On the Mend From a Broken Heart

Hi, I am sure you have heard of me, so I don’t need to introduce myself. As you might have heard in the media,I have recently ended a 40+ year relationship my longtime boyfriend. Kenny and I tried to hold things together, but in the end, we both just knew our relationship was no more than a shell of what it once was.

So now that I am on my own and free for the first time since, oh, the 1960s, I have decided to travel. While I have done just about everything an independent and free-thinking single girl can do, there are still some sights in our beautiful country I have not yet seen. Each of the 50 states (and DC) has one sight or activity I have not yet seen or done, and today I am embarking on a quest to visit each state and do those things. If you can help me on my journey, please take me with you to one of my destinations, take my picture, log my journey (including my photo) at geocaching.com, and send me on my way.

I come complete with a list of my 51 adventures, one for each state and DC. If you decide to help me on my journey, please check off what I have accomplished so I don't inadvertently go to the same place twice! Also, if you wish to contribute to my wardrobe (I am dressed for California, my home), feel to put new clothes in my bag so I am always properly dressed.

Note on January 8, 2007: I've several requests to include the list of destinations, but couldn't find it (several computers ago)...but yay! I found it today. I am adding it to the cache page for y'all, and thanks for keeping Babs going!

My 51 goals are (please check off each one as I achieve it!):

q Hawaii: to go scuba diving
q Alaska: to see a glacier, any glacier
q Washington: to see fish throwing at the Pike Street Market in Seattle
q Oregon: to visit Fort Clatsop
q California: to look across to San Francisco from the Campanile at UC Berkeley
q Idaho: to hike Craters of the Moon
q Nevada: the Oats monument in Fallon
q Montana: to see a dinosaur fossil
q Utah: to stand on four corners
q Arizona: to ride a mule into the Grand Canyon (and back out, of course)
q Wyoming: to hike a section of the Continental Divide trail
q Colorado: to visit Aspen, where I might see some of my old celebrity friends
q New Mexico: to see the bats come out of Carlsbad Caverns
q North Dakota: to stand at the International Peace Border with Canada
q South Dakota: To visit the Badlands
q Nebraska: to see Chimney Rock
q Kansas: to walk through a corn field
q Oklahoma: to visit the site of the Oklahoma City bombing
q Texas: Alabama-Coushatta Reservation
q Minnesota: to spend the night at a cabin on a lake, any lake
q Iowa: to tour the Abbie Gardner State Historic Site
q Missouri: to visit any event that celebrates the bicentennial of the Lewis & Clark expedition
q Arkansas: to visit the hot springs
q Louisana: to go on a swamp tour and throw marshmallows to alligators
q Wisconsin: to visit a cheese factory
q Illinois: to ride the EL in Chicago
q Alabama: to visit a Civil War battlefield (any one)
q Michigan: to visit Ah-Nab-Awen Park
q Indiana: to go the Indy 500
q Kentucky: to bet on a longshot at the Kentucky Derby
q Tennessee: to hike into Cades Cove
q Alabama: to see the Birmingham Jail of civil rights fame
q Ohio: to see the Kent State University memorial
q New York: Times Square on New Year’s Eve
q Pennsylvania: Liberty Bell
q West Virginia: Harpers Ferry National Historic Park
q Virginia: visit Monticello
q Maine: eat a lobster dinner in a quaint little New England restaurant
q New Hampshire: see the fall foliage
q Vermont: go through a covered bridge in a horse-drawn wagon
q Massachusetts: climb to the top of the Bunker Hill National Monument
q Rhode Island: to take a walk down Benefit Street
q Connecticut: to visit a lighthouse
q New Jersey: Washington’s Headquarters at Morristown National Historical Park
q Maryland: visit Fort McHenry
q Delaware: visit the Delaware Archeology Museum in Dover
q DC: walk from the capitol to the Washington monument
q North Carolina: to take a ferry to the Outer Banks
q South Carolina: to enjoy the Native Islander Gullah Celebration on Hilton Head
q Georgia: to visit Morehouse college in Atlanta
q Florida: sunbathe on South Beach