My mission statement:
To live a voluntarily simple life as I pursue my dreams while challenging, encouraging and assisting others to achieve theirs.
What this means is that I continue to live my life as simply as possible utilizing only basic necessities. My list of necessities include Shelter (in the form of my bus), Food and Water, basic heat, diesel and gas for the bus. Absent will be items of a materialistic nature as I want to show, through example, that dreams are what you do, not what you own.
Pursuing my dreams consist of traveling to various places to mark items off my list of things I want to do before I die and other opportunities I discover along the way.
Challenging, Encouraging and assisting others that I meet along my travels. I will be actively seeking out people who want to make some change in their life and help them achieve that goal.
I will document my experiences and post them on my blog and to a soon to be developed website.
Some subject matter that I want to focus on in my travels:
- Determine the best way to help those in unfortunate situations
- Give those with a 'will work for food' sign an opportunity to work for food
- Implement 'Pay it Forward' actions, I help someone, who in turn agrees to help someone else in need.
- Participate in Random acts of Kindness
- Promote the website WishUponAHero.com
These are just some of the areas I want to touch upon. My mission will continue to evolve as I learn more. And it is not limited to the homeless or poverty stricken. I believe true Need has many different faces and spans the economic spectrum.
I will also be providing many more video logs to my blog.
Friday, February 26, 2010
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Free to Good Home...
Adorable fuzzy critter I initially thought was a Himalayan cat hiding under a car in the Walmart parking lot. Free to good home. Call 1-555-(Road-Kill) if you can love this face. Might want to bring a bandaid for that back toe.
Things I have Already done before I died
As I compose my list of things I want to do before I die, I first had to remember all the things I have already done.
When I look back on life thus far I have been pretty true to pursuing whatever dream that popped in my head. Usually these were spontaneous, spur of the moment things. Others, like falling in love took a little more time. I will add to the list as I remember more things I have done.
1. Gone to an airport and taken a spontaneous trip
2. Flown first class
3. Gone on a cruise
4. Gone to Paris
-Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower
-Visited the Louvre Museum
-Saw a show at Moulin Rouge
-Walked down Champs Elysees
-Drank coffee & ate crepes on sidewalk cafes
5. Gone to England
-saw changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace
-Saw Big Ben
-Rode Giant Ferris wheel
-Went to Salvador Dali Museum
6. Been to Alaska
-Road a train from Denali to Seward
-Took a boat to Kenai Fjords and saw glaciers calving
7. Been to Mexico
-Tijuana
-Cancun
-Stayed at all inclusive resort
8. Been to Caribbean islands
-Bahamas- Nassua & Freeport
-stayed at Club Med
-visited Atlantis resort
-Gambled at Atlantis and won
-saw spectacular aquarium
-Caymen Islands
-Swam with the stingrays at stingray city
-Send a postcard from hell
-Puerto Rico
-Dominican Republic
-visited multi-million dollar houses being built
9. Been to Napa Valley
10. Driven down the Pacific Coast Highway
11. Watched the ball drop in Times Square (2001/2002)
-Stayed at Waldorf-Astoria
12. Been to New York City (3X)
-Saw Broadway Musical (Rent)
