eXperience

Kind of a stretch, I know but I'm not going to write about X-rays, X marks the spot, Xenophobia, or Xavier.  Although I really do love the Saints, even though I'm not Catholic.

A while back I wrote about living life.  I feel like I really need to experience everything that is offered to me while I can.  You never know what's going to happen so you might as well live it up.

That's why I have:

• Eaten both calf and bull testicles.  They really aren't bad.
• I've bungee jumped and sky dived.  (Dived or dove?)
• I've ridden a horse to the top of the Continental Divide.  I didn't have a choice in this one, I was only 16. 
• I went swimming in the Bermuda Triangle.  It's hard to make yourself get into the water when you know it's miles to the bottom.
• I visit every museum and attraction that I see when I'm traveling. 
• I've made it my goal to visit all 50 states.  I think I have 22 of them done.
• I try to take a different route home from a place that I've visited so I can see something new on the way.
• I ate raw conch out of a bucket in the Dominican Republic.
• I stepped over the boarder into Haiti just so I could say I had been there.  Didn't really want to stay long...disease, crime, drugs, etc.
• I probably 753 other things I can write here, but it's Monday morning and I have to go try out a new sewing machine to see if I want to buy it and, boy will that be an experience...

Einstein said "The only source for knowledge is experience".  I believe that and try to live that and try to teach our kids the same.  Now the Brown Eyed Man on the other hand, he's a little averse to trying new things, but he's getting better.  He really is trying.

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