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    Berton 9:25 am on January 8, 2012 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , Diners Drive-ins and Dives, , Minneapolis   

    Week 1 – Eating at a Dinkytown Landmark 

    Previously, I started adventuring by eating at Matt’s Bar, the Minneapolis landmark, to try their famous Jucy Lucy.  So this year, I began by going to the Dinkytown neighborhood in the University of Minnesota to, for the first time, eat at Al’s Breakfast.

    I started my adventure by arriving here at 6:05 a.m.  For those that don’t know, Al’s Breakfast, which was featured on the Diners Drive-Ins and Dives TV show on the Food Network, is notorious for long lines.  The reason why is that they only are open for breakfast..and there are only fourteen stools in the entire restaurant.  It is one counter top.

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      wip78 6:07 pm on January 8, 2012 Permalink

      Awesome!! Grease always makes food taste better. By far, my favorite meal of the day is Breakfast. I shall make one of my adventures to visit a new breakfast/brunch place. Yummers….thanks for the inspiration!

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    Berton 8:49 am on January 7, 2012 Permalink | Reply  

    What Should My FOURTH Adventure Be? 

    Alright party people; I know what my first three adventures are going to be…but you won’t find out until I post about them 🙂

    However, I want some help choosing my fourth adventure!  This is something I thought I would do to help keep things more random and, well, adventurous!  I will let you decide what I’m going.  Here is a poll of four possible things that I could do.  For the most part, I will follow whatever gets the most votes.  But if someone can leave a very convincing comment as to why I should do one or the other, I may listen.  Out of the possibilities, only two of them may need explanation for people who don’t live in or near the Twin Cities.

    Das Boot is a giant boot shaped beer glass.  Generally, the restaurant requires at least four people be present at a table for one to be ordered because there is a sort of unwritten rule that the glass isn’t allowed to touch the table.  Don’t worry, I will surely have a sober cab on the way home.

    And Charles Schulz, creator of the Peanuts comic strip, was from St. Paul.  Because of this, there are many statues of the Peanuts characters strewn about the city and suburbs.  I honestly don’t even know how many there are, or where they all are, but I do know that there is a website where I can find out.

    Anyway, please vote and let me know!

    Not all of the possible answers are terribly exciting.  But I am currently poor and need to save money for adventures, bills, possible road trip, and trying to be my lady’s sugar daddy.  I am failing at that last one.

     
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      wip78 6:10 pm on January 8, 2012 Permalink

      I enjoy free adventures!!!Any of you who are lurking around and have ideas that wouldn’t cost a dime- post them! Friends help friends adventure for free:)

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    mjperry1 4:04 pm on January 5, 2012 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , ballet, hash harrier, poetry slam, , trapeze, urban adventure, warrior dash   

    Alright, Friends:

    I actually regret my efforts the last time I attempted this, having only made it maybe 10 adventures in, and only writing up about 3 of the adventures. They’re on here someplace. So this year, I vow to complete all 52 adventures, will photo and blog, by December 31, 2012.

    My list is below, and is mostly centered around the New York area with sidebars to DC, New England, Chicago, and Florida. I’ve posted it here in its entirety because, unless there’s a good reason not to, you are 100% invited to any of these adventures. Friends and strangers alike. Just let me know!

    January: Attend Ballet (Copeland at the New York City Ballet with Surkhab; Tickets already purchased)
    March: Skydiving (Skydive New Jersey with Amie; Tickets already purchased)
    March: Recording session (For Twelfth Night, so let’s call this one invite-only)
    April: Cherry Blossom Festival (no dates set, but it’s in Washington, DC – all are invited)

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      Kimberly Hula 4:12 pm on January 5, 2012 Permalink

      Mark these are some savory selections! I can’t wait to join you New York Neighbor!

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      Jackie 1:46 am on January 6, 2012 Permalink

      Mark! I have wanted to go to the Cherry Blossom Festival in D.C. for some time now (since it’s more likely than attending the one in Japan). I think that may be a fun meet-up, if I’m not broke from the long vacation I’m taking right beforehand!
      Great list, lots of ideas. On New Years’ I asked my kids what they want to do in the New Year and my 8 year-old responded quickly, “Sky-diving!” Obviously you and him are more adventurous than me.

