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.

Posted by Dinh at 11:24 pm on January 1st, 2008. 6 comments... »
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6 comments.

  1. 78 & 79 should be higher up on your to-do list!!! :)

    Posted by Peggy on January 1st, 2008.

  2. This isn’t necessarily the order in which I’m going to do these things. :)

    Posted by Dinh on January 2nd, 2008.

  3. I think if you learn Krav Maga you’ll find you won’t need the other martial arts, but that’s just my opinion. :grin: Good luck.

    Posted by Krav Maga 411 on January 2nd, 2008.

  4. I think I can help you with some of these.

    At the very least, #94.

    Posted by jimmy on January 2nd, 2008.

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