My "To Do" list
I decided to make a list of things I want to do before I die. Some of them are gleaned from others' lists, and are shown in no particular order.
1. See the Northern Lights
2. Go on an Alaskan Cruise
3. Attend Mardi Gras in New Orleans (this was written before the hurricane)
4. Ride in a hot air balloon
5. Fly a plane and / or helicopter
6. Ride a gondola in Venice
7. See (& walk on) Great Wall of China
8. Swim with a dolphin (may be difficult since I don't swim well)
9. Enable someone else to accomplish a goal from their own list
10. Visit Maine
11. Visit the pyramids in Egypt
12. Visit the Sistine chapel
13. Visit Easter Island
14. Visit Australia and/or New Zealand
15. Visit Hawaii
16. Visit Portugal and/or Spain
17. Tour a (European?) castle
18. Watch a space shuttle launch (in person)
19. Visit Ireland
20. Visit England
21. Visit Scotland
22. Visit France, Paris, and see the Eiffel Tower
23. Leaning Tower of Piza
24. See the Sphinx
25. Learn to speak a foreign language (German? Italian? Spanish?)
26. Learn to play the piano
27. Visit all 50 States
Here's a list of things I have done, that would be on my list:
Visit the Grand Canyon
See Mount Rushmore
Visit Niagra Falls
See Devil's Tower
Visit Yellowstone Park
See Mount St. Helens
See Old Faithful
Visit World Trade Center site
See the Statue of Liberty
See the Washington Monument (8th grade trip to DC)
Go whale watching (done 6/11/05) (Boston trip)
Ride in a helicopter (done 7/13/05) (Fort Wayne's Three Rivers Festival)
States we've been to together:
1 Indiana
2 New York
3 New Jersey (just drove through it, but that seemed to be enough)
4 Massachusetts
5 Rhode Island
6 Illinois
7 Wisconsin
8 Minnesota
9 Michigan
10 Alaska (well not yet, but that's the plan for this summer)
States I've visited:
1 Indiana
2 New York
3 New Jersey
4 Massachusetts
5 Rhode Island
6 Illinois
7 Wisconsin
8 Minnesota
9 Michigan
10 Florida
11 South Dakota (Mount Rushmore)
12 Wyoming (Yellowstone, Old Faithful, Devil's Tower)
13 Montana
14 Idaho
15 Oregon
16 Washington (Mount St. Helens)
17 California
18 Nevada
19 Arizona (Grand Canyon)
20 Utah
21 Colorado
22 Georgia
23 Tennesee
24 Kentucky
25 Ohio
26 Pennsylvania
27 Iowa
Countries I've visited:
Canada
Mexico
Germany
It's good to have goals...something to strive for. This isn't a complete list, of course.
-- C.
1. See the Northern Lights
2. Go on an Alaskan Cruise
3. Attend Mardi Gras in New Orleans (this was written before the hurricane)
4. Ride in a hot air balloon
5. Fly a plane and / or helicopter
6. Ride a gondola in Venice
7. See (& walk on) Great Wall of China
8. Swim with a dolphin (may be difficult since I don't swim well)
9. Enable someone else to accomplish a goal from their own list
10. Visit Maine
11. Visit the pyramids in Egypt
12. Visit the Sistine chapel
13. Visit Easter Island
14. Visit Australia and/or New Zealand
15. Visit Hawaii
16. Visit Portugal and/or Spain
17. Tour a (European?) castle
18. Watch a space shuttle launch (in person)
19. Visit Ireland
20. Visit England
21. Visit Scotland
22. Visit France, Paris, and see the Eiffel Tower
23. Leaning Tower of Piza
24. See the Sphinx
25. Learn to speak a foreign language (German? Italian? Spanish?)
26. Learn to play the piano
27. Visit all 50 States
Here's a list of things I have done, that would be on my list:
Visit the Grand Canyon
See Mount Rushmore
Visit Niagra Falls
See Devil's Tower
Visit Yellowstone Park
See Mount St. Helens
See Old Faithful
Visit World Trade Center site
See the Statue of Liberty
See the Washington Monument (8th grade trip to DC)
Go whale watching (done 6/11/05) (Boston trip)
Ride in a helicopter (done 7/13/05) (Fort Wayne's Three Rivers Festival)
States we've been to together:
1 Indiana
2 New York
3 New Jersey (just drove through it, but that seemed to be enough)
4 Massachusetts
5 Rhode Island
6 Illinois
7 Wisconsin
8 Minnesota
9 Michigan
10 Alaska (well not yet, but that's the plan for this summer)
States I've visited:
1 Indiana
2 New York
3 New Jersey
4 Massachusetts
5 Rhode Island
6 Illinois
7 Wisconsin
8 Minnesota
9 Michigan
10 Florida
11 South Dakota (Mount Rushmore)
12 Wyoming (Yellowstone, Old Faithful, Devil's Tower)
13 Montana
14 Idaho
15 Oregon
16 Washington (Mount St. Helens)
17 California
18 Nevada
19 Arizona (Grand Canyon)
20 Utah
21 Colorado
22 Georgia
23 Tennesee
24 Kentucky
25 Ohio
26 Pennsylvania
27 Iowa
Countries I've visited:
Canada
Mexico
Germany
It's good to have goals...something to strive for. This isn't a complete list, of course.
-- C.
posted by Cerpicio at 8:42 AM
2 Comments:
It's good to have goals...something to strive for. This isn't a complete list, of course.
What if … you were on an Alaska cruise and you had to take off in a plane for safety, when, not used to flying you climbed too high and the engines stalled. You were able to keep the craft alift – enough to fly over Canada and the arctic circle. The winds there were so strong that it blew you toward the Atlantic. You started to accelerate and then lost some altitude. You were able to restart the engines in time to control your flight again and were able to roughly land in a field in Ireland. You (you and wife) then wandered a while in Ireland, but with no money. You caught a boat trip to Great Britain where you were able to find a cash machine.
From there you did some traveling, forgetting that you had jobs and after some time booked a flight to Scotland, which isn’t too far away. You had a nice time there, in the cold, but then caught a flight back to the states. Again, there were problems on the flight and you both fought terrorists and safely landed the plane – now old hat, at Virginia – a state you didn’t list on visited states.
You are welcomed as heroes (hero and heroine) and are besieged by reporters wanting photos and statements. After a few talk shows, for which you’re thankfully paid – not having worked in months now. From there you visit many places on your list, but alas you are marooned on treeless Easter Island, having only the strange heads as company other than yourselves.
You’re in luck. After a month, you’re rescued, having eaten only grass and insects – real meals are welcome. You are recognized as the famous couple and are again whisked away by the media for more interviews. In Italy you engineer a way to stop the leaning tower from leaning and, with 2 months of work, it is now the “Historic, Formerly-leaning, Tower of Pisa”. Your notoriety prevents you from safely entering Egypt, but you pattern your work after The Mummy and Indiana Jones and find a yet-older castle of greater value in Spain … well buried by generations of builders.
You never get to personally watch a shuttle launch because you are, now 50s, astronauts-extraordinaire and find, believe it or not, remarkable rocks on Luna (the moon). You look back at all the things that you want to see and find that your lives’ adventures well surprised your simple dreams of where you wanted to go.
Then, I shut up.
I should have used, Paula, instead of wife here. I thought that you had kept her actual name from your blog.
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