The Adventure List
Version 4.0
Updated 2/2007
This is my list of things I want to see, do, and experience in my lifetime. Hopefully it will inspire you to start a list of your own. If you do have a list, I'd love if you would send it to me. I got the inspiration for many of these from a wonderful little book called "The Wish List", which has about eight billion ideas. Its a great resource if you need some inspiration. I finally rewrote the list to give it a little more organization, and add in some stuff I left out the first time around. Next to some of the items, you will see a (*), which you can click to go to a page of background info or work in progress for that adventure.
The List:
Have some of my photos published
Visit Elephant Nature Park in Thailand
Own a car that is totally paid off
Design and sew a dance costume
See the Northern Lights
Buy a carpet in Morocco
See the whirling dervishes in Istanbul
Do a solo dance performance
Study Greek mythology, and actually remember it this time
See the sun set in Key West
Drive in a country that drives on the "wrong" side of the road
See the original Starry Night
Do the 7 hour Backstage Magic tour at WDW
Watch all 3 LOTR movies in one day.
See a show on Broadway
Develop photos in a darkroom
Try skiing
Be in another play
Ride in a hot air balloon- preferably at sunrise or sunset
See Hemmingway's six-toed cats
Be able to do the splits (almost there!)
Visit a lighthouse
Take photos every day for a year
Take a photography class
Be on a game show
Adopt a pet from a shelter
Drive a stick shift car
Actually understand how my car works
Dance in the rain
Take a swing dancing class
Learn to throw a boomerang
Try archery
Fly in a helicopter
Visit the Vatican and see the ceiling in the Sistine Chapel
Take a ballroom dancing class
Earn a belt in a martial art
Visit a cloud forest
Ride an ostrich
Ride in a glass-bottom boat
Ride in a submarine
Go on an Alaskan cruise
Swim with dolphins
Recieve a really good love letter
Go to India
Experience Zero Gravity
Volunteer at a theraputic riding center
Skydive
Spend an entire winter somewhere warm
Fly a plane
Fly first class
Try Flamenco dancing
Go on a road trip, visiting bizarre roadside attractions and eating diner food
Win big on a slot machine ($500+)
Travel to Stratford Upon Avon in honor of Shakespeare
Spend a night in a castle
Learn to juggle
Dip my toes in both the Nile and the Amazon
Be on a TV show or in a movie, even just as an extra
Learn to play chess (again)
Take a bellydance class or workshop from Rachel Brice
Take dance workshops from 10 different teachers (So far: 2)
Design, build, and decorate my dream home (I'll eventually post a link to my list of ideas here)
Bake scones
Have a book published
Make a real gingerbread house
Write a sonnet
Ice skate
Eat fruit from my own trees
Ride 100 Rollercoasters (So far: 9)
Take a bartending class
Go Skinny Dipping
Visit St. Mark's Square
Shop at 826 Valencia in SF
Speak French fluently
Speak Italian well
Speak Japanese well
Speak Swahili decently
Speak Arabic well
Study African dance
Live in another country for at least two months
Put together a cookbook of favorite recipes from myself and friends. (Please start sending me some, y'all! Handwritten and decorated by you are the best. I dont care if I dont know you.)
Stay in a five star hotel
Visit both sides of Niagara Falls
See gorillas in the wild
Visit the Galapagos to see the tortoises and other amazing wildlife
Visit all 50 states (Still to go: )
Visit the Grand Canyon and photograph it as the light changes throughout the day
See Old Faithful errupt
Visit Disneyland & Disney's California Adventure
Gamble in Vegas
Stay in the hotel that Hotel California was written about (forgot the name of it)
Be welcomed with a lei as I arrive in Hawaii
Eat pizza and cheesecake in New York
See Shakespeare in the Park in NYC
Ride a cable car in San Francisco
Hike part of the Apalachain trail.
