The life list keeps growing. There are LOTs of places we need to visit, Chris!
Sonja’s Life List
□ Dive with Whale Sharks in Belize
□ Restore a Riparian Habitat with Native Plants
■ Ride in an hot air balloon (Willamette University Campus, Spring 2003. Irvine Great Park, Spring 2008)
□ Visit McNeill Park, Alaska to watch the grizzly bears
■ Travel around Europe with a backpack (August and September 2003)
□ Build a rammed earth house
□ Dive the Great Barrier Reef or the reefs around Papua New Guinea
□ Use solar energy and give back to the power grid
□ Go watch a hamster race
■ See a blue whale (Long Beach, September 30, 2007, 7 blue whales, plus false killer whales, rizzo’s dolphins and common dolphins)
□ Dive with Great White Sharks (in a cage, preferably)
□ Read the Bible (all of it) and the Koran
□ Design and implement a gray water system
□ See the herd migration in the Great Rift Valley
□ Grow an organic garden
■ Surf (Costa Rica, fall 2001)
□ Bicycle at least 100 miles in a race
□ Design a water garden with fish, turtles, and frogs
□ See one really great concert
□ Own at least two live chickens and possibly a goat or an alpaca (or both)
□ Go to the Olympics (summer or winter)
□ Take a bicycle repair/maintenance class
■ See a turtle lay eggs on the beach in the middle of the night (Costa Rica, winter 2001)
□ Take a trip with the Nature Conservancy
□ Renovate a home
□ Take a pottery class
□ Perfect one really great 5-course meal
□ Have lots of dogs
■ Plan my wedding (2005 and 2006)
□ Paint a house
□ Give blood 10 times (1 down)
□ See molten lava
■ Go horseback riding on the beach (Costa Rica, winter 2001)
■ Have my own website (August 2007)
□ Take as many photographs as possible
□ Watch the Iditarod
□ Dive the Crater, Salt Lake City, Utah. (www.homesteadrestort.com)
□ Participate in a protect march in Washington DC