Life List

*These are in no particular order and the list is subject to change.

1. Read every book on Oprah’s book club list
2. Kiss Oscar Wilde’s grave in Paris
3. Participate in the traditional Christmas bath on December 21 in Nice, France
4. Attend and finish college
5. Spend a day on a nude beach
6. Go zorbing and roll down a hill in a giant plastic ball
7. Dine at Opaque – where you eat in the dark
8. Become an expert in my profession
9. Judge a competition
10. Follow my horoscope everyday for a year
11. Go on a carriage ride through Central Park
12. Take a girls’ trip to Vegas
13. Return to where I saw the ghost
14. Go to La Tomatina Festival in Bunol, Spain
15. Zipline in Costa Rica
16. Visit the countries where my ancestors are from: France, Poland, Ireland, Germany, England, Switzerland
17. Spend a summer evening drinking vinho verde with a friend
18. Eat the 20 best burgers in America
19. Skinny-dip
20. Leave my mark at Bubblegum Alley
21. Kiss the Blarney Stone
22. Get involved in my community
23. Read the entire Bible
24. See Old Faithful in action
25. Drive the Great Ocean Road in Southern Australia
26. Be woken by a rooster
27. Spray paint the cars at Cadillac Ranch
28. Run a bed and breakfast
29. Walk the Great Wall of China
30. Read all the original Nancy Drew mysteries
31. Attend Cinespia
32. Run the Rim Trail at dawn at the Grand Canyon
33. Be in Rosario, Mexico, when the monarch butterflies migrate
34. Visit the Sistine Chapel
35. Attend the Grand Ole Opry
36. Make love under the stars
37. Christen something with a champagne bottle
38. Stay in an ice hotel
39. See Mount Rushmore
40. Read every New York Times bestseller in any given week, including business books
41. Fly in a hot air balloon
42. Tango in Argentina
43. Buy a $100 bottle of wine and share it with my closest friends
44. Meet another Stefanie Stricklin
45. Go back to yesterday
46. Complete the Pub Passport
47. Ride a horse along the beach
48. Spend an elegant weekend at the Gritti Palace hotel in Venice
49. Swim between tectonic plates in Iceland
50. Follow a group or musician on tour to all of their shows
51. Get my picture taken with the President of the United States
52. Live to be 100
53. Eat something I like so much that I immediately order it again
54. Eat street food in Bangkok and wash it down with ice-cold Thai beer
55. Adopt a child
56. Eat real jerk barbecue from a roadside jerk hut in Jamaica
57. Jump on the bed at a fancy hotel
58. Take one picture everyday for a year
59. Join the Travelers’ Century club
60. Ride a unicycle
61. Be there for a baby’s first step
62. Bike the road of the Swiss Alps
63. Parasail
64. Attend the Texas State Fair in Dallas, largest in the country
65. Watch the Fourth of July fireworks at the Washington Memorial
66. Visit all the Wonders of the World
67. Read a novel in a foreign language
68. Go to a spa in Hershey, PA and have some sort of chocolate treatment
69. Be serenaded by a Venetian gondolier
70. Drink wine in a clawfoot tub
71. Be featured in Murray’s alumni magazine for my accomplishments
72. Live on a houseboat
73. Read the 1,001 books to read before you die
74. Go to a World Series
75. Attend a service at the Mormon Tabernacle in Salt Lake City
76. Run a six-minute mile
77. Ride a cable car in San Francisco
78. Couch hop – stay on someone’s couch and have them stay on mine
79. Ride on an airboat
80. Go for a moonlit sail around San Francisco Bay
81. Visit the Haskell Opera House – half in Vermont and half in Canada
82. Throw a dart at a map and go there
83. Own a hybrid car
84. Learn to eat with chopsticks
85. Attend mass at Notre Dame in Paris and the University of Notre Dame
86. Serve at a soup kitchen
87. Learn all the words to ‘The Devil Went Down to Georgia.’
88. Have tea with clotted cream in Devonshire, England
89. Witness the intersection of heaven and earth in the ancient city of Bernares, India
90. Skydive
91. Get a full body massage
92. Go to a game at Yankee Stadium
93. Cruise the Greek Isles
94. Look for the Green Flash in the Pacific sunset from Big Sur
95. Watch the sun set over Macchu Picchu
96. Attend a fashion show in Milan
97. Kiss underwater
98. Swim with dolphins
99. Visit Santa’s Village in Lapland, Finland
100. Eat at Mrs. Wilkes’ Boarding House in Savannah, Georgia
101. Have a clawfoot bathtub
102. Be a part of a Guinness World Record
103. Spend Christmas on a beach
104. Learn to drive a stick-shift
105. Cross a wooden bridge over a gorge
106. Be on a game/reality show
