Wish List!

Everyone has a list of things they want to do, whether it be in their mind or written out on paper

• Visit these places
  • Brussels, Belgium
  • Naples, Italy
  • Venice, Italy — Swim in the canals
  • Rome, Italy and the Vatican — Check out the church, and try some gelato while walking through the ruins of the Coliseum
  • Vienna, Austria — Checking out the Classical music scene!
  • Paris, France — Practice my French skills, ride the TGV, grapple up the Eiffel Tower, walk through L’Arc de Triomphe
  • Lascaux, France — Check out the earliest known cave paintings.
  • Sydney, Australia — Opera house and beachfront, Great Barrier Reef
  • New Zealand — hold a kiwi and a kiwi in my hand at the same time
  • Frankfurt, Germany — Try some delicious sausages!
  • Hanging Gardens of Babylon
  • Great Pyramids of Egypt
  • Svalbard Global Seed Vault
  • Boston, Massachusetts — Boston Harbor, MIT, attend a Red Sox game
  • Toronto, Ontario, Canada — Visit the CN Tower
  • Antarctica — Visit a research station, hug a penguin, and possibly trek to the South Pole
  • North pole — Note to self: bring super-sensitive scale and see if I really weigh less than at the equator
  • Roswell, New Mexico — See for myself what all this “alien conspiracy” stuff is about
  • US. National Parks:
    • Carlsbad Caverns National Park — For the cave, of course!
    • Grand Tetons National Park — For the scenic beauty
    • Arches National Park, Utah — Great photo opportunities here
    • Badlands National Park — Excavate a dinosaur fossil (even if it’s just a tooth)
    • Crater Lake National Park, Oregon — Always wanted to go there since I was a kid!
    • Everglades National Park, Florida — Wade through a swamp without getting eaten by a crocodile. Okay, maybe boat.
    • Grand Canyon, Grand Canyon Skywalk, rafting on the Colorado River
    • Yosemite National Park — Half Dome
    • Yellowstone National Park — Hiking, Old Faithful, hot spring bath
    • Hawaii Volcanoes
    • Olympic National Park, Washington — It’s in my home state, and I haven’t visited it  yet? I know…
  • Amazon Rainforest — A great photography opportunity!
  • New York, New York — So good it had to be named twice!
    • Carnegie Hall
    • Avery Fisher Hall
    • Lincoln Center
    • Juilliard School
    • Columbia University
    • New York University
    • Steinway piano factory
    • Pizza place
    • 9/11 Site
    • Times Square (APPLE STORE!)
    • MoMA
    • JFK Airport
  • Washington, DC
    • Smithsonian Museum
    • White House — Meet with the President
    • Capitol Building — Listen in on a Congressional session and try not to fall asleep
    • Supreme Court building — if I’m allowed
    • Pentagon
    • Washington Obelisk and Reflecting pond
    • Viet Nam War Memorial, WWII Memorial
  • Geneva, Switzerland — Mostly for CERN
  • Chicago, Illinois — University of Chicago, The Loop, Willis Tower, Lake Michigan waterfront, O’Hare Airport
  • Go back to where I used to live in Minneapolis, Minnesota. See that city all over again
  • St. Louis, Missouri — See the Gateway Arch!
  • Tokyo, Japan — See how busy it REALLY is
  • Seoul, South Korea — See how addicted to Starcraft Koreans REALLY are
  • Garching, Germany — Visit the ESO Headquarters
  • Houston, Texas — Visit Mission Control
  • Orlando, Florida — Sea World and Kennedy Space Center. I would love to witness a spacecraft launch!
  • Mediterranean Sea cruise!
  • Greece
  • University of Arizona
  • Dubai — Definitely on my top 10 list! Go windsurfing on the beachfront, ride up the largest tower in the world, and check out the technological innovations
  • Quebec, Quebec — How different does the French sound there from the French in France?
  • Anchorage, Alaska — Check out the crab fishing scene, and see how the Inuits can build such awesome igloos
  • Israel, once it’s safe to go there
    • Jerusalem: Dome of the Rock, Weeping Wall
    • Jordan River
    • Bethlehem: Jesus’ Birthplace!
    • Dead Sea (if it hasn’t died yet)
  • Las Vegas — Walk around the Strip WITHOUT DRINKING
  • Route 66
  • Sioux Indian Reservation — Get a glimpse of the culture that many of us don’t get to experience in America
  • Stockholm, Sweden
  • Amsterdam, The Netherlands — Check out the nice Dutch houses
  • Warsaw, Poland — A nice cultural experience
  • Moscow, Russia — Red Square, St. Basil’s Cathedral, Bolshoi Theatre
  • London, U.K. — Climb up Big Ben, visit Piccadilly Circus, Westminster Palace, the reconstructed Globe Theatre
  • Glasgow, Scotland
  • Hong Kong — Check out the pirated media industry that my friend keeps rambling about
  • Taiwan — My friends live there!
  • Cape Town, South Africa — Stand on Table Mountain and watch the sunset
  • Rwanda — Volunteer in one of the most impoverished nations in the world
  • Cairo, Egypt — Ride a camel
  • Fez, Morocco — Check out the market and try some delicious cockroaches
  • African Savanna — See a giraffe up close, and avoid getting eaten by a hippo
  • Ayers Rock, Australia — Is it okay if I climb up it?
  • The Olympics, wherever it’s being held — Seen it on TV, and I would like to see it in person!
  • Islands in Oceania — Scuba diving, windsurfing!
    • Fiji
    • Wallis and Futuna
    • Guam
    • Micronesia
    • Samoa
  • The Moon
    • Apollo 11 Landing site
• Leisure activities
  • Participate in a political protest
  • Skydive off a plane
  • Skydive off a mountain cliff
  • Learn to windsurf
  • Learn to fly an airplane (co-pilot)
  • Invent something or improve an invention
  • Build a house (in real life)
  • Turn pages for a famous pianist
  • Work with a back-stage crew on a play or musical
  • Be on set for the filming of a movie
  • Paint a mural
  • Run a marathon
  • Run a half-marathon
  • Participate in the Susan G. Komen Walk for the Cure
  • Try some exotic foods
  • Sled down the largest hill that I can find
  • Ride the longest straight escalator in the world
  • Ride the longest escalator in the world
  • Ride the longest ski lift in the world
  • Ride a hot-air balloon (extra points for the largest hot-air balloon in the world)
  • Build an elaborate sculpture out of everyday things (playing cards, toothpicks, Fruit Loops, &c.)
  • Volunteering:
    • Animal hospital
    • Human hospital
    • Music camp
    • Science camp
    • Competition (sports, music, just-for-fun)
    • Humanitarian causes (Habitat for Humanity, Greenpeace, Peace Corps, Salvation Army)
• Life goals
  • Get more exercise more frequently
  • Write an autobiography
  • Catch up on classic novels