The List
log line: A woman who survives a car crash completes the wishes of young passenger who died in that crash and ends up transforming her own life.
Starring: Tina Fey, Thomas Jane, Brie Larson, Mos Def and Lisa Lampanelli. Directed by Rob Reiner.
Hey. Much worse has already been done.
Back in high school, we had to attend a Meeting once a week. (Think "chapel," but in a Quaker context). Everybody is utterly silent, except when the Spirit moves them to speak. Once a guy stood up and said, "I've always wanted to speak at a Meeting, and now I have." About two years later, at my last Meeting, I did the same.
tour Ireland
tour Australia
go back to Bruges, Belgium
see more of England
take a cruise to Hawaii
see the stone forests (aka dragon's teeth) of China
go back to Israel
go back to the Isle of Man
learn how to do Japanese drumming
find out where my great grandfather Dalton was born and what his real name was (yeah, right, in my dreams!)
visit New York City with my daughter (who knows her way around and loves the place)
see Angkor Wat
tour India
Do I have to come up with 20 things? Some of the things I'd like to do will have to wait until I'm dead because they include meeting people who are already dead. (Maybe there should be a 20 people I'd like to meet after I die list, too?)
Also, I've climbed the steps of the Pyramid of the Sun at Chichen Itza (without losing my breath), and I've heard that people are not allowed to do that any more.
Things I want to do- I really want to go to Greece and Russia, get my book published. Right now, that is all I can think of, but I am sure there are more things but most of my focus right now is getting through the next 6 months (and the first 6 weeks after that won't be pleasant either).
* Drive in a rally
* Record an album of my original music
* Drive the Nürburgring in Germany
* Visit all the countries that represent my heritage: Germany, Ireland, Holland, France, and the Cherokee Nation...and those are
just the ones we know about.
* Drive in a stock car race (came close two seasons ago, but I wasn't able to secure my funding in time)
Here's how the Universe loves to play games: I put "visit the Playboy Mansion" on my list to amuse people; lo and behold, I was there two springs ago. I would like all my other completed "To Do"s to be that much fun.
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Ok what would be on my list?...
Sigh. Sadly the things that I actually want to do are impossible or nearly impossible. And I mean that literally. I can't wait for Holodecks...
Then there are those things I'd like to do but are physically impossible. Remember the scene in WALL-E where he reaches up and touches the rings of Saturn? I'd like to do do that...but how would I?
I can't think of any place on Earth I particularly want to travel to, that I haven't already been. I haven't been to a lot of places, but it just doesn't attract me the way it attracts some other people.
Most of the things I can conceive of doing, if they're not terribly expensive or require great uninterrupted amounts of time or are terribly dangerous, I'll go out and do them without waiting. Say, any time I get an urge to try to play any musical instrument...well, I can pick up one and give it a try. (I played baritone horn in school and when you learn to play one brass instrument you can play them all, though not necessarily well...I've tried my hands at recorder, guitar, and harmonica over the years...the urge doesn't burn as brightly these days, but I did come out of the experience with renewed appreciation and ability for listening to music...)
(There's the obverse of it---there are things I've sworn I'll never do again---things like going bowling and visiting New York City. I can only think of one of these that I violated---applying for unemployment compensation.)
Get published and see my book on the shelves of a big book store
See my children grow into happy adults
Learn the guitar
Go to Europe
Play with my granchildren
Learn to paint
Have a summer cabin in the woods
Things I have done that are probably unusal - Play in an African drumming ensemble, Put together school musicals, Get published at age 8 and get paid for it(I got paid 1 dollar)
Things I would never do again - sing at a baby funeral, that's all I can think of for now.
Something else I'd like to do: tour Alaska's Inside Passage.
I like the swim with dolphins idea, too.
for starters...
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I've done the Alaskan Inside Passage. My advice: Go on one of the smaller ships. They really get you out where you can see it--and touch it. The downside is, you are more likely to get seasick.
I've actually been on a very small portion of the Pacific Crest Trail, too. But too small to call a hike.
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As for seasickness--I've been on the English Channel in a storm (really rough water), and it didn't bother me. I've also done rockfish fishing in a small boat on the ocean just off of the Olympic Peninsula (in a storm and on a nice day), and it didn't bother me. But there's always a first time.
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If I do the Inside Passage, it will probably be on ferry boats and not on a cruise.
That'd be cool, too. The cruise ship I was on (MV Sea Bird) wasn't any bigger than the ferry boats. But we did get to land some places the ferry boats would just sail past and walk around. I don't know whether the ferries go into Glacier Bay or not.
Oh, and seeing some of the glaciers by air is fun, too. There are sea plane tours out of some of the "cities" (mine was out of Petersburg). And there is (or was, it's been a few years) a company that did helicopter tours up onto Mendenhal Glacier (outside of Juneau). Walking on a glacier is a whole different experience.
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Scratch one off my list! I started a blog!
http://melaniecrousesblog.blogspot.com/
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1. Dive the Great Barrier Reef
2. Dive with Great White Sharks
3. Visit the Pyramids
4. Visit Macchu Picchu
5. Visit Teotihuacan
6. Tour Ireland
7. Dive the Galapagos
8. Take the Baltic Cruise
9. Cruise to Alaska
10 Transit the Panama Canal
11 Get a Work of Fiction Published
12 Spend a month on an Oceanic Research Vessel
13 See a Ballgame in all baseball parks
14 See a football game in all football Stadiums
15 Cruise the Aegean
16 Visit the site of Troy
17 Visit Ephesus
18 Do a Barefoot cruise of the Carribbean
19 Visit Tahiti
20 Walk on the Moon (OK I realize that's unrealistic)
Things I've Already done
Visited Stonehenge and spent the evening inside the circle
Visited England
Crossed though Checkpoint Charlie (when it was still operating)
Visited Niihau (the forbidden Island)
Visited the Napali Coast
Hiked Kauai, Maui and Oahu
Visited Pearl Harbor
Lived in Germany
Been to England, Italy, France, Belgium, Denmark, Holland, Sweden, Scotland, Australia, Mexico, Canada (East, West and Center)
Flow in a Helicopter (a lot)
Driven a Tank, Shot a Tank, you name it.
Been in a submarine
Dove on a shipwreck (several in fact0
Seen most of the 50 states
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