The Life List

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO BEFORE YOU DIE?

1. Fall unconditionally in love; be the one to say “I LOVE YOU” first
2. Skinny dip at midnight in the south of France
3. Skydive (July 23, 2016, Oceanside, CA)
4. Complete a 5K (Revlon 5K Walk/Run, The Color Run, SBSD Mud Run)
5. Complete a marathon
6. Bike the Pacific Coast Highway
7. Ride the top 10 tallest roller coasters in the world
8. Climb Mt. Kilimanjaro
9. Go white water rafting on the Colorado river
10. Swim in the Victoria Falls Devil’s Pool
11. Experience weightlessness
12. Attend the Summer and Winter Olympic games, Super Bowl, World Cup, Indy 500, Wimbledon, and a TED Talk conference
13. Be a live spectator at each type of major professional sporting event (so far: NASCAR, MLB, NBA)
14. Go on a road trip from Los Angeles to New York City (or vice versa)
15. Ride the Trans-Siberian Express
16. Drive through the Pan-American Highway
17. Throw a dart on a map and go to wherever it lands
18. Dance with African warriors
19. Ride a mechanical bull (August 2016, Austin, Texas)
20. Own an 80lbs wheel of Parmigiano-Reggiano
21. Get inked (May 4, 2011; August 14, 2011)
22. Go on a pilgrimage: Road to Santiago
23. Scuba dive in the Great Barrier Reef and experience marine life up close
24. Witness the Aurora Borealis in person
25. 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)
26. Set foot on all 7 continents – 3/7 (so far: Asia, North America, South America)
27. Set foot on at least 100 countries – 7/100 (so far: Philippines, USA, Canada, Mexico, Japan, S. Korea, China, Peru)
28. 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 )
29. Visit major religious sites: The Holy Land, Vatican, Mecca
30. Bathe and bottlefeed an elephant
31. See all Seven Wonders of the World
32. INDIA – visit an ashram, practice yoga and meditate
33. TOKYO – wake up at 3AM and witness the tuna auction at Tsukiji Fish Market; watch a sumo wrestling match
34. 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
35. Spend New Years’ Eve at Times Square
36. Watch a concert at Carnegie Hall
37. See a Broadway play live (The Lion King, Minskoff Theatre, New York – January 13, 2015)
38. See a ballet live (The Nutcracker, performed by the Los Angeles Ballet at UCLA Royce Hall, December 19, 2015)
39. Visit all Guggenheim museums
40. Experience Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival (April 17 – 19 2015! Click here to watch our video diary!)
41. Participate in La Tomatina in Spain
42. Plant a tree every year on from my 25th birthday
43. Donate blood (so far: 7 times and counting)
44. Donate my hair to Locks of Love
45. Give 25 “just because” gifts (count to date: 7)
46. Go to a drive-thru/toll booth and pay for the person behind me
47. Leave a ridiculously big tip for a waiter/waitress
48. Participate in a protest/rally (March 4, 2010)
49. Give someone a heartfelt surprise
50. Earn a college degree. (UCLA, Bachelor of Arts in International Development Studies, June 2013)
    
51. Earn a degree from the Culinary Institute of America
52. Take a self-portrait everyday for a year
53. Experience heartbreak. 
54. Learn from failure (although this will span over my entire lifetime)
55. French kiss a French guy at the top of the Eiffel Tower
56. Kiss in the rain
57. Dance in the moonlight
58. Play in the mud (SBSD Mud Run May 2012, Tough Mudder Nov 2013)
59. Ask someone out on a date
60. Ride a hot-air balloon
61. Learn to fly a kite (July 17, 2010)
62. Watch a rocket launch, live
63. Witness a meteor shower and a lunar eclipse
64. Trace my ancestry
65. Solve the Rubik’s cube in 3 minutes or less
66. See a palm reader (for recreational purposes, of course)
67. Send a message in a bottle (Newport Beach, May 7, 2010)
68. Have a drive-in movie experience
69. Make a time capsule
70. Contribute to setting/breaking a world record
71. Shower in a waterfall
72. Straddle four states at once at Four Corners Monument
73. Be an audience member on the Ellen Show! (March 24, 2011)
74. Take a photo with a celebrity (so far: Josh Duhamel, Matt Kemp, Jonas Brothers, Adrian Grenier)
75. Stomp grapes, make wine
76. Have a picnic (June 2009) and go wine tasting in Napa Valley
77. Dine at The French Laundry and Per Se
78. Smoke hookah in the middle of the Sahara
79. Buy myself the 5KG Nutella jar (September 25, 2011, thanks Henson!)
80. Meet the guys of The Buried Life: Ben, Jonnie, Duncan, Dave (The Grove Los Angeles, CA, March 20, 2012)
81. Photograph an endangered species
82. Assist a birth of a large animal
83. Milk a cow, then drink the milk
84. Volunteer 100 hours at an animal shelter (so far: 42 hours and counting)
85. Spend 30 days without meat
86. Learn Sanskrit, Hebrew, Italian, and Latin (or at least, become conversational in them)
87. Relearn to play the violin
88. Parallel park in ONE try
89. Learn to drive stick shift.
90. Stargaze at Grand Canyon
91. Go tree camping on the Pacific Coast in Elk, California
92. Climb Half Dome at Yosemite
93. Couchsurf across America
94. Straddle the equator, with one foot on each hemisphere
95. Experience the Hindu festival of Holi
96. Participate in Warrior Dash/Tough Mudder. (November 9, 2013)
97. Roast marshmallows over lava
98. Experience zorbing!
99. Witness The Human Tower of Castellers live
100. Get published in newspaper, magazine, book etc. (Bloomington High School yearbook. That counts right?)
101. Go paintballing! (May 15, 2011)
102. Visit Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia to see the world’s largest salt flat
103. Ride a zip line
104. Watch a concert at Red Rocks Amphitheater
105. Locks of Everlasting Love — go around the world and put one lock on each. (1)
106. Watch a live performance of Cirque Du Soleil. (Dralion, October 27, 2012)
107. Attend Stagecoach
108. Experience Lightning in a Bottle
109. Survive Burning Man

What do YOU want to do before you die? Feel free to share in the comments!

Love,

Anicka Nadine