10 Things To Do Before You're Gone

[CharlieH.]

So.... What are those novel or exciting things that you absolutely, unavoidably, inevitably, necessarily, definitely, and absolutely MUST do before you the time comes to cash in your chips?

Off the top of my head I can mention these:

- Go to Europe by ship (or at least England or Germany)
- Make a long distance train trip
- Make a feature film (animated or otherwise)
- Drive a steam locomotive
- Get lost in a castle at night
- Work at a circus
- Fly on a WWII plane
- Learn to play the clarinet, piano and/or the vibraphone and play in a swing band
- Go to Coney Island (Or what's left of it)

(Ok, those were 9, but you get the idea)

So, what do you really want to do?

 

[Orgetorix]

If I happen to die before completing any particular task, I don't think I'll be regretting it.

 

[CharlieH.]

Ok, I think I'd better re-phrase the question -
What are those things that you really, really, really want to do?

 

[HadleyH]

Not ten things, just one: Live in Paris for four or five years, get to know every stone in the city... wear a black beret every day..

 

[staggerwing]

Interesting idea....

Fly in space
Own a ranch
Write a book, maybe several
Act (on screen, on stage, big time or small)
Take a year-long motorcycle trip throughout the western US and Canada
Become a competitive bobsled driver
Learn scubadiving
Go on a photo safari in Africa (as long as I don't have to fly in a commercial airplane to get there)
Work as an Alaskan bush pilot
Make enough money to endow a no-kill animal shelter when I'm gone

 

[Haversack]

Take seven weeks off and walk the entire Camino de Santiago.

Haversack.

 

[K.D. Lightner]

A wish list before the big chill:

See an aurora borealis, the Northern Lights. Saw one, mother says, when I was very little and did not know what I was looking at, thought it was some sort of fireworks. I don't remember it, but do recall some eerie fireworks.

See the Southwest again, including my favorite place, Monument Valley.

It would be nice to visit Paris, sip wine on the Left Bank, visit homes of famous expatriots from the Belle Epoque era and also after WW I.

Write some more

Paint some more

Adopt another dog

Travel with friends

See some good movies

Read some good books

Learn new and interesting things to keep my mind alive and life joyous


karol

 

[happyfilmluvguy]

The ten things I want to do will come throughout the rest of my life. I don't know what they are right now, but will as time goes by.

 

[Quigley Brown]

I'd like a leave of absence from my job and bicycle around the U.S. for a year or two (hitting as many thrift stores as I can along the way, of course).

 

[Amy Jeanne]

I just wanna visit the Lourve (probably spelled wrong) and Hollywood. I want to visit all my favourite actors' and actresses' graves.

Both of these goals are attainable, too. My husband is from London, so when we go and visit his family they said they would take me to Paris to the Lourve. They also want to take us to Hollywood next time they visit the US. "Visiting" my favourite movie stars is very important to me and it's something I really wanna do.

Meanwhile, I'm going to "visit" those buried close to where I live very soon: John Barrymore, Margaret Livingston, and Connie Bennett.

 

[52Styleline]

1.Go to sea again. Preferably around the world
2. Actually get the restoration finished on the 52 Chevylol
3. DNA test to see where (besides N. Europe) my ancestors may have lived.
4. Write a humor novel
5. Get another (or two) Pembroke Welsh Corgi dogs.
6. Buy back the farm that my G.Grandfather homesteaded
7. Spend a year just wandering around the USA
8. Understand women
9. Kayak the inside passage
10.Be Happy!

 

[Samsa]

I don't know about "novel"...but there are certain things I want to do before I die.

1. Make the rounds one more time, and let everyone close to me know that I love them.

2. Live in Ireland for at least a year. Spend time in Sligo, Galway, and make extended trips to the countryside.

3. Spend time figuring out my genealogy - specifically the Irish side of my family. But I am also curious about the Slovak and Scottish sides.

4. Visit Scotland.

5. Find a guitar that Segovia himself had played, and play it.

I can't think of anything else right now.

 

[Lady Day]

In this order...

-make an animated feature
-have a successful graphic novel series
-win a Caldicot (the Academy Awards of Children's book illustration)
-write a book
-work at Pixar
-design and live in my own house (ok, thats two)
-learn French
-buy back my great Uncle's house to put back into the family and make into a museum
-adopt a Great Dane
-get married

LD

 

[Maxwell DeMille]

I just wanna visit the Lourve (probably spelled wrong) and Hollywood. I want to visit all my favourite actors' and actresses' graves.

Go here before you visit the stars:

http://cemeterytour.com

 

[LizzieMaine]

1. Convince the bureaucrats at the University of Maine to hire me to preserve the deteriorating radio transcriptions buried in their Special Collections department, before they turn into a pile of chalky white dust.

2. Act as a historical consultant on the movie script a friend of mine has been trying for years to peddle.

3. Write another book, so I can deduct the cost of all the research material I didn't end up using for the first one.

4. Go to Europe. Hey, I know it isn't novel, but nobody in my family's ever been overseas. My mother thinks it's a big deal to go to New Hampshire.

5. Have another pastrami sandwich at the Carnegie Deli. The first one was ten years ago, and I can still taste it.

6. Learn to play the ukulele, so I can be popular at parties.

7. Fly somewhere first class, so I can see what really goes on in that part of the plane.

8. Finish going thru all that junk in the garage.

9. Have a job with health insurance.

10. Finally figure out exactly what I want to do with my life. It's gettin' late.

 

[pigeon toe]

1. Drink on the beach in Mexico at night with the love of my life.

2. Have my artwork displayed in a gallery.

3. Take a road trip through California to Idaho with my boyfriend.

4. Have a home that's perfectly decorated with a big backyard and a pool to throw tiki parties on summer nights.

5. Own a gorgeous classic car.

6. Own my own business.

7. Learn how to cook and bake with minimal stress!

8. Learn how to not be afraid to sing in front of others.

9. Go on adventures that involve little to no planning, just another person, a car, a camera and the open road!

10. Own a boston terrier!

 

[Steve]

1. Have some of my own photography published.
2. Publish one of my manuscripts.
3. Travel to Africa and prove the world wrong about what is and isn't extinct.
4. Build a grand English Tudor-style home in the middle of a large tract of land, and fill it with books.
5. Learn at least one other language fluently.
6. Travel to Israel, France, England, Scotland, and Ireland.
7. Find the Ark of the Covenant. Yes, I set high standards for myself.
8. Have a job I love that pays well. (This one is more of a dream really, )
9. Take a road trip around the U.S. and meet in person many of the friends I've made through different correspondences.
10. Be a "go-to guy" that people know they can consistently depend on.

 

[LadyStardust]

1. To travel to and sit atop Top Withens, and read Wuthering Heights there.
2. Learn to embroider well.
3. To go parasailing.
4. To have a huge collection of parasols.
5. To live in England for longer than six months, hopefully even moving there.
6. Learn to play the harp.
7. To go horseback riding through a moonlit, misty forest.
8. To live in a quaint stone cottage with thatched roof, by a lake.
9. Own a Papillion.
10. To climb Roraima!

 

[Harp]

Summit the Matterhorn and drink tea on its knife edge top.

 

[CanadaDoll]

3. To go parasailing.

Definitely go for it! It is sooooo much fun,(and I hate hights!:eusa_doh: )