Welcome to another installment of what Whitney and I are calling ‘collective blogging.’ To refresh everyone’s memory, we will both be writing blog entries on the same topic every Friday as a sort-of exercise to see how different our thought processes and memories are. Hopefully it will be good practice for an idea we have for NaNoWriMo 2009 – to write the same novel, but separately.

Today’s topic: My Bucket List

I have never seen the movie Bucket List, starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman.  I hear it’s pretty good.  It also seems to have sparked a trend in pop culture where people make lists for themselves detailing all the things they want to do before they “kick the bucket.”  There is even a website to help you develop your list: Superviva.com.  I’ve actually mentioned this website on my blog before (here), and while I am not a huge fan of the website, it makes my point – a lot of people are thinking about this.

So when Whitney suggested we take a page from a blog she follows and post our own lists as one of our collective blogs, I said sure.  So, here it is - 75 Things I Want to Do Before I Die:

Please note: If something on this list has already been accomplished, I have made it bold.  If it is in the process of being accomplished, I have made it italicized.

1. Star-gaze in the Arizona desert.
2. Drive the Pacific Coast Highway.
3. Publish a book.
4. Cruise the Mediterranean.
5. Go camping.
6. Go to New Orleans.
7. Get married.
8. See Aruba or Antigua (or both).
9. Give birth to a child without using heavy-duty pain medication.
10. Snorkel in Grand Cayman.
11. Drive across the country.
12. Dive between tectonic plates in Iceland.
13. Read every major work of classical literature.
14. Travel to Australia.
15. Be able to do yoga without the aid of  a DVD or instructor.
16. Take a wine tour of Long Island.
17. Become fluent in another language.
18. See Scandinavia.
19. Take my family to Disney World.
20. Go to Terlizzi, Italy.
21. Own a successful side business.
22. Go to Paris.
23. Participate in the CDC or some other major health agency.
24. Go to Rome.
25. Go to Venice.
26. Learn to scuba dive.
27. Go to Tuscany.
28. Have a vacation or weekend home on a beach.
29. Go to Greece.
30. Learn about art.
31. Go to London.
32. Go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
33. Visit the Seychelles Islands.
34. See the Statue of Liberty.
35. Go to Moorea.
36. Learn to line dance.
37. Visit Hawaii’s Big Island and see the volcanoes.
38. Run 5 miles without stopping.
39. Go to Barcelona.
40. Knit a sweater.
41. See the Italian Riviera.
42. Host a holiday for my entire family.
43. Travel to Sicily and its islands.
44. Fly a kite.
45. Take an Alaskan cruise and walk on a glacier.
46. Grow an herb garden.
47. Take a cruise or tour of Antarctica.
48. Hike below the rim of the Grand Canyon.
49. Travel to the Galapagos.
50. Buy a home.
51. See  the pyramids in Egypt.
52. Cruise all the major rivers of the world.
53. See the Aurora Borealis.
54. Go to Tahiti.
55. Get a Masters degree.
56. Look at Pluto through a telescope.
57. Go to Pompeii.
58. Work as a microbiologist in a non-academic research lab.
59. Take a picture of the Andromeda galaxy.
60. Travel to outer space.
61. Attend a World Series game (preferably one in which the Yankees are playing.)
62. Attend a Super Bowl game.
63. Go on an African safari.
64. Trace my family’s heritage as far back as possible.
65. Get a PhD.
66. See my children graduate from college.
67. Celebrate my 50th wedding anniversary.
68. Participate in finding the cure for at least one incurable disease.
69. Go to Ekaterinburg, Russia.
70. Go to Germany.
71. Set foot in all 50 states.
72. Own a real Prada bag.
73. Have a saltwater aquarium.
74. Be featured in the local paper for playing a sport.
75. Look at Ebola through a microscope.

I know these lists are supposed to contain 100 things, but I didn’t want my list to become frivolous or meaningless just so I could reach 100.  If I ever add on to my list, I will certainly post the additions!  To see Whitney’s list, go here.

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