{"id":12433,"date":"2013-06-05T00:51:45","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T07:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=12433"},"modified":"2013-06-05T00:52:28","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T07:52:28","slug":"california-bucket-list-before-i-die-i-want-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-bucket-list-before-i-die-i-want-to\/","title":{"rendered":"California Bucket List &#8211; Before I Die I Want To&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/buckli.jpg\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When visiting the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/museums\/el-segundo-automobile-museum.html\">Automobile Driving Museum<\/a> a few days ago, one docent mentioned something he thought we should see&#8211; a large Bucket List chalkboard in his Los Angeles neighborhood (8700 block of La Tijera Boulevard) where people stop and fill in the blanks to a sentence, &#8220;Before I die I want to__________&#8221;. \u00a0Elliot Kharkats installed the board outside his Westchester\u00a0home, supplies chalk, and cleans the board when it&#8217;s full. The first known bucket list board appeared in New Orleans several years ago, scribbled on the wall of an abandon house.\u00a0Many write on the board that they want to be a better parent, sibling, or to volunteer<\/p>\n<p>Travelers are known to work from bucket lists, too, and include destinations and experiences on their &#8220;want to&#8221; or &#8220;to do&#8221; lists. \u00a0This is especially true in California, where tourists will tell you exactly what their mission is. They want to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/beaches\/directory.html\">see a beach<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/bridges\/golden-gate-bridge.html\">walk on the Golden Gate Bridge<\/a>, and visit the giant redwoods where they can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/attractions\/california-drive-through-trees.html\">drive through a tree<\/a>. Other list items include visits to Disneyland, the Hollywood sign, seeing a celebrity, shopping at Rodeo Drive and visiting \u00a0mountain, desert and wine destinations. Go ahead and make a bucket list if you haven&#8217;t tried it yet!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When visiting the Automobile Driving Museum a few days ago, one docent mentioned something he thought we should see&#8211; a large Bucket List chalkboard in his Los Angeles neighborhood (8700 block of La Tijera Boulevard) where people stop and fill in the blanks to a sentence, &#8220;Before I die I want to__________&#8221;. \u00a0Elliot Kharkats installed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12433"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}