words of a wanderer

My Life’s Ongoing To-Do List.

The more I travel, the more I add, making this an exponentially increasing list. This may be the only to-do list in my life that is ongoing; nonetheless, no item, on any to-do list of mine, will go unchecked. As Helen Keller believes, “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”

-#1- Go to the Airport, bags packed, and buy a ticket for the next available flight…. And that’s where I’m going! (Is this even possible now?!)

-White water rafting in Nepal ✓

-Become a legal resident of another country ✓

-Ride the Orient Express from Paris to Constantinople (Istanbul)

-Teach abroad as paid job in at least 5 countries

-Gain citizenship in another country

-Visit these wonders of the world:

• Great wall of China
• Taj Mahal ✓
• Machu Picchu
• Colosseum ✓
• Great Pyramid of Giza
• Hagia Sophia
• Stonehenge
• Empire State Building  ✓
• Golden Gate Bridge ✓
• Great Barrier Reef (Scuba Diving)
• Space Needle
• Grand Canyon ✓
• Eiffel Tower
• Leaning Tower of Pisa
• Cliffs of Moher
• Pompeii ✓
• Redwoods of California

-Walk across Abbey Road

-Stay the night in Jukkasjarvi Igloo Hotel

-Win money from a lottery ticket

-Travel India by train ✓

-Bathe in the Ganges

-Take at least 3 homeless people to dinner, or bring them dinner ✓

-Raise over $1000 for a small, international organization

-Do volunteer work for over 20 International NGO’s

• Kriti Social Initiatives ✓
• Desire Society ✓
• CODEHA ✓
• Neptuno Finca ✓
• Happy Faces

-Visit at least 100 countries (Airport stops do not count)

• Canada ✓
• Mexico ✓
• Jamaica ✓
• India ✓
• Nepal ✓
• Haiti ✓
• Italy ✓
• Costa Rica ✓
• Peru
• Thailand
• Indonesia
• …etc.

-Live in at least 3 different country for over a year

-Be on a step team ✓

-Be able to speak 2 other languages proficiently

-Take a cruise for over 2 weeks

-Play guitar and sing at an open mic night

-Have my writing published

-Write a book

-Go kayaking ✓

-Swim in the Arabian Sea ✓

-Take a self defense class (currently enrolled)

-Live in Chicago

-Work in the American Girl Doll Factory

-Live in a high rise apart./condo with a view of the city

-Be a bartender or waitress

-Spend a month backpacking through Europe

-Find an awesome way to raise money for traveling

-Found an NGO

-Sleep under the stars (in the wilderness/NO possessions) ✓

-Run a 5K Race ✓

-Make a wish in the Trevi Fountain ✓

-Ride in a hot air balloon

-Ride on an Elephant ✓

-Hear the Dalai Lama Speak ✓

-Attend an International Peace Festival ✓

-Touch a dolphin

-Go couch surfing

-Go WWOOFING

-Be an au pair for a family abroad

-Stand at the base of Mt. Everest

-Be on TV ✓✓

-Go for over 2 weeks without showering ✓ (4 weeks)

-Ride in a canoe down the amazon river

-Go to Coachella Music Festival

-Go to Burning man

-Complete an intensive 90-day exercise program

-Be on SURVIVOR or the Amazing Race

-Take a photography class

-Take a Wilderness Survival class

-Spend Mardi Gras in New Orleans

-Attend the FIFA World Cup  (Brazil, 2014)

-Attend the Maury Show

-Ride a camel in a desert

-Oktoberfest in Munich

-Bull fight in Madrid

-Attend the carnival in Rio de Janerio

-Go zip-lining

-Relax on a nude beach

-Spend New Years Eve in Times Square

-Partake in the Japanese Tea Ceremony

-Smoke a Cigar in Cuba

-Visit the Buddhist monasteries in Burma

-Travel on the Trans Siberian Railway

-Take part in a protest for something I am passionate about

-Participate in parcore

-Be an acrobat ✓

-Shave my head (completely bald)

-Donate Bone Marrow

-Stand under a waterfall ✓

-Get a tattoo

-Make a documentary

-Sell a painting

-House-train a rabbit

Updated 5/19/2012