• go on a road trip with no predetermined destination
    • drive across America --coast to coast (and through Death Valley)
  • have a beach bonfire-
  • wear red lisptick without looking ridiclous
  • go skydiving
  • buy something designer at full price
  • speak another language fluently
  • make a dress
  • see a lunar eclipse
  • read War & Peace
  • run with the bulls in Pamplona
  • have sex on the beach
  • kiss the Blarney Stone (and develop the gift of gab)
  • dip my feet in the Dead Sea
  • swim in all 5 oceans
    • Atlantic
    • Pacific
    • Indian
    • Arctic
    • Southern
  • stroll the Great Wall of China
  • go cliff jumping
    • cliff-dive in Croatia
  • play hide and seek at Stone Henge
  • date an Irishman
  • do tequila tastings in Mexico
  • party in Moravia with homemade wine
  • be a firefighter or volunteer EMT
  • be proposed to in the shower
  • see Prince in concert
  • play Menuet en Rondeau perfectly
  • fall deeply in love -- helplessly and unconditionally
    • be the first one to say it
  • own a beach house
  • get a real claddagh ring
  • finish my degree
    • in Linguistics
    • get a masters
    • get a phD
  • ride a Vespa
  • ride a mechanical bull-
  • buy a garden gnome
  • shower in a waterfall-
  • make out in the rain
  • work in foodservice/retail
  • secure a job using my own skills and resources
  • be completely comfortable wearing a bikini
  • make my mom proud of me
  • win spider solitaire on the difficult level
  • spend a week of summer in Alaska and experience "Midnight Sun"
  • take a painting class
  • watch a volcano erupt
  • sail across the sea (any sea will do!)
  • ride the Chunnel
  • dress as Wonder Woman for Halloween
  • partake in a traditional Japanese tea ceremony
  • see the Northern Lights/Aurora Borealis
  • send a message in a bottle
  • be in two places at once
  • go flyfishing
  • buy a home
  • get every question correct on jeopardy
  • tell my mom how much i appreciate her
  • have a pet pig named Moo
  • find the perfect pair of boots
  • get a bikini wax
  • be someone's hero/mentor
  • start a job feeling completely capable, confident and in charge
  • have $10,000 saved in an account
  • knit a sweater
  • journey into outer space
  • attend the Olympics
  • have my portrait painted
  • swim with the dolphins
  • be an extra in a film
  • ride a camel in the desert
  • plant a tree
    • carve my initals in it 10 yrs later
  • tour the White House at Christmas
  • travel by train across the country/continent
    • the Trans-Siberian Express (Russia)
    • the Orient Express
    • the Darjeeling Mail (India)
    • the Bernina Express (Swiss Alps)
  • touch a Sarajevo Rose
  • sit on a jury
  • write the novel i know i have inside me
  • go to Walden Pond and read Thoreau while drifting in a canoe
  • stay out all night dancing and go to work the next day without having gone home
  • drink beer at Oktoberfest in Munich
  • get passionate about a cause and spend time helping it, instead of just thinking about it
  • experience weightlessness
  • sleep under the stars
  • ride the highest roller coaster... in the
    • area
    • country
    • whole world
  • celebrate an international festival
    • Mardi Gras in New Orleans
    • Carnival in Rio de Janeiro
    • Naadam Festival in Mongolia
    • participate in the world’s biggest water fight during Thailand’s New Year’s festivities (Songkran)
    • Festival au Désert (Essakane, Mali)
  • drive the Autobahn
  • find a job i love
  • spend Christmas on the beach drinking pina coladas
  • overcome my fear of failure
  • raft (and shout echo) through the Grand Canyon
  • donate money and put my name on something: a college scholarship, a bench in the park...
  • scuba dive off Australia's Great Barrier Reef
  • ride in a hot air balloon
  • thrown a coin into the Trevi Fountain
  • make love on the kitchen floor
  • trek through the jungle on the back of an elephant
  • heli-ski in British Columbia
  • climb one of the world’s Seven Summits
  • dive with a whale shark
  • cross a glacier on foot
  • bathe in the Ganges
  • experience Germany's Love Parade
  • stand at the North or South Pole
  • be in the stands during a soccer match for two rival South-American teams or two British teams (whichever works out)
    • be a spectator at The World Cup
  • watch an orchestral performance in Vienna
  • bike the Pacific Coast Highway
  • shake hands with someone who has truly changed a country
  • leave a ridiculously large tip for a server who is clearly having a terrible day, and leave before they see it.
  • walk across the Charles Bridge
  • visit an actual castle
  • sit in a traditional Swedish sauna
  • go to the Hungarian baths in Budapest
  • save a life
  • ride a gondola in Venice
  • see the Mona Lisa
  • take drum lessons
  • go zorbing
  • visit all 50 US States
  • swim in the world's largest swimming pool (Chile)
  • go on a cruise again!
  • tip a cow
  • repop unopened popcorn kernels
  • take an Astronomy class
  • receive a Purple Heart for an act of bravery
  • join the Peace Corps
  • donate blood
  • hike part of the Appalachian Trail
  • have "high tea" at the Plaza Hotel
  • invent something that will make life easier for my fellow man
  • win more than a few dollars on a scratch card
  • watch turtles hatch and run for the ocean
  • see a platypus (that isn't behind glass)
  • visit The Titanic wreckage via submarine
  • spend a week at a silent retreat
  • attend a TED conference
  • go to the White House Easter Egg Roll
  • see the Radio City Christmas Spectacular
  • have breakfast at Tiffany's (or Barney's)
  • go speed dating
  • watch the Macy*s Thanksgiving Day Parade
  • tour MoMA with a personal guide
  • watch Aida in Verona
  • visit an uninhabited island
  • take friends/family on vacation
  • visit the Taj Mahal
  • see Iguazu Falls
  • go to the Super Bowl
  • join or start a book club
  • hike through Germany's Black Forest
  • tour the L'ouvre
  • climb Lady Liberty's stairs
  • ride the tram to Roosevelt Island
  • eat at Tom's Diner
  • find penguins in the San Diego Zoo
  • ride the Maid of the Mist (sans poncho)
  • ride the London Eye
  • stroll the Champs-Élysées
  • party and spend the night on a houseboat
  • go to Ellis Island (maybe find an ancestor)
  • make pizza in Italy
  • sleep in the desert
  • drive a car from one state to another
  • watch the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace
  • walk through the Lorraine American Cemetery and Memorial (near Saint-Avold, France)
  • meet the Dalai Lama
  • visit Jerusalem's Western Wall
  • see the Lennon Wall in Prague
  • visit The Plain of Jars in Laos
  • visit Singing Sands Beach (Ontario)
  • see Chicago's Cloud Gate
  • sleep in a tree house
  • visit the White Sand National Monument
  • visit San Francisco
    • ride a cable car
    • drive the Golden Gate Bridge
    • visit Alcatraz
oct 1 2008 ∞
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