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contessarocio's "1001 (more or less) things to do before you die"

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see stonehenge

have my picture taken with a monkey

Be part of carnivale in Trinidad and Tobago

walk across the Golden Gate bridge

see the coloseum in rome

visit Rome and see a pope

visit Loch Ness

Find the Loch Ness Monster

graduate college with a bachelors degree

10.

graduate from college with my masters degree

11.

graduate with a PhD

12.

climb to the top of the eiffel tower

13.

climb to the top of the Statue of Liberty

14.

go to Caribu, California

15.

see the Acropolis in Athens

16.

see the alhambra in granada, spain

17.

take my picture with the gargoyles at the notre dame

18.

Visit Big Ben, London

19.

go to "The Biggest Music Club in Middle Europe" in Prague

20.

take my picture spitting the fountain in Geneva, Switzerland

21.

see the Matterhorn from Zermatt

22.

eat black forest cake in the black forest

23.

speak spanish fluently

24.

watch all the movies on one of the 1001 lists of movies

25.

read all the books on one of the 1001 books to read lists

26.

learn french

27.

learn arabic

28.

learn to sing/dance flamenco

29.

learn to play the pan pipe

30.

Work with Heifer International

31.

donate "the Ark" in Heifer International

32.

climb to Machu Pichu

33.

Walk the Camino de Santiago de Compostela to Finisterre

34.

make a sand/gravel angel in the bottom of the Grand Canyon

35.

walk around a city with a talking parrot on my sholder

36.

look into an active volcano

37.

learn how to yodel

38.

go to Las Fallas in Valencia, Spain

39.

throw tomatos in the Tomatina in Buñol, Spain

40.

go north of the arctic circle, sit on a bench/lawn chair, and watch the sun not set

41.

go dog-sledding inside the Arctic Circle

42.

have my own house with inner courtyard

43.

grow my own bonsai (preferably laurel or palm)

44.

re-learn how to play the piano

45.

start a tribute band

46.

own a blazer made of the same material as my couch... and sit on the couch wearing it

47.

make my own school jacket for Universidad Complutense de Madrid

48.

hang glide

49.

learn to windsurf

50.

Explore the Catacombs beneath Paris

51.

carve my own chess set

52.

live on a commune

53.

try the raw food diet for a month

54.

get an entire town to donate to a charity

55.

stand inside a telephone booth in London

56.

stand inside a tree

57.

open a bar/cafe

58.

sing jazz in city bar/cafe

59.

sit on floor pillows and critique 50 different types of loose-leaf tea

60.

Read "Don Quijote de La Mancha" in Spanish

61.

see the pyramids in Egypt from a camel

62.

visit Mount Olympus

63.

see Mount Rushmore

64.

see mount everest

65.

go panning for gold

66.

have a beer in Germany

67.

Visit the Louvre and see the Mona Lisa

68.

see all 50 U.S. states

69.

drive through four states of corn

70.

rent one of those cars with unlimited mileage and drive to the four corners of the contiguous 48 states

71.

buy a cheap car and go on a roadtrip until it breaks

72.

Live in Mexico City

73.

live in San Francisco

74.

finish crocheting something

75.

see the old streets underneath Edinburgh's Royal Mile, Scotland

76.

roadtrip to Alaska

77.

touch the Pacific Ocean, get in the car, drive across the US and touch the Atlantic Ocean

78.

sing villancicos in the streets of a Spanish town with Spaniards

79.

go through the desert on a horse with no name

80.

train a homing pigeon and exchange messages

81.

send a message in bottle

82.

find a message in a bottle

83.

Write fortunes for fortune cookies

84.

see shakespeare performed in the uk

85.

learn to meditate

86.

see a rainbow in Ireland

87.

be at the end of the rainbow (i was... i swear- one that was a full circle)

88.

Solve the Oak Island Mystery

89.

float away on a raft I made myself

90.

go to Carnivale in Venice

91.

go to carnivale in Cádiz, Spain

92.

accuratly create the constilations on my ceiling with glow in the dark stars

93.

own a car with a warranty

94.

buy an electric car or car fueled by biodiesel

95.

sit on the top of a windmill and listen to the blades move

96.

climb the stairs to a mountain monastery

97.

wear ONLY orange out in public, like i mean it

98.

eat twelve grapes on new years

99.

grow a pomegranate tree

100.

grow four kinds of citrus trees at once

101.

finish building my "1001 (more or less) things to do before you die" list

102.

learn to make jewelry

103.

hear someone singing "Sunny Beat in my Feet" by Fuzz Townshend while walking down the street

104.

create an oil pastel wall sized piece of art

105.

go to mardi gras in new orleans

106.

go to California Adventure Land

107.

go to Magic Mountain in California

108.

see Seattle from the Space Needle

109.

volunteer in Madagascar to help the lemur populations

110.

Go to a world's fair

111.

watch all three Godfathers movies in a row

112.

see the red light district in amsterdam at night

113.

see the Astronomical Clock in Prague, Czech Republic

114.

see a giant functioning metronome

115.

see a giant japanese salamander

116.

hug a giant panda

117.

kiss a koala bear's nose

118.

climb to the top of Kings Canyon in Australia

119.

find the best fitting handprint for my hand at Graumans Chinese Theater in Los Angeles

120.

eat grapes in the middle of a vineyard

121.

make my own wine

122.

see all seven continents

123.

sail a boat away from portugal

124.

