My Lotus Experience
The Lotus Experiences that I'm working on this year.
30. Knit a sweater for myself.
37. Join a mycological society and learn about mushrooms
37. Join a mycological society and learn about mushrooms
75. Make a quilt from my daughter's baby blankets
77. Bake an apple pie
97. See the Perseid Meteor Shower
102. View the Northern Lights
25. Learn the constellations
97. See the Perseid Meteor Shower
102. View the Northern Lights
25. Learn the constellations
85. See moose #3.
The Lotus Experience
1. Hike to Horseshoe Canyon with the Baby Lotus Bud.
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3. Travel to Mussoorie (where I went to high school) with the Big D and the Baby Lotus Bud.
4. Boat and camp in the Apostle Islands, WI.
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6. Rent a van and travel all around Iceland
7. Walk the entire Superior Hiking Trail.
8. Taste 50 whiskeys.
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12. Get a large tattoo on my back: a bunch of ravens in a tree.
13. Build a bathhouse at the trailer. - getting there. We've got a shower!
14. Visit every state in the U.S.
15. Knit a blanket.
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17. Attend a Marley concert.
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19. Hike to Cape Flattery with the Baby Lotus Bud.
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21. Sample 50 microbrews. -- Lift Bridge: Farm Girl Saison; Deschutes Brewery: Black Butte Porter; Flat Earth Brewing Co.: Angry Plant Pale Ale; Rogue Ales: Captain Sig's Northwestern Ale; Avery Brewing Co.: Out of Bounds Stout; Rogue Ales: Shakespeare Oatmeal Stout; Sasquatch Stout; Squatter's Brewery: Big Cottonwood; Third Street Brewhouse: Lost Trout Brown Ale; Crow Peak Brewing Company: Bear Butte Brown; Keweenah Brewing Company: Widow maker Black Ale; Uinta Brewing Co: Bristlecone Brown Ale; Uinta Brewing Co: King's Peak Porter;
22. Visit Venice
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24. Ride a banana boat raft down the Rio Grande in Jamaica with the Baby Lotus Bud.
25. Learn the constellations
26. Spend a few days at a meditation center/retreat.
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28. Ride horses in Montana.
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30. Knit a sweater for myself.
31. Go charter fishing on Lake Superior.
32. Attend the Bayfront Blues Festival.
33. Stay at the boathouse on Vermillion with the Baby Lotus Bud.
34. Stay at a house in Canal Park with a dock. Bring boat.
35. Take the Baby Lotus Bud to the Vince Shute Bear Sanctuary.
36. Take the Baby Lotus Bud to the International Wolf Center in Ely, MN.
37. Join a mycological society and learn about mushrooms
38. Ski the American Birkenbeiner in Hayward, WI.
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40. Go to Glacier National Park.
41. Drive to Alaska.
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44. Do T'ai Chi on a beach.
45. Shoot an image of lightening.
46. Drive all the way around Lake Superior.
47. Go dog-sledding.
48. View an inukshuk in the Arctic Circle.
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51. Catch my own fish to eat.
52. Learn how to play a Native flute.
53. Camp at Isle Royale.
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56. Float down the Nile.
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58. Drive a boat from Minneapolis to New Orleans; ride the Mississippi.
59. Teach a Community Ed Class on Handmade Journals
60. Host a Clematis Bloom Party
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62. Build a treehouse.
63. Attend the Winnipeg Folk Festival.
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65. Hike to the Delicate Arch near Moab, Utah.
66. Drink tea the Tip Top Tea Shop in the Sisters Bazaar, Mussoorie, India.
67. Buy live crab in the Park Place Market in Seattle and cook them myself.
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70. Take the Jeep on the White Rim Trail near Moab, Utah.
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72. Put the boat in at Grand Marais harbor.
73. Tour a coffee farm in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica.
74. Witness lava flowing from a volcano.
75. Make a quilt from my daughter's baby blankets
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77. Bake an apple pie.
78. Make a pumpkin pie from scratch using a sugar pumpkin, again.
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80. Attend a rodeo.
81. Attend a lecture given by the Dalai Lama.
82. Eat giant chana puri in Ahmadabad, Gujarat, India.
83. Memorize a poem (+4)
84. Shoot a waterfall on the North Shore.
85. See moose #3.
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87. Visit every museum on the Hennepin County Museum Adventure Pass. -- Walker Art Center; Como Park Zoo and Conservatory; Minneapolis Institute of Arts; The Museum of Russian Art; The American Swedish Museum; The Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden and Bird Sanctuary; The Weisman Art Museum; Minnesota Zoo
88. Assist in building a log cabin.
89. Cross country ski the Sisters Farm Trail.
90. Cross country ski the Washington Trail on the Gunflint Trail.
91. Stay in a winter cabin where I can ski out the front door.
92. Go on a canoe camping trip.
93. Kayak on Lake Superior, Copper Harbor Bay.
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96. Play my flute in the Himalaya Mountain, again.
97. See the Perseid Meteor Shower.
98. Stand under a waterfall.
99. Stay on a houseboat in Amsterdam.
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101. Learn how to tie 10 knots or learn braiding techniques. - see here for the first sailing knot
102. View the Northern Lights.
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104. Photograph a Minneapolis Alphabet.
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107. Taste 100 apples: Honeycrisp, Fuji, Sweet 16, Spitsenberg, Sundowner, Pink Lady, Braeburn,Pristine; Jonagold; Zestar; Gala; Empire; Pink Pearl; Rome; Opal;
Envy; Smitten; Pacific Rose
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