The List

Why The List?
       See my first post for a full explanation!

Travel
  • Go to Italy
  • Watch an opera at the Sydney Opera House
  • Move abroad for a year
  • Recreate Liz Gilbert’s journey in Eat, Pray, Love
  • Visit the Louvre
  • See Count Dracula’s castle
  • See the 7 Wonders of the World
  • See the Northern Lights
  • Snorkel the Great Barrier Reef
  • Watch the ball drop in Times Square
  • Take a road trip with no plan
  • Kiss the Blarney Stone
  • Celebrate Dia de los Meurtos in Mexico
  • Dip in Lake Baikal
  • Go on an African safari
  • Visit the Valle de la Muerte
  • Go hiking in every state
  • Run with the bulls
  • Stand on the Equator
  • Drive the Autobahn
  • Visit Pompeii
  • See the Pantheon and Coliseum
  • Hike the Appalachian Trail
  • See the wildlife on the Galapagos Islands
  • Visit Machu Pichu
  • ·     Run 500 miles in one year
  • Visit Santorini
  • See a volcano erupt
  • Visit Greece and Rome
  • See the Taj Mahal
  • Climb to the cliff dwellings in Mesa Verde
  • Ride a gondola in Venice
  • See Stonehenge
  • Go to an airport and take the first available flight 
  • ·     Volunteer in another country
Whimsy
  • Fall and stay madly in love
  • Unexpectedly punch a bully in the face
  • Find the end of a rainbow
  • See a meteor shower
  • Carve my name in a tree
  • Stand in a waterfall
  • Make love outside  This has happened now too many times to count....
  • Get a tattoo that means something only to me Started 9/12/2012 and finished 9/19/2012
  • Do yoga on a mountain
  • Find God
  • See my kids graduate
  • Complete a Rubik’s cube
  • Kiss in the rain
  • Break a record
  • Hold my daughter’s daughter
  • Save a life
  • Sing on one of the great opera stages
  • Start a coin collection  
  • Ride a hot air balloon
  • Knit a sweater
  • Swing from a rope into a lake
  • Write a song
  • Marry my soul mate  I did, on 6/16/2012
  • Rescue an animal off the street
  • Watch myself be given a shot
  • Swim in the ocean at midnight
  • Meditate for twelve hours straight
  • Finish my mom’s quilt
  • Own a grand piano
  • Own a pair of Manolos
  • See Coldplay in concert
  • Perfect a grain free donut
  • Ride a mattress down a flight of stairs 
  • Dance in the middle of a street at night in the snow
  • Go on a date a month
  • Do a risqué photo shoot  
  • Get a patent on an invention
  • Kiss at the top of a ferris wheel
  • Stay a night in a tent in a desert
  • Stargaze
  • Have a dirt “places I’ve been” collection  Started with a small bottle from Sacrifice Cliff, 4/2012
  • Pet a penguin
  • See a hummingbird
  • See Halley’s Comet
  • Become a freelance travel writer
  • Make a suitcase chair
  • Host a dinner party
  • Be proud of who I am
  • Find an arrowhead
  • Own horses 
  • Live in a cottage on the beach
  • Silence a room, Aubrey Hepburn style  
  • Spend an entire day getting pampered   
  • Make a dirty movie
  • Write wedding vows
  • Join the mile high club 
  • Donate over $1000 to charity
  • Have no debt and maintain for a year   
  • Start a blog     Started 6/21/2012
  • Pick up a stranger’s tab anonymously
  • Hit the bulls eye on a dart board     
  • Build a tree house  
  • Donate blood
  • Sleep in an igloo  
  • Write thank you notes to all my old teachers
  • Grow an exotic plant
  • Adopt a child
  • Have an out of body experience     
  • Have a pen pal
  • Experience zero gravity
  • Publish a book 
  • Fly first class   
  • Do a 365 photo project
  • See a drive in movie
  • Build a greenhouse
  • Stay up all night playing video games
  • Hold a spider
  • Drive an Ariel Atom   
  • Skinny dip
  • Have a library in my home
  • Restore a classic car
  • Be part of a community garden 
  • Ride a train
  • Hold a monkey 
  • Spend the night on a boat
  • Have an herb garden
  • Get a license to carry a gun 
  • Give CPR to someone, preferably with good results  
  • Ride in a taxi
  • Pay for my family to go on a vacation
 Fitness
  • Have a visible six pack   
  • Do 50 consecutive pushups
  • Run a marathon
  • Be able to do Scorpion yoga pose
  • Become a proficient boxer
  • Learn to do a back flip
  • Do the splits 
  • Run 500 miles in one year
Feats
  • Skydive
  • Start a fire with no match
  • Cliff dive
  • Go surfing
  • Human catapult
  • Swim with sharks
  • Cross country ski 
  • Ride a mechanical bull       
  • Go whitewater rafting
  • Go hang gliding 
  • Climb a mountain of note
  • Ride a roller coaster
  • Go ziplining
  • Spend a week in the wilderness Bear Grylls style
 To Learn
  • Learn to swim
  • Become fluent in another language  
  • Learn to tango
  • Learn to shoot a gun
  • Learn to fly a plane 
  • Learn sign language