Thursday, April 28, 2011

The ever-changing Bucket List - UPDATED!

This past week and a half, I've been on a great road trip with two friends, Dave and Nick.  While we were driving across the country, I was able to cross off a few items - including #64 and #75. :)  It was a great trip.

It's fun to look at my list and see just how many items are crossed off...and just how many more will be crossed off within the year!  :)

1.  Learn how to salsa dance in Spain
2.  Learn how to drive a manual transmission
3.  Snowboard in Queenstown, New Zealand
4.  Go skydiving in Aukland, New Zealand
5.  Go zorbing in New Zealand
6.  Learn how to sail
7.  Be proficient in a second language
8.  Be an "extra" in a major motion picture
9.  Get a tattoo
10.  Set up a scholarship in my dad's name
11.  Attend the Super Bowl and World Series
12.  Go bungee jumping
13.  Go backstage and meet the headliner at a concert
14.  Skinny dip
15.  Complete a coast-to-coast road trip
16.  Go fishing and eat my own catch
17.  Gut a fish like a pro
18.  Swim with dolphins
19.  Ride a jet ski in the ocean
20.  Ride in a hot air balloon
21.  Go heli-skiing
22.  Sleep beneath the stars
23.  Swim with Great White Sharks
24.  Fall in love and get married
25.  Raise children
26.  Take a full year off from work
27.  Travel to Europe
28.  Travel to South America
29.  Travel to Australia
30.  Travel to Asia
31.  Travel to Africa
32.  Travel to Hawaii
33.  Travel to Alaska
34.  Travel to Antarctica
35.  Take a vacation on a cruise ship
36.  Take a trip without any destination in mind
37.  Attend the Olympics
38.  Drink a Guiness in Dublin, Ireland
39.  Go to St. Patrick's Day in Dublin
40.  Kiss the Blarney stone
41.  Participate in a camel caravan in the desert
42.  See the pyramids in Egypt
43.  Drink beer at the Oktoberfest in Germany
44.  See Neuschwanstein Castle, Germany (the real castle the Sleeping Beauty castle was modeled after)
45.  See Stonehenge
46.  See a musical in London
47.  See Big Ben
48.  Ride on the London Eye
49.  See the Queen's palace
50.  Walk on London Bridge
51.  Have high tea at Fortnum & Mason in London
52.  Stand on the Great Wall of China
53.  Visit the Taj Mahal
54.  Ride on an elephant in India
55.  Stand at the foot of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
56.  Kiss under the Eiffel Tower
57.  See the Mona Lisa
58.  Walk along Champs Elysees
59.  See Moulin Rouge
60.  Eat sushi in Japan
61.  Drive on the autobahn in a fast car
62.  Visit Wrigley Field
63.  Visit Fenway Park
64.  Visit Safeco field
65.  Scuba dive off the Great Barrier Reef
66.  Hold a koala
67.  Touch a kangaroo
68.  Take an around-the-world cruise
69.  Play an 18-hole game at par
70.  Ride a cable car in San Francisco
71.  Visit all 50 states (only 5 to go!!)
72.  Climb the Rocky Stairs in Philadelphia (done 8/26/2010 with Liz)
73.  Sleep under the stars in Yosemite
74.  Visit the Seattle space needle
75.  Throw/catch a fish at the fish market in Seattle
76.  Find the celebrity with the same size feet/hands at the Chinese Theater in LA and remember who it is (did as a kid, but don't remember who it was) (Completed 12/31/2010)
77.  See the Bellagio water show in Vegas
78.  See a Vegas show
79.  Visit the Jurassic Park set in Hawaii
80.  Visit the Lost set in Hawaii
81.  Surf Hawaii
82.  See the Liberty Bell (done 8/26/2010 with Liz)
83.  Visit Boston (done 8/13-15/2010)
84.  Go to the Salem witch trials area
85.  Climb the Statue of Liberty
86.  Faneuil Hall Marketplace, Boston, MA
87.  Go on a cruise
88.  Learn how to play chess
89.  See the fall colors on the east coast
90.  Go whale watching
91.  See the cherry blossoms in DC
92.  Take a cab in NYC (done 8/7/2010)
93.  Visit Carnegie Hall
94.  See the Rockettes at Radio City Hall
95.  Learn how to Hula in Hawaii at a luau
96.  Pan for gold in Alaska
97.  Go to Niagara Falls
98.  Go to the Kentucky Derby and have a mint julep
99.  See an independent film play at Sundance Film Festival and shake the producer's hand
100.  Go to the Cannes Film Festival
101.  Go on location for the Sound of Music in Austria
102.  Ski the Alps
103.  Visit where Grandma Johnson was born in Sweden
104.  Visit the relatives in Sweden
105.  Go on a safari
106.  See a lion and cheetah in the wild
107.  Swim in the largest swimming pool in the world, off the coast of Chile (it's more than 1,000 yards long, covers 20 acres and has a 115-foot deep end, and holds 66 million gallons on water)
108.  Have an authentic Chinese meal
109.  Have a conversation in Mandarin Chinese
110.  Meet a celebrity and have a conversation.
111.  Ring the bell on the NY Stock Exchange
112.  Stay in a hut above the water in Fiji/Bora Bora
113.  Walk the Aztec Trail
114.  See Machu Picchu in Peru
115.  Visit Bali
116.  Visit Thailand
117.  Visit Prague, Czech Republic
118.  Visit Santorini
119.  Visit Athens
120.  Visit Myokonos
121.  Visit Brazil
122.  Visit Chile
123.  Visit the Galapagos
124.  Visit Dubrovnik, Croatia
125.  See the leaning tower of Pisa
126.  Be a street performer
127.  Visit the colussium in Rome
128.  Eat an authentic Italian meal
129.  Have authentic Italian pizza
130.  Take a gondola ride in Venice
131.  Paint a picture with oil paints in Venice
132.  Adopt a pet
133.  Learn how to say "hello" in 20 languages
134.  Learn how to say "I love you" in 20 languages
135.  Dive in a submarine
136.  Go fire walking
137.  Drive a race car
138.  Climb Mt. Everest Base Camp
139.  Watch a space shuttle blast-off up close
140.  Break a Guinness World Record
141.  Take up photography
142.  Solve the Rubik's cube
143.  Throw a great dinner party
144.  Put something in the world and find it 20 years later
145.  Make a list of 100 books to read
146.  Make a list of 100 movies to watch
147.  Write a travel book
148.  Drive a Lamborghini
149.  Sleep in a castle
150.  See penguins in their natural habitat
151.  Milk a cow
152.  Throw out the first pitch at an MLB game
153.  Go backpacking in a foreign country
154.  Reverse pickpocket someone
155.  Tip someone $100
156.  Write my initials on the bottom of dollar bills and wait to find it again
157.  Make a time capsule and bury it
158.  Go to the airport and buy a same-day plane ticket to a destination that looks interesting.
159.  Build a house on The 40 up north
160.  Practice unconditional love
161.  Learn how to play the bagpipes in Scotland
162.  Go to Prince Edward Island, Canada and see Green Gables....and maybe find a Gilbert ; )
163.  Successfully crack an egg with one hand
164.  Stay in a haunted house/hotel and live to tell about it
165.  Make a film
166.  Celebrate Mardi Gras in Lousiana
167.  Meet enough people to know someone with a birthday every day.
168.  Drink wine directly from the barrel
169.  Create a signature dish
170.  Collect honey from a beehive
171.

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