My 10 for 2017

Since the birth of this blog in January of 2014, I have made a list of goals that I hope to accomplish by the end of the year. Most of the time I promptly forget about what I wrote in this list a few weeks after publishing it. I kind of prefer this, because when I go back to the post in December to see how many I've accomplished, it makes for a fun time of seeing how different I was 12 months prior and how I usually seem to meet most goals even without remembering them. 

Normally I do a list of goals the same length as the year the list is for (for instance, "My 14 for 2014" and "My 16 for 2016") but it's beginning to get out of hand...so here are my 10 for 2017: ​

1. Visit three countries I've never been to before
2. Learn to play a musical instrument 
3. Buy a van I can live in
4. Do something I'm really proud of 
5. Make some new friends (not that I don't like those I'm friends with now, but it's always good to make new ones)
6. Hike and hike and hike some more 
7. Get back into reading again - read more than ten books this year
8. Find comfort in my own body 
9. Focus on the positives in life and find happiness in the littlest things
10. Medidate regularly - I'm going to need it to stay sane during Trump's first year as president. 

A few things I did in 2016

Went to London for a week

saw Niagara Falls for the first time

explored a lot of abandoned buildings

worked for and was published in AMC's Outdoors

got involved in politics

lived in a bus in the mountains

visited Mt. Rushmore

was published in "Explorations"

drove cross country...twice

Went to Standing Rock

lived in my mom's car several times up in the mountains

loved the earth