142 Things I Need to do Before I Die

Submitted by jm_kaley on Mon, 10/08/2007 - 07:46
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  1. Drive across America from coast to coast.
  2. Visit 50 US states
  3. Celebrate New Years in NYC
  4. Visit the Statue of Liberty
  5. Go to the Taste of Chicago
  6. Visit New England in autumn
  7. Visit San Francisco (Golden Gate, Alcatraz...)
  8. Visit Venice and Florence
  9. Throw a dart onto a map and travel to where it lands
  10. Visit all seven continents
  11. Climb a mountain
  12. Learn and perfect a martial art
  13. Raft down a river
  14. Snowboard
  15. Ride a mechanical bull
  16. Fly a kite
  17. Skydive or bungee jump
  18. Fly in a hot air balloon over Front Range
  19. Swim with the dolphins
  20. Ride a horse on a white sandy beach
  21. Spend 3 months getting my body into optimum shape
  22. Get passionate about a cause and spend time helping it
  23. Finish reading all the books I own
  24. Write and direct a full-length film with complete artistic freedom
  25. Drive a convertible with the top down and music blaring
  26. Be able to rock climb with confidence
  27. Sing karoke enthusiastically
  28. Get a tattoo
  29. Get a risque piercing
  30. Kiss a beautiful woman
  31. Learn how to fire a gun
  32. Sleep under the stars
  33. Eat everything on BBCs '50 things to eat before you die'
  34. Learn to bartend
  35. Spend a night in a haunted house/hotel/mansion/whatever
  36. Go whale watching
  37. Learn 3 practical foreign languages
  38. Attend a human birth
  39. See a tornado and live to tell my grandkids
  40. See a big bear and live to tell my grandkids
  41. Start a business
  42. Have babies!!
  43. Attend at least 1 major sporting event: SuperBowl, Olympics, World Series game
  44. Throw a huge party and invite every one of my friends
  45. Have my portrait painted
  46. Have professional boudoir photos taken
  47. Be an extra in a film
  48. Give my mom a dozen roses and tell her I love her
  49. Tell my dad that he is my hero and I realize his sacrifices for his family
  50. Give blood
  51. See an active volcano
  52. Create my family tree
  53. Take an Alaskan cruise
  54. Be a contestant on a game show
  55. Learn to downhill ski
  56. Plan a spa weekend with my closest girlfriends and family
  57. Get a crazy expensive lap dance in Vegas
  58. Shower in a waterfall
  59. Get a second Bachelors degree or Masters
  60. Go to Belgium and experience my heritage
  61. Learn to crochet or quilt
  62. Go to Mardi Gras in New Orleans
  63. Drink beer at Oktoberfest in Munich
  64. Learn how to draw/paint/whatever and fill a room with my art
  65. Learn how to ride a motorcycle and go on a road trip with my hubby and my brother
  66. Spend a day photographing the beautiful scenery
  67. See a show on Broadway in NYC
  68. Own a horse
  69. Be able to name every U.S. President and what they can be remembered for or forgotten for
  70. Go wild in Rio during Carnival
  71. Grow a garden
  72. Plan a beautiful ceremony to renew our vows in the mountains
  73. Be a member of a TV show audience (Oprah, Conan...)
  74. Scuba dive off Australia's Great Barrier Reef
  75. Read 250 books
  76. Attend one really huge rock concert/festival
  77. Learn to salsa/tango properly
  78. Plant a tree
  79. Be someone's mentor
  80. Learn to juggle
  81. Make love in a public location
  82. Go to the top of the Eiffel Tower
  83. Attend a film festival or award show
  84. Write a '100 Best Movies/Books/Albums' list that satisfies me
  85. Bowl a perfect game
  86. Find a job I love
  87. Give up television and/or the internet for 1 week
  88. Go skinny dipping in the middle of the day
  89. Learn to play another musical instrument with some degree of skill
  90. Own one very expensive but absolutely gorgeous dress
  91. Learn to ice skate
  92. Own a home with a view
  93. Visit the Senate and the House of Representatives
  94. Stay out all night dancing and then go to work the next day without going home
  95. Learn to cook something amazing
  96. Take pictures of 1000 animals
  97. Visit the pyramids of Egypt
  98. Tell the people in my life what they mean to me
  99. Take a ride in a gondola
  100. Have a bath in something exotic (milk, mud... )
  101. Catch a lightning strike on film
  102. Write a fan letter to the person I most admire
  103. Buy something beautiful for my parents to repay them for the endless years that they supported me
  104. Fly first class
  105. Tour Pearl Harbor
  106. Have my palm read
  107. Learn sign language
  108. Buy a round for everyone in a bar
  109. Adopt an accent for an entire day
  110. Make peace with a friend who went a different way
  111. Be able to locate 10 constellations in the sky
  112. Build a snowman
  113. See the Holocaust Museum in Washington
  114. Stay on a dude ranch for a week
  115. See the ruins of Pompeii
  116. Learn to bellydance
  117. Visit Yellowstone National Park
  118. Visit the Tetons
  119. Celebrate July 4th at Yellowstone
  120. Test drive a high end sports car
  121. Learn to bake a pie like my mother-in-law
  122. Start a no-kill animal shelter
  123. Kiss sweetly in the rain
  124. Make love in the rain
  125. Check out Dinosaur National Monument
  126. Check out Mesa Verde National Park
  127. Go skiing/snowboarding in Vail and/or Breckenridge
  128. Take a professional cooking class
  129. Get arrested and hauled off to jail but quickly released with no charges
  130. Learn one completely obscure language
  131. Throw an extravagent 'half'-birthday party
  132. Bring cookies to my neighbors
  133. Set up a neighborhood party
  134. Go on an organized pub crawl
  135. Go to a rodeo
  136. Watch "The Wizard of Oz" at the same time as listening to Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon"
  137. Play strip poker
  138. Do a sexy strip tease/lap dance
  139. Have breakfast in bed
  140. Have a romantic candlelit dinner at home
  141. Ride in a helicopter
  142. Try caviar