Life List

I first compiled my list in 2003 when I graduated high school. It's gone through some minor edits as I've matured, but the list has for the most part stayed the same.




1. Visit every continent

Asia

Africa

North America
South America

Antarctica

Europe

Australia


2. Become a white water raft guide


3. Become conversational in another language


4. Camp for 2 weeks (Canada, Wisconsin, Ohio)



5. Watch 52 movies in one year

6. Sleep in an airport (Italy, Switzerland)


7. Sky dive


8. Visit Yosemite National Park


9.  Live in Poland for a year


10. Own a house


11. Attend graduate school


12. Get out of debt/pay off my college loans


13. Be involved in a political campaign


14. Be a camp counselor for kids/teens


15. Send someone flowers


16. Get a taste of buffalo, ostrich, snail, frog and snake.


 17. Attend a major religious service for at least four different religions.
     
      Catholicism (First Communion, Christmas Mass)

      Judaism (Bar and Bat Mitzvahs)


18. Milk a cow.


19.  Live abroad (Poland, England, Italy) 


20. Swim with dolphins. (Puerta Vallarta, Mexico)


21.  Pick up trash on a hiking trail/river


22. Explore a jungle.


23. Decorate my future home with my own photography and art


24. Ride an elephant


25. Swim in the world’s oceans and bodies of water

      Pacific Ocean
      Atlantic Ocean
      Gulf of Mexico
      Aegean Sea


26. Write a song (musically and lyrically)


27. Go backpacking for at least one month


28. Ride a camel in Egypt


29. Drive across America


30. Perform at a coffee shop playing guitar and singing


31. Create/publish/produce/design a magazine from the ground up (altSCV, published Feb. 6, 2011)


32. Take recreational culinary classes


33. Get naked on a nude beach


34. Read 50 books in one year


35. Visit Machu Picchu


36. Drive through a tollbooth/coffee drive-through and pay for myself and the car behind me


37. Walk on a glacier


38. Visit the Great Wall of China


39. Be a public speaker to girls in middle school, high school, and/or college


40. Refuse to shave my legs/armpits for a year


41. Buy something for each of my parents that they couldn’t afford on their own


42. Leave a ridiculously big tip for a breakfast waitress


43. Grow a vegetable/fruit garden


44. Stay in an Ice Hotel


45. Learn to play the harmonica


46. Have a real picnic


47. Have sex in all 50 states (3/50)


48. Own a pet monkey


49. Attend a school reunion


50. Rescue dogs from shelters


51. Visit the graves of Chopin, Marylin Monroe, Jim Morrison, Pope John Paul II, Oscar Wilde, Freddie Mercury, John Lennon, John F. and Bobby Kennedy


52. Become a hiking leader/guide


53. Re-read the books I read in high school


54. Buy a Harley Davison when I reach my mid-life-crisis


55. Rock some dreadlocks


56. Tour the White House


57. Paint


58. Take dance lessons


59. See the Aurora Borealis


60. Go wine tasting in California, Italy, and France


61. Visit Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe


62. See Abbey Road/The Beatles’ recording studio in London


63. Complete a thru-hike through the Sierra Nevadas (John Muir Trail)


64. Plant trees


65. Travel alone


66. Give twenty “just because” gifts


67. Be a published author (The Signal, How.com, SCV Business Journal)


68. Drive an electric/non gas consuming car


69. Ride my bike from San Francisco to Los Angeles


70. Write, publish, and sell at least one book


71. Run a 5K


72. Run a half-marathon


73. Run a full marathon


74. Earn a reward for writing


75. Have sex on a train


76. Visit the Galapagos Islands


77. Snowboard around the world (Mammoth, CA, Big Bear, CA, Mt. High, CA)


78. Be featured as an artist in a magazine


79. Hitchhike


80. Get a full-sleeve tattoo


81. Be able to complete five pull-ups


82. Go camping alone (Balch Park, CA)
 

83. Ride a zip line (Mazatlan, Mexico)


84. Go to the Olympics


85. Stay out all night dancing


86. Go on safari in Africa


85. Attend festivals around the world
    Oktoberfest, Germany
    Bay to Breakers, San Francisco (2009)

    Burning Man, Desert
    Tomatina


88. Go snorkeling in the Great Barrier Reef


89. Attend music festivals around the world
    Coachella
   
Ozzfest
   
Warped Tour



90. Volunteer for 100 hours


91. Hike a volcano (Santorini, Greece)


92. Get a Ph.D


93. Be a resident adviser my last year of college (Lorien, UCI)


94. Fly a kite


95. Join the Peace Corps


96. Fall in love


97. Get married in the mountains.


98. Have children


99. Learn how to change a tire


100. Show up at the airport with my bag and passport and take the first available flight