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List of 'Things to do' in Life
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away!
There are times in my life when I have said to myself, "I wish I could do that in my life!". Here is a list that I have started compiling.....
Skydive from 14,000 feet! multiple times!
Start a successful business
See the 7 wonders of modern world
Run a marathon
Fly a plane
Be an elementary school teacher (I've briefly taught underprivileged elementary school children in Bombay)
Travel to all 7 continents getting there
Bungee jump
Parasail
yes
May 2005
Hang-glide
Go on a hot air balloon ride
Be a National Geographic reporter for one project
Be in NYC Times Square for New Year's eve
See Statue of Liberty
yes
Aug 2001
Be atop World Trade Center
yes
Aug 2001
Attend Mardi Gras in New Orleans
Go White-water rafting
yes, multiple times!
2001 to 2004
Be a matador in Spain once!
Ride in a helicopter (I've been inside an old stationary Comanche helicopter in Maryland)
See Northern and Southern lights (Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis)
Learn to knit
Write a book
Visit Area 51 (Secret US Military Base in Nevada Desert, also popular as the UFO Capital of the World)
yes, twice! In
Jul 2005 and in Jan 2006
Grow my hair well past my shoulder!
Learn to sail
See a whale in the wild (waiting for the whale migration season along the California coastline)
Explore the Amazon rainforest
Smell a rose!
yes!
Own a small tropical island
See Fall colors in Vermont and Maine
Ski in Alps
Achieve my 15 minutes of good fame!
Visit Tibet
Go Horseriding (yes! In Virginia in 2005)
Scuba dive
See Great Barrier reef
Travel faster than the speed of sound
Get an IIT education
yes
Go one full week without talking to another human being
Visit New Zealand
Hit the speed limit on the Autobahn (Germany's no speed limit highway)
Pen a poem in love
yes, tens of times!
Learn some magic tricks!
Ride an elephant!
yes
Go on an African safari
Visit the Great Wall of China
Visit the Grand Canyon yes! Jul 2006. White-water rafted in the mighty Colorado river and camped overnight!
See elephants in the wild
Explore the Galapagos islands
Gallop a horse along a beach
Ride a camel in the desert
Go paragliding
Fly over a volcano
Take the Trans-Siberian railway from Moscow to Vladivostok
Visit Disney world, Florida
Ride a rollercoaster
Own an aquarium
Get into Guinness book of world records
Learn to play a musical instrument
Get a black belt in Karate (I know rudimentary Karate)
Hear a wolf/hyena howl in the wild
Caribbean cruise
Own and sail a boat
See lunar eclipse
yes
See solar eclipse
yes
See a spacecraft launch
Watch a meteor shower
yes
Visit all USA National Parks
getting there
Be an extra in a film
Learn to rollerblade
Learn to ballroom dance
Teach someone illiterate to read
Experience weightlessness
Visit Rio De Janeiro
Blow money in Las Vegas
yes
Jul 2005, Jan 2006 and Jul 2006
Climb some peaks in Himalayas, see Everest
Live in a farm surrounded by trees
Visit Angkor Wat in Cambodia
See Taj Mahal
Party at Carnival in Brazil
Visit Venice
Visit Easter Island
Visit the Louvre Museum in Paris
Visit Iceland
Visit North and South Pole
Shoot a 70 in golf
Skiing
yes, multiple times!
2001 to 2004
Snow-tubing
yes, multiple times!
2001 to 2004
Sailing
yes
2004
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