Sail a boat by myself

125.

live on a sailboat

126.

Visit Casablanca, Morocco

127.

read the Epic of Gilgamesh at what was once Babylon

128.

balance on a crack on the Great Wall of China

129.

throw something at Moskenesstraumen (the maelstrom off the coast of A, Norway)

130.

see every large piece of architecture constructed for a worlds fair

131.

see the fields that Van Gogh painted

132.

pay off my student loans

133.

See Angkor Wat

134.

See the Taj Mahal

135.

eat gelato in Italy

136.

see every Hitchcock film ever made

137.

Go to Dubai

138.

Go scuba diving

139.

see the hanging gardens of babylon

140.

Learn American Sign Language

141.

learn to cook without the book

142.

go snorkeling

143.

stop biting my nails

144.

start flossing daily

145.

learn to do mosaic

146.

climb over a piece of the Berlin wall

147.

walk through Neuschwanstein (King Ludwig's castle) in southern Germany

148.

see Dalís house in Spain

149.

see Picasso's Guernica

150.

see David Bowie in concert

151.

see michaelangelo's David

152.

see "the Thinker" in person

153.

Build a small, simple wardrobe of high-quality, stylish, and chic clothing.

154.

roll down a hill in a zorb in new zealand

155.

Roll myself up in bubble wrap and roll down a hill

156.

learn to blow smoke rings

157.

learn to whistle in tune

158.

have my passport stamped at "Sealand"

159.

swim with the dolphins

160.

ride a sea turtle

161.

make Dee an x-mas card

162.

get my x-mas cards out before x-mas

163.

learn all the words to Café Tocuba's song "Chilanga Banda"

164.

climb to the top of the mountain behind Ubrique, Spain and look down the other side

165.

climb to the top of a mountain and then do a little dance

166.

see the processions for Semana Santa in Sevilla, Spain

167.

take a picture holding my own ball of twine in front of the worlds larges ball of twine

168.

be part of an "improv everywhere" mission

169.

live in a house or apartment with vaulted ceilings

170.

be knowledgeable in all major philosophical theories and be able to use this knowledge in intelligent conversation

171.

look at a glacier and try to see if there's something frozen inside

172.

sit and watch a glacier move

173.

paint an entire room in only red and gold

174.

sing for the public in a building from the 17th century

175.

sit on the ground in front of the doors at Petra (Jordan) and stare up at the wall

176.

get misted by the largest waterfall in the world (Angel Falls in Venezuela)

177.

Visit the largest library in the world.

178.

live somewhere where you can hear the church bells ring

179.

Ring church bells

180.

circle a round-about a few times for no reason

181.

be part of a drum circle

182.

have reliable high-speed internet in my home

183.

be under the sea in an octopus' garden

184.

have a monkey steal something from me

185.

eat fresh picked oranges under the orange tree

186.

gamble at the Bellagio in Las Vegas

187.

lean on the railing and watch the fountains at the Bellagio in Las Vegas

188.

wear a Venician mask to the carnival in Venice, Italy

189.

participate in Lent without cheating

190.

solve a rubik's cube without cheating

191.

wear feathers to the carnival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

192.

Visit "Christ the Redeemer" statue in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

193.

go to the Barranquilla's Carnival in Colombia

194.

reenact famous works of art on top of a mountain

195.

go to an international pedigree dog show

196.

go to Madri Gras in New Orleans

197.

dye easter eggs

198.

carve a really elaborate jack-o-lantern

199.

make a jack-o-lantern out of a radish

200.

get an elementally balanced tatoo

201.

Go up in a hot-air balloon.

202.

buy the entire bunch of balloons from one of those street vendors and then give them each away individually

203.

see a whale in the ocean

204.

sit in full lotus position comfortably

205.

Kick my caffeine addiction

206.

read (and truely understand) every play by shakespeare

207.

organize all my paperwork

208.

make a triptic... any triptic

209.

make lemon merengue pie

210.

go around the world in 80 days

211.

mush sled dogs

212.

blow the fluff off a dandelion

213.

win a book and t-shirt from mentalfloss.com

214.

run, dance and jump in puddles in the rain without a care

215.

publish a book

216.

have a fishtank in the wall

217.

learn acupressure

218.

go on a "Drop Zone-esque" ride at an amusement park

219.

sleep in a tree house

220.

learn to play the harmonica

221.

visit Gibraltar

222.

learn to drive a manual car

223.

plant a seed and have it flourish

224.

visit the farmers market more often

225.

visit a mission in california

226.

see the return of the swallows at San Juan Capistrano

227.

truely, truely understand quantum physics

228.

walk across Rhode Island (the US state)

229.

be in a sailboat race

230.

smell the roses in the Rose Parade

231.

take a river taxi on the Amazon River

232.

paddle a boat across a volcano-crater lake

233.

visit a town with a population of 1, and meet the 1

234.

look for ghosts in a real ghost town

235.

travel all the way down route 66

236.

See the Corpus Clock and the Chromophage

237.

see the Relampago del Catatumbo in Venezuela

238.

See the Romeria Del Rocio festival in Spain

239.

see the anomaly on Mount Ararat

240.

attempt to visit The Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky with a non-judgemental eye

241.

visit the Centre for Fortean Zoology

242.

witness "La Lluvia de Peces" in Honduras

243.

go to the Museum of Bad Art (MOBA) in Boston

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Created by contessarocio on Dec 17, 2007.