- Lived in another country (Italy)
- Walked the Camino de Santiago
- Climbed a mountain (Mount Parnassus, Delphi, Greece; the Pyrenees, Spain)
- Witnessed an important moment in history (The election of Pope Francis)
- Had a drink at the Eagle and Child Pub, Oxford, England
- Was in four different countries in one day
- Had tea at the table on which J.K. Rowling wrote the first four Harry Potter books
- Rode a camel
- Sailed the Mediterranean
- Visited the Cliffs of Insanity
- Hiked the mountain above Assisi- barefoot
- Converted to Catholicism
- Got lost in both Venice and Florence
- Raced on the original Olympic track, in Olympia, Greece
- Encountered a very fierce feline in the Colosseum (not a lion, just a cat)
- Tied a wish to a Fairy Tree in Ireland
- Went extreme whitewater rafting
- Went to Pompeii and saw smoke rise from Mt. Vesuvius
- Stood on the lip of a dormant volcano
- Had a picnic at the bottom of a moat
- Played with a wolf on an Italian train
- Walked on the Appia Antica into Rome - the same road that Peter and Paul took
- Watched a reenactment of Agamemnon's death scene (from Aeschylus' Oresteia ) inside Agamemnon's tomb in Mycenae
- Drank from the Castalian Spring in Delphi, supposed to grant poetic inspiration
- Fed a baby mountain goat in Ireland
- Narrowly escaped a great white shark in the Gulf of Mexico
- Ate leaves, drank from The Spring, and inhaled fumes in Delphi (the ancient recipe to tell the future). Alas, no oracles resulted.
- Went indoor skydiving
- Graduated college
- Held a boa constrictor like a scarf
- Moved to Spain
apr 6 2014 ∞
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