WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO BEFORE YOU DIE?
- Fall unconditionally in love; be the one to say “I LOVE YOU” first
- Skinny dip at midnight in the south of France
Skydive(July 23, 2016, Oceanside, CA)- Complete a 5K (Revlon 5K Walk/Run, The Color Run, SBSD Mud Run)
- Complete a marathon
- Bike the Pacific Coast Highway
- Ride the top 10 tallest roller coasters in the world
- Climb Mt. Kilimanjaro
- Go white water rafting on the Colorado river
- Swim in the Victoria Falls Devil’s Pool
- Experience weightlessness
- Attend the Summer and Winter Olympic games, Super Bowl, World Cup, Indy 500, Wimbledon, and a TED Talk conference
- Be a live spectator at each type of major professional sporting event (so far: NASCAR, MLB, NBA)
- Go on a road trip from Los Angeles to New York City (or vice versa)
- Ride the Trans-Siberian Express
- Drive through the Pan-American Highway
- Throw a dart on a map and go to wherever it lands
- Dance with African warriors
Ride a mechanical bull(August 2016, Austin, Texas)- Own an 80lbs wheel of Parmigiano-Reggiano
- Get inked (May 4, 2011; August 14, 2011)
- Go on a pilgrimage: Road to Santiago
- Scuba dive in the Great Barrier Reef and experience marine life up close
- Witness the Aurora Borealis in person
- Set foot in all 50 states – 30/50 + DC (so far: CA, NV, AZ, WA, OR, HI, CO, ID, UT, NY, NJ, MA, NC, NS, VA, PA, ME, RI, MD, CT, DE, NH, VT, MT, SD, WI, IL, WY, MN, GA, AK)
- Set foot on all 7 continents – 3/7 (so far: Asia, North America, South America)
- Set foot on at least 100 countries – 7/100 (so far: Philippines, USA, Canada, Mexico, Japan, S. Korea, China, Peru)
- Visit at least 25 national parks in the United States – 8/25 (so far: Grand Canyon, Yosemite, Sequioa, Bryce Canyon, Zion, Yellowstone, Joshua Tree, Death Valley )
- Visit major religious sites: The Holy Land, Vatican, Mecca
- Bathe and bottlefeed an elephant
- See all Seven Wonders of the World
- INDIA – visit an ashram, practice yoga and meditate
- TOKYO – wake up at 3AM and witness the tuna auction at Tsukiji Fish Market; watch a sumo wrestling match
- ITALY – cruise around Rome in a vespa, find the best pizza, gelato, and cannoli; drink wine while watching the sunset; ride a gondola in Venice
- Spend New Years’ Eve at Times Square
- Watch a concert at Carnegie Hall
See a Broadway play live(The Lion King, Minskoff Theatre, New York – January 13, 2015)See a ballet live(The Nutcracker, performed by the Los Angeles Ballet at UCLA Royce Hall, December 19, 2015)- Visit all Guggenheim museums
Experience Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival(April 17 – 19 2015! Click here to watch our video diary!)- Participate in La Tomatina in Spain
- Plant a tree every year on from my 25th birthday
- Donate blood (so far: 7 times and counting)
- Donate my hair to Locks of Love
- Give 25 “just because” gifts (count to date: 7)
- Go to a drive-thru/toll booth and pay for the person behind me
- Leave a ridiculously big tip for a waiter/waitress
- Participate in a protest/rally (March 4, 2010)
- Give someone a heartfelt surprise
- Earn a college degree. (UCLA, Bachelor of Arts in International Development Studies, June 2013)
- Earn a degree from the Culinary Institute of America
- Take a self-portrait everyday for a year
- Experience heartbreak.
- Learn from failure (although this will span over my entire lifetime)
- French kiss a French guy at the top of the Eiffel Tower
- Kiss in the rain
- Dance in the moonlight
- Play in the mud (SBSD Mud Run May 2012, Tough Mudder Nov 2013)
- Ask someone out on a date
- Ride a hot-air balloon
- Learn to fly a kite (July 17, 2010)
- Watch a rocket launch, live
- Witness a meteor shower and a lunar eclipse
- Trace my ancestry
- Solve the Rubik’s cube in 3 minutes or less
- See a palm reader (for recreational purposes, of course)
- Send a message in a bottle (Newport Beach, May 7, 2010)
- Have a drive-in movie experience
- Make a time capsule
- Contribute to setting/breaking a world record
- Shower in a waterfall
- Straddle four states at once at Four Corners Monument
- Be an audience member on the Ellen Show! (March 24, 2011)
- Take a photo with a celebrity (so far: Josh Duhamel, Matt Kemp, Jonas Brothers, Adrian Grenier)
- Stomp grapes, make wine
- Have a picnic (June 2009) and go wine tasting in Napa Valley
- Dine at The French Laundry and Per Se
- Smoke hookah in the middle of the Sahara
- Buy myself the 5KG Nutella jar (September 25, 2011, thanks Henson!)
- Meet the guys of The Buried Life: Ben, Jonnie, Duncan, Dave (The Grove Los Angeles, CA, March 20, 2012)
- Photograph an endangered species
- Assist a birth of a large animal
- Milk a cow, then drink the milk
- Volunteer 100 hours at an animal shelter (so far: 42 hours and counting)
- Spend 30 days without meat
- Learn Sanskrit, Hebrew, Italian, and Latin (or at least, become conversational in them)
- Relearn to play the violin
- Parallel park in ONE try
- Learn to drive stick shift.
- Stargaze at Grand Canyon
- Go tree camping on the Pacific Coast in Elk, California
- Climb Half Dome at Yosemite
- Couchsurf across America
- Straddle the equator, with one foot on each hemisphere
- Experience the Hindu festival of Holi
Participate in Warrior Dash/Tough Mudder.(November 9, 2013)- Roast marshmallows over lava
- Experience zorbing!
- Witness The Human Tower of Castellers live
- Get published in newspaper, magazine, book etc. (Bloomington High School yearbook. That counts right?)
- Go paintballing! (May 15, 2011)
- Visit Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia to see the world’s largest salt flat
- Ride a zip line
- Watch a concert at Red Rocks Amphitheater
- Locks of Everlasting Love — go around the world and put one lock on each. (1)
- Watch a live performance of Cirque Du Soleil. (Dralion, October 27, 2012)
- Attend Stagecoach
- Experience Lightning in a Bottle
- Survive Burning Man
What do YOU want to do before you die? Feel free to share in the comments!
Love,
Anicka Nadine
Wow! Interesting bucket list
Thank you!
#98 do you mean zorbing..and your list is amazing. 😀
Yes, zorbing! Thanks enlightening me!
And thanks for reading my list!
🙂