Goals for Life:
100+ things I want to do before I Drop Dead.
{Last UPDATED 12/2/06}
(Yes I will be working on updating this again soon!)
1. Skydive
2. Visit an active volcano
3. Visit a nude beach
4. Scuba Dive the Great Barrier reef
5. Go on a Safari
6. Swim with dolphins
7. Travel to Michoacan, Mexico to witness the migration of monarch butterflies
8. Visit the Vietnam Memorial in Washington D.C. (check!)
9. Visit a former concentration camp
10. See Stonehenge
11. Visit the Pyramids in Egypt
12. Visit Machu Picchu
13. Visit the Galapagos Islands
14. Visit the Rainforest
15. See the birth of a Baby
16. Ride motorcycle across the US .Chicago to LA or vice versa (Route 66)
17. Ride a Mule through the Grand Canyon
18. Test drive a Ferrari
19. Take a steamboat ride down the Mississippi
20. Attend at least one major sporting event: the Super Bowl, the Olympics, the U.S. Open.
21. Throw a huge party and invite every one of my friends.
22. Be an extra in a film.
23. Make love on a forest floor.
24. Be a member of the audience in a TV show
25. Learn to ballroom dance properly.
26. Sit on a jury.
27. Write the novel I know I have inside me.
28. Stay out all night dancing and go to work the next day without having gone home.
29. Shower in a waterfall.
30. Learn to play a musical instrument with some degree of skill. (check!)
31. Drive across America from coast to coast
32. Write my will.
33. Learn to juggle with three balls
34. Find a job I love.
35. Spend Christmas on the beach drinking pina coladas.
36. Spend three months getting my body into optimum shape.
37. Go up in a hot-air balloon.
38. Go deep sea fishing
39. Climb to the top of the Statue of Liberty (check!)
40. Learn to bartend.
41. Run a marathon
42. Learn to ride a horse
43. Look after puppies for training for jobs (Customs, Seeing Eye Dog etc)
44. Dye my hair a really ridiculous color (check!)
45. Visit all 50 States (airports and drive-thrus don’t count)
So far: Arizona, California, Colorado , Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Mexico, New York, Wisconsin
46. Go on an ocean cruise
47. Drive a motorcycle (check!)
48. Achieve $1 million in liquid assets
49. Get married
50. Eat everything on BBC’s 50 things to eat before you die
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/tv_and_radio/50eats_index.shtml
So far: Fresh fish, lobster, steak, Chinese food, Ice cream, pizza, crab, curry, clam chowder, barbecues, pancakes, pasta, cheesecake, lamb, alligator, kangaroo, chocolate, sandwiches, burgers, ,Mexican food, squid, American diner breakfast, salmon, venison, mango, ribs, roast beef
51. Make love on an ocean beach.
52. Be able to locate 10 constellations in the sky.
53. Flatten coins on a train track
54. Ride a mechanical bull
55. Join a softball league
56. Hit a home run
57. Dance with a stranger in a foreign country (check!)
58. Get a tattoo (check!)
59. Fire a gun (check!)
60. Buy a personalized license plate
61. Gamble in Vegas
62. Go 1 week without using a computer
63. Literally have my clothes ripped off my body, like in the movies.
64. See a tornado
65. Visit the Hershey Chocolate factory
66. Go Scuba diving
67. Visit Canada
68. Visit Mount Rushmore
69. Be a Maid of Honor
70. Send a message in a bottle
71. Visit all 7 continents
72. Spend a day with someone famous
73. See tigers in the wild
74. Be debt free
75. Fly first class
76. Spend some time with a monkey
77. Watch sea turtles come out of the water to lay eggs
78. Drive a bus
79. Visit all of the US National Parks
80. Visit every aquarium in the U.S.
So far: Shedd, Monterey Bay Aquarium, Aquarium at the Indiana Zoo, SF Bay aquarium
81. Become a teacher (check!)
82. Go ocean kayaking (check!)
83. Go whale watching (and not get sick) during migration
84. Play with an orchestra (check!)
85. Learn sign language
86. Learn photography (at least one class)
87. Ride in a glass bottom boat
88. Get a full spa treatment on a vacation
89. Attempt to surf
90. Go to Burningman (http://www.burningman.com/whatisburningman/)
91. Spend a night at a Sybris hotel or fantasy suite
92. Meet Bob and Tom and Chick and Krisit (and have a conversation with them)
93. Do Hollywood Hotdish on WKTI (No longer exists….)
94. Go Rock Climbing outdoors
95. Learn something new every day for 100 days and keep track of it in a notebook
96. Pierce my belly button, eyebrow. or nose
97. See a wild kangaroo (check!)
98. Learn to scuba dive
99. Get laser eye surgery to repair my eyesight
100. Drive in a demo derby
101. Go to a black tie event
102. Operate or participate with an animal rescue group
103. Get up to see the sunrise each day for one full week
104. Read one self-improvement book a month for a year
105. Be a God-parent
106. Be a foster parent or adopt a child
107. Bike around Makinack Island
108. Play paintball
109. Hunt a deer and gut it myself (check!)