{"id":1667,"date":"2016-02-20T05:17:59","date_gmt":"2016-02-20T12:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/?p=1667"},"modified":"2016-02-20T05:20:41","modified_gmt":"2016-02-20T12:20:41","slug":"for-jill-and-becky-a-five-year-bucket-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=1667","title":{"rendered":"For Jill and Becky: A Five-Year Bucket List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x15018.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x15018.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x1501\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1668\" \/><\/a>Since Jill and Becky think Robert Frost is too pessimistic, here\u2019s something more uplifting: my bucket list for the first five years of retirement (in no particular order):<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\tLearn to fly fish (and I know whom I want as a teacher, Mark Williams).<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\tVisit New England in the fall (we\u2019ll swing by North Carolina on the way, Joni).<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\tClimb California\u2019s Mount Whitney (at 14,505\u2019, it\u2019s the highest summit in the lower 48).<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\tSee the northern lights (evidently, Fairbanks in the fall or Priest Lake, Idaho in the winter are favorable locations and times to view the Aurora Borealis).<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\tDevelop a decent golf game (will help me hangout with kids and grandkids; haven\u2019t played much since was on the Fighting Eagles team in 1967, and wasn\u2019t all that good then).<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\tLearn to bend notes on my harmonica (a must if one wants to play the blues).<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\tHike across the Grand Canyon (evidently, the 47.8 mile round-trip can be done in two day-hikes, lodging on the South Rim the first night and the North Rim, the second).<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\tVisit Scotland (to explore my Bellah roots).<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\tWrite a book (maybe telling student stories and reflecting on what they have taught me).<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\tSell aforementioned book (will help finance the other things).<\/p>\n<p>So while Frost is right, and earthly pleasures (gold) fade with time, there seem to be new ones popping up all the time, which is why I\u2019ll make a new list in another five.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since Jill and Becky think Robert Frost is too pessimistic, here\u2019s something more uplifting: my bucket list for the first five years of retirement (in no particular order): \u2022 Learn to fly fish (and I know whom I want as a teacher, Mark Williams). \u2022 Visit New England in the fall (we\u2019ll swing by North [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1667"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1672,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667\/revisions\/1672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}