14.8.07

the top 107 things to do before i die

not an exhaustive list by any means:

Travel
1. Visit South America including Inca and Aztec ruins (South America)
2. Drink Saki under Cherry Blossoms in Japan (Japan)
3. Eat a baguette with cheese and wine by the Eiffel Tower (France)
4. Make love in a yert (Mongolia)
5. Get hammered in a Spanish Village (Spain)
6. See the Pyramids (Egypt)
7. Go on a week (minimum) bike tour (TBA)
8. Honour the Anzacs in Turkey (Turkey)
9. Climb to Everest Base Camp (Nepal)
10. Listen to local music and smoke a Cuban in a club in Cuba (Cuba)
11. Soak up art and culture in Italy (Italy)
12. Build a snowman in Canada (Canada)
13. Learn more about Gross National Happiness in Bhutan (Bhutan)
14. Traverse Scandinavia (Fin, Den, Swed, Nor & Iceland)
15. Snowboard in Japan (Japan)
16. See Panda Bears in the wild in China (China)
17. Spend a night on the ocean
18. Ride on the roof of a train
19. Climb Uluru
20. Take a houseboat trip on the Murray
21. Trek through Tasmania
22. Spend a week in a monastery
23. Visit the Blue Mountains
24. Drink Vodka in Russia
25. Travel First Class somewhere
26. Fly in a blimp
27. Take a morning flight in a hot air balloon
28. Fly in a helicopter
29. Stay in a 6 star resort

Health & Fitness
1. Stand up on a surfboard
2. Ride a bike in a pellaton
3. Weigh 68kgs at <12% bodyfat
4. Be comfortable walking around in the nude/in my own skin
5. Experience an all day pampering and not feel guilty
6. Be able to run comfortably for an hour
7. Have an acupuncture session

Extreme
1. Skydive
2. Get a tattoo
3. Go out all night and then go direct to work
4. Go to a forest ‘rave’ party
5. Go upside down in an aeroplane
6. Ride in an Army Tank
7. Camp alone in the wild
8. Get a BS&C Wax
9. Skinny dip in the ocean
10. Learn to ride a motorbike
11. Bungi Jump
12. Try bobsledding

Spirituality
1. Feel accomplished at Yoga
2. Write / publish my views into a book
3. Take part in a sweat lodge
4. Have a personal mission statement - stand by it/revise if necessary

Knowledge
1. Have 1000 books in my collection that I’ve read
2. Speak a foreign language and use it in its country of origin
3. Learn the basics of motor mechanics
4. Know 50 fonts
5. Know and locate all of the countries of the world
6. Build a noteworthy collection

The Environment
1. Plant 10’000 trees
2. Swim with a dolphin
3. Be carbon neutral
4. Hug a tree
5. Go bird watching
6. Take part in a protest

People and Community
1. Write a fan letter
2. Give blood
3. Give a gift to a stranger
4. Give a homeless guy a meal
5. Prepare a three-course dinner for friends
6. Shout a group of friends to dinner and not care about the costs
7. Provide a bed to a stranger
8. Support and work with a foreign agency to build shelter
9. Pay an excessively large tip to someone
10. Join a special interest group
11. Have a family and be a good father
12. Study and use an energetic healing technique on others
13. Start a charitable group with friends
14. Understand my family origins
15. Take part in a progressive dinner
16. Design an elaborate santa hoax for my kids
17. Send a dozen red roses to my beloved

Home
1. Design my own house/buy a house and do it up how I want it

Creativity
1. Host my own exhibition
2. Have design work published in a magazine
3. Write and record my own song
4. Write and direct my own short movie
5. Post up a stencil in a public place
6. Build a small room from stone, wood and mud
7. Throw a pot on a wheel
8. Write a short novel
9. Publish a self-made magazine
10. See a ballet performance
11. See a cirque du soleil act
12. Sing solo in frint of a group of people (karaoke?)
13. Build something beautiful out of wood
14. Build an axe from raw materials
15. Be proficient at a musical instrument
16. Learn to make espresso
17. Have an illustrated character published online/in print
18. Re-learn the piano
19. Bake a cake

Miscellaneous
1. Sit on a jury
2. Keep a pet goldfish
3. Have a party trick

Experiences you don’t ask for but would love to have:
1. Save a life
2. Deliver a baby
3. Have an NDE

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