My name is Barbe Awalt. I had a dream. In the dream it said do Bucket List books. Each book had to have 100 items, a picture for each item, a website when we can for each item, a charity for each book, Near Misses of things suggested, a blank Bucket List for YOU, inexpensive, and short.

So, I started writing the Basic New Mexico Bucket List book. It is “Basic” because we used that book to work out the kinks. The writing was easy. Getting all the pictures was difficult.

So a series was born.

— Barbe Awalt