Welcome to The Savory City. Follow our adventures on food, drink, travel & healthy living in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond.
Love,
Grant &Teresa
Here it is. Our bucket list. Adding new things to our bucket list is almost as fun as crossing things off. The way we see it, as long as you still have things on your list, you'll always have a reason to get up in the morning. If you have any cool suggestions, please let us know! Life is an adventure. This is ours.
Learn to code
✓Write a song
✓Join a fantasy football league
Learn how to take down a 7-10 split
Publish my own book
✓Read a choose-your-own-adventure book
Attend a taping of SNL
✓Drink a Dr Pepper
✓Visit the Space Needle
Have a drink at the Copacabana
✓Go to the Mystery Spot
Attend a TED Talk
✓Go to Nightlife at the Academy of Sciences
Witness a solar eclipse
Have a Vermonster at Ben & Jerry's
Learn French
Live in a beach house
Get published in The National Geographic
Be an audience member of the Ellen Show
Make a stained-glass window
Visit all 50 United States
✓Ride the funicular train up Mount Stanserhorn in Switzerland
✓Spend St. Patrick's Day in Dublin
✓Ride the Eurostar under the Chunnel
✓Walk down the Champs-Élysées
✓Go to a European Christmas market
✓Go to the top of the Eiffel Tower
✓See the Mona Lisa
Learn how to two-finger whistle
Read every Jane Austen novel
Rendezvous with someone at the top of the Empire State Building (a la "An Affair to Remember")
✓ Karate chop a piece of wood in half
Go on an African safari
✓Run a 5K race
✓Study at Oxford for a year
Read "Don Quixote" in Spanish
✓Learn yoga
Go deep-sea fishing
✓Eat a croissant at an outdoor Parisian cafe
Explore the Egyptian pyramids
Stroll the Great Wall of China
Have lunch in front of the Taj Mahal
Witness the Northern Lights
Fly in a hot air balloon
✓Keep a blog updated for more than a year
Watch a movie in a drive-in theater
✓Get serenaded by a Venetian gondolier
Roadtrip across the U.S.
Learn how to juggle
✓Memorize a good poem
Write a screenplay
Party in Times Square on New Year's Eve
Be photographed next to Stonehenge
Visit Poet's Corner in Westminster's Abbey
Celebrate the "Carnival" in Rio
Watch the Olympic Games in person
✓ Help build a home for Habitat for Humanity
Attend an auction at Sotheby's
✓Invest in the stock market
See the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in person
Watch the Radio City Music Hall Christmas show
Ride the Orient Express
Own a small bookstore
Eat paella in Valencia
Help rebuild an old classic car
✓Go kayaking
Pop a wheelie
✓Sleep under the stars
Ride a train cross-country
✓Ride a high-speed train
Fly a plane
Snowboard
Ski
✓Watch Tony Bennett in concert
✓WatchBarry Manilow in concert
✓Dance in the streets of Paris to "La Vie En Rose"
Drive a stick
✓Solve a Rubik's Cube
Beat Donkey Kong on Super Nintendo
✓Cable knit
✓Knit on double pointed needles
✓Ride the Golden Gate Park Carousel
✓Ride the cement slide
✓Stand outside while it's snowing and make snow angels
Do a poetry slam
✓Attend a professional basketball game
✓Go an entire day without junk food
Knit a pair of socks
Climb an indoor rock wall
✓Parasail
✓Edit a Wikipedia page
✓Have a white Christmas
Eat at 21
Tat
✓Throw a smashing dinner party
✓Sponsor a child
Do a rope climbing course
✓Visit the Grand Canyon
✓Visit the Hoover Dam
Indoor sky dive
Pick and eat fresh strawberries from Central CA
Be part of an awesome flash mob
✓Walk Bay to the Breakers
✓Tour Alcatraz