2007-08-21T13:56:00.000-07:00

Top 100 things I hope to do or experience before I die. Satisfied with the majority, but aiming for them all. Work in progress.

1		Visit all 7 continents.
2		Swim with a dolphin.
3		Skydive.
4		Have my portrait painted.
5		Watch a launch of the space shuttle.
6		Be an extra in a film.
7		Send a paper plane from the tallest building in the world.
8		Own a horse.
9		Make love on a mountain top.
10		Hold an art exhibition and sell at least 1 item.
11		Buy a round-the-world air ticket and a rucksack, and run away.
12		Grow a beard and keep for 6 months.
13		Be a member of the audience in a TV show.
14		Give a speech in public.
15		Ride a camel in the desert.
16		Plant a tree.
17		Cross Svalbard (Spitsbergen) with a snow scooter.
18		Build a tree house and sleep in it.
19		Understand the Theory of Relativity.
20		Swim with killer whales at Tysfjord.
21		Be the boss.
22		Fly a fighter jet plane.
23		Fall deeply in love - helplessly and unconditionally.
24		Experience someone falling deeply in love with me - helplessly and unconditionally.
25		Ride the Trans-Siberian Express across Asia.
26		Sit on a jury.
27		Take a course and get top grade at the university.
28		Write a book.
29		Experience Mardi Gras.
30		Be a vegetarian for 6 months.
31		Live in another country.
32		Build a scale model of the solar system - minimum 5 km in diameter.
33		Get a boat.
34		Learn 3 magic tricks very well.
35		Live as an artist for 6 months.
36		Ride public transport in the 10 biggest cities in the world.
37		Drink beer at the Oktoberfest in Munich.
38		Be someone’s mentor.
39		Always strive to be good, honest and vigilant.
40		Shower in a waterfall.
41		Learn to play a musical instrument with some degree of skill.
42		Spend a half-day at a concentration camp and swear never to forget.
43		Obtain license to marry and do marriages.
44		Get married myself.
45		Perform funerals.
46		Travel to another continent with only my sister and brother.
47		See a lunar eclipse.
48		Spend New Year’s in an exotic location.
49		Get a quotation in a recognised archive or book.
50		Get passionate about a cause & spend time helping it, instead of just thinking about it.
51		Handle a big snake.
52		Never do street / illegal drugs.
53		Experience weightlessness.
54		Design and build my own dream house.
55		Obtain a patent.
56		Sing a great song in front of an audience.
57		Ask someone I’ve only just met on a date.
58		Drive across America from coast to coast.
59		Make a complete and utter fool of myself.
60		Throw a big party every 10 years (from 40).
61		Write my will.
62		Adopt someone far away and support them where they are until they come of age.
63		Sleep under the stars.
64		Ride the highest roller coaster in the world.
65		Go wild in Rio during Carnival.
66		Spend a whole day reading a great novel.
67		Forgive my parents.
68		Learn to juggle with three balls.
69		Drive the Autobahn.
70		Learn to rollerblade.
71		Stand up to and oppose with success someone/something much bigger and more powerful than myself.
72		Perform street theatre.
73		Surprise myself thoroughly.
74		Make a child fall asleep in my lap.
75		Scuba dive.
76		Donate money and put my name on something: a scholarship, a bench, etc
77		Spend six months getting my body in optimum shape.
78		Accept myself for who I am.
79		Go up in a hot-air balloon.
80		Do a public prank that is mentioned in the media.
81		Attend one really big rock concert.
82		Kiss someone I’ve just met on a blind date.
83		Give to a charity - anonymously.
84		Get an isolated mountain cabin.
85		Visit Easter Island.
86		Be fed peeled, seedless grapes.
87		Write and publish a song.
88		Go deep sea fishing and eat my catch.
89		Get a sauna and an outdoor jacuzzi.
90		Create and update a personal web page.
91		Visit Machu Pichu.
92		Touch a rock from the moon.
93		Spend Xmas helping someone else.
94		Create my own family tree.
95		Play a full golf course.
96		Buy a property in a foreign country.
97		Bartend for a night in a real bar.
98		List 5 people who have been very important to me and let them know.
99		Inspire children in a positive way that they will remember for life.
100		Spend the last time of my life free of sorrow and pain.

Before I die