Starting a list for my blog:

- visited 2 new continents and 4 new countries
- travelled to the southern hemisphere for the first time
- worked in a pet cemetary
- helped in the building of 2 strawbale houses
- milked goats
- fed manatees
- fed elephants
- watched the sunset from a tropical beach
- seen real life kiwis
- learnt to cook Thai food in Chiang Mai
- been to a chinese opera
- seen fireflies
- seen U2 play Auckland

What a list!

Tell me about the manatees

I went to my first music festival (at the age of 41...) and to Greenland! And the year isn't over yet!

- traveled solo for the first time
- discovered a new hobby (doll collecting)
- overcome my dislike for hospitals
- bought a music cd after a loooooong time (The Cat Empire!)

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Originally posted by whalewatcher:
Tell me about the manatees

I went to my first music festival (at the age of 41...) and to Greenland!

I'd love to go to Greenland - it's on my 'to do' list!

Fed the Manatees at Singapore Zoo. Pics on Flickr (though I managed to delete 3/4 of them... Doh!). Very bristly whiskers which tickle your hand when you feed them!

Very, very cool.

KPG

Wow, I don't think I've ever seen a Manatee before... those pictures are awesome!

My list:

- My first backpacking experience ever: visited 16 new countries on 1 continent I have never been to before

- Fulfilled one of my life dreams: to see Ireland

- Had the best time of my life!

-Swimming at 3 am in Crete
-Sold tomatos to Greeks at the street market
-Ate lamb intestines

ohh Greece

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Originally posted by Asheai:
Wow, I don't think I've ever seen a Manatee before... those pictures are awesome!

If you like Manatees, they are a rip-off in New York City. Movies cost $10.75 no matter what time of day you go.

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Originally posted by rawjer:

quote:

Originally posted by Asheai:
Wow, I don't think I've ever seen a Manatee before... those pictures are awesome!

If you like Manatees, they are a rip-off in New York City. Movies cost $10.75 no matter what time of day you go.

LOL

Oh and I have also:

- given an elephant a bath
- been to 'the jungle'
- slept in the crater of and active volcano
- caught snapper
- sledged down a sand-dune
- been sailing

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Originally posted by KPG:
- seen U2 play Auckland

Who won?

Learnt to scuba in the red sea
Stayed in Carcassonne in South of France
Saw the World Cup in Germany
Paraglided over the Alps
Worked in a HI Hostel in Lake Como
Saw Roland Garros on Phillip Chatrier for 50 euros
Travelled Seville, Spain to Marrakech, Morocco in under 24hrs with no plane
Climbed Mount Sinai
Saw Dali's work in Figurres
Had waffles in Belguim (I'm struggling now)
Went home after 10 months
Left again after 6 weeks

elv

- I started the year on the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro
- Travelled to 10 different states I haven't been to before
- Fell in love with the New River Gorge
- Helped raise funds for an AIDS orphanage in Kenya
- Got a million times better at wakeboard...hoping to do some on some on some international travels in the future!
- Started to learn Thai -- written and spoken

Bought a backpack
Traveled south of the equator
Bungee jumped
Visited 3 new countries and 6 new states
Got accepted into college

Hmmm, let's see:

- Started a new business
- Bought a house AND renovated it
- Rediscovered my long-buried French language skills
- Went to Las Vegas
- Went on an Orca-watching boat trip (grew up on the coast but never did that before...it was awesome)
- Drove across the upper states of the U.S.
- Went to Portland to meet wonderful Booties for the 1st time
- Will end the year in Dallas watching the Cowboys beat the
Detroit Lions

Wow, looking back on that list I did more this year than I thought! It wasn't a great year travel-wise but here's to 2007 being better. Hoping to make it to Australia and back to Afghanistan to work there again.

Great thread BTW

- learnt to ski in the Rockies
- saw two amazing live concerts at Red Rocks
- spent a night in a one horse cowboy town in New Mexico
- got drunk in Las Vegas
- discovered Hope in Alaska
- saw whales in Alaska and Cape Town
- built a bonfire on the beach in Homer
- met a fantastic bunch of booties in Chicago
- became a Colorado Avs hockey fan
- moved back to South Africa and adjusted to life back here
- did a whirlwind trip around SA and rediscovered it's beauty
- decided to move back to USA in 2007

No wonder i'm tired... here's to 2007, packed with more excitement and adventure!

-Bumped my list of Countries Lived In from two up to three (USA, Sweden, and now Canada)
-Lived in a city for the first time (Montreal)
-Started my freshman year at university
-Turned 18
-Started learning Sanskrit
-Visited three new countries (Senegal, Ecuador, and Peru) including one new continent (I'd been to Africa before, but not South America)
-Tons of things which fall under the heading of that last one (hiked the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu, served breakfast to Talibe kids in northern Senegal, went pirahna fishing in the Amazon, etc)

Best year of my short life so far, I'd say.