Take hula lessons in Hawaii
Tour the White House
See Ellis Island
Go to the top of the Statue of Liberty
Visit the Smithsonian museums
Ride a burro in the Grand Canyon
Visit the National Archives to see the actual Declaration of Independence and Constitution
Ride the Staten Island Ferry
Walk across the Golden Gate Bridge
Buy an Aloha shirt in Hawaii
Go on a LOTR tour in New Zealand
See a kiwi and a weta in New Zealand
Visit Kaitoke Regional Park in New Zealand (the setting of Rivendell for LOTR)
Swim or snorkel in the Great Barrier Reef
Visit Australia Zoo
See a Tasmanian Devil
See the Sydney Opera House
See the glowworms in Waitomo Caves in NZ
Go to the top of the Eiffel Tower
Spend an afternoon people watching from a sidewalk café in Paris
Visit Disneyland Paris
Visit Montmartre
Visit Pere Lachaise cemetery (list of graves to look for coming soon)
Stay in a luxurious hotel on the French Riviera
Buy a baguette in a boulangerie in France
Take the Chunnel between London and Paris
Hear the bells of Notre Dame
Walk down Abbey Rd. in London in homage to the Beatles
Visit the British Museum
Visit Windsor Castle
Shop at Harrods in London
Tour the Tower of London
See one of Shakespeare's plays at the Globe Theater
Visit Madame Tussauds
Visit Stonehenge
Lean on the wall between platforms 9 and 10 in Kings Cross Station in London. Hope I fall through.
See the Stone of Destiny, where Scottish kings are crowned in, em, Scotland
Go on a Monty Python tour of Scotland, including Boone Castle where they did most of the filming, trying to find the cave, and perhaps even Castle Aarrrrrrrrgh!
Look in the Loch Ness for Nessie
Shop Portabello Market
Stay in a chalet in the Swiss Alps
Eat Swiss chocolate and cheese in Switzerland
Visit Tuscany
See Michaelangelo's David
Run with the bulls in Spain-I dont mind if I dont go the whole distance, and perhaps even chicken out after five feet.
Visit the Spanish Riding School in Austria to see the Lipizanner Stallions perform.
See Neuschweinstein in Germany (The castle Walt modeled Cinderella's castle after)
Visit the Acropolis in Greece
Visit the Louvre and see the Mona Lisa
Ride on a double-decker bus in London
Celebrate St. Patrick's Day in Dublin
Eat pizza in Naples, Italy
Visit the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam
Visit Anne Frank's house
Ride in a gondola in Venice
Visit Tokyo Disneyland
Visit Tokyo Disney Sea
See the terra cotta soldiers in Xian
Walk atop the Great Wall of China
Visit a rainforest
Go on a photo safari in Tanzania- preferably to Ngorogoro Crater
See the Pyramids and Sphinx
See the Taj Mahal
Stand on the Equator
Sail through the Panama Canal
Explore Angkor Wat
Explore Machu Picchu
Hold a snake
Hold a koala
Pet a giraffe
Ride a Clydesdale
See an equestrian event at the Olympics in person, preferably show jumping
Drive a team of horses
Ride a 5-gaited Saddlebred in all five gaits
Ride a Tennessee Walking Horse and experience it's unique gaits
Ride on a cattle drive
Own another horse
Rope a calf from horseback
Go horseback riding in: Hawaii, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, England
Become really comfortable riding bareback
Ride sidesaddle
Assist in (or be present for) the birth of a foal
Do the Sunrise Safari at Animal Kingdom
Ride up front with the driver on the monorail
Work at Disney world temporarily, preferably at the Haunted Mansion
Stay in a suite at a Disney resort
Do a 7 night (or longer) cruise
Get a cabana massage on Disney's Castaway Cay
Accomplished Adventures:
Learn to knit (again) (Completed Feb 2005)
Eat vegetables from my own garden (Completed June 2005)
Have my palm read (completed June 2004)
Go to a Renaissance faire (completed April 12, 2003)
Make my own soap (completed Feb. 01, 2005)
Get a henna tattoo (Completed November 2002)
Visit the Bahamas (completed May 2000)
Ride a Thoroughbred (done Feb. 01)
Spend a day (or more!) on a beach with a bag full of books and nothing to do but relax (Completed July 2006)
Volunteer at an animal shelter
Feed a stingray
Try acupuncture- Completed! (Many times now!) - March 2007
Links
My lovely friends have already started posting similar lists, so I insist you go read theirs, too!
Julie's List Katie's List Kelly's List Brooke's List