60 New Places in My 60th Year

    I tend to get reflective around my birthday, and this year was a biggie -- so as I thought about the past 60 years, I decided to look forward to the next 60. (Yes, that IS optimism!)

    For this 60th year, I want to get out and see more of this great world. So I've set a goal to get to 60 New Places in My 60th Year. Fortunately, with a friend visiting, I got a couple of new places in over my birthday weekend. And I have a few roadtrips planned this year, so I'm going to try to rack up a few more.

    Because the best parts of this past 60 years has been LIVING this life -- and many of my best memories have been when I have taken a leap and did something outside of my comfort zone. And I'm not really very good at Selfies, but I'm gonna try. My mom always hated having her picture taken, so we have very few of her, especially over the age of 60 -- but I'm just going to muddle through some bad selfies and focus on LIVING. As Eleanor Roosevelt said, "The purpose of life, after all, is to LIVE it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience."