Things to do before I die…
Travel
- Visit all 50 states and their capitals: Alabama (Montgomery), Alaska (Juneau), Arizona (Phoenix), Arkansas (Little Rock), California (Sacramento), Colorado (Denver), Connecticut (Hartford), Delaware (Dover), Florida (Tallahassee), Georgia (Atlanta), Hawaii (Honolulu), Idaho (Boise), Illinois (Springfield), Indiana (Indianapolis), Iowa (Des Moines), Kansas (Topeka), Kentucky (Frankfort), Louisiana (Baton Rouge), Maine (Augusta), Maryland (Annapolis), Massachusetts (Boston), Michigan (Lansing), Minnesota (St. Paul), Mississippi (Jackson), Missouri (Jefferson City), Montana (Helena), Nebraska (Lincoln), Nevada (Carson City), New Hampshire (Concord), New Jersey (Trenton), New Mexico (Santa Fe), New York (Albany), North Carolina (Raleigh), North Dakota (Bismarck), Ohio (Columbus), Oklahoma (Oklahoma City), Oregon (Salem), Pennsylvania (Harrisburg), Rhode Island (Providence), South Carolina (Columbia), South Dakota (Pierre), Tennessee (Nashville), Texas (Austin), Utah (Salt Lake City), Vermont (Montpelier), Virginia (Richmond), Washington (Olympia), West Virginia (Charleston), Wisconsin (Madison), Wyoming (Cheyenne)
- Visit as many countries as possible and their capitals: Albania (Tirane), Algeria (Algiers), Andorra (Andorra la Vella), Angola (Luanda), Antigua and Barbuda (Saint John’s), Argentina (Buenos Aires), Armenia (Yerevan), Australia (Canberra), Austria (Vienna), The Bahamas (Nassau), Barbados (Bridgetown), Belarus (Minsk), Belgium (Brussels), Belize (Belmopan), Benin (Porto-Novo), Bolivia – (La Paz; Sucre), Bosnia and Herzegovina (Sarajevo), Brazil (Brasilia), Bulgaria (Sofia), Canada (Ottawa), Cape Verde (Praia), Chile (Santiago), China (Beijing), Costa Rica (San Jose), Croatia (Zagreb), Cuba (Havana), Czech Republic (Prague), Denmark (Copenhagen), Egypt (Cairo), Fiji (Suva), Finland (Helsinki), France (Paris), Georgia (Tbilisi), Germany (Berlin),
Greece (Athens), Greenland, Grenada (Saint George’s), Hungary (Budapest), Iceland (Reykjavik), Ireland (Dublin), Israel (Jerusalem), Italy (Rome), Jamaica (Kingston), Japan (Tokyo), Java, Jordan (Amman), Kosovo (Pristina), Latvia (Riga), Lebanon (Beirut), Liechtenstein (Vaduz), Lithuania (Vilnius), Luxembourg (Luxembourg), Macedonia (Skopje), Madagascar (Antananarivo), Mali (Bamako), Marshall Islands (Majuro), Mexico (Mexico City), Monaco (Monaco), Mongolia (Ulaanbaatar), Montenegro (Podgorica), Morocco (Rabat), Netherlands (Amsterdam), New Zealand (Wellington), Newfoundland, Norway (Oslo), Panama (Panama City), Paraguay (Asuncion), Peru (Lima), Philippines (Manila), Poland (Warsaw), Portugal (Lisbon), Romania (Bucharest), Russia (Moscow), Saint Lucia (Castries), Serbia (Belgrade), Singapore (Singapore), Slovakia (Bratislava), Slovenia (Ljubljana), Spain (Madrid), Sweden (Stockholm), Switzerland (Bern), Taiwan (Taipei), Ukraine (Kyiv), United Kingdom [England] (London) [Scotland] (Edinburgh) [Wales] (Cardiff), United States of America (Washington, D.C.), Uruguay (Montevideo), Vatican City (Vatican City), Venezuela (Caracas)
- Famous (non-capital) Cities: Las Vegas, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Atlantic City, Baltimore, Cape Town, Chicago, Geneva, Hong Kong, Melbourne, Munich, New York City, Nice, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, St Petersburg, Sydney, Venice, Zurich, Charlotte, Colorado Springs, Boulder, Dallas, Houston, New Orleans, Seattle, St Louis, San Antonio, San Jose, San Diego, Williamsburg, Shanghai, Ann Arbor, Cambridge
- Visit State & National Parks: Yellowstone, Grand Canyon
- Hike the Appalachians
- Hike to top of Arthur’s Seat (Edinburgh) with broken foot
- Go on the Oregon Trail
- See Four Corners
- See Death Valley
- See Sahara Desert
