I am still updating the rest. I love to travel and experience what this world has to offer! Right now my family and I are deliberating on where we want to go for summer vacation. We are leaning towards South Carolina...
LIFE GOALS
To see, do and experience….
VISIT EACH STATE AND SEE SOMETHING OF INTEREST
Updated 12/2009
Alabama
Alaska
• Glacier Bay National Park/Preserve
o Glacier Bay Cruise
• Denali National Park
o Mount McKinley
o Wonder Lake
• The Kenai Peninsula
• Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes
• The Alaska Highway
• The Northern Lights
Arizona
• Flagstaff
o Grand Canyon
• Painted Desert
• Petrified Forest
• Hoover Dam
• Lake Powell
Arkansas
• Hot Springs National Park
California
• Death Valley
o Artist’s Palette
• Redwood Nat’l Park
• Yosemite Nat’l Park
o Giant Sequoia Trees
o Yosemite Falls
o El Capitan
• Beverly Hills
• Hollywood
o Hollywood Blvd Walk of Fame
• San Francisco
o Ride Trolley/cable cars
o Golden Gate Bridge
o Alcatraz
• Baja
• Monterey Peninsula
• The Pacific Coast Highway (Route 1)
Colorado
• Pikes Peak
• Aspen
• Red Rocks Amphitheatre
• Mesa Verde National Park
o Cliff Dwellings
Connecticut
• Mystic Seaport
Delaware
Florida
• Kennedy Space Center
• Disney World
• Florida Keys
• Everglades
• Sea World
o Penguin adventure
• Alligator Farm
• Marineland
• Kissimmee
• Weeki Watchi
• Destin
• Daytona Beach
• St. Augustine
• Panama City Beach
• Ft. Lauderdale
• Ft. Myers
• Cocoa Beach
• Spring Hill
• Miami
o South Beach
o Eat at Joe’s Stone Crab
• Amelia Island
• Silver Springs
• Homosassa Springs
• Sanibel Island
• Captiva Island
Georgia
• Fernbank Museum
• Callaway Gardens
• Atlanta
o Underground Atlanta
o Eat at “Down the Hatch”
o Eat at “The Fish Market”
o Eat at “Baccanalia”
o Walk around Little Five Points
o Atlanta Aquarium
o Eat at “The Abbey”
o Omni
o Dave and Busters
o World of Coca Cola
o Six Flags
o Sundial – Westin Hotel
o Centennial Olympic Park
• Jekyll Island
• Savannah
• Helen
• Warm Springs
• Chateau Elan
• Braselton
o Cabbage Patch Doll Hospital
• Warner Robbins Flight Museum
• Stone Mountain
• Tallulah Gorge
• Warm Springs
• Plains
o Grinning Goober/Jimmy Carter High School Museum
• Amicola Falls
• Okefenokee Swamp
• The Golden Islands
• Providence Canyon State Park
• Radium Springs
Hawaii
• Oahu
• Kilauea
• Kauai
• Maui
• Molokai
• Volcano (helicopter flies into)
Idaho
• Lake Coeur D’Alene
Illinois
• Chicago
o Visit Blues music scene
o Chicago boardwalk
o Eat a “Chicago Dog”
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
• Mammoth Cave
• Echo River
Louisiana
• New Orleans
o Mardi Gras
o French Quarter
o Eat at the Napoleon House
o New Orleans Zoo/ride Ferry boat
o Jackson Square
Maine
• Acadia Nat’l Park
• Maine Lobster Festival (late July – early Aug)
Maryland
• Baltimore Harbor
• Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum
Massachusetts
• Cape Cod National Seashore
• Martha’s Vineyard
• Nantucket
Michigan
• Detroit
• Greenfield Village
• Henry Ford Museum
Minnesota
Mississippi
• Biloxi
Missouri
• Gateway Arch
Montana
• Glacier National Park
Nebraska
Nevada
• Mojave Desert
o Lake Mead
• Las Vegas
• Reno
New Hampshire
• Franconia Notch National Park
o “Old Man in the Mountain”
• Mt. Washington
New Jersey
• Atlantic City/Casinos
• Wildwood
• Ocean City
• Cape May
• Liberty State Park – Ellis Island
• Delaware river tubing
New Mexico
• Carlsbad Caverns
• Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta (Early Oct)
• Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad (Fall) Chama, NM – Antonito, Co
• Roswell
• Santa Fe
o Santa Fe Opera
o Inn of the Inasazi
o Ten Thousand Waves Spa
New York
• New York, NY
o Statue of Liberty
o Empire State Building
o Big Onion Walking Tour
o Times Square
o Brooklyn Botanic Gardens
o Brooklyn Bridge
