My Life List

Rules of the list:

  1. Things only go on the list if I actually WANT to do them (no feeling obligated)
  2. Feel free to change the list on a whim
  3. Have fun!!

My Life List:

  1. Run a marathon (May 25, 2009)
  2. Go kayaking (June 29, 2011)
  3. Go white water rafting
  4. Go zip lining (June 11, 2011)
  5. Go hang gliding
  6. Go rock climbing (May 8, 2010)
  7. Go skinny dipping
  8. Do a mud run (April 10, 2011)
  9. Take a hot air balloon ride
  10. Soak in a hot tub in the snow
  11. Learn to sail
  12. Learn to scuba dive
  13. Swim with dolphins in the wild
  14. Learn to snowboard
  15. Sleep under the stars
  16. Go mountain biking in Bolivia down “the world’s most dangerous road“
  17. Complete an iron woman triathlon
  18. Complete a bicycle century
  19. Learn to do the splits
  20. Climb Mt. Rainier
  21. Climb Mt. Kilimanjaro
  22. Climb every peak in the 52 Peak Club
  23. Have beautiful pictures taken on a beach in Hawaii
  24. Get boudoir pictures taken (December 4, 2009)
  25. Buy and learn to use a digital SLR camera
  26. Take a photography class (Took an intro workshop December 2009)
  27. See Bon Jovi in concert (February 27, 2010)
  28. Learn French
  29. Learn Spanish
  30. Take a drawing class (Spring 2009)
  31. Take a painting class
  32. Get body painted
  33. Take a ballet class
  34. Take ballroom dance lessons
  35. Learn to pole dance (Started November 2009, 2)
  36. Take Latin dance lessons
  37. Take a cooking class
  38. Host a dinner party
  39. Vacation on every continent at least once (Done: Asia, Europe, North America)
  40. Visit every state in the U.S.
  41. Take a U.S. road trip
  42. Live in another country
  43. Take a solo trip to another country (June 18 – August 8, 2011, Southeast Asia)
  44. Hike to Havasu Falls
  45. Go camping with my own camping gear
  46. Backpack through Europe
  47. Celebrate Christmas in Hawaii
  48. Go camping in Maui
  49. Hike the Na Pali Coast in Kauai
  50. Dive the Great Barrier Reef
  51. Go to French Polynesia
  52. Go on a bicycle tour in Italy
  53. Rent a summer house in the countryside somewhere in Europe
  54. See Machu Picchu
  55. See the pyramids of Egypt
  56. Take an adventure tour into the Amazon Rainforest
  57. Spend a summer volunteering in Africa
  58. Visit Southeast Asia (June 18 – August 8, 2011)
  59. Take a women’s tour to Morocco
  60. Tour Petra, Jordan
  61. Go on a world cruise
  62. Sail around the Caribbean for six months (or so)
  63. Attend a 10-day meditation retreat at a Vipassana Center
  64. Take a yearly volunteer vacation
  65. Publish a novel
  66. Volunteer at Planned Parenthood
  67. Start a nonprofit organization that focuses on women’s issues
  68. Earn a doctorate
  69. Meet Hillary Rodham Clinton
  70. Convince one republican to vote for Barack Obama (November 2009)
  71. Get a dog
  72. Have a baby (or adopt)
  73. Get portraits taken at a new place every year
  74. Grow a window herb garden
  75. Get a new cell phone
  76. Decorate my whole home exactly as I want
  77. Have a designer made closet
  78. Live close enough to walk to work
  79. Own a home
  80. Redesign the In Search of Squid website (February 2010)
  81. Write my memoirs (after all this, I figure I’ll have a lot to write about!)