To anyone else it could sound like gloating, as I have seen on many a dating online profile.
But I sat down tonight, feeling glum about things in general, and I just started to think about what sticks out in my mind about my travel adventures or just adventures in general.
This is what I came up with. Thinking back it makes me happy. Pretty darn thankful.
Climbed through a rushing waterfall in a cave in Semuc Champay, stood inside a warm pit formed by the active volcano Pacaya, petted wild baby stingrays in the Caribbean sea cangejo caye, witnessed the sunrise from atop an ancient Mayan pyramid in Tikal while listening to howling monkeys, superman ziplined in Arenal, canyoning and rappelling in La fortuna, saw spider monkeys trecking through rainforests in Monteverde, saw sloths slowly moving through the trees and monkeys stealing my cookies in Manuel Antonio, snorkeled off a traditional Philippine fishing boat in Boracay, ate the best gelato while sitting in Piazza Navona, took a nap under the sun on Spiaggia del Fornillo, learned to make real italian tomato sauce from scratch at Buca del Bacco hotel, waved at Pope John Paul II less than 10 ft away in St. Peters square on Easter Sunday, walked on the Columbia icefield glacier, saw the peak of Mt Robson while riding through the rockies, Got to see Grouse mountain grizzly bears play in the snow and put my feet into the warm sand on the Spanish banks all in one day, got to take a bath in Algonquin waters while camping in Canisbay, fell into the rapids in the Ottawa river, Tried ski skates down Breckenridge Mountain, jetskiied into the Bermuda triangle, climbed on my knees up the steps of Pontius Pilate's palace, got to hold a baby alligator in the blue bayou, saw the Toronto skyline from miles away on a hangglider, got all my dead skin cells scrubbed off me in a jimjilbang, took a couple steps into North Korea, skinny dipped for a few minutes in the Atlantic Ocean, went topless on a Toronto beach.
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