Tuesday, March 12, 2013

The List

I have been maintaining one in my head for sometime now, a list. A list of things I want to experience. I have been constantly updating the list over the years, ticking off items, adding new ones, and even deleting some. Whenever I have had the chance to discuss the same with my friends, I discovered that every individual had his/her own wish list.  Some of the recurring themes are traveling to exotic lands, extreme adventure sports, spiritual quest, learning languages and/or cooking, and pursuing fine arts. 

Never occurred to me that I have to put mine in writing (or Pin it as most people prefer to in our age of social networking) so that I don't forget it. Hope this serves as a constant reminder to myself to act on at least one every year, starting now. So here goes my list (in no particular order). 

  • Create a list of things to do
  • Learn to swim
  • Go karting
  • Ski
  • Sky dive
  • Fly an airplane (the small 2 or 4 seater of course)
  • Travel by ship (at least a week long trip...might settle for a cruise) 
  • Snorkel in Hawaii or the Caribbean
  • Bike along the Pacific coast in California (driving is NOT nearly good enough)
  • Run a marathon
  • Go to the foothills of an active volcano (already been inside the crater of a dormant one :-) )
  • Attend the F1 Monaco Grand Prix
  • Participate in and win a quiz show again with my team mate from school days
  • Teach history and science to kids
  • Go on a South African safari (MUST ride on elephant back)
  • Visit the Pyramids of Giza
  • Visit the holocaust memorial in Auschwitz
  • Walk the beaches of Normandy
  • Trek to Machu Picchu
  • Camp and trek in the Himalayas
  • Go to Alaska
  • A romantic holiday in the beaches of a secluded island in the Pacific or in the Indian ocean
  • A romantic holiday in Spain, France, Italy, and the Mediterranean 
  • Create a list and mention "romantic" twice in a row
  • Visit Jerusalem
  • Visit the Angkor Wat temple complex
  • Go to Sikkim, India 
  • Visit the far East (China/Japan/Korea anything works)
Okie. That's it for now. The list shall evolve. I dare everyone to make one!

Peace out.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Create a list is to do that you scratch off! LOL! Love it!

Visit Venice soon! Its drowning!

- Deepti

anna said...

Except for visiting the foot hills of active valcano others are really romantic

Anna

shalini said...

Everything r fyn, but for romantic places to visit, I wish u shd wait for ur special one to be accompanied with u, it ll be more thrill :)