My Bucket List

“Faeries, come take me out of this dull world,
For I would ride with you upon the wind,
Run on the top of the dishevelled tide,
And dance upon the mountains like a flame.”

― William Butler Yeats

Graduate from college Go to graduate school Learn Arabic Live in another state Live in another country Attend an Oktoberfest Visit the White House “Unplug” for 48 hours Backpack in Europe Take a homeless person to lunch Travel alone Do a color run Nosh on my first In-N-Out Burger Go sailing Learn to cook three good dishes Go grape-stomping Eat something unusual Visit the Pyramids of Giza Attend a Comic Con Ride a camel Ride in a hot air balloon Ride a donkey Walk through a lavender field Ride a horse Become a yogi Milk a cow Milk a goat Drive on Route 66 Stroll through Procida, Italy Get a belated Hogwarts acceptance letter Run a marathon Walk on the Great Wall of China Kiss the Blarney Stone Put a piece of gum on the Market Theater Gum Wall in Seattle Visit every state in the USA Go clubbing Swim in the pink waters of Lake Retba in Senegal Go to a rave Swim with a whale shark See a sunrise and a sunset on the same day Visit Argentina’s Iguazu Falls Stand under a waterfall Have a New Year’s kiss in Times Square Go to Machu Picchu Learn to drive a stick shift Visit the temples of Angkor Wat in Cambodia Go to Burning Man Have a mud fight Rock climb Have a beach bonfire See a marionette show in Salzburg, Austria Ride a double-decker bus See the Eiffel Tower Visit the Cliffs of Moher Try escargot Be an extra in a movie or TV show Visit the Grand Canyon Paddle through a medieval town Go to a music festival Visit Ground zero Get a tattoo Buy the person behind me a coffee Surf Visit the Louvre Go to Disneyland Visit a castle Go to Disneyland after a few drinks Go to the Guinness Brewery Visit Abbey Road Vist Uluru Meet a celebrity Brew my own beer Hike Yellowstone National Park Eat pasta in Italy Get married on every continent See the electric orange Lake Natron in Tanzania Eat frog legs, gumbo, and shrimp in the Deep South Learn archery Visit a Redwood forest Ride in a helicopter Give a commencement speech Hike the Appalachian Trail Have tea with Jane Goodall Make my own wine Celebrate Carnaval in Tena, Ecuador Visit Café Tingis in Tangier, Morocco Behold Chefchaouen in all of its blue glory See Ouzoud Falls Visit Jemaa el-Fnaa in Marrakech Trek the Atlas Mountains Do something terrifying

Eat crocodile meat Roadtrip with friends Jump into a pool fully-clothed Spend Oktoberfest in Germany Send a message in a bottle Take a cooking class Learn to play one song on the piano Watch the Olympics in person Learn to whistle Ride in a Venetian gondola Go iceskating at 30 Rockefeller Center Actually learn to ski Scuba dive in the Great Barrier Reef Become a diplomat Learn how to play chess Hike the Pacific Crest Trail Solve a rubiks cube Volunteer at a free clinic Learn to juggle Cliff dive Walk on a glacier Sky dive Zipline Bungee jump off the Sydney Harbour Bridge Hike Mount Rainier Hold a koala Take my parents on the vacation of their dreams See the tulip fields in the Netherlands during Spring Learn to ballroom dance Feed a kangaroo Learn to knit Float in the Dead Sea Build a mini-library Grow a garden (and actually develop a green thumb…) Watch a meteor shower Go to Thailand’s nation-wide water fight Hike to the top of Haleakalā Bike Amsterdam Swim with sharks Bake a cake from scratch Do a Polar Plunge See the Northern Lights See Tiger Kingdom in Chiang Mai Learn to make macarons Write a book Walk through Japan’s tunnel of lights Be in the SNL audience Learn Spanish Jump from a waterfall Become a polyglot (learn four languages) See the Chicago River dyed green Fall in love Have my hair groomed by a macaque See the canola farms in Luoping, China Watch a space shuttle launch Whitewater raft Plant a tree and watch it grow Visit Pompeii Learn to play an instrument Become a U.S. Ambassador Spend the night at a haunted house Visit the Valley of Flowers National Park in India Crash an extravagant wedding Ride the London Eye Witness a solar eclipse Visit a volcano Go to a sumo wrestling match Witness pink moss blossoms in Japan Try to make a guard laugh at Buckingham Palace Eat dinner atop the Space Needle Save a life Ride a segway Meet a Giant Panda Sleep on a trampoline Pose for a drawing class See the ceiling at the Sistine Chapel See a Broadway show Parasail Own a house See the Nazca Lines in Peru Pour soap into a fountain Read all 339 books referenced in Gilmore Girls Climb Cotopaxi Volcano Hike through a Cloud Forest Visit the Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca Visit the Majorelle Garden in Marrakech Do a Global Health Service Partnership Visit the Tinmel Mosque Rock a Kasbah Hike around Quilotoa in Ecuador Join the Peace Corps

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