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

18 Sunday Nov 2012

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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… 🙂

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  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

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what’s left on my 2012 bucket list?

20 Monday Aug 2012

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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…..
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