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Thursday, March 13, 2008

Things I'm going do do before I die (Wanna join and/or help me?)

In no particular order, Here is a (growing list of things i'd like to do do before i die). Its subject to (and will) grow over time but it will not shrink:



Silly String wars at Nice's Carneval



In no particular order, Here is a (growing list of things i'd like to do do before i die). Its subject to (and will) grow over time but it will not shrink:

  • Go Skydiving, Parasailing, Bungee Jumping, Hot Air Ballooning
  • Go Scuba Diving in Turkey
  • Go to a Cocktail Party where people are wearing tuxedo's and evening attire
  • Sail down the Nile River and sleep on the banks
  • Go underwater in a submarine
  • Get my Pilot's license and fly across the country
  • Ride in a helicopter
  • Buy/fix up and outfit a Landrover Defender 110 and go on a a long safari across a country (a la Camel Trophy) with my father and brother
  • Speak Fluently:
    • Arabic, Swahili, Urdu, Chinese, Hindi, Spanish, and French
  • Dive in the Great Barrier Reef
  • Drive a motorcycle across Australia
  • Work for/with an NGO in a Palestine/Afghani refugee camp
  • Work with an NGO towards ending international Houselessness
  • Work with Teach for America, Habitat for Humanity, or Americorp to teach in an underprivileged community in the U.S.
  • Buy D-SLR and become a travel photographer
  • Learn how to Sail and sail between countries
  • Play chess often, have a chess set on my coffee table
  • Build my own house at some point. It must be zero-waste
  • Live in France
  • Rock Climb regularly
  • Travel to both poles
  • Learn how to completely repair an old Landrover
  • Learn how to drive stick
  • Become a travel writer for a travel book
  • Learn Sitar, Tabla, and acoustic guitar
  • Work with an NGO in India (preferably in Kutch)
  • See all the Old and New Wonders of the World
  • Run for a public office (preferably in publicad
  • Work for/with U.N.
  • Spend multiple nights in a large yacht
  • Learn how to knit
  • Achieve the highest dive certification i can
  • Get a tattoo
  • Learn how to shave with a straight blade
  • Be a teacher
  • Work in/own a coffeeshop with a live jazz band, open mic night, and community library
  • Run multiple marathons
  • Swim with sharks...
    • Dont get eaten during said dive
  • Bike from Vancouver to South America along the coast
    • do same trip on motorcycle?
  • See the Olympics

Being Silly in Paris
  • WWOOF (Willing Workers on Organic Farms) in South America and India
  • Live in India, Berlin, Amsterdam, San Francisco, the East Coast
  • Learn how to develop my own photos
  • Become a journalist (international)
  • Get Published
  • Write a book of some sort
  • Get into a fist fight for a good reason.
    • figure out what a good reason to get into a fist fight is
  • Visit every state in the U.S.
  • Ride the rails in the U.S.
  • Hitchhike across a state or two
  • Go to an Ice bar or Ice Hotel
  • Learn how to Bartend
  • Have a library room in my house with a ladder on wheels, big leather chairs & sofas, fumidor for cigars, brandy shelf and wine rack
  • Collect and be educated on wine
    • have wine cave
  • Grow old with life long friends
  • Be an old and Stylish!
  • Have children (either by the old fashion way or adoption)
    • adopt a child
  • Have my parents live with/near me. Take care of them
    • buy/build my parents a house- make sure they are always comfortable
  • Be at least Half the father to my children that my father is to me
  • Live near/with Assad. Roomates!!!
  • Be a vegetarian for at least a year
  • Be an amazing cook! (with my own cookbook)
  • Own a nice watch, pass it on to my children
  • Read and Finish all Abrahamic religious texts. (Qur'an, Bible, Torah)
    • Pray 5 times a day
  • Go to Chiappas, learn from/live/create change/knowledge share with the Zapatistas
  • Write the "Social Justice Cookbook"
  • Do interfaith organizing
  • Have a bespoke suit/shoes
  • See Iguazu Falls
    • camping/backpacking trip
  • Invest in Stock Market
  • Go spelunking
  • Scuba in Belize
  • Drive on the Autobahn
  • Watch an opera in Italy
  • Ride the Orient Express
  • Visit an uninhabited island
  • Swim in all 5 oceans
  • Take parents on Vacation
  • Ride "Crime and Punishment" and finish it!
  • Go festival hoping in Mongolia and Tibet
  • Summit mountain in Himalayas
  • Celibrate Mardi Gras in New Orleans
  • Carneval in Brazil!
  • Run Bay to Breakers with friends and family :)
  • Achieve everything on this list

2 comments:

Garance said...

I'm so down with your list... I love it. It has inspired me to start mine again...

Sara G. said...

Your list is amazing, it's encouraged me to start my own :)