Things I want to do in my lifetime…
Besides the obvious like see my kids graduate from high school and college and be at their weddings and meet my future grandchildren, and see them everyone live happy lives!
Not necessarily in any particular order.
I do have a list of things I want to do:
Backpack Europe
Visit Australia and New Zealand
Write a book that makes the New York Times bestseller list
Learn an old language (Latin or Greek, maybe)
Learn to drive a motorcycle
Learn to ride a horse with confidence (second nature) – working on this one!
Climb Mt. Kilimanjaro
Learn to play the piano
Visit New York – I have always wanted this, but I would very much now like to stand at the site of the twin towers, as well I have a list of about twenty things I want to do in New York!
See a musical on Broadway
Go on a cruise
Be on a reality tv show
Be on a game show
Study more, go to college again, maybe earn my doctorate next or an entirely different degree like law
Volunteer either for a mission or something like the peace corps (I have a huge urge to help in New Orleans)
Learn construction (maybe I could add this to the one above and work on a Habitat for Humanity house)
Go bungee jumping
Go skydiving
Return to Alaska, but in the summer
Visit all 50 states, so far I have been to 18 states, 4 provinces in Canada, and 3 other countries
Go to Mt. Rushmore
Go to Washington DC – I desperately want to see the Vietnam Memorial Wall
Learn to rock climb outside (I love indoor rock climbing)
Go to the David Letterman show
Swim with dolphins
Learn to scuba dive; I have been snorkeling when we went to Mexico; that was incredible.
Go up in a hot air balloon
Go to the Great Wall of China
Learn to sing, take lessons
Go to the Grand Canyon
Ride in a gondola in Venice
Run in a half-marathon
Ride in a helicopter
Be a size 10 again
Ride my bike to work
Learn a specific dance like tap or waltz
Watch a sunrise with my kids (have seen many sunsets with them)
Play chess at Central Park
Send a message in a bottle (This is cool for a whole bunch of reasons; I remember when I sent a message in a balloon filled with helium once.)
Have my palm read
Be a member of a school board
Act in a play or musical (I have directed, but never acted)
Celebrate New Year’s Eve in an exotic place
See a gi-normous 4th of July fireworks display – bigger than Wenatchee!
Rent a houseboat
Watch a Nascar race in person
See the Nutcracker in a professional performance
Donate my hair to Wigs for Kids
Get a makeover
See Shakespeare’s Grave
Learn to paint or draw
Go to Alactraz
Go to MOMA and the Smithsonian
Go to the Louvre in Paris
Go to Atlantic City
Attend the Olympics
Eat Italian food in Italy
Live in a log cabin in the woods
Visit a concentration camp
See Cirque du Soleil
See Niagara Falls
Learn to skateboard
Learn to knit
Learn to quilt – for real
Learn to make an espresso (like at the coffee place, not my howe machine)
Own a bookstore
Watch an entire season of a show I have never seen before at one sitting
Kiss under the Eiffel Tower
Drive a semi-truck for at least a day
Travel the whole of Africa
Go on a week-long trip on a sailboat (a big one)
Visit each continent
Run/Jog in a 5k for charity
See the 7 Wonders of the World
See Stonehenge
Bury something important to me and leave it there for someone to find many years from now
Celebrate Christmas in July
Be silent for 24 hours
Be at a Manchester U game
Take a swamp tour in the Everglades
Attend the Sundance Film Festival
Read 100 works of classic literature (getting close)
Enable somebody else to accomplish a goal on their list
Grow my hair to where I can sit on it
Re-connect with some of my best friends in the world and meet up at least once a year, maybe even to do something on our lists!
Forgive someone with my WHOLE heart
Be up-to-date on family scrapbooks
Clear out everything that makes me a pack-rat (storage, especially, almost done!!)
Have a nice porch/deck with rocking chairs
Refurnish my rocking chair from when I was born
Give a commencement speech
Go to the Macy’s Day Parade on Thanksgiving
Walk on the Bonneville Salt Flats
Bake bread
Start a writers group
Start a Bunco group
Write a list of 100 things I want to do before I die and keeping adding to it as I accomplish things and keep a list of things I have done!
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