This is the list of all the