Documentary | 180° South

Netflix has a great selection of documentaries to choose from and I have been watching quite a few lately.  180° South popped up in my suggestions and it piqued my curiosity.  This 2010 documentary film follows Jeff Johnson as he retraces the 1968 journey of Yvon Chouinard and Doug Tompkins to Patagonia. 

 Yvon and Doug formed the companies Patagonia & NorthFace years ago from their love of climbing and surfing.  But now they live in Patagonia and are using their fortunes protecting the land there.  Things happen to Jeff along the way as he prepares for the climb of his lifetime on the mountain, Cerro Corcovado.

This film made me think a bit more about how my spending and consumption of everyday materials can be affecting another country and person's way off life.  It made me want to simplify my life in ways and conjured up more dreams of traveling, humanitarian, and conservation work.

If you enjoy travel, self journeys and have a love of nature try this film out.

Oh, the Places You'll Go (at Burning Man)!

I am in love with this video!!
  Based on the Dr. Suess book, "Oh, the Places You'll Go!"
Burning Man's whimsy and weirdness is perfect for this.
It's also a great reminder that you never know where life will take you, the ups and downs.
It makes me want to go to Burning Man more than ever.  

Burning Man 2013 is in the works for me.  It can't come soon enough...

*Warning: brief nudity

{Glass Beach}

Here is a new travel destination I want to see. 

 A place called Glass Beach,  located in MacKerricher State Park near Fort Bragg, California.

During the early 20th century, people would throw their glass, appliances, even automobiles off the cliffs into the ocean.  It was used so frequently as a dumping ground it was nicknamed

"The Dumps" by the locals.

In the late 60's the area was closed and efforts were persued to clean up the beach. Over the next several decades the waves pounded, churned and polished the glass that washes up on shore now as beautiful sea glass.

 

 The beach is now part of the California State Park system and being protected from people removing the glass.

     I like to think that given enough time the Earth could repair all the damaging things we do to it, if only we were more aware and mindful.

via Reddit

{LIFE LIST}

Do you have a life list or a bucket list of things to do before you die?  I love lists. And putting all of them in one place is a great way to keep track of goals.  What are some of your dreams? 

*Attend Burning Man
*See the Eiffel Tower in Paris
*Learn to dance
*Learn an aerialist skill: trapezee or silks
*Try acro-yoga

*Attend the Loy Kratong Festival in Thailand
*Visit Bali

*Make a YouTube video
*Teach hula hooping
*Learn another language
*Start an online business
*Become debt free
*Be head over heels in love
*Start a savings plan
*See an Aurora Boreallis
*Learn to spin fire
*Live in Colorado
*Live in Oregon or Washington
*Go geocaching
*Try rock climbing
*Send out messages in a bottle
*Attend a color festival

*Go vegetarian
*Try being vegan
*Take a long exposure star photo
*Make bakalava
*Refinish a large piece of furniture (I've done 2 now!)
*Run a 5K
*Participate in World Hoop Day
*Take the Amelie tour in Montmarte
*Explore an abandonded building
*Get a nose piercing
*Smile and compliment strangers for a day
*See a concert at The Gorge, Washington (done this 3x)
*Go skydiving
*Learn how to sew
*Swim with dolphins
*Try acupuncture
*Bike by the tulip fields in the Netherlands
*See a concert at Red Rocks, Colorado
*Get a tattoo that's meaningful

*Have dreadlocks
*Photo document an entire week
*Read 2 books a month for a year
*Catch fireflies in a jar
*Register to be a bone marrow donor
*Green juice for 3 months
*Do a liver cleanse
*Get a CSA share
*Try a yoga class at the Krishna Temple
*See a play on Broadway
*Ride all 17 roller coasters at Cedar Point
*Road trip the entire Route 66
*Dance in the rain
*Go to a drum circle
*Watch the Perseid Meteor showers in the desert
*Take a weekend road trip with no specific desitination in mind
*Explore a ghost town

*Climb Timpanogos to watch the sunrise
*Throw a themed dinner party
*See an active volcano
*Take a motorbike trip
*See Paul McCartney in concert
*Visit Tuscany
*Go to a music festival
*See elephants in the wild
*Go no shampoo for 6 weeks
*Learn to knit and finish a project
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There are more but that's all I have off the top of my head.  I challenge you to create your own LIFE LIST!

{Travel Mosaic: Thailand}

Thailand seems like a bright, colorful, and beautiful experience. It is high up on my places to see.

1. Snapshots of Thailand - The Beach 2, 2. Wings, 3. One Night in Bangkok, Soi Cowboy, 4. Ancient City, Thailand, 5. thailand wooden image, 6. Thailand Ancient City, Bangkok, 7. Waterfall, Ko Samui, Thailand, 8. little karen girl - thailand, 9. Buddhas in shrine at Chiang Dao Cave, Thailand, 10. lanterns2, 11. Koh Tapu - เกาะตะปู, 12. Ancient City, Thailand, 13. Thailand - Bangkok - Wat Po - difused, 14. The cost of rice . . ., 15. Elephant and Mahout. Chiang Mai, Thailand, 16. "Maldives of Thailand"

I especially want to see the Loy Kratong Festival in Chiang Mai.

Where in the world would you like to travel?