Latest Adventures
Here is additional detail on some of my more memorable adventures.
Surf the Monahans Sand Dunes
Where: Monahans Sandhills State Park, Monahans, TXCost: $3 daily admission, less than $10 for board rentalLink:Monahans SandhillsDate: October 2013Comments: Sand was much softer than snow, like falling into a pillow. Board wax makes a[…]
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Learn to Fence
Where: Fencing Institute of Texas, Farmers Branch, TXCost: Free Intro Class on FridaysLink:Fencing Institute of TexasDate: October 2014Comments: This is much more of a mental game between your partner than I had anticipated, but[…]
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White Water Rafting
Where: Bighorn Sheep Canyon, Canon City, ColoradoCost: $30 Groupon, regularly $60 (and still worth every penny)Link: Echo Canyon River ExpeditionsDate: July 2014Comments: The Bighorn Sheep expedition was an experience that I will never forget.[…]
Read moreAbout Josh Spencer
Entering college, I was asked a question by a close friend that would forever change the course of my life. “What I would ask a crystal ball if I could see anything past, present or future?” After a few moments of thought, the answer became clear… “What regrets would I have on my death bed.”
I meditated more on my answer later that evening. While I take a tremendous amount of pride in my career path, I know the answer would not be to have spent more time in the office. Likewise, my regrets would not have been that I did not own enough cool toys. Nor that I never got around to catching up on my Netflix queue.
My regret would undoubtedly come in the form of my remembrance of all of the adventures that I said I wanted to experience in life in my 20s and 30s but that my frail body would no longer be able to do. The goal was best articulated by Diane Ackerman (author and poet) when she said
“I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to live the width of it as well.”
So that night, I started my bucket list. I now had a plan, no longer an ethereal system of mental notes that would fade from memory a mere day or two later. …and the resolve to see that plan to completion. As I write this in 2014, I have amassed 89 items so far, with 32 of those now crossed off.
This website is the virtual incarnation of that bucket list. It reminds me of the milestones I have accomplished and what remains on the horizon. Drop me a note on the contact page if you have any ideas to add to my list or questions about anything I have done. I hope this list will inspire you to experience many of the things this world offers, as it has for me.
Josh Spencer
Dallas Adventurer
