Things you have to do before you die

[Taverner]

Please add to the list

1 - Ride a vespa through the streets of Rome

2 - Swim in Lake Tahoe...if only for 5 seconds

3 - Ride a mountain bike through the hills of Mae Hong Son wasted on Opiumated Thai Stick (OK...you don't HAVE to do this, but it sure was fun)

4 - See one of the following bands live: Phish, Ween, Grateful Dead, Medeski Martin and Wood, Bruce Springsteen

5 - Attend a protest for something you feel passionate about

6 - Go skinny dipping with others




...and yours?

[LynzM]

1. I've only done #4 & 6, so far.....

Let me add, do something for yourself that surprises others as being out of character.

Visit and/or live someplace that isn't your native language and culture!

[Throckmorton]

2. Ive done

1,4,5 and 6 here

[XNASA]

3. Here's my list.

1 - Have lunch with Todd Rundgren
2 - Threeway
3 - Get up on stage in front of 25,000 fans
4 - Go out on a date with Aimee Mann
5 - Work for the Space Program
6 - Marry a beautiful and intelligent woman
7 - Party in Monte Carlo
8 - Win the Lottery

Woo Hoo!!! Only one to go!!!!!

[mark11727]

Ah, but which one's left...?

[XNASA]

7. Well I ain't rich.

[mark11727]

11. You had lunch with Todd Rundgren...?

Most cool.

Back in the day (the early 70's) my college roomate (a very big Rundgren fan) introduced me to TR's music. Whoo! I've never been to one of his concerts, but I'm sure they rocked.

I hear TR's now into some kind of interactive programming thing -- somehow music related.

[XNASA]

I was once the Production Manager for a company ....

...that made TR's preferred mixing console, at the time.

So he stopped by when he was in town and we had lunch and talked about the new console he was ordering.

He's always been a big influence. Great guy too.

And he did buy the board.

[soleft]

4. overcome my fear of death

[Taverner]

6. Good luck!

And when you do it, tell me how!

:scared:

[YankeyMCC]

8. It's not death you have to worry about

It's what happens right before! ;)

[Taverner]

9. I dunno the permanent dreamless sleep kind of scares me...

[Deep13]

19. You won't even notice it.

[Taverner]

27. Yeah yeah, that's what they say

But what if I wake up and I'm like

"damn! Im decomposing, stuck in this dreamless sleep and I can't do anything about it! I knew I should have turned right instead of left at that intersection!"

[dannofoot]

39. Just keep reminding yourself...

..."I'm already as dead as I'm ever going to be."

'Course, you have to believe it...

You'll get the hang of it!

[YankeyMCC]

5. 1 - Hike the AppalachianTrail

2 - Climb all 4K peaks in NH
3 - Climb the highest peaks in each New England State
4 - See my son find what will make him happy throughout his life
5 - Help get a Dem majority in congress and a Dem prez

[MissMillie]

10. A mini-triathlon

Seriously... it's not in my game plan for this year or next, but hopefully the following year.

I'd also like to see the Great Wall of China, go on a safari, and skydive.

[trackfan]

12. I did #2 and it was DAMN cold.

[Taverner]

13. Exactly

I used to live at a school right on the lake, and every year we had a tradtion - first snowfall - we would swim naked in the lake.

It was cold, but surprisingly warmer than it was outside.

40 degrees farenheit, year round

[progmom]

14. you know....

i've done most of what you have on your list, or variations of it. and honestly, if it was my time to go tomorrow...it would be ok.

[Taverner]

16. Ok Progmom...spill the beans

Tell us all the story of riding a mountain bike up and down hills at breakneck speeds while intoxicated on opium and ganja ;)

I'll tell you my story if you tell me yours...

[progmom]

18. i said most

;)

[Taverner]

26. Hmmm then I guess you still have to do that one

Piece of advise: when going downhill, when you see the turn, don't expect that your mind will do the necessary thought processes in order to make that turn - override the manual controls and just turn.

