Monday, August 31, 2009

Abbie Lyon's Bucket List

  • Be really passionate about a cause and do something instead of thinking about it.
  • Make out my will and keep it updated.
  • Drive on the Autobahn.
  • SCUBA dive in the Great Barrier Reef.
  • Kiss the Blarney Stone
  • Kiss someone on the Eiffel Tower
  • Tour Italy from top to bottom
  • Float in the Dead Sea
  • Take a boat on the Nile
  • Leave a Prayer on the Western Wall
  • Step foot on every continent
  • Spend a year in Japan
  • Party in Rio during Carnival
  • Visit the Blue Grotto
  • Backpack across Europe
  • Visit Loch Ness
  • Attend a concert in Vienna
  • Visit the Great Wall of China
  • Spend three months in a Buddhist Prayer center
  • Ride the Orient Express
  • Hear an opera at La Scala (maybe next summer in Europe?)
  • Sing for the NY Metropolitan Opera
  • Teach someone illiterate to read
  • Shower in a waterfall
  • Hanglide
  • Learn to throw a pot
  • Write and Illustrate a children's book
  • Learn to Ballroom dance
  • Live in a commune for atleast a year or start my own
  • Ride a camel
  • Go on an investigation with TAPS
  • Work with Adam and Jamie on Mythbusters
  • Spend the night someplace haunted
  • Learn to use chopsticks with my hands and feet
  • Visit Transylvania
  • Build a house with Habitat for Humanity
  • Stand among the Redwoods
  • Turtle Rescue
  • Enjoy kissing
  • Blindly point to a destination on a map and hop on a plane
  • Learn Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Italian, French and Navajo
  • Find my faith
  • Meet the Dalai Lama
  • Write a novel with a friend
  • Write a song: words and music
  • Smell a kangaroo
  • Learn to rollerskate
  • Watch a shuttle/rocket launch
  • Have my name on the list for the first tourist launch to the moon
  • Brew my own beer or wine
  • Spend half a day at a concentration camp and swear never to forget
  • See AFI's top 100 movies
  • Read at least 100 banned books
  • Visit Stonehenge
  • Visit Machu Pichu or the nazca lines
  • Ride a ripline in the Rainforest
  • Ride in a hot air balloon
  • Learn to play the drums well
  • Give birth (It'll be a while)
  • Hike the Appalachian Trail
  • Spend a fall biking through New England
  • Learn to pick locks
  • Learn to hotwire a car
  • Wait
Please offer suggestions. I welcome any new adventures. I might be terrified of it, but I'll try most anything. Anything highlighted in Blue, I've managed since I started the list.
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