100 Things to Do Before I Die

Submitted by MarlaSinger on Tue, 03/28/2006 - 05:30
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  1. Drive across America from coast to coast.
  2. Visit 20 US states
  3. Celebrate Christmas and New Years in NYC
  4. Run to the top of the Statue of Liberty
  5. Explore the New York Public Library and the Library of Congress
  6. Visit Washington, D.C (White House, Washington Monument, Vietnam Wall)
  7. Visit New England in autumn, spend some time in Boston
  8. Visit San Francisco (Golden Gate Bridge, Alamo Square, Alcatraz)
  9. Take a swamp tour in the Everglades
  10. See the sunrise from Morro de Corcovado in Rio
  11. Travel to Mexico, party in TJ and celebrate the Day of the Dead
  12. Visit the Rainforest in Chile
  13. Backpack in Ireland
  14. Take a ride on the highest roller coaster in Blackpool Beach, UK
  15. Visit Glasgow and Edinburgh
  16. See the northern lights and visit Scandinavian fjords
  17. Visit Michelangelo's Sixteenth Chapel in Rome
  18. Visit Venice and Florence
  19. Walk to the Mediterranean shore from my parents' house
  20. Backpack in Southeast Asia
  21. Visit LOTR settings in New Zeland
  22. Throw a dart onto a map and travel to where it lands
  23. Visit 25 nations
  24. Visit all seven continents
  25. Have a real fight (Fight Club style)
  26. Climb a mountain
  27. Learn and perfect a martial art
  28. Learn a dance
  29. Fly a kite or skydive
  30. Bungee jump
  31. Learn to sail competantly
  32. Scuba dive off Australia's Great Barrier Reef
  33. Raft Down a River
  34. Swim with sharks
  35. Ride a horse through countrside on my own.
  36. Snowboard.
  37. Run, or Walk, in the New York Marathon
  38. Ride a mechanical bull.
  39. Spend three months getting my body into optimum shape.
  40. Get passionate about a cause and spend time helping it, instead of just thinking about it.
  41. Finnish reading all of the books I own
  42. Read 250 books
  43. Read the major religious texts for various religions
  44. Send a message in a bottle
  45. Write a book
  46. Write a fan letter to my all-time favorite hero or heroine
  47. Write down my personal mission statement, follow it, and revise it from time to time
  48. Write my will
  49. Attend a film festival or award show
  50. Go to a drive-in movie theater
  51. Write and direct a full-length film with complete artistic freedom
  52. See 1,000 full-length films
  53. Write a '100 Best Movies' list that satisfies me
  54. Attend a professional opera (La Traviata)
  55. Attend one really huge rock concert/festival
  56. Learn to play a musical instrument with some degree of skill
  57. See a favorite band/artist in concert
  58. Sing karaoke enthusisastically
  59. Fall deeply in love
  60. Marry
  61. Drive a convertible with the top down and music blaring
  62. Host an outdoor barbeque
  63. Eat everything on BBC's '50 things to eat before you die'
  64. Learn to bartend
  65. See all paintings by Monet and Renoir at Musee d'Orsay, Paris
  66. Sleep under the stars
  67. Spend a night in a haunted house
  68. Go whale watching
  69. Wade in a public fountain
  70. Learn five pratical foreign languages
  71. Learn to relax
  72. Attend a human birth
  73. Be hypnotized
  74. Attend RingCon, StarWars Convention or ComicCon
  75. Be the #1 best in the world at something. Anything.
  76. Take a flight on a jet
  77. Break a major bone
  78. Conquer a powerful addiction
  79. Experience weightlessness
  80. Find a job I love
  81. Get my 15 minutes of fame
  82. Learn how to fire a gun
  83. Get a tattoo
  84. Get a university degree
  85. Give up television and the internet for one month
  86. Have cosmetic surgery
  87. Legally change my name
  88. List and see my personal Seven Wonders of the World
  89. Live in my own apartment with a view
  90. Make a complete and utter fool of myself
  91. Meet an author, actor or singer that I really like
  92. Own one very expensive but absolutely wonderful dress
  93. Photocopy my butt on a photocopier
  94. Raise a child
  95. See a tornado or hurricane and live to tell my grandkids
  96. Start a business
  97. Stay out all night dancing and go to work the next day without having gone home
  98. Watch the launch of the space shuttle
  99. Witness an obvious physical miracle of God
  100. Yell "I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!" in a crowded area
Author Comments: 

My "300 Things to do before I die" cut down to 100 - the essential. Maybe I'll be able to further reduce it. Just to have a better overview and better chances to do all that stuff...