      Best of luck! 🙂

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      wip78 6:14 pm on January 8, 2012 Permalink

      Amazing!!! I can’t wait to read on your adventures!! I”m in Chicago…if you’re looking for an adventure companion when your here, let me know.:) I love cupcakes and was contemplating taking a bike ride through Chicago to different cupcake speciality shops to enjoy in their sugary deliciousness. Plus, we burn calories at the same time…just an idea:)

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      wip78 12:12 am on January 9, 2012 Permalink

      I missed your post about Chicago Marathon. I’ll be on the sideline cheering you on….while eating a red velvet cupcake…with cream cheese frosting.

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    Kimberly Hula 3:36 pm on January 4, 2012 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: amulet, bodhidharma, daruma, , omen, talisman   

    When there is nothing left to burn, you have to set yourself on fire 

    I thought I’d further entice you with toys.

    Namely, this one, the Daruma.

    I first experienced this foreboding, eyeless, paper mache, scrap of a thing when I lived in Japan.  Upon first seeing it I was entirely put off.

    It’s not conventionally cute, or useful.  In full, it’s simply an etheral, body-less amulet that I would be frightened to chance upon at night.

    But there darumas where everywhere, and, although they looked so very Japanese, I surmised that there had to be something more to them.  There was, and I am ever so glad I asked!

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      wip78 6:18 pm on January 8, 2012 Permalink

      I can’t wait to read your novel. You write so wonderfully:)

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    Berton 12:37 pm on January 4, 2012 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , horseback riding, megabus, rodeo, scorpion, skydiving, , zombie bar crawl   

    The Last Year and a Half…or so… 

    As I was compiling my list of adventures that I could take in the coming 52 weeks, I realized that even though I haven’t been doing them regularly or blogging about them, I still have been living a nice life of adventure since my last post in April 2010.  So, a quick recap of the last bit of my life…feel free to use these adventures for yourself in the coming year!

    I overcame my fear of horses in late May, 2010:

    I got married August 7th, 2010:

    I went skydiving in early October, 2010:

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      Kimberly Hula 10:26 am on January 5, 2012 Permalink

      Danimal, what a year! I can’t even begin to imagine what 2012 has in store, but, as I’m imaginative I challenge you to really impress me 🙂

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    Berton 9:01 pm on January 3, 2012 Permalink | Reply  

    “I Think I’m Quite Ready For Another Adventure.” 

    And…I’m back.

    A good friend of mine, that I truly don’t talk with enough, has convinced me and several others to have another year full of adventures.  I attempted this on the first go aroundin 2010, and it was bomb.  I will admit that I didn’t complete the full year, which is sad, and kind of obvious due to my last post being in April of that year.

    But this past New Year’s Eve, I was looking around on the interwebs for a good quote to post for the new year of 2012 (which I don’t believe will be the last, cause Marty McFly went to the year 2015, and since when has Back to the Future led me astray?).  The quote I found was by one of my favorite bands of all time – Incubus.  ”Kiss your lover’s lips, and know that fate is what you make it of.”

    When I first read it, I chose it for the, “Kiss your lover’s lips…” line, cause that’s what you do when the clock strikes midnight.  But then I started thinking about it…this past year wasn’t my best.  I wasn’t the best student at graduate school, probably hurt my friends at times, and I know I for sure had my failures as a husband.

    But you know what?  Fate really is just what you make of it.  If there is one thing I learned growing up, it was that I was the best around.  Nothing’s gonna ever keep me down (sweep the leg)!  I need to start believing in that.  And not in a cocky, broseph kind of way.  But in a realistic “Why can’t I achieve what I want if I put my heart and effort into it” kind of a way.

    I’m a big believer in gestures; in the feeling, meaning, and spirit behind something often being more important than how the actual events transpire.  And I believe that this kind of a declaration of myself can help me get over that personal hump and start taking steps towards being a more awesome kind of person; the kind I want to be.

    Let’s go.  Let’s get it started.  And in the words of  Matrim Cauthon, “Let’s roll the dice.”

     
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    Kimberly Hula 12:39 pm on January 3, 2012 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: 2012, barn, marriage, Year of 52 adventures   

    This is an exercise in direct mandates 

    I’m looking at you faithful blog follower.

