For example, let's make this calendar year the year that we visit all of the National Parks. Or all of the State Parks in North Carolina. Or let's spend the entire year doing daytrips to the coolest cities near Charlotte. Or just go to one city, such as Charleston, and explore it over and over again during the year. Go there 5 or six times. Do the same thing for a year. For example...
- Tour different breweries each month. Pick a spot and go tour three or four breweries.
- Go to BBQ contests all over the south. Same with wineries.
- Tour Georgia or a single state for a year. Vacation. Long weekends. Go to different cities and areas to experience the state.
- Tour Civil War or Revolutionary War sites.
- Do a beach trip to every beach in NC or SC for a year. Long weekends. Split a one-week vacation by going to two beaches.
- Do a year of cooking with friends together at the house.
- Hire a personal chef to come to the house once per month and host a dinner party for clients and friends. Max of six couples each time. Do 12 of them. A year of home chef parties. Everyone gets the recipe to take home at the end of the night.
- Visit national parks for a year.
- Visit the largest or best museums in the southeast for a year.
- Visit all the NC state parks.
- Spend the year playing different golf courses. Play all the golf courses in Myrtle Beach for one year. Can you even do that?
- Spend the year seeing a new movie every week or every other week in the theater.
- Spend the year trying a new restaurant each week. Or spend the year trying a specific type of food in a restaurant all year long. As in Thai food. Sushi. BBQ. Find the best fried chicken restaurant near you.
- Try a new KOA campground each month.
- Volunteer 2 days per week every week.
- Spend a significant chunk of time in a different country. Like living in Costa Rica for 3 months. Live in Peru or Chile for 3 months. Live in Italy for three months. Choose a small, cozy town or a well-known city. Soak up the culture.
- Take classes at the local community college for a year.
- Learn a foreign language for 11 months and then travel to the location where they speak that language.
- Be in a book club for a year.
- Spend part of each week doing a physical activity that you would never have chosen otherwise. Like weightlifting. Or yoga.
- Visit all the football stadiums in the SEC conference for one year. It’s a day trip or an overnight trip. Make it fun. Rent an RV for the entire season.
- Visit lighthouses in North Carolina or South Carolina.
- Rent an RV for a month and travel around the Southeastern US. Take a few months off and then do it again.
- Visit every major league baseball park in the US.
- Spend 2 or three days per week volunteering for a local charity.
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I NEED YOU TO ADD SOME IDEAS HERE!!!!
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Alex Bishop, CRPC®, MS, is a Private Wealth Advisor and Franchise Owner with Bishop Financial Partners, a private wealth advisory practice of Ameriprise Financial Services, LLC in Huntersville, NC. He specializes in fee-based financial planning and asset management strategies and has been in practice for 22 years. To contact him, www.ameripriseadvisors.com/alex.h.bishop, 704.896.9985.
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