30 Day Challenge / Travel

#List August 21

by Coach4aday · August 21, 2021

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Today’s 30 Day Daily Prompt for the #Coach4adayChallenge is identifying one item from your bucket LIST.

A bucket LIST records the number of experiences or achievements that someone hopes to have or accomplish during their lifetime. For this challenge the focus is on experiences or places. What one item from that registry of ideas do you want to share.

Bucket List Item

We’ve all got a mental tally of our hopes, aspirations, and travel destinations. The overwhelming majority of people do not have that LIST inside their brain recorded to paper. Pick up any self-help book and it’ll tell you to set goals, write them down and monitor them.

Sometimes being in the minority is not a bad thing. I have a written LIST of experiences and travel destinations. One location is Yellowstone National Park. Yellowstone is a place that I heard about as a small boy from my dad. Prior to him being deployed to India during WWII he got to experience Yellowstone in September 1941 and always raved about the experience.

My dad far left on 1941 fishing trip to Yellowstone September 1941

My dad (far right) in front of their cabin at Yellowstone September 1941

When I get to visit I need to prepare myself for its size. Yellowstone encompasses 3,472 square miles which is larger than Delaware and Rhode Island combined. The park has some signature features including “Old Faithful” but the fact is there are more than 10,000 hydrothermal features in Yellowstone. Of those 10,000 almost 500 are geysers.

Yellowstone was North America’s first national park. On March 1, 1872, Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th president of the United States, signed the bill to protect this important land. When the park was established, Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana were not yet states.

Yellowstone is full of wildlife. Just look at what lives at the park.

67 species of mammals, including: seven species of native ungulates (such as elk, bison, deer, and antelope) and two species of bears, as well as:

285 species of birds
16 species of fish
5 species of amphibians
6 species of reptiles

The park contains the highest elevation lake in North America along with 290 known waterfalls.

Hoping that I can get to Yellowstone and check it off on places to visit. What is on your LIST?

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