    It’s been sometime since we’ve all congregated to tell tale of events past, present and forthcoming.  I exhausted (see: am exhausted) my year of adventure, but that is no reason to turn down potential trysts.  We just moved.  Into a barn!  I’m learning to hard-core cycle!  I’m getting married.  In a barn!

    2012 isn’t a year of barnyard anecdotes, but it is whatever I decide to make of it.  Which is where you come in.

    Adventure or not, I implore you to dedicate yourself to something this year, if for anything, for yourself.  As mentioned in the subject heading, this is an exercise in mandate.  I’m trying demanding that you continue to do all that you do.  But, to really spice up 2012, to do it with great gusto and enriched energy. 

    Be reminded that this board serves as a maleable template.  Not into adventure? No worries!  What about a year of reading, of service, of letter writing, of thanks.  There is so much untapped potential that only YOU can see to.

    So, if you’ll be so kind as to indulge and heed my demand and be the best you can be.  I am so excited to see what comes!

     
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    Kimberly Hula 3:28 am on February 8, 2011 Permalink | Reply  

    What will YOU do this week? 

    I’ve been on hiatus.  Not from adventure, or yearly ambition, but from website maintenance.  I’ve really dropped the ball.

    But I’m here to pick it up again and throw some new ideas your way.  Are you new to the site and looking to start a year of adventure?  Well, you’ve come to the right place!  Completed your own year (look at you, you wild adventurer) and hungry for something new?  Well, I’ve something to offer you, too.

    Just know that you are capable of anything and everything you set your mind to.  So post it here.  Be loud.  Be proud.  This is YOUR year.

    For those old hatt-ed adventurers who are angling for a new campaign I invite you to join me in my Year of 52 Random Acts of Kindness.  I’m taking the enthusiasm and energy I sustained from last years adventuring binge and giving back to my community.  Won’t you join me?  I’ve enjoyed your company throughout the past 52 weeks of 2010.

    Come on by and visit us at http://bekind52times.wordpress.com and tell me about how you help.

    Remember keep doing what you’re doing.  You do it so very well.  And I couldn’t be more proud.

     
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    Kimberly Hula 10:02 pm on January 2, 2011 Permalink | Reply  

    Have you hugged an adventurer today? 

    A very Happy New Year to you and yours.  It’s 2011!  2.0.1.1.!  Some 367 days ago mark the inception of this blog.  368 days ago I lived the life of a completely different woman.  And, if you’ll indulge me for a few more moments for what’s left of my contribution to this blog, I’m here to tell tale.

    I’ve received many beautiful responses to the work done with this blog.  People have thanked me.  Strangers befriended me.  People have spoken of great changes in their lives on account of the campaign and I humbly, honorably and happily thank you for your kind words.  But, in fairness, I will not accept them.  That is, without a caveat.  You see, I didn’t do this alone.  I couldn’t have, and, in all truth, I wouldn’t have.  I used to say, again and again, that adventurers are better shared and I truly hang on my finest of hats on that assertion.  I had support.  I had scores of support because I had YOU.  Yes, YOU: dutiful blog reader who made it to this second paragraph.  You, you, you stayed with me, with us, through a year of not only adventures but shortcomings, fears, mistakes, exhilaration, sheer madness, pure bliss, fanfare, heartbreak, pain, acceptance, good-nature AND MORE.  Do you see what you’ve done?  The movement that you helped make?  My main intent in starting this year was to instill hope in others and from the lovely posts you’ve posted and the incredible pictures I’ve seen, I couldn’t be prouder of your hard work and determination.  And it’s because of you, and the great momentum we have all built that I have been able to move forward on my own goals.  On account of all this I type before you today a much happier, healthier, braver woman than I was.  And that, in and of itself, is the greatest gift of any holiday season.

    I’ll be honest: before I started the campaign some nights found me sad.  So sad that day became night became weeks of abandon.  Sure I was scared of heights and roller coasters and fish.  But I was also scared of trying.  I was tired of making efforts to redeem what felt like a lost life and I didn’t know what more to do.