107. Climb Philosopher’s Pass to look down on the city of Heidelberg, Germany
108. Hear Big Ben chime
109. Ride the London Eye
110. Have a spiral staircase inside (or outside of) my house
111. Have my caricature done
112. Have lunch atop Seattle’s Space Needle
113. Drink champagne through a crazy straw
114. See a jazz funeral in New Orleans
115. Hang glide off a cliff in California
116. Blow glass
117. Be in Providence for lavender harvest
118. Snorkle the Great Barrier Reef
119. Drink a milt julep at the Kentucky Derby
120. Celebrate Groundhogs Day in Punxytawney, Pennsylvania
121. Take a camel ride along the beach
122. Be part of a mountain rescue team
123. Make love in a vineyard
124. Take the train into New Orleans across Lake Pontchartrain
125. Learn from the Kama Sutra and practice what I’ve learned
126. Attend the Opera Ball in Vienna
127. Compete in Finland’s Sauna World Championship
128. Watch the sun set in Ibiza
129. See the Pope in person
130. Take my dog to the dog hotel in Oregon
131. Eat the ‘world’s best’ cheesecake at Junior’s
132. Enter a grape-stomping contest
133. Read all 100 books on the Modern Library’s Greatest Books List
135. Get my master’s degree
136. Ride horseback through Ireland
137. Ride the Coney Island Cyclone three times in a row
138. Go to a Lamaze class
139. Go to the Macon International Cherry Blossom Festival in Macon, GA
140. While riding in a convertible, take off my scarf and release it behind me
141. Eat at Louis’ Lunch in New Haven, Connecticut, where the first hamburger was made
142. Catch a fish with my bare hands
143. See a stand-up comedy show
144. Spend a romantic weekend in a luxury hotel on the French Riviera
145. Put a message in a bottle and float it out to sea
146. Eat a blood orange
147. Speak Spanish fluently
148. Complete the Monopoly Board pub crawl
149. See lightning strike
150. Windsurf
151. Eat fugu
152. Own an entire line of a brand of makeup
153. Ride every roller coaster in the world
154. Bike the Greenbrier River Trail in West Virginia
155. Go to a balloon drop
156. Go on an African Safari
157. Visit every major league baseball stadium
158. See Vincent Gallo’s “The Brown Bunny,” supposedly one of the worst movies ever made
159. Be a guest observer at the next launch of the spaceship
160. Get my motorcycle license
161. Enter a pie-eating contest
162. Go to a celebrity wedding
163. Wish on a shooting star
164. Sink into Strawberry Park Hot Springs
165. Dance at my great-grandchild’s wedding
166. Float on the Dead Sea
167. Watch the Wizard of Oz, ensuring the volume is on mute whilst listening to Pink Floyd’s ‘Dark Side of the Moon.’
168. Eat Kobe meat
169. Go to Nathan’s hot dog eating contest
170. Vacation with my best friend
171. See the Sydney Opera House
172. Become well-known in my favorite neighborhood restaurant so I can order “the usual”
173. Spend Christmas in Alsace, France
174. Eat reindeer steak in Greenland
175. Fly to Norway for the Northern Lights Festival
176. Go to a live taping of Saturday Night Live
177. Rescue a greyhound
178. Drink a bottle of Dom Perignon
179. Rock on the world’s longest porch at the Grand Hotel in Mackinac Island
180. Get a 4.0 for a semester
181. Go to Sundance
182. Be a godmother
183. Tour the Guinness Factory and drink a Guinness
184. Motorcycle across Nevada’s desert flats
185. Nail our shoes to the shoe tree in Murray, KY
186. Ice skate on the Rockefeller Center ice skating rink during the Christmas season
187. Visit Stonehenge
188. Visit St. Olaf in Minnesota, Rose’s hometown on the Golden Girls
189. Make love in all 50 states
190. Spend a night in a lighthouse
191. Take my grandchild to Disney World
192. Buy red leather cowboy boots in Nashville
193. Celebrate Mardi Gras in New Orleans
194. Be involved in every fundraiser/good event possible
195. See the Rocky Horror Picture Show in the theater
196. Spend Bastille Day in France
197. Surf in Ecuador
198. Get caught on the Kiss Cam at a baseball stadium
199. Visit the Blue Grotto in Capri
200. Go horse-trekking in Transylvania
201. Walk the Street of the Dead in Teotihuacan
202. Go to church in every country that is dominantly Catholic
203. Build a house with Habitat for Humanity
204. Eat Rice A Roni in San Francisco
205. Have a picnic on the beach
206. Stand on the equator
207. Lie on the ground in a grove of giant sequoias, the largest living things on earth, and look up
208. Eat sushi in Japan
209. Run in the Great Gorilla Race in London
210. Take my child to the World’s Largest Easter Egg Hunt in Homer, Georgia
