Stuff I'd like to do before I die
Submitted by buddy on Tue, 07/26/2005 - 08:50
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- Go to the following places: Japan, China, Vietnam, New Zealand, New Orleans, Savanna, Montreal, Russia, Tanzania, Toronto, New York, somewhere in South America
- Revisit the following places: Rome, Vienna, Oktoberfest in Munich, The Queen Charlotte Islands (B.C.), Las Vegas, California, Alaska, Barcelona, Mexico
- Own my own home which I can decorate as I please
- Have a baby
- Work at a job I can feel productive in at the end of each (or just most) days
- Learn and continually progress in meditation
- Climb Kilimanjaro
- Get educated about wine
- Take a pottery course
- Go rock climbing
- Visit a real perfumery and get a custom-made fragrance
- Get a master's degree
- Learn a martial art
- Get a top quality knife and devote some serious time to learning to whittle by the campfire
- Go home This is not something I want to do before I die, so much as something I want to do as soon as possible. Having people who understand you is something you simply don't understand the value of unless you go without it for 2 solid years.
Author Comments:
Just some random stuff I'd like to do. Some of it will be easier to achieve than others; I suspect I'll look into a pottery course at the community centre when I move back to Vancouver. I'll also go rock climbing and visit a few places. The revisiting Rome bit I'll be doing in September - so fingers crossed I don't die before then.
The last point you've made is indeed very true and if I may say so, just a month away from home and friends is enough, as I am learning...
BTW why the fascination for Kilimanjaro?
My boyfriend grew up in Tanzania, and has always wanted to climb it. I have a keen interest in trying anything if it sounds difficult but rewarding. Since that particular mountain has come to my attention, that's the one I'll climb.
I wrote that last one in a moment of abject despair. I was at a party where no one was particularly my friend, and I was missing home badly. I'm on the home stretch of my living abroad (6 months to go after 2 years away), and I think about home a lot.
A month away is quite hard. I've done that as well while travelling, and the first 6 weeks is brutal. I should say that things get better - I just happened to post in a dark moment.
Difficult and rewarding... have you ever considered the Mt. Everest ( seriously, I'm not being sarcstic)?
I reckon if Kilimanjaro takes my fancy, I might consider something like Everest. Mountain climbing isn't much more interesting to me than anything else at the moment, but that may be because I haven't tried it yet. I want to try everything, and that's in my list.
Things will get better but you'd better get to Kilimanjaro soon before all of the ice melts and we are left to lick the salt on the rim. Tequila!
Thanks. I think the mountain will probably hold on a few years yet, and if not, then I'll trudge up there with my bottle of Jose Cuervo.