LIFE LIST: 11

MY LIST

I started my Life List in the 7th grade using my National Geographic collection along with the Encyclopaedia Britannica my mother had just bought for me. Over the years I’ve added to that original list and have been checking off extraordinary adventures along the way.

Here’s MY LIST:

√ 1. Visit the Great Rift Valley Where Humans Were Born

√ 2. Hike the Inca Trail into Machu Picchu, then have dinner in Cuzco at the Inca Wall

√ 3. Whistle under the Aurora Borealis (to test the legend) or Dance under the Aurora Australis

√4. Walk with Maasai Warriors

√ 5. Photograph the Hummingbird of Nazca, Peru

>√ Sky Dive & Fly a Glider

√ Watch sunrise from the top of Teotihuacan: The Pyramid of the Sun

o Track the Great Migration of Serengeti

√ Explore Mombassa Harbor, Kenya's oldest city and trading center

o Visit the Portugese Azores

o Write a New York Times best seller or a Pulitzer Prize winning book.

o Meet The People Along The Length of the PanAmerican Highway from Prudhoe Bay to Ushuaia Argentina and Tierra del Fuego.

o Sculpt in White Carrera Marble*

o Study the Mountain Gorillas of the Congo

o Attend the Hokkaido Ice Festival in Japan

o Find the Family who made my Great Grandfather's Samurai Sword

o Commission a fine Japanese Sword for our family

√ Walk Where My Japanese Great Grandparents Walked in Niimi, Okayama, Japan

o Learn to Play the Piano

o Walk among the Terracotta Warriors in Shaanzi

o Learn to Play the Guitar

o Gaze at midnight stars from the top of Chichen Itza

o Learn to Speak Seven Languages

√ Walk in the footsteps of Father Damien of Molokai

o Direct Award Winning Documentaries

o Explore the Mayan Ruins, Yucatán

o Experience the Harbin Ice Festival Heilongjian

√ Sketch the Castillo Manzanares el Real, Spain

o Trek along the Camino de Santiago Pilgrimage in Spain, see the great pendulum in the Santiago De Compostela Cathedral https://youtu.be/xndYdKR5tY0

o Visit Egypt Sharm Al-Shikh

o Sail across the Panama Canal

o Learn to Tango in Argentina

o Learn to speak Portuguese in Lisbon Portugal and Brazi's Corcovado Mountain for views of Rio de Janiero

√ Walk the 4,000 year old Circle of Stonehenge

o Lean against the time travel stones of Scotland

o Chunnel From London to the Louvre

o Find the cafe from Paris at Midnight

o Walk Mont Sanit-Michel

√ Meditate with the Great Buddha of Nara Japan*

o Live in Kyoto

o Circumnavigate the 4,500 year old Great Sphinx of Giza

o Stay a week in Casablanca

o Visit Monaco and walk it’s shoreline

o Explore Addis Ababa

o Watch the clouds spill into the Ngorongoro Reserve, Tanzania

o Sail on Lake Victoria

• Swim in the pools above Victoria Falls

o Sketch the animals of Madagascar

o Explore Istanbul one city on two continents

o Gaze the majesty of Michaelangelo's Sistine Chapel Ceiling

o Walk the streets of Michaelangelos’s Florence the way he did as a boy artist o Stay in a hotel on a Venician canal.

o Enjoy Santorini, Rhodes, and Crete

o Visit Sri Lanka where one day Author C. Clark’s orbital elevator will be built

o Enter the Hidden City Lhasa

o Hear Paul Horn’s Flute music in The Taj Mahal

o Walk the site of Angkor Wat

√ Snorkel dive the reefs of Malolo Lai Lai, Fiji

o Scuba The Great Barrier Reef

o Visit Angel Falls

o Enjoy Bali “the most romantic spot on Earth” with Patricia

o Stand atop the towers of Kuala Lumpur

o Have Chicken Kiev in Kiev.

√ Ride the Shinkansen to Kyoto*

√ Visit the Casbah in Tangier, Morocco

o Sail the Suez Canal

√ Swim the Lagoons of Bora Bora

√ Find the woman with whom I want to live all the rest of my days. (Yes! Finally in 2o15.

o Bologña Italy, Attend the greatest children's book fair in the world.

o Picnic in Cinque Terre Italy

o Sail on Lake Cuomo near Milan with My Love.

o Walk with Patricia the streets of Venice, Florence, and Rome and then together, the Amalfi Coast

√ Propose to Patricia in Heian Shrine in Kyoto on an island in the lake of it’s Japanese garden

o Write Japanese calligraphy in Kanji

o Walk the shore of Sun Moon Lake near Taipei

o Hike Ali Mountain and visit Tai Lu Pagoda and the South Coast of Taiwan

o Book a folk instruments concert in Taipei

√ Marry Patricia in a small Shinto Shrine under falling cherry blossom petals, a Sakura wedding.

o Stroll through the South Gate to Heaven in China

LIFE LIST

Sunday, July 3, 2011

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