25 random facts about me and my life that many people do not know about me, even close family and friends.
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Some friends were making posts about 25 random facts about them. I thought it would be fun to do one too.
My 25 Random Facts:
- I’ve lived in three different countries more for than a year
- I’ve been to 42 U.S. States and 14 states in Mexico
- I read, write, understand, and speak Spanish fluently
- I’ve traveled from Acapulco, Mexico to Juneau, Alaska by sea
- Everywhere I go I like to try the local beer
- I can identify and say the botanical name of hundreds of plants
- I’m a good swimmer
- I can greet people in English, Spanish, French, Mayan, Bulgarian, Serbian, Tamil, Chinese, Japanese and Korean
- I can make many cocktails including martinis
- I’m the oldest of six kids
- I’ve been in 7 car wrecks, 4 of them the car I was in was totaled, three I was driving, and two were my fault
- I’ve never had stitches or broken a bone or have spent the night in a hospital
- I won first place in a poetry contest at a college in Alabama
- I’ve shook hands with George W. Bush, Coolio, Alec Baldwin, Jason Kidd, and Mark Cuban
- I don’t own a TV
- I’ve been bitten by many different animals including snakes, a pit bull, cats, a possum, a fish, spiders, and I have been stung by numerous of bees and wasps.
- I have been on a beach with a wild crocodile once.
- I’ve piloted a plane, twice, a single engine
- I have hitch hiked in Mexico
- I’ve paid my way out of a speeding ticket in Mexico, several times
- I used to have a license to drive a 44 passenger bus.
- When I go to the beach I don’t bring a towel cause I like to lay in the sand and walk to dry off
- I’ve have ridden in a taxi hundreds of times
- I’ve read over 80 books, with a wide variety of genres
- I love dancing