    I truly believe in community and I will say, with full confidence, that is was community that reinvigorated a temporarily lost hope in me.  Skydiving doesn’t define a person, sure, but the will to get up and skydive does.  And I’ll admit it: the first time I went out (say, adventure 14 or so) I didn’t do it.  I did not initially skydive.  I got scared and I backed out.  But, but, but with constant support and the determined, fanatic, and spell-binding belief of my friends and family I was able to get out there on that plane and do it.

    I never knew what I was capable of until I pushed myself to limits otherwise unknown.

    When once I’d look in the mirror and hate my body, just two days ago I jumped into the icy waters of the Atlantic Ocean on the early morning of New Years day in a bikini.

    When once I’d pursue disastrous relationship after disastrous relationship, just this year I fell madly in love.

    I learned to take care of others in addition to taking care of myself.

    I learned how to repair relations with my family.

    I started to see everything as a potential source of beauty.

    I started to see myself as beautiful.

    It’s wild, really.  Thinking of where I once was in comparison to where I am now and I am not certain I really even believe it.  All I can hope for is that you’ve reaped some of the absolutely inspiring benefits I have from this year and will pay it forward to those in your life.

    Because, at the end of the day, the meaning of life is having meaning in other people’s lives.  And you sure have made an incredible impression on me.

    So from my home, adventure-full and ready for more, to yours: I wish you the best of the coming year and hope to see you again, on the adventure trail.

    Much love,

    Kimberly Hula

     
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      blueskiesinva 8:35 pm on January 10, 2011 Permalink

      But I do have to thank you Kimberly. I joined late…and still fell far short of my “planned” adventures, but it’s been a fun ride…and it isn’t over! “The meaning of life is having meaning in other people’s lives.” Perfect.

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    eatveggiesdrinkwine 3:10 pm on January 1, 2011 Permalink | Reply  

    Adventure 39/52: Joining Reverb 10 and Adventure 40/52: Baking for my neighbor 


    Adventure 39/52: Joining Reverb 10
    What does one do on a Sunday afternoon when suffering from a cold and dreading last minute holiday shopping? Join Reverb 10 to reflect on this year and manifest what’s next, of course! Each day’s prompt was posed by a different person and focuses on a particular theme (e.g., Community, Wonder, Party). I joined mid-month and played catch-up the whole time–I can’t ever imagine myself as a daily blogger–but it was a powerful exercise nonetheless. Read my three-part series of responses starting here.

    Adventure 40/52: Baking for my neighbor
    This adventure required the most courage and motivation of any others I’ve completed this year. It’s not coincidental that I fulfilled it during the last few hours of 2010; without question, I was avoiding it. Let’s just say that this adventure (or rather, the reason behind this adventure) forced me to acknowledge some hard-to-face truths about myself. So, with a pounding, open heart, I knocked on my neighbor’s door to deliver a plate of cookies and a loaf of cranberry bread. This is the first of many, many things I need to do to become a better neighbor and community member, but it’s a start. And, while DP was a great support to me, one of my students was the true inspiration. Without our conversation a few weeks ago, I’m confident that I would have continued to blow off this much-needed adventure.

    Cheers to an end, and to a beginning…
    The Year of 40 Adventures has a decent ring to it. Sure, I wish that I’d finished 52 so I could become a card-carrying member of the club, but to be honest, I completed about 37 more than I would have without inspiration from Kimberly Hula and the adventuring community she developed. My achievement comes not from the number I completed, but rather from the new, active role I’ve taken in creating a more interesting life for myself. This may be the official end of the Year of 52 Adventures, but it’s just the beginning of a lifetime of adventures for me.

    I plan to continue blogging weekly at eatveggiesdrinkwine.blogspot.com in 2011 and beyond. Please stop by and say hello … I’d love to continue connecting with fellow and aspiring adventurers. Thank you, Kimberly, for the support and enthusiasm you’ve provided throughout the year. You, my friend, rock!

     
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      yearof52adventures 9:31 pm on January 2, 2011 Permalink

      Such kind words! I am so impressed by your energy and ability to really live life in ways that inspire others and continue to inspire yourself!

      You flatter me, darling, but know that of this would be possible without the ongoing support of this adventure community. You, YOu, YOU are the heart and soul of this operation and for that, and so much more, i thank you.

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      blueskiesinva 8:30 pm on January 10, 2011 Permalink

      I have to say that you seem to have the most tremendous heart! Best wishes for everything wonderful in 2011!

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