Thursday, January 19, 2012

Bucket List

This is a list of things we'd like to do with our (our being mostly Megan with some input from Sol) time on earth.  Seems like its going to be hard to limit this list but let's start with no more than 500 things. Many of these are travel related! And in no particular order...

  1. Celebrate Carnival in Rio de Janeiro
  2. Go whitewater rafting
  3. Start our own business or entrepreneurial endeavor
  4. Join the PeaceCorps
  5. Spend a year or more travelling the world
  6. Sleep in a hammock on a beach
  7. Float in the Dead Sea
  8. See the Pyramids
  9. See Machu Pichu
  10. Go to the Galapagos Islands
  11. See the Bolivian salt flats
  12. See Iguazu Falls
  13. See Victoria Falls
  14. Spend time in some off the map village
  15. Visit a Buddhist monastery
  16. Get a job working in the travel industry
  17. Live and work in a foreign country
  18. Take the GRE
  19. Get a graduate degree
  20. Learn a new language
  21. Create a picture wall/ art wall in our home
  22. Decorate a home based on books, art, travel, and environmental sustainability
  23. Adopt a child
  24. Get a tattoo
  25. Learn more about world religions
  26. Read a book about Buddhism
  27. Read a book by/ about the Dalai Lama
  28. Learn to meditate
  29. Create a meditation routine
  30. Be "regulars" at a local bar
  31. Donate $1000 or more to charity
  32. Volunteer for a local NGO/ non-profit
  33. Volunteer for an international NGO/ non-profit
  34. Write a travel guide
  35. Have a well-followed travel blog/website
  36. Start a charity
  37. Go fly fishing (Solomon)
  38. Climb a fourteener
  39. Camp by/ swim in a mountain lake
  40. Swim in a natural hot springs
  41. See the Dalai Lama
  42. Get a hot stone massage
  43. Make a video about our around the world travel
  44. Make a video about our bucket list
  45. Own a home with a library or art studio
  46. Own a home with an inner courtyard
  47. Renew our wedding vows
  48. Go on a "staycation"
  49. Take a road trip
  50. Read every book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  51. Go to Vietnam
  52. Take a pottery throwing class
  53. Own every single Lonely Planet guidebook
  54. Go skiing at Vail
  55. Attend a concert at Red Rock
  56. Celebrate Day of the Dead in Mexico
  57. Stand at the corner of the Four Corners
  58. Visit all 50 states
  59. Go Couchsurfing
  60. Host a Couchsurfer
  61. Buy the World Heritage Sites book
  62. Visit all 851 World Heritage Sites
  63. Visit all places on at least one 7 Wonders of the World list
  64. Go island hopping in the Caribbean or Southeast Asia
  65. Learn to ski
  66. Get scuba certified
  67. Ride on a zip line
  68. Climb a volcano
  69. Go volcano boarding
  70. See some monkeys
  71. Hike through the jungle
  72. Snorkel with stingrays and tropical fish
  73. Visit a white sand beach
  74. Visit a black sand beach
  75. Take a boat down the Amazon River
  76. Explore the Amazon rainforest
  77. Stand on the banks of the Nile
  78. Move to a different state
  79. Go on a safari
  80. Learn to Latin dance
  81. Visit Havana, Cuba
  82. Get TESL/TEFL certified
  83. Have $500,000 in savings
  84. Buy groceries/ day to day supplies in a local shop or outdoor market
  85. Live in an open-air home
  86. Have a home with solar panels
  87. Live in a walking culture
  88. Live in a slower paced, more social culture
  89. Complete Rosetta Stone Spanish
  90. Complete Rosetta Stone Arabic
  91. Have a small, close knit group of friends to share everything with
  92. Furnish a room with floor cushions
  93. Learn to belly dance
  94. Fill an entire sketch book
  95. Make a reading list and finish it
  96. Visit the North Shore in winter
  97. Visit the Shwedagon Pagoda in Myanmar
  98. Climb a 14er
  99. Travel to Buenos Aires
  100. Paint the Granada cathedral

  101. Travel to Turkey
  102. Travel around South East Asia
  103. Travel across North Africa

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