I left in love, in laughter, and in truth and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit

"Legendary Pabst Beer Factory"

    I wrote in an earlier post about a book that I got for Christmas this last year. It is called Listography: Your Life in Lists. The book (see also the blog, Listography.com) intends "to help you create your autobiography through list making." Each page is a different prompt, and the results could be as basic or complex as one wishes.
     As I often do, I started in the middle. Today I will "List the Places [I'd] Like to Visit". It was the accompanying illustration that really made my choice for me.
     My list:

• Maine--to visit my friend who lives in Eastport (which sounds like the most quaint and wonderful place to visit)
• New York, through to Canada--to visit my friend The Onion, to see the sights, and to finally go to Canada, of course!
• Miami, Florida--again! My spiritual home, vacation version
• Elkhart, Texas--for the only reason I'd go there, to see SCH (someone who is, by now, an 'old friend' and who is sadly locked into the South)
• Seattle--because it is, in part, where my heart has lived for years. I want to at least see what it's like.
• Ireland & Spain--justification for the degree (and simple interest)
• Northern California--to see if, after all, it is really a saner version of the beautiful southern part (and to meet someone who lives on that upper coast)
• Chicago--to do all the stuff I never did as a "native" - and to visit all that I left behind
• Norway--the old country
• Mission, Texas--to pay my respects at a gravesite in The Rio Grande Valley State Veterans Cemetery.

    When I was through writing my list, I realized that it's mostly about the people, and not too much about the places. That's maybe not how it is for some people. I also don't have a strong desire to see specific things (e.g. the brewery in the next city over to the right) but more general areas.
     What are the places you'd like to visit?

[the title quotation is by Bill Hicks - and I hope that it's the way that the one in Mission felt]