My brother, Jeff, just came back from a business trip to Michigan. While there he made sure to visit the Gerald Ford Presidential Library. It’s not that Jeff is a big Ford fan, it’s because a while back while vacationing, he happened to visit one Presidential Library and then another and another and now he collects that experience and is working towards the set. When he does travel he finds out if there is one nearby to go visit.
I love this idea of collecting experiences. It sure beats stamps or pennies or baseball cards. I prefer baseball parks, or at least I used to think I would. When we were younger, Jeff and I intended to go to every baseball stadium. He, makes the effort when he’s in a baseball city to catch a game. I have just fallen off.
I want to find my experience to collect. What do you think would be good experiences for me? for Selena? for yourself? What experiences do you collect?
Local non-chain restaurants…and if possible a local cookbook.
It’s one of my life goals to visit all four Haunted Mansions. So far, I’m only up to two. I was in Paris in April but my European friends refused to go to EuroDisney (or whatever they’re calling it now) with me.
I wonder at what age “life goals” becomes “bucket list”.
Woohoo for your brother’s collection! Let me know next time he visits a Presidential Library, I’ll see if I can help hook him up somehow.
Sports stadiums, even if it doesn’t mean seeing a game.
College, Pro, Triple-A, well-known Texas high school, etc. Doesn’t matter.
I collect religious experiences. I’ve attended Anglican morning prayer in a 13th Century chapel in Westminster Abbey. I’ve attended Sunday Meeting with the last 7 remaining (at that time) Shakers. I’ve attended Catholic Mass in French, Spanish and Latin (and English) in many different cathedrals around the country/world. I’ve been to Quaker Meetings, Moravian Worship, and other services (that are not weddings or funerals). I have yet to experience a service outside the traditional Judeo-Christian Western Church.
It can be awkward at times — I stand/sit/kneel at the wrong point. Sometimes I don’t know the right words to say at the right times and so I am out of sync with the concrete mechanics of the service, but the overall purpose is why I’m really there.