o The Cloisters
o Grand Central Terminal
• Niagara Falls
• Adirondack
• Coney Island
• The Catskills
• Cooperstown
• East Hampton
• Finger Lakes
• Hudson Valley
North Carolina
• Biltmore Estate
• Kitty Hawk Island
o Wright Brothers Flight Museum
• Great Smokey Mountains Nat’l Park
• The Outer Banks
o Cape Hatteras Lighthouse
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
• Eat at Cattlemen’s Steakhouse, Oklahoma City, OK
Oregon
• The Oregon Coastline
• Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Ashland, OR (June through early Nov)
• Crater Lake Nat’l Park
Pennsylvania
• Valley Forge Nat’l Park
• Philadelphia
o Independence Nat’l Park
o Liberty Bell
• Longwood Gardens
• Altoona
• Reading
• Allentown
• Bowmanstown
• Hershey Park
• Bird-In-Hand
• Mutter Museum
• Gettysburg Nat’l Military Park and Cemetery
• Pennsylvania Dutch Country
Rhode Island
• Block Island
• Cliff Walk, Newport, RI
South Carolina
• Myrtle Beach
• Beaufort and the Low Country
o Coastline and “Sea Islands”
o Beaufort
• Charlston
o Bowen’s Island Restaurant
o Low Country Oyster Festival (late Jan/early Feb)
o Spoleto Festival (Memorial day Weekend through 17 days)
South Dakota
• The Black Hills
o Mt. Rushmore
o Crazy Horse Memorial
• Badlands Nat’l Park
Tennessee
• Nashville
• Tennessee Aquarium
• Lookout Mountain
• Ruby River Falls
• Memphis
o Elvis/ Graceland
• Train Ride up Smokey Mountains/white water raft down
• Chattanooga
o Incline Railroad
o Aquarium
Texas
• Cadillac Ranch
Located in a cow pasture off Interstate 40 in Amarillo, Texas, the Cadillac Ranch is a bizarre roadside attraction. Created in 1974, it consists of a row of half-buried Cadillac cars. Spray-painting graffiti or other messages on the cars is encouraged by the Ant Farm art group, which created the monument, so is has a colorful and ever-changing look.
• Padre Island National Seashore
• San Antonio
o The Alamo
o The Riverwalk
Utah
• Bryce Canyon National Park
• Moab and Red Rock Country
o Arches National Park
o Canyonlands
o Raft along Moab’s stretch of the Colorado River
• Monument Valley
• Mormon Tabernacle (Salt Lake City)
o Mormon Tabernacle Choir (Free admission to rehearsals)
• Zion National Park
Vermont
• Manchester Village
• Northeast Kingdom Fall Foliage Festival (last Sunday of September for a week)
Virginia
• Blue Ridge Mountains
o Skyline Drive
o Luray Caverns
• Colonial Williamsburg
• The Natural Bridge
• Bushe Gardens
• Great Adventure Amusement Park
• Arlington National Cemetery
• Manassas National Battlefield Park
• Alexandria’s Old Town
Washington
• San Juan Islands
o Whale watching (mid-May thru Aug)
• Seattle
o Pike Place Market
o Eat at Rays Boathouse
West Virginia
• White Water raft on the New River
Wisconsin
• Apostle Islands
Wyoming
• Cheyenne
o Cheyenne Frontier Days (10 days in late June)
• Grand Teton Nat’l Park
• Jackson Hole, Jackson,Wy
• Yellowstone Nat’l Park
o Old Faithful
District of Columbia
• Washington DC
o Smithsonian’s
o White House
o National Monuments
o Walk through Georgetown
Canada
• Alberta
o Banff, Jasper, and Yoho Nat’l parks
o See the Canadian Rockies by train(late July – early Sept)
• British Columbia
o Heli-Hiking (early July – mid Aug)
o Vancuver, Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden
o Eat at Tojo’s and Granville Island
o Pacific Rim National Park
Broken Group Islands – (Sea Lions!)
o Stubbs Island
Telegraph Cove
Wale watching
o Royal British Columbia Museum and the Museum of Anthropology
• Manitoba
o Polar Bear Safari
• Bay of Fundy
o Fundy National Park
o Alma Beach
• Gros Morne National Park
• Cape Breton Island
• Ontario
o Niagara Falls – Horseshoe Falls
o Ride on Maid of the Mist
• Quebec City
o Carnival in the Heart of New France
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