50 Things to Do Before You Die

[prosodic]

I am reading Matador Travel's 50 Things to Do Before You Die.

I've done #15, #32 (went from Geilenkirchen to Garmisch on a train - pretty much all the way across the country from north to south, west to east), #39, #42 (Shakespeare's grave, Beethoven's birthplace, and several others).

4 out of 50. Wow.

I would add another one to this list: Carnival - either in Rio de Janeiro or Venice, which are 2 of the world's largest celebrations. If that we added to the list, I would then have 5.

Comments

[hetterrific.livejournal.com]

I have to be honest and say that most things on that list I have no desire to do. I have zero desire to heli-ski. Or hike an active volcano, for purely the sake of saying I hiked an active volcano.

[prosodic.livejournal.com]

Yeah...I have no desire to heli-ski either. Or to just plain ski, for that matter. I'll leave those things to people who are less accident-prone.

There are a lot of things on that list that I really have no desire to do.

[inateapot.livejournal.com]

Like hetterrific, I wasn't that interested in a lot of those either - Ganges river? ugh. Train across India? No, thank you. And I have a horror of huge crowds so Carnival (Venice or Rio - I've been to both, inidentally, just not at Carnival) & Oktoberfest make me shudder.

Do you have a desire to do all 50? or do you have another list of your own? (Some people call it a bucket list, I prefer "Mighty Life List" after this post: http://mightygirl.com/2008/03/03/100-things-to-do-before-i-go/)

[prosodic.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I shuddered at the Ganges River one myself. No desire to bathe in a cesspool of pollution and disease.

There are a lot of these that I have no desire to do. It's just interesting to read what some people think are the 50 things you must do, but I'm sure everyone's list is different.

I also hate huge crowds, but I'm not sorry to have witnessed carnival in Venice. I am sorry, however, to have gone to Oktoberfest. And at least I have stories to tell about those experiences.