One (Hundred) More Thing(s)

New Year’s is a time to look back at the past year and look ahead to the year ahead. But see­ing as this Decem­ber was so momen­tous for me, I decided to look ahead not only to this year, but to my whole life. Like I said in a pre­vi­ous post, I wanted to make a list of 100 life goals. How­ever, as I was mak­ing my list, I real­ized that a big part of what I wanted to do was to travel. In fact, more than fifty of my goals were places to visit. So I split the list in two and made a “100 Places To Visit” list and a “100 Things To Do” list -

Places

1. Great Pyra­mid of Giza (only Won­der of Ancient World left)
2. Stone­henge
3. Colos­seum
4. Cat­a­combs of Kom el Shoqafa
5. Great Wall of China
6. Porce­lain Tower of Nanjing
7. Hagia Sophia
8. Lean­ing Tower of Pisa
9. Taj Mahal
10. Cairo Citadel
11. Ely Cathe­dral
12. Cluny Abbey
13. Chun­nel
14. Empire State Building
15. Itaipu Dam
16. Delta Works
17. Panama Canal
18. Machu Pic­chu
19. Bali
20. New Zealand
21. Angkor Wat
22. For­bid­den City
23. Bagan Tem­ples
24. Kar­nak Temple
25. Teoti­hua­can
26. Sere­genti
27. Gala­pa­gos Islands
28. Iguazu Falls
29. Ama­zon Rainforest
30. Ngoron­goro Crater
31. Great Bar­rier Reef
32. Vic­to­ria Falls
33. Bora Bora
34. Cap­pado­cia
35. Mount Ever­est
36. Aurora Bore­alis
37. Aurora Aus­tralis
38. Lake Baikal
39. Chicken Itza
40. Syd­ney Opera House
41. Antarc­tica Dry Valleys
42. Jerusalem
43. Tibet
44. Mau­soleum of the First Qin Emperor
45. Hoan Kiem
46. Maha­bodhi
47. Masjid Al-​Haram
48. Spi­ral Minaret
49. Parthenon
50. Sis­tine Chapel
51. Statue of Liberty
52. United Nations
53. Bar­ringer Meteor Crater
54. Mat­ter­horn
55. Ayers Rock
56. Kil­i­man­jaro
57. All 50 states
58. All National Parks
59. Rio for Carnivale
60. Munich for Oktoberfest
61. Blar­ney Stone
62. Run­ning of the bulls
63. Swim all oceans
64. Vieques, Peurto Rico (Biol­umes­cent Bay)
65. Car­ni­vale in Venice
66. Ice­land
67. North Pole
68. South Pole
69. Mardi Gras in New Orleans
70. Alta Igloo Hotel
71. Kola Superdeep Bore­hole (Well of Hell)
72. Her­i­tance Kan­dalama Hotel, Dambulla, Sri Lanka
73. Dhoni Mighili, The Maldives
74. Green Magic Nature Resort, Ker­ala, India
75. Mirador Hotel, Cop­per Canyon, Mexico
76. Easter Island
77. Walde­mar Jul­sred Museum
78. Cuil­cuilco
79. White Pyra­mid of China
80. New­port Tower, Rhode Island
81. Ring­ing Rocks Park, Pennsylvania
82. Big­foot Cave, California
83. Krem­lin
84. Hampi
85. Tas­sili n’Ajjer
86. Ilulis­sat Icefjord
87. Hue Tem­ples
88. Nin­tendo HQ
89. Bora­cay Island
90. Pearl har­bor
91. Dubai
92. Istan­bul
93. Tim­buktu
94. Cas­bah (Algiers)
95. Hanoi Tem­ple of Literature
96. War Rem­nants Museum – Saigon
97. Da Nang
98. Nha Trang
99. Phu Quoc Island
100. Ba Den Mountain

Things

1. Start a suc­cess­ful business
2. Start a suc­cess­ful and help­ful non-​profit
3. Remove all debt
4. Save one mil­lion dollars
5. Give one mil­lion dol­lars to charity
6. Skydive solo
7. Save a life
8. Com­fort the dying
9. Front page of Digg
10. Book pub­lished
11. Game pub­lished
12. Build a clock
13. New York Times Fri­day cross­word in ink
14. Build a house
15. Write a sonnet
16. Die gal­lantly
17. Be on television
18. Hike Half-​Dome
19. Outer space
20. Read every book on ALA OBCB
21. Solve Rubik’s Cube
22. Solve Gor­dian Knot
23. Play piano
24. Play gui­tar
25. Ride motor­cy­cle
26. Fly plane
27. Fly heli­copter
28. Conn boat
29. Speak French
30. Speak Span­ish
31. Speak Ger­man
32. Speak Ital­ian
33. Speak Russ­ian
34. Speak Can­tonese
35. Speak Man­darin
36. Sign lan­guage
37. Jeet Kune Do
38. Krav Maga
39. Muay Thai
40. Brazil­ian Jiu-​jutsu
41. Capoeira
42. Butcher a pig
43. Dance
44. Draw
45. Meet Dad’s side of family
46. Pro­pose to someone
47. Change my child’s diaper
48. 10% Body-​fat
49. One-​armed pull-​up
50. Run a marathon
51. Iron­man Triathlon
52. Six-​pack abs
53. Attend Olympics
54. Swim with dolphins
55. Extra in a movie
56. Dis­till spirits
57. Stomp grapes to make wine
58. Brew beer
59. Try mead
60. TV Game show
61. Ship in a bottle
62. Stand in waterfall
63. Night in haunted house
64. Sleep under stars
65. Jug­gle
66. Hot air balloon
67. Hole-​in-​one
68. Bar­tend
69. Uni­cy­cle
70. Surf
71. Restore clas­sic car
72. Drift
73. Snow­board
74. Ski
75. Run for office
76. Name a star
77. No TV for a year
78. Knit
79. Cro­chet
80. Shake hands with President
81. Spelunk­ing
82. Polar Bear Club
83. Rock­climb
84. Sea kayak
85. River raft­ing
86. Horse­back riding
87. Watch opera
88. See show on Broadway
89. Bungee jump
90. First aid/​CPR certified
91. Win in Vegas
92. Hang-​glide
93. Give 50 gal­lons of blood
94. Kiss under mistletoe
95. Nav­i­gate by stars
96. Live in another coun­try for at least a year
97. PeaceCorps
98. Build a treehouse
99. Veg­e­tar­ian
100. LASIK

I’ll refer back to this post as I accom­plish the things on it.

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