november 2015: i came across this post while in the process of modifying others, and i decided that it would be a fun project to continually add to it as the years go on, to see what’s changed and what i accomplished in each year. i’m adding a lot of “already-dones” this year, mainly because i know that once upon a time, my child self wanted to climb to the top of the eiffel tower or snorkel in a coral reef. 2015 additions are in dark red, while things i’ve accomplished are – obviously? – marked off. i also started adding dates to each completed item. read on…
september 2014: somewhere, once upon a time, i wrote a post about things i wanted to do before i was thirty. unfortunately, i think that list was written during my freshman year of college, on a xanga blog that i kept. during my sophomore year, i ditched xanga, having decided i was too cool or something, and that post has gone the way of cyber-space trash… which is to say, into nothingness, or into something.
so i thought – after the things i managed to tick off this month – to rewrite my bucket list. i’m sure it’s changed since ten years ago (yes, ten years. i’ve come to terms with it) but some things are still the same. some are stupid, trivial. others are big, crazy things. some have to do with travel. some have to do with life. with love. friends. family.
travel the world – set foot on every continent, including antarctica
backpack through new zealand 2014, 2015, 2016
visit the congo
visit kenya
drive the coast of south africa
live in a foreign country 2007-2008, 2015-2016
spend christmas on a beach 2013
travel the silk road
do the mongol rally run a marathon < with my bad knees, not ever happening. but i counted it because in 2014, i walked 25 miles through the highlands.
hike the pct
hike the west highland waysee a shooting star 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015
see stonehengesee skara brae 2014
scuba dive skydive 2014paraglide 2014hike a mountain 2014get a masters degree 2009
read the classics
read all of shakespeare
write my own book AND publish it
fall head over heels in love, irrevocably in love
get married
have kids
have a “notebook” inspired kiss in the rain
own my own business
learn to make macarons
learn to play the guitar, at least one song
learn italian fluently
spend a week on a sailboat
design my own house
renovate an old house, and live in it
live in new york city, if only for a year
work on a vineyard
be able to converse in spanish, turkish and german
hike the great wall of china
walk among the great pyramids
visit machu picchuclimb to the top of the eiffel tower 2005walk through the acropolis 2005, 2008
visit the tower of londonclimb the doumo in florencevisit the vaticansee the sistine chapel take my picture with the david in florence
snorkel at the great barrier reef
pet a koala bear
hold a baby panda
spend a day with an elephant
do yoga in india
swim with whales
dive with sharks
see a kangaroo in the wild
dance in the moonlight
rekindle old friendshipshave a pen pal < friends that live around the world are the best!
live long enough to see my children get married
know my grandchildren
be able to tell my grandchildren stories of my life
grow old with the person that i love
countries that are on my “must-see” listitalyfrancespaingermanyiceland
greenland new zealandaustralia
china
japan
egypt
south africa
argentina
brazil
peru
antarctica
belize
the congo
madagascar
indonesia
thailand
norway
sweden
russia
kenya
uganda
fiji
palau
mongolia