things to do before i die ~ otherwise known as my “before-i-kick-the-bucket list”

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THIS IS MY DREAM LIST.  IT WILL PROBABLY CHANGE.  But for now, these are the things I’d love to do before I die.  The ones I’ve crossed off are the things I’ve already done… 🙂

Adventure and Travel

1. Live in Venice like Rosalba in the Italian movie, Bread & Tulips
2. Stomp grapes at a vineyard in Italy to make wine
3. Visit all “Wonders of the World” at New 7 Wonders
4. Tango in Argentina
5. Participate in a Carnival parade in Brazil.
6. Go on safari in Africa
7. Participate in La Tomatina (last Wednesday in August) Buñol in the Valencia region of Spain
8. Do the pilgrim’s journey to Camino de Santiago de Compostela. (Camino de Santiago)
9. Run with the bulls in Pamplona, Spain during San Fermines
10. Participate in Australia Day (January 26)
11. Play a didgeridoo with aborigines in the Australian Outback
12. Sit in a hot tub outdoors in Banff, Canada and look at the stars
13. Eat the most AMAZING ice cream in the World at the Taiwanese night market
14. Eat fresh fruit at the Floating Market in Thailand
15. Hike in the Amazon Rainforest.
16. Walk all through Petra, Jordan and ride a camel, a horse and a donkey.
17. Take a boat to an island in the Aegean Sea off the coast of Turkey
18. Go out in a boat on the Ganges at sunrise in Varanasi, India
19. Visit a fortune-teller/guru
20. Take a tour of a fortune cookie factory
21. Climb an active volcano (Santorini and the Big Island, Hawaii)
    
22. Visit the Taj Mahal in Agra, India
23. Shower in a waterfall
24. See the Northern Lights
25. Take a camel safari in Jaisalmer, India
26. Live and work in South Korea
27. Live and work in Oman
28. Learn how to make a national dish
29. Go to a yoga retreat in India
30. Attend a music festival in another country
31. Visit the temples of Angkor in Siem Reap, Cambodia
32. Take a junk on Halong Bay in northern Vietnam
33. Ride a donkey at the Grand Canyon
34. Go white water rafting on the Salmon River in Idaho.  And the Colorado River.
35. Climb Cadillac Mountain in Acadia National Park, Maine
36. Go Parasailing
37. Go water skiing
38. Go snow skiing
39. Run a half marathon
40. Fly in First Class
41. Sit at a cafe in Paris and write like my hero Ernest Hemingway
42. Ride a motorbike in Hanoi, Vietnam
43. Take a gondola ride in Venice, Italy
44. Take a hot air balloon ride in Cappadocia, Turkey
45. Visit the Greek islands: Crete & Santorini
46. Go hang gliding
47. Go to the hanging monastery in China
48. Take a boat ride in Guilin, China
49. Go shopping and touring in Hong Kong
50. Take a whale watching boat trip
51. Spend New Years in an exotic location
52. Spend New Years in Time Square, NYC
53. Live in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho
54. Take a streetcar in San Francisco, CA
55. Hike in Yellowstone National Park
56. Ride a camel in the desert
57. See the Old Faithful geyser erupt
58. Hike in Glacier National Park
59. Walk the Golden Gate Bridge
60. Using the ordnance maps in Great Britain, hike in the Cotswolds and the Lake District
61. Do something you should regret, but don’t
62. Visit the Catacombs in Paris
63. Go to the top of the Eiffel Tower
64. Climb to the top of Notre Dame in Paris
65. Jump off a cliff into a natural body of water in an exotic location
66. Take a tour of the Favellas in Rio de Janeiro
67. Drink beer in a pub in Cornwall, England
68. Mardi Gras in New Orleans
69. Trek through the jungle on the back of an elephant
70. Visit the souq in Marrakesh, Morocco
71. Stay in a tiki hut on an exotic beach
72. See the Valley of the Kings in Luxor and Aswan Dam in Egypt
73. See the Pyramids of Giza
74. Visit the Great Wall of China
75. See the Mayan temples
76. Spend 3 months in Japan doing Buddhist practice
77. Ride a tandem bike
78. Go to the Kentucky Derby
79. Climb to the top of St. Catherine’s monastery in Egypt
80. Live like a local for at least a month in another country (Egypt, South Korea, Oman).
    
81. Live and work in Cairo, Egypt.
82. Take a 3 month trip around the USA and into Canada.
83. Jump out of an airplane in a parachute
84. Visit Iguazu National Park in Argentina (see Celebrating The Wonder Of Iguassu!)
85. Go boating on the Puerto Princesa Underground River, Palawan, Philippines: Boating Underground: One of the New 7 Wonders of Nature.
86. Croatia: Plitvice Lakes National Park (Shutter Bug: Croatia Photo of the Day: Plitvice Lakes National Park)
87. Take a balloon safari over the Serengeti in Tanzania.  Tanzania Serengeti Balloon Safaris
88. Go tent camping in the Serengeti: On the Go with Lynne: Tanzanian Bucket List: Tent Camping in the Serengeti
89. Visit the rice terraces in Sa Pa, northern Vietnam: Janaline’s World Journey: Weekly Photo Challenge: Green
90. Visit Ethiopia: Addis Ababa, the rock-hewn churches of Lalibela, and Lake Langano.
91. Do a 5 week Moorish tour of Spain, Portugal and Morocco.
92. Visit United Arab Emirates: Dubai and Abu Dhabi.
93. Do the 88 Temple Pilgrimage, a 1,647-kilometer Buddhist pilgrimage circuit around the island of Shikoku, Japan: artist. hippie. cali chic.: Wanderlust Wednesday: The 88 Temple Pilgrimage

what’s left on my 2012 bucket list?

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Monday, August 20:  Inspired by Lesley on her Bucket List Publications post: What’s Left for Your 2012 Bucket List?, I decided to sit down and list the things I want to complete in 2012 for my Bucket List.   Like Lesley says: By writing a new list every year, I have more direction and motivation to implement my perfect life. I spend hours envisioning what I want to accomplish, what’s possible, and what’s maybe a little impossible, and then I find ways to make it happen.

Lesley’s challenge: Stop! Take two minutes to write down 5 things you want to accomplish before the end of 2012. If it is written, you can make it happen! We can all have our dreams come true! Share them with me, share them with others, and watch them happen.

Here’s my list (okay, it’s more than 5.  As usual, I’m probably a little overambitious):

1. August 31 – Sept 13: Explore Greece: Athens, Crete, Santorini (& possibly Nafplio, Meteora, and Delphi?)
2. October 25 – November 1: Visit my State Department friend in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
3. National Holiday (end of November): Take a trip to Abu Dhabi, UAE
4. Spend a day at the Chedi in Muscat
5. Spend a day at the Shangri-La Resort in Muscat before the end of October (when their special deal ends!)
6. Visit ar Rustaq‘s fort and hot springs
7. Study Arabic in my book (Chapters 1-4) (One a month)
8. Go camping on Masirah Island
9. Work on completing my Cairo blog
10. Put up more large-scale pictures on my Korea blog.
11. Begin saving in earnest to do my Moorish adventure next summer (Spain, Portugal and Morocco!)
12. Go snorkeling in Oman
13. Read my entire novel, then revise chapters 1-10…..