This is a list of 99 things I want to do before I die. Some are big goals, some are little, and a couple are outside my control. As I complete them I will mark them off. I researched and stole some of these from other people. The list would have been longer but I have done a lot of things like ride in a gonadal in Venice, etc.
THE LIST
1. Go on a cruise.
2. Attend a Broadway show on Broadway.
3. Attend a game in the Garden.
4. Visit Pearl Harbor.
5. Perform the National Anthem solo at a basketball game- I have done this in college band.
6. See my name in a film’s credits.- Sort of done this one but it was a myspace name in Clerks 2
7. Own a beach house- Buy a 2nd piece of property.
8. Attend the opening ceremonies of the Olympics.
9. See University of Memphis Tigers win an NCAA basketball title.
10. Go to the Southern Hemisphere and watch the water go down the drain backwards.
11. Go to a service at Al Green’s church.
12. Lose 80 pounds Lose 50 pounds Lose 80 pounds.
13. Exercise 5 times per week for a month.
14. Pay off all of my credit cards Did on 3/18/2009
15. Keep up with my oil changes
16. Vote for a president and have 10 great reasons why!
17. Go sailing and be a part of a race Was reminded by family members that I did this when I was 11 or so
18. Tile a back splash in the kitchen
19. Make my bed everyday for one month
20. Finish one of my books, I have several ideas for a novel
21. Write my will.
22. Go on a train trip
23. Take one photo every day for a year
24. Train for a marathon and complete
25. Sleep on the beach
26. Take a hot air balloon ride
27. Go snowboarding at least once
28. Try 50 new restaurants Try 46 new restaurants
Tried:
