Wednesday, January 12, 2005

50 or so things to do before I die

Travel:
- drive from Vancouver to Mexico
- sit in the audience of a Greek ampitheatre
- visit New York City at Christmas time
- screen a film at the Cannes Film Festival in France
- hike to the bottom of the grand canyon
- travel Europe without an itinerary
- stand inside of a pyramid
- visit manchu picchu, the perfectly preserved lost city
- stand on the equator
- spend a month barefoot in Nepal
- spend New Years in London
- visit Stonehenge
- walk the great wall of china
- explore the Galapagos Islands
- climb one of the seven summits

Events:
- volunteer at the Olympics
- see the world cup of soccer in person
- attend the Superbowl (or at least a tailgate party)
- experience Marti Gras

Love/Relationships:
- fall deeply, hopelessly, unconditionally in love
- discover and marry my soulmate
- have children, and raise them to be good people
- befriend someone who is older and wiser than me
- befriend someone younger and more naive than me
- carve my name into a tree along with someone else's
- read a book out loud with someone
- stay awake all night talking with someone, without even meaning to
- make love on a beach

Experiences:
- go white water rafting
- plant a tree, and watch it grow
- be on the "thank you" list of a cd
- see the sun rise from a hot air balloon
- swim with dolphins
- sit in the front row for a broadway show
- witness birth
- witness death
- be a part of a group of people who believe in something larger
- spend a week entirely by myself
- Drink a bottle of Dom Perignon
- experience life as a redhead
- find a four leaf clover
- be an audience member on The Price is Right
- ride the highest roller coaster in the world, and sit in the front seat
- run a marathon
- build a house

Knowledge:
- get my open water diving liscence
- memorize the poems I like by ee cummings
- learn how to play the guitar
- become an expert on something
- learn the major constellations, and successfully seduce someone using said knowledge

Music:
- See the following songs performed live:
Gimme Shelter
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
Maybe I'm Amazed
Born to Run
Rocketman
Desperado
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attend one really, really huge and epic rock concert


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