[progmom]

29. ha ha ha ha ha ha

that sounds like an interesting story. :D

[Taverner]

30. Opium is one helluva drug

Let's just say that rolling down a steep hill (or cliff as some like to say) is kind of fun when you don't feel pain.

[XNASA]

25. I remember that time that you & I sped through Rome on a Vespa.

That was great. It was just like "Roman Holiday"!

Can we do that again sometime? Please?

[progmom]

32. and then we got our hand stuck in that statue thingy

right?

yeah. that was fun.

but um...next time you tell me "when in rome...." i'm not going to believe you. i looked it up...the romans don't do that. :cry:

[XNASA]

33. Oops.

I had Rome and Athens mixed up.

:o

[Taverner]

34. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

OK...who else got that?

[XNASA]

37. What's so funny about....

...getting lasagna and spanikopita mixed up?

[Bassic]

15. I would add only one

7. play in a rock band (on stage)

[Deep13]

17. okay, here it goes.

1. meet lunar astronaut--done, Alan Bean (Apollo 12) at a book signing and James Lovell (Ap. 8, 13) at the dedication of a planetarium.

2. write novel-- working

3. invent a religion-- working

4. climb Mt. McKinley-- one step at a time. This Xmas it will be Bright Angel trail at Grand Canyon.

5. trace the route of Jeanne D'Arc

6. plant hardwood trees where a cluster development or a Sprawlmart used to be (hey, I can dream can't I)

7. command a naval ship or a regiment in battle-- never going to happen. Asthma kept me out of the military.

8. Go back in time to talk to Lincoln only to be told by his secretary that Lincoln no longer entertains visits from time travelers.

[giant_robot]

20. Everything I answered "no" to on the sleaze test! :P n/t

[LynneSin]

21. Come to DC on Sept 24th to take care of #5

:D

[Deep13]

23. Did that in the 1980s.

Went on a peace march in front of the UN building.

[no name no slogan]

22. go to nudist beach with tape measure

just your standard stuff, really :silly:

[JimmyJazz]

24. If it all ended tomorrow for me, it will have been a good run.

I've done some pretty cool things. Not all the things on your list, but most of the things on mine. :)

[Spider Jerusalem]

28. Hmmm...

Get drunk on vodka with Russian sailors in a compartment on the Trans-Siberian Railway

Cross the Northern Atlantic by ship

Drive the Pan-American Highway from Alaska to Chile

Drive a Mercedes at 150+mph on the Autobahn

Make a pig of myself on beer and sausages at Oktoberfest in Munich

Visit as many of the world's great museums as possible

Visit the Pyramids

See the Great Wall of China

Learn to fly a plane

Go on a weeklong debauch in Amsterdam

Those are all I can think of, at the moment...

[tjwmason]

31. Damn only got 1/6 (Number 5)

I'm only likely to add number 6 to that list as well :hide:

My list-

1. Attend Der Ring des Nibelungen at Beyreuth.

2. Learn a foreign language to fluency.

3. Meet some of the wonderfully spiffing DUers.

4. Visit every continent (excluding Antartica - I don't like the cold, and I'm only really interested in observing other cultures).

5. Climb a large mountain (as in bigger than the widdy little ones we have in the U.K.).

6. Get my score in the sleaze test over 100.

[Patiod]

35. Watch the sun set over the Grand Canal in Venice

and then wander the calles at night, when no one but you and the cats are out and about, and the iron cages on the lights cast weird shadows on the old buildings.

I'm doing my other dream next month, which is spend a week horseback riding on a Wyoming dude ranch.

I'd second the Springsteen listing, but add that you need to see him with the E Street Band, (or at very least, with Clarence Clemons)...

[Shell Beau]

36. Have kids

That is all for now. The list will change as I get older of course. But for now, that is my focus!

[EstimatedProphet]

38. My list-things I have done

1) See every state-I've been to 44 so far

2) Go to every continent-I've been on 3

3) Sample a hash bar in Amsterdam

4) Tour the Casbah in Tangiers

5) See the Grand Canyon under a full moon

6) Fence an Olympic medalist

7) Write a novel (in progress at least)