I'm starting a project. I love traveling any and every chance I get (whether or not I have the money for it) and I love writing. I obtained a creative writing certificate along with my bachelor's degree, even though my major was natural resource studies and my eventual life plan is to have a career in entomology (insects are my first love).
Even if it's always just a hobby, I never want to completely give up writing. It can be difficult to stay motivated when work and school and pets take priority, though.
This project is my way of motivating myself to travel more, write more, learn more, record my progress, and possibly offer some information to people who may be interested in visiting a new place. It involves visiting a grand total of 76 places and writing a little about each one.
The project is this:
To start, I made three different lists of places to go, in alphabetical order, starting with A and ending with Z. The plan is to go to, and explore, every place on every list. I'm going to try to finish the first list within a year. I'm also going to write a little something about every place I go.
The first list is just a list of towns in Massachusetts. I'm sure I could stand to get to know my home state a bit better and this way I'll always have something to do when I'm bored, or just need a break. I also won't have to spend time trying to think of a place to go, because I'll have a whole list of ideas right in front of me. Here's list number 1:
Towns in Massachusetts:
-Ashfield
-Becket
-Cummaquid
-Douglas
-Edgartown
-Fall River
-Gloucester
-Hyannis
-Ipswich (ok, so I've been there, but apparently it's the only I)
-Jamaica Plain
-Kingston
-Lenox
-Marshfield
-Nantucket (yes, I've really lived here 20+ years and never been to Nantucket)
-Osterville
-Pocasset
-Quincy
-Rehoboth
-Sandwich
-Tyringham
-Upton
-Village of Nagog Woods (a website told me it was a town, but it might not be?)
-Wellesley
-x (none)
-Yarmouth Port
-z (none)
The second list is a list of random cities and towns in the United States. I'm surprised to say this was the hardest to make and, as of right now, it's only a tentative list. If anyone can think of good places to visit, please let me know. I'm sure I'll think of places I'd rather go later, but this is what I have for now. Many of these places are completely random towns that I know nothing about. Others were chosen for personal reasons or because I know someone living there. This is probably not a final draft. Here's list number 2, version number 1 (I'll let you know when I do have a final draft up):
Cities and Towns in the United States:
-Albany, NY (This is here because I want to try a new beer at the Albany Pump Station)
-Baton Rouge, LA
-Chicago, IL
-Denver, CO
-Elizabethtown, KY
-Fargo, ND
-Gary, IN
-Humbolt, CA
-Indianapolis, IN
-Juno, AK (I should learn how to hunt moose!)
-Kansas City, MO
-Las Vegas, NV
-Mystic, CT
-New Orleans, LA
-Omaha, NE
-Portland, OR
-Quakertown, PA
-Raleigh, NC
-Salt Lake City, UT (I hear they have a pretty good ska scene?)
-Tulsa, OK
-Union City, TN
-Vallejo, CA
-Wahiawa, HI
-Xenia, OH
-Yazoo City, MS (just because... why not? It's called Yazoo City)
-Zillah, WA
The third list is a list of countries to visit around the world. This one will probably take the longest and I'm giving myself my entire life to finish it, just in case. The only letter I don't have something for is K, not because there are no countries that begin with K (there are several), but because I don't really know enough about any of the K countries to decide which one I'd like to go to. So, K is blank for now, but I'll ad something later. Other than that I'm pretty set on this list. Here it is:
Countries around the world:
-Argentina
-Belgium (beer, anybody?)
-Costa Rica (bot flies, anybody??)
-Denmark
-England
-Fiji
-Greece (I want to see if it's as pretty in real life as it is in pictures)
-Holland
-Iceland
-Japan
- Krgystan (maybe)
-Laos
-Madagascar (roaches! ghost mantids! lemurs! Don't even try to stop me)
-Norway
-Oman (apparently the only country that starts with O)
-Portugal
-Qatar (the only Q!)
-Romania
-Sweden (I really, really want to go to Sweden)
-Turkey
-Uruguay (because it's fun to say)
-Venezuela
-Wales
-Xi Xia (or Western Xia) (only X and I'm not even sure if it really counts)
-Yugoslavia (name change?)
-Zimbabwe
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