Live For Today

I came across the Today Show's list of the Top 50 Things to Do Before You Die. Here it is:

1. Watch whales migrate
2. Go white water rafting
3. See wild game on an African safari
4. Find a long-lost friend
5. Learn to dance
6. Fly a plane
7. Drive a NASCAR race car
8. Appear on Broadway
9. Dive the Great Barrier Reef
10. Skydive
11. Golf on a world famous course
12. Travel the Nile in Egypt
13. Be serenaded by a Venetian gondolier
14. Swim with the dolphins
15. Play with an orchestra
16. Paint the Big Apple red
17. Float in a hot air balloon
18. Sip a mint julep at the Kentucky Derby
19. Visit the Oval Office
20. Trace your roots
21. Helicopter over a Hawaiian volcano
22. Ride a mule down the Grand Canyon
23. Stroll along the Great Wall of China
24. Cruise in a Ferrari
25. See the Taj Mahal at sunrise
26. Walk the Inca trail at Macchu Picchu
27. Ride a Harley down an open road
28. Feed sharks
29. Scale a famous peak
30. Explore a Rain Forest
31. Learn to be a cowboy
32. Play ball in a Major League park
33. Prepare the world's finest meal
34. Be an extra in a movie
35. Gaze upon a magnificent waterfall
36. Horseback ride along a beach
37. Conquer a fear
38. Ride a steamboat down the Mississippi
39. Dive in a submarine
40. Taste the finest wine
41. Run a marathon
42. Write a song or poem for someone you love
43. Volunteer overseas
44. Visit a nudist colony
45. Explore the Alaskan wilderness
46. Hover in a blimp
47. Eat a cheeseburger in paradise
48. Run with the bulls in Pamplona
49. Say a special thank you
50. Experience weightlessness

I was pleasantly pleased to find out that I had actually done some of these things already.

Things I've done so far:

2

4

16

19 (I think I already did this because I took the White House tour back when it was possible before all this 9/11 nonsense. I don't really remember much.)

22 (i had a bruise on my ass the size of Texas afterwards, but damn it shore was fun!)

27 (ok, it wasn't a Harley, it was a Japanese motorcycle where you have to lean forward over the bike, not sit straight up...I think that's better anyways, so I'm listing it.)

31 (ok...I haven't exactly learned to be a cowboy, but I ride horses so that's close enough)

37

49

Things that need to be taken off this list:

5.) I already know how to dance

10.) I refuse to skydive unless my plane is falling out of the sky.

11.) I could care less about golfing in general.

32.) I could take or leave playing ball in a major league park...UNLESS Derek Jeter is present...in which case this moves to #3 of my must do list.

40.) Taste the finest wine???? What is the finest wine? I've had some good ones before.

47.) what the hell is eat a cheeseburger in paradise???

Things I will likely accomplish within the next two years:

12.) I'm going to Egypt before I have kids no matter what I have to do. It's my dream of a lifetime!

21.) helicopter over a volcano in Hawaii (honeymoon is coming up!!! )

25.) Goin to India soon.

35.) Goin to Hawaii soon.

Things to add to list:

Ride an elephant.

Ride a camel by the Great Pyramids.

Swim with manatees.

Go horseback riding through the Redwood forest.

Backpack across Europe.

Visit Petra in Jordan.

Visit Pompeii in Italy.

Save a life.

Give birth to a child.

Visit my sponsor child in Kenya.

Find my ol' high school buddy Michelle.

Visit relatives I've never met before in the Philippines.

Go snowboarding and skiing in Aspen.

Go to Alaska and see real penguins.

Hold a koala bear in my arms.

Scale a Mayan or Aztec ruin.

Learn to play the violin.

Participate in a dig with Dr. Zahi Hawass.

Design and landscape my own garden in my future home's backyard.

Swim with stingrays.

An addition to list, which I've already done, suggested to me by a friend:

Drive California's Pacific Coast Highway from L.A. to San Fran.

This is an absolutely gorgeous drive with magnificient shore cliffs and, as you get further north, at night it looks like you can just reach up and pluck a star out of the sky.