211. Ride a burro in Mexico
212. Participate in a Chinese New Year celebration in San Francisco
213. Spend a week living in a tree house
214. Slurp noodles in Takamatsu
215. Attend the Olympics
216. Bowl a perfect game
217. Taste a ’47 Cheval Blanc wine
218. Eat a pomegranate
219. Spend Thanksgiving at Plymouth Rock
220. Take the funicular up Corcovado, where the statue of Christ the Redeemer overlooks Rio de Janeiro
221. Take a cooking class in Italy
222. Dine atop the Eiffel Tower
223. Spend Holy Week in Seville, Spain
224. Float on the Great Salt Lake
225. Buy a book in San Francisco’s City Lights Bookstore
226. Memorize Keats’ “Ode to a Nightingale”
227. Attend a Democratic National Convention
228. Join a Polar Bear club
229. Wear an itty bitty teeny weeny yellow polka dot bikini
230. Go for a Tuk-Tuk ride in the busy streets of Bangkok, Thailand
231. Get married
232. Have kids
233. Go to Walden Pond a read Thoreau while drifting in a canoe
234. Help others accomplish their goals/wishes/wants/needs
235. Live on an ‘Easy Street’
236. Eat a hot dog from a NYC vendor
237. Own a set of Frette linens
238. Go to Greece and witness Easter Rocket Wars
239. Visit La Alhambra in Granada, Spain
240. Renew my wedding vows in Vegas
241. Win $1,000 or more at a casino
242. Eat cannoli on the streets of Little Italy
243. Throw a coin in Trevi Fountain in Rome
244. Catch the bride’s bouquet
245. See the sun rise in Kiribati where the day begins
246. Eat at Arthur Bryant’s in Kansas City, Missouri
247. Attend a masquerade ball
248. Visit all the Hard Rock Cafes in the world
249. Take a college course at age 80
250. Hold duel citizenship
251. Walk the Pennine Way
252. Plant a rose garden
253. Join the mile-high club
254. Own a piece of jewelry from Tiffany’s
255. Have a natural birth
256. Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day in Dublin
257. Go to a World Cup game
258. Visit all 50 states
259. Have six-pack abs
260. Go to the Opera
261. Stay at the historic Monhonk Mountain House in New Paltz, New York
262. Perform random acts of kindness everyday for a year
263. Tour Italy on a Vespa
264.Visit the world’s sexiest beach, Ipanema
265. Vacation at a nudist colony
266. Make it to my 50th college reunion
267. See a Civil War reenactment
268. Go to Albuquerque’s Balloon Fiest
269. Ride the Chihuahua-Pacifico railroad through Mexico’s Copper Canyon country
270. Go to a Super Bowl
271. Jazz brunch at Johnny D’s Uptown Restaurant and Music Club in Somerville, MA
272. Kiss a dolphin
273. Go to every baseball game my home team plays for an entire season
274. Eat chocolate in Ghiradelli Square
275. Cut a big ribbon for an opening
276. Do the Escape from Alcatraz Triathlon
277. Take a food-writing class
278. Go to the Ellen show and dance
279. See the Northern Lights
280. Get a pilot’s license
281. Bathe in the thermal springs in Hot Springs, Arkansas
282. Go to every Catholic church in America
283. Spend New Years Eve in Times Square
284. Play a game of chess in the park
285. Make love in a public place
286. Go to all the Davenport places
287. Volunteer at the Special Olympics
288. Own a beach house
289. Attend a Jewish wedding and dance the Hora
290. Be able to play the piano really well
291. See a Broadway show in New York City
292. Ride an ostrich
293. Travel on the Orient Express
294. In Italy, eat at a ristorante, a trattoria, a pizzeria, a pascticceria, and a gelateria – all in one day
295. Tour the United States Holocaust Museum in Washington
296. Own a white grand piano
297. Go to an awards show
298. Have an house with an outdoor balcony
299. Be in Mexico for the Day of the Dead
300. Taste vintage port in Oporto, Portugal
301. Eat a Parker House roll at the Parker House in Boston
302. Go cherry blossom viewing in Japan
303. Celebrate Easter at a sunrise service in the Rockies
304. Eat strawberries and cream at Wimbleton
305. Pay homage to the USS Arizona memorial at Pearl Harbor
306. Go to my high school reunion
307. Make the ‘thanks’ list on a CD
308. Make love on the beach
309. Stay at the Shack Up Inn
310. Put flowers on the untended grave of a stranger
311. Celebrate Easter at St. Peter’s in Rome
312. Own an apartment in New Orleans’ French Quarter
313. Participate in a Murder Mystery Dinner
314. Scuba dive the Red Sea
315. Bike the Underground Railroad trail
316. Be involved in a protest
317. Eat everything from the ‘Best Thing I Ever Ate’ show
318. Celebrate daily holidays for a year
319. Go to culinary school