Invent something
156. Watch movies continuously for 24 hours
157. Drive a dogsled
158. Create an alias
159. Watch a space shuttle take off
160. Send a message in a bottle
161. Ride the trans-siberian train all across Asia
162. Be the one person on a jury that constantly disagrees
163. Teach someone to read who doesn't know how
164. Spend the night in a deserted, potentially haunted house
165. Drive from Maine to California...or California to Maine
166. Pretend to be Santa Clause and surprise our kids*
167. Learn how to break dance*
168. Teach myself how to walk on my hands*
169. Experiment a whole bunch of recipes and make a cookbook
170. Search for Cambridge glass
171. Object at a wedding
172. Get Arrested
173. Climb a frozen waterfall
174. Get fired for something cool
175. Tell off someone in authority
176. Flash a security camera
177. Say no when taking the oath in court
178. Do somethin illegal that needs to be done
179. Take a bite out of everything in your cart before you buy it
180. Pretend to be someone else the whole day
181. Make crop circles in the grass
182. Throw thongs into others peoples' washers at the Laundromat
183. See a UFO
184. Go big foot hunting
185. See a ghost
186. Get an innocent person released from prison
187. Do cartwheels between the two yellow lines in the road*
188. Spend a whole day blindfolded
189. Wear earplugs all day
190. Destroy a car
191. Pick someone randomly in a restaurant and pay for their food
192. Swim in a fountain with all our clothes on
193. Sneak into someone's house, eat something outta the fridge, and leave
X194. Take a beautiful photo of the lake and blow it up and hang it on the wall in our home X
195. Win a radio contest
196. See a midnight premiere for a movie
197. Start a collection of something cool
198. Buy something priceless at a yard sale
199. Play cupid, and have it work
200. Host a vegan cookout
201. Have a yard/garage sale
202. Make our own clothes
203. Sleep on the beach
204. Take part in a scientific survey
205. Find the cash cab
206. Catch a moving train
207. RTW vagabond trip
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Specifically Deric= ~
Specifically Brook= *
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The Story... My girlfriend and I have been putting together a Bucket List for the past couple of months (eventually it will probably make it's way up here). Anyway, one day I asked her "If you could take a vacation anywhere in the world for any length of time, where would you go?" and being the wonderfully smart and imaginative young lady that she is, she came up with this huge elaborate plan of traveling the whole world. I mean from country to country without looking at a map, she put together a trip that not only made sense but sounded like more fun than anyone in the world has ever had. Right away I said, "Yes!" She looked at me and said "Yes, what?" "Yes, we're doing that..."
So, about a month and a half later we're doing everything we can in preparation for our journey. We went to Borders and bought maps and books and went to the library and took out books like 1,000 PLACES TO SEE BEFORE YOU DIE and THE TRAVEL BOOK and went through and found the most amazing places and things to do. We started putting these places on the map and finding out everything we could to prepare. We've each started learning a language (Mandarin for her and Spanish for me... we're also going to learn French and Arabic)
She picked up a book called Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel, which you can find here. ... completely worth it. I'm a terribly slow reader and i finished
it in two days flat. But Anyway, I've got like another year left in school so after I graduate i'm
going to work for like 6 months and then we're off. We're thining we're going to be gone for about
five to seven years. As time progresses I'm sure you'll be reading a lot more about this trip. As
for now, here's a few links and I'm off to bed...
Watch For Inspiration
Watch For Information
Couchsurfing
Vagabondish Travelzine
BootsnAll
Backpacking & Budget Travel
Side note: My girlfriend and I can be found on couchsurfing.com by clicking the link on the side. Feel free to add us if you have an account, if you don't go right ahead and make one.
This is the image that I entered in the 29th ANNUAL COLLEGE PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST. I was a finalist and this picture is being published in the book that they put out every year of the finalists. What's so special about this photo is the long exposure that made the river look so smooth. During the middle of the day it's not an easy thing to do.