Happy New Year!!

Happy New Year everyone!!  Time for a new slate some would say.  I see it as a time to regroup and pick up the pieces that fell away during the previous year.  And that is one of my goals for the first 3 months of 2019, pick up the pieces, put them back together and get back on track!   My blog has been one of those things that was dropped, (with great sadness as I love to write!) and it is one of those pieces I am going to pick up and put back in place.  Especially since it has to do with 50 by 50 goals!!  At this point, I am 4 years away from the dead line, 4 years and 2 months to be exact!!  So it is time to continue planning and completing my challenges.

When I left off last time, I was going over one of my challenges which I was planning. the number of national parks I would like to visit before February 2023.  To recap, there are 58 National Parks in the country.  Of these,  have visited 13 and I have 45 left to visit. That is a lot of parks!!  On top of the 45 I have not been to, I am wanting to revisit some of the ones that I have visited to hike and possibly camp in them. A lot of these parks I visited when I was younger and did not do my research only to find out when we got there, a lot of what we wanted to see was a hike.  And with 2 small kids, not prepared clothing, food, shoe and equipment wise, we had to forego them.

Here is the last excerpt from my last blog:

To try to hit the 45 that I have not yet visited in 5 years, I will have to travel to 9 a year to hit that! It is already July, so I technically have 4.5 years left to complete this!  The only one of any of the national parks I can be sure that I hit this is Rocky!  One of my go tos!  LOL!!  So add back the 11 I want to see again and there are 56!!  56 national parks to visit in 4.5 years!   11.2 a year to reach my goal!!  I am going to have to figure this out!!!

So this is where I left off, in the middle of planning my national park adventure.   In the proceeding weeks, I am going to list out all my goals, including some bonus goals, finish my national park plan, plan my other adventures and talk about a trip to a destination that is on my list but I am hoping to go back under better circumstances.

I invite you to follow, enjoy, comment and partake on my journey!!