-Rode on NYC subway
-Took a cab in NYC
-Took a carriage ride in Central Park
13. Been to Las Vegas
14. Graduated College
15. Been in Love
16. Flown in a small (3 passenger) plane
17. Rode Horseback riding
-Been thrown from horseback
18. Played in a public fountain-daytime
19. Went to SEAL training
20. Been to Canada
30. Chased Armadillos
31. Walked hand in hand on the beach
32. Been snow skiing out west (5x)
33. Owned a motorcycle
34. Painted my own car
35. Built my own RV
36. Scuba dived off Key West
37. Rescued and adopted cat
38. Been onstage in 2 theater productions
39. Been in a local TV commercial
40. Bench Pressed 265lbs
41. Pursued and Dated girls supposedly 'Out of my League'
42. Been Whitewater Rafting, canoeing and tubing
44. I've been skinny dipping (in a public place)
45. Owned a boat and a jet ski
46. Renovated a house by myself...no contractors.
47. Let a girl wax my chest (NEVER again)
48. Driven 130mph
49. Dove from the high dive
50. Broke a bone, collar bone...Didn't really want to do that but in a weird way I'm glad to have that badge of honor.
When I look back on life thus far I have been pretty true to pursuing whatever dream that popped in my head. Usually these were spontaneous, spur of the moment things. Others, like falling in love took a little more time. I will add to the list as I remember more things I have done.
1. Gone to an airport and taken a spontaneous trip
2. Flown first class
3. Gone on a cruise
4. Gone to Paris
-Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower
-Visited the Louvre Museum
-Saw a show at Moulin Rouge
-Walked down Champs Elysees
-Drank coffee & ate crepes on sidewalk cafes
5. Gone to England
-saw changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace
-Saw Big Ben
-Rode Giant Ferris wheel
-Went to Salvador Dali Museum
6. Been to Alaska
-Road a train from Denali to Seward
-Took a boat to Kenai Fjords and saw glaciers calving
7. Been to Mexico
-Tijuana
-Cancun
-Stayed at all inclusive resort
8. Been to Caribbean islands
-Bahamas- Nassua & Freeport
-stayed at Club Med
-visited Atlantis resort
-Gambled at Atlantis and won
-saw spectacular aquarium
-Caymen Islands
-Swam with the stingrays at stingray city
-Send a postcard from hell
-Puerto Rico
-Dominican Republic
-visited multi-million dollar houses being built
9. Been to Napa Valley
10. Driven down the Pacific Coast Highway
11. Watched the ball drop in Times Square (2001/2002)
-Stayed at Waldorf-Astoria
12. Been to New York City (3X)
-Saw Broadway Musical (Rent)
-Rode on NYC subway
-Took a cab in NYC
-Took a carriage ride in Central Park
13. Been to Las Vegas
14. Graduated College
15. Been in Love
16. Flown in a small (3 passenger) plane
17. Rode Horseback riding
-Been thrown from horseback
18. Played in a public fountain-daytime
19. Went to SEAL training
20. Been to Canada
30. Chased Armadillos
31. Walked hand in hand on the beach
32. Been snow skiing out west (5x)
33. Owned a motorcycle
34. Painted my own car
35. Built my own RV
36. Scuba dived off Key West
37. Rescued and adopted cat
38. Been onstage in 2 theater productions
39. Been in a local TV commercial
40. Bench Pressed 265lbs
41. Pursued and Dated girls supposedly 'Out of my League'
42. Been Whitewater Rafting, canoeing and tubing
44. I've been skinny dipping (in a public place)
45. Owned a boat and a jet ski
46. Renovated a house by myself...no contractors.
47. Let a girl wax my chest (NEVER again)
48. Driven 130mph
49. Dove from the high dive
50. Broke a bone, collar bone...Didn't really want to do that but in a weird way I'm glad to have that badge of honor.
Monday, February 22, 2010
Planning Stage
Right now my work consists of sitting at a laptop pounding out ideas and sculpting my list of 100 things I want to do before I die. I am also researching online all the possible ways to make this dream a reality.
I will try to still post on a regular basis but I don't want to give shoddy updates until my plan has been firmed up. This is again, a scary, exciting time for me. I don't have all the answers yet but I am confident I will find them. I know in which direction to look. Hopefully I will have my mission statement up in a few days. Until then...take care my friends.
I will try to still post on a regular basis but I don't want to give shoddy updates until my plan has been firmed up. This is again, a scary, exciting time for me. I don't have all the answers yet but I am confident I will find them. I know in which direction to look. Hopefully I will have my mission statement up in a few days. Until then...take care my friends.
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