- See the Great Coral Reef
- Take Cruise to: Alaska, Bahamas
- Amusement Parks: Disneyland, Disney World, Legoland, Epcot, MGM Studios, King’s Island, Cedar Point, Kentucky Kingdom
- See the oceans and seas: Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic, Red Sea, Black Sea, Southern, Mediterranean Sea, South China, Bering, Gulf of Mexico, Hudson Bay, North Sea, Baltic, Dead Sea
- See rivers: Nile, Amazon, Yangtze, Mississippi, Yellow, Congo, Niger, Neva
- See lakes: Caspian Sea, Superior, Victoria, Huron, Michigan, Erie, Ontario
- See mountains: Mt Everest, Mt McKinley, Mt Rushmore, Mt Kilimanjaro, Rocky Mountains
Music
- Lessons: piano, guitar, drums, saxophone, violin, recorder, voice, bagpipes, ukulele
- Learn to play well: piano, guitar, drums, saxophone, violin, bagpipes
- Cut a CD
- Get a song of mine on the radio
- Be in a band
- Compose music
- Go to concerts: Pointfest, Mayday, Lollapalooza
- See live: Aerosmith, Three Days Grace, Breaking Benjamin, Seether, Staind, Gin Blossoms
Sport
- Go camping
- Coach a soccer team
- See a Manchester United game live
- See a Cubs game live (at Wrigley Field)
- See a World Cup game live
- See a Stanley Cup game live
- Live games: Indianapolis Colts, Indiana Pacers, Indiana Fever, Indiana Firebirds, IU Basketball, PU Football, Indianapolis Ice, Indianapolis Indians, Los Angeles Dodgers, Chicago Cubs
- Win a chess game
- Ride a horse (bareback) (Western) (English) (barrel racing) (dressage) (jumping)
- Learn to dance: ballroom, salsa, tap, ballet, jazz, hula
- Ride in a speed boat (drive a speed boat)
- Ride in a sail boat
- Kayak
- White water raft
- Waterski
- Parasail
- Surf
- Hang glide
- Ice skate at Rockefeller Center
- Do yoga, pilates
- Do tae kwon do
- Fish off a pier, on a beach, in a fishing boat
Aviation/Space
- Ride in a hot air balloon
- Pilot a plane
- Learn the constellations
- Ride in a helicopter
- Ride in a Cessna
- See a shuttle launch
Home Life
- Collect pins for every country visited: Germany, Scotland, Canada, Austria, Czech Republic, England, Ireland
- Collect old coins
- Collect rocks from cities: Berlin, Vienna, Prague
- Fall in love
- Get married
- Spoil my parents
- Spoil my friends’ children
- Own my own home
- Design & Build my own home
- Have a garden: vegetable, flower
- Sleep under the stars
- Fall asleep on the couch, on the beach, in someone’s arms, on top of Arthur’s Seat
- Build a snowman
- Have a snow ball fight
- Make snow angels
- Build a snow fort
- Build a real fort
- Have a tree house
- Put up seasonal decorations
- Learn to knit, sew, crochet, needle point, cross stitch
- Learn to draw, calligraphy
- Make my own clothes
- Make rope
- Send myself postcards
- Write, Say, Sing the alphabet backwards
- Go to a spa, pedicure, manicure, facial, massage
- Invent something awesome
- Chart my family tree
- Kiss under the mistletoe
- Kiss at midnight on New Year’s
- Win something
Computers
- Learn HTML, Java, C++, C#, C, Python, Ajax, JavaScript, Perl
- Build my own computer
- Take apart a desktop, laptop
- Write a real software program
Academically
- Learn a foreign language: Spanish, Russian, German, Yiddish, Czech, French
- Learn pi to the 100th digit
- Create my own geometry
- Write a book
- Read the dictionary
Other Experiences
- Ride in a gondola
- See an Indian Reservation
- Meet the President of the USA
- Go inside the White House, Congress, Parliament, Kremlin
- See Big Ben
- Climb to the top of the Washington Monument
- Read 1,000,000 books
- Live in a teepee, on a houseboat, in an adobe house, in a log cabin, on a river, on the ocean, on a yacht, on a lake
- Go on a riverboat
- Be a lead in a play, in a musical
Classics
- Read all the classics
- Watch all the classics
- Go to museums
Intense.