Where do you want to go?

Ever have those ~ Where do want to go visit before you die conversations?

Mine always has to be started with "No Where that Doesn't Speak English". I have a phobia of going to countries that don't speak my language.
Just in case you are keeping a list:

sciurophobia - fear of squirrels Can be pronounced: ski-ooro-phobia or she-ooro-phobia ~ Of course we should really clarify, I am not actually scared of squirrels I just think they are evil. I guess I can be a sciurobigot.

Then there is Bovinophobia - Fear of cows. Again, not really a fear of the actual COW, just of that crazy one in the herd that is going to attack, stomp on you and kill you for no reason. SO it could be narrowed to un0psychobovinophobia (one crazy cow phobia). Of note, the term "PHOBIA" implies an irrational fear, I do not believe this is irrational.

and here we have a phobia that has no clinical name. I do not fear foreign language, I hear it all the time, I fear being in a place where the foreign language is primarily spoken. I know where it comes from. I grew up in El Paso. Mexico was alway filled with horrible stories and situations. I could tell you several stories, but trust me, this is a deep seeded fear. My husband will attest to it. You will not catch me eagerly going over the boarder for anything. So my "list of places to go" usually excludes countries and places that do not primarily speak English. So for instance places like Cuba and Miami are out.
Back to the original topic
(The logic kinda weaves together like an ugly sweater)
So top 10 places I would like to go before I die that I have never been before: (in no particular order)

1) New Zealand/Australia (yes I can combine these, they are in the same hemisphere)
2) London (this would be fun because David can't understand English dialects - He hates Monty Python cuz he cant understand what they are saying)
3) NY, NY - This one I will be able to check off the list in a couple weeks.
4) Alaska in the summer. I hate being cold
5) Grand Canyon
6) Cruise Ship through Italy, Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, etc. The cruise ship would have to have an American flag on it.
7) Yellow Stone National Forest
8) Hike the Grand Staircase in Utah
9) Montana/Wyoming
10) Outer Space, Not too far out there Just enough to see the entire earth. Is space a place?

Blatant Disregard

If I had to start listing my "issues" with the squirrel population one of the top ones would be their Blatant disregard for rules. Now there are three ways to disregard rules. The first one is somewhat acceptable - when there is a rule that is stupid that should not be followed. The second is when there is a rule but extenuating circumstances prevail... and finally, there is what the squirrels do... Decide that they are on some higher plain of superiority and have deemed that the rules shouldn't apply to them. Kind of like people who change lanes without turn signals... We should KNOW they need to be in front of us and yield the way. The DESERVE to be first at the light. We are not as important.

When Squirrels go BAD!!

Meet TOM NutGrabber... The Peeping Squirrel.
When we were at Kamp they put us in a Cabin on the edge of a cliff that had HUGE windows overlooking the lake in both the kitchen and the bathroom. Why the bathroom? I can only see the full view when I wash my hands. There are almost NO windows in the bedroom but the bathroom had like a 30 X 60 window, but I digress...

So one afternoon after swimming I am getting out of the shower, drying off and I see this squirrel out the window just stearing at me..... Squinting through the glass. I hallered at him "Don't you have some nuts to Grab?" He scampered off around the tree. Each day I would see this squirrel peering in our window.

The day before we left I was in the kitchen and there was Tom looking at me through the glass. I ran and got my camera and told him... "I SEE YOU!" He tried to pull the "If I can't see you, you can't see me" approach. I had always suspected but now I am sure they have a national network.