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ADVENTURES
ACCOMPLISHED!
1969 See Dad dive off a
cliff in Acupulco, Mexico
1970 Become a sister
1975 Visit Phoenix & Navajo reservation for the
holidays
1976 Spend a month in the Badlands & see Mt.
Rushmore
1976 Pet famous racehorses in KY
1977 Spend a month in the Everglades and FL Keys
1978 See Stonehenge & Big Ben
1978 See a live tornado while outside (Wanamaker, IN)
1979 Compete at an International Pony Show, Oklahoma
City
1980 Hike in Mammoth Cave, KY
1982 Compete at a World Pony Show, Walla Walla, WA
1984 See the Coliseum in Rome
1984 Read Canterbury Tales & see Chaucer's grave in
Westminster Abbey
1984 March at a freezing Chicago Bear's football game
1984-5 March in a college bowl game (Aloha Bowl, Hawaii)
1985 Spend five days in the Louvre & sing in Avery Fisher Hall, NYC
1986 Drive to Canada without parents & graduate high school
1987 Visit Japan with the Yale Band & Cape Cod on July 4
1988 Live in Bavaria for a month with Karen Daehnick
1988 See Yugoslavia & the Acropolis in Athens
1988 Sing/study with Robert Shaw in Souillac, France
1988 Walk the Labyrinth at Chartres Cathedral
1989 Visit Martha's Vineyard for the first time with Ann Schwentker &
see the Berlin Wall manned by armed guards with cousin Charlotte
1990 Study Russian & finish college
1990 Organize & lead the YGC tour of Eastern Europe (& hack off
a piece of the Berlin Wall for Dad)
1991 Visit Uncle Jack in Puerta Vallarta, Mexico with Nana
1991 Sing backup for Alison Krauss in Louisville
1992 Get stranded by a snowstorm while singing in Wheeling, WV & sing
backup at the Grand Ol' Opry
1992 Sleep in a car frozen shut by ice on Interstate 70 & teach a
class on Heiroglyphics
1992 Read Steinbeck's Cannery Row & visit Monterey for Sonneck Society
conf.
1993 See Old Faithful erupt in Yellowstone &the Grand Canyon under
snow at night
1994 Explore Barcelona, Paris, Hamlet's Castle in Denmark, cruise Norway's
Sognefjord & see the Midnight Sun
1994 Act as bridesmaid in best friend's wedding
1994 Visit the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, AZ & a blues club in Memphis,
TN
1995 Finish grad school & move to California
1995 Drive through New Mexico at night
looking for UFOs & photograph sister (Lisa) in a cell at Alcatraz
1996 Speak at the San Francisco Opera
1996 Chase a hot air balloon through the Sierras & camp on the Olympic
Peninsula with sister (Lucy)
1997 Speak at & sing with the San Francisco Symphony and Michael Tilson
Thomas
1997 See Citizen Kane & visit the Hearst Castle
1998 Conduct a college choir and SF Symphony Chorus & get engaged
(New Year's Eve)
1999 Climb in an Alaskan glacier
1999 Built my first huge website from scratch & got married at Asilomar
in Pacific Grove, CA
2000 Ride the City of New Orleans train
& ride a swamp boat with 3 sisters and Mike
2000 Spent the night at Mont St. Michel, France, biked in Amsterdam and
Paris, drove to Bilbao and Spain's Basque country & rode the Orient
Express to Venice
2001 Visit Trinidad & Tobago and give a conference paper
2001 Plan a birthday party on a Hornblower yacht
2001 Visit southern coastal Norway by boat & train
2001 Visit the site of the Salem Witch Trials
2002 Visit Ground Zero /WTC site in NYC & hear the Mingus Big Band
@ the Fez with Marin Catholic musicians
2002 Vacation & perform in Las Vegas with Marin Catholic musicians
2002 See Victoria and Vancouver, Mt. Ranier up close & sail on Puget
Sound
2002 Visit the British Virgin Islands and the French West Indes
2003 Conduct a great jazz band in the Iron Horse Music Hall, Northampton,
MA & conduct a vocal jazz group at DePaul University, Chicago
2003 Sing for Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin and visit Sergei Posad monastery,
conduct in Red Square & sing with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus &
Boston Symphony
2004 Teach at the Berkshire Choral Festival, conduct the oldest US German
choir & hike the Na Pali Coast of Kauai
2005 Led SANS Tour to South Africa and kayaked in Baja California, Mexico at my sister's wedding
2006 Led SANS Tour to Vietnam, FPUUA trip to New Orleans, and explored
Macinac Island, Newfoundland & Cape Breton
2010 Drove on the Icefields Parkway and flew in a helicopter over Banff and Jasper National Parks
2011 Gave conference paper in St. Petersburg, Russia and visited Finland and Estonia
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THINGS TO DO
Get to know more Canadians
Play fife regularly
Work on foreign languages!
Stand on both sides of the equator
Start a mariachi band
Taste Absinthe
Fluff up the fur on a mountain goat
Photograph a puffin up close
Publish an article in a magazine with over 200,000 circulation
Have photographs published in a magazine or textbook
Publish a book about travel
Write a book about local
history
Write a whole book about music
Publish a recipe
Swim with Dolphins and Manta Rays
See a Polar Bear in the wild
See Emperor Penguins in their native habitat
Sail from America to England
Live on a boat
Have this view from my room:
PLACES TO
VISIT
Denali & Glacier Bay, Alaska
Wood Buffalo N.P. in Alberta
Maui & Mauna Loa observatory
Tahiti
Hot Springs in Iceland
Faroe Islands off the coast of Scotland
Explore inside an Egyptian pyramid
Climb to the top of a Mayan temple
Go to a koala conservation Park in Australia
See the start of the Iditarod Dog Sled race in Anchorage, Alaska
See an active volcano (flowing lava) up close
Walk on the tree canopy bridge in the Amazon Rain Forest
Stand on an iceberg
Attend the Sundance film festival
Hunt for the Loch Ness Monster in Scotland
Canary Islands in Spain
Galapagos Islands
Great Barrier Reef in Australia
Easter Island
Walk on the Great Wall of China
Hike the Appalachian Trail
Hike the Natchez Trace
Costa Rica
Castle of Vlad the Impaler in Romania
Madagascar
Exciting, but removed because too scary
(!):
Go hang-gliding or sky-dive
See a Great White Shark from inside of a shark cage
Go whitewater rafting in a class 3 rapids
See the sun rise on Mt. Everest in Nepal
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