The Perpetual Wanderer: Oh the places I have been!

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Oh the places I have been!


Tibetan Girl in Xiahe, China

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Things To Do Before I Die

While I now realize, due to the climate of the world, some of these are no longer possible, they are certainly things I will always long to do. This list is by no means exhaustive!

1. Write my novel…and get it published!
2. Cross the Equator
3. Dive the Red Sea
4. Run a half marathon
5. Summit Kilimanjaro
6. Back pack from the US to Tierra del Fuego
7. Exercise regularly
8. Dive Truuk Lagoon
9. Join the 300 club in Antartica
10. Sail around the world
11. Learn to play Mah-jongg
12. Have tea in the Sahara
13. Ride a camel to Pushkar
14. See Khyber Pass
15. Explore the Mongolian Steppe on horseback
16. Skydive (meh, not so sure on this one anymore!)
17. Swim with a whale shark
18. Explore the Galapagos
19. Camp on Easter Island and sketch those famous heads
20. Learn how to sketch
21. Knit a sweater
22. Have breakfast at Tiffany’s
23. Learn how to rollerblade
24. Send a message in a bottle
25. Take the Trans-Siberian express from Moscow to Ulan Baatur
26. Have tea at Harrod’s in London
27. Learn Mandarin
28. Spend April in Paris
29. Eat a baguette and drink wine on a bench next to the Seine
30. Hot air balloon over the Rocky Mountains
31. Climb one of Colorado’s fourteeners
32. See the pyramids and the temple at Karnak
33. Boat down the Nile
34. Dive the Burma Banks
35. Protest with Aun Sun Suu Kyi
36. Watch the sun set from a bar in Cuba
37. Spend the night in a tent on the Serengeti
38. Take a wilderness survival course
39. Hike a part of the Appalachian Trail
40. Swim with the sharks off of Cocos Island
41. Drink coffee in Venice
42. Follow the Silk Road from China to Turkey
43. Learn to tango in Buenos Aires
44. Pretend to be a giant at Giant’s Causeway
45. Overcome my fear of heights by learning to rock climb
46. Take a ferry across the Strait of Gibraltar
47. Explore the ruins at Petra
48. Drink yerba mate at the top of Machu Picchu
49. Kiss the Blarney Stone
50. Stick my toe in the Ganges
51. Visit the Taj Mahal
52. Take a dip in the Dead Sea
53. See the Northern Lights from a camp in Alaska
54. Trek through the Amazon
55. Drink a mint julep at the Kentucky Derby
56. Have a quiet moment at Potala Palace
57. Spend the night at Everest Base Camp
58. Wander aimlessly around Europe
59. Have a beer in Prague
60. Eat more mangoes in warm places
61. Be an organ donor
62. Meet my grandchildren
63. Own a pair of Manolo Blahniks
64. See a show on Broadway
65. Take a picture of the New York skyline from the Empire State Building
66. Shave my head
67. Take a hot spring bath in Iceland
68. Build a house
69. Get my masters degree
70. Get my doctorate
71. Visit every state in the US (35 and DC down…)
72. Learn to fence
73. Cage dive with a great white shark in South Africa
74. Read James Joyce’s the Dubliners while having a pint of Guinness in Dublin
75. Climb the Eiffel tower while humming the theme song to James Bond
76. Drive across Australia in a beat up old truck
77. Learn the art of aryuveda in Kerala
78. Ride an elephant in Northern Thailand
79. Visit the hill tribes of Northern Thailand
80. Pick tea in Darjeeling
81. Sheer sheep in New Zealand
82. Eat too much chocolate in Switzerland
83. Smoke a bowl in Amsterdam
84. See the fields of Saffron crocus
85. Harvest lavender in Provence
86. Go crabbing on the Chesapeake
87. Hike the Presidential Range
88. Dig clams in Maine
89. Take a train through the Copper Canyon in Mexico
90. Celebrate Carnival in Brazil
91. Dive the Barrier Reef in Belize
92. Live on an island in the South Pacific
93. Sail through Halong Bay
94. Spend a week in Hong Kong
95. Trek to Mount Kailash
96. See the Titanic
97. Find every one of Diego Rivera’s murals in Mexico
98. Spend the day channeling Frida Kahlo at Casa Azul
99. Learn how to make cheese in Oaxaca
100. Walk through the streets of San Cristobal de las Casas
101. Find the house that Eliot painted at Fountain Bleu
102. Drop way too much money on a week long spa vacation
103. Learn how to make the perfect cup of coffee in Turkey
104. Explore Cave’s Branch in Belize
105. Climb the Temple of the Jaguar at Tikal
106. Spend a summer working on an archeological dig site
107. Learn to juggle
108. Get another tattoo
109. Buy a wonderful piece of art
110. Learn to fly
111. Read every book in my personal library
112. Finish my divemasters
113. Learn a martial art
114. Experience the Burning Man Festival
115. Hike the Grand Canyon
116. Make a quilt by hand
117. Get a degree in Anthropology
118. Become the US Ambassador to Bora Bora (do we even have one???)
119. Watch the sunrise over Pagan
120. Spend the night in Mandalay
121. Buy a carpet in Morocco
122. Find the places that my ancestors were born
123. See the old forts in Mali
124. Learn how to fly fish
125. Get hugged by Baba
126. Dive in the Cayman Islands
127. Teach a college class (or two!)
128. Learn how to cook anything in India
129. Bungee jump
130. Have a big, glorious garden
131. Spend the day in San Miguel with Marya and eat pizza at Mama’s one more time
132. Learn how to change the oil in my car
133. Hike Tiger Leaping Gorge in China
134. Ride a bike in Beijing
135. Go on safari in Africa
136. Look for pieces of the Colossus
137. Master Scorpion pose
138. Hike the moors
139. Live my life without regrets

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Oh the places I have been!

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