- Blue Fin
- Majestic
- Crescent Club
- Noshville
29. Organize my computer files
30. Enter something into the state fair
31. Take an African Safari
32. Attend at least one major sporting event: the Super Bowl, the Olympics, the U.S. Open.
33. Go to a NFL game. Went to Titans game in October of ‘08
34. Throw a huge party and invite every one of your friends.
35. Swim with a dolphin.
36. Skydive.
37. Have my/my family portrait painted.
38. Learn to speak a foreign language and make sure I use it.
39. Watch the launch of the space shuttle.
40. Be an extra in a film.
41. Brew my own beer, wine, or moonshine or all three
42. Grow a beard and leave it for at least a month Completed several times in 2009.
43. Be a member of the audience in a TV show.
44. Send a message in a bottle.
45. Ride a camel into the desert.
46. Plant a tree.
47. Sit on a jury.
48. Drink beer at Oktoberfest in Munich.
49. Shower in a waterfall.
50. Teach someone illiterate to read.
51. Learn to sing and then sing a great song in front of an audience.
52. Drive across America from coast to coast.
53. Learn to juggle with three balls.
54. Spend Christmas on the beach drinking Pinacoladas.
55. Raft through the Grand Canyon.
56. Grow a garden.
57. Scuba dive off Australia’s Great Barrier Reef or just scuba dive.
58. Kiss the Blarney stone and tour Ireland.
59. Go deep sea fishing and eat your catch.
60. Create my own web site.
61. Visit the Holy Land.
62. Create my Family Tree.
63. Catch a ball in the stands of a major league baseball stadium.
64. Make a hole-in-one.
65. Ski a double-black diamond run.
66. Dive with Sharks
67. Visit all the seven natural world wonders
68. Learn to Fly
69. Drive the Pacific Coast Highway.
70. Leave myself a letter in a library book. Look for it twenty years later.
71. Drink mescal in Mexico.
72. Learn three to four chords on the guitar, until I can play one song.
73. Build a fence.
74. Sell everything I don’t need. Once.
75. Bungee jump.
76. Drive on Route 66.
77. Read all the banned books according to this list.
78. See all 50 states and take a picture with Welcome To… at each one
79. Set foot on all 7 continents- only 5 more to go
80. Do a 100 push ups in one continuous attempt
81. Do a chin-up
82. Bike Shelby Farms
83. Swim in both Oceans- did one
84. Do a Triathlon
85. Create pottery
86. Learn to fix a car- or at least change the oil
87. Read the classics
88. See the top 100 Classic Movies according to AFI
89. Go to Wrestlemania
90. Go to Canada
91. Build a Bookcase
92. Become a Director of something at work
93. Learn to paint a picture
94. Get into swimming again
95. Stop biting my nails
96. Get a physical
97. Get my toe nails fixed.
98. Make and save one million dollars.
99. See the Wonders, all of them:
Lists came from Wikipedia. I didn’t delete them if they are destroyed
* Amazon Rainforest
* Amber Room in the Catherine Palace near Saint Petersburg
* Angkor Wat
* Aurora
* Bagan Temples & Pagodas
* Bali
* Banaue Rice Terraces
* Belize Barrier Reef
* Bell Rock Lighthouse
* Bora Bora
* Brooklyn Bridge
* Cairo Citadel
* Cappadocia
* Catacombs of Kom el Shoqafa
* Channel Tunnel
* Chichen Itza
* Christ the Redeemer
* Cluny Abbey
* CN Tower
* Colosseum
* Colossus of Rhodes
* Deep-Sea Vents
* Delta Works
* Ely Cathedral
* Empire State Building
* First Transcontinental Railroad
* Forbidden City
* Galápagos Islands
* Giant’s Causeway
* Giza pyramid complex
* Golden Gate Bridge
* Grand Canyon
* Great Barrier Reef
* Great Migration of Serengeti and Masai Mara
* Great Pyramid
* Great Pyramid of Giza
* Great Wall of China
* Hagia Sophia
* Hanging Gardens of Babylon
* Harbor of Rio de Janeiro
* Hoover Dam
* Iguazu Falls
* Internet
* Itaipu Dam
* Karnak Temple
* Lake Baikal
* Leaning Tower of Pisa
* Lighthouse of Alexandria
* London sewerage system
* Machu Picchu
* Mausoleum of Maussollos at Halicarnassus
* Mayan ruins
* Milford Sound,
* Moai statues of Easter Island
* Monastery of San Lorenzo del Escorial
* Mount Everest
* Natural Tunnel,
* Ngorongoro Crater
* Northern Red Sea
* Old City of Jerusalem
* Palau
* Panama Canal
* Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument
* Parícutin volcano
* Petra
* Pink and White Terraces
* Polar ice caps
* Porcelain Tower of Nanjing
* Potala Palace
* Rock-hewn churches at Lalibela, Ethiopia
* Roman Colosseum
* Royal Palace in Amsterdam
* Serengeti Migration
* Sigiriya, Sri Lanka[
* SS Great Eastern
* Statue of Zeus at Olympia
* Stonehenge
* Taj Mahal
* Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
* Teotihuacán
* Terracotta Army of Xi’an
* Victoria Falls
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LOVE the list idea….I totally stole your idea and I am working on my own list(hope you don’t mind, I will give you credit). I will post when I finish.
POST SOME PICS ALREADY!!! Pics of the new house, the family, etc.
Steal away. I stole it from like 5 different places. I’ll post some pics soon, just busy with the move
I came over from Paul’s blog. Enjoy yours. The list of 99 is inspiring. Think I’ll create one of my own.
Thanks for stopping by. I stole the list from 5 other people but yeah do yours. Do you have a blog?
Add one more: learn to spell
I only count two mistakes. The reason is I copied and pasted. Why not tell me who you are? Why hide?
I stole this after you linked it on your most recent blog post, this is such a great idea! I’m stealing a few of yours BTW. Oh and #1 and #77 are they the same or different types of cruise? Because I cruise in my car all the time LOL!!
Can I steal your idea? Love it and go forth, cross off your list and have an amazing time experiencing it all!
Steal away! I stole it from like 50 different places.
Your Mammy is stealing it also-shame a CBHS and college cant spell? where!
It’s also a shame when proper punctuation isn’t used, especially when criticizing a person’s spelling.
What’s a shame is someone shares a bit of themselves with us and people just criticize…
I think it’s great, and I’m going to suggest to my wife that we make similar lists for the New Year and start working on them! Great idea and thanks for the post.
And don’t let those other putzes ruin the great post!
Thanks for the kind words. Let me know when you get it up so I can read your list
you have been sailing and in a race. when we were younger at grandparents club you did the mast and i did the tiller. we came in first or second. everyone was pissed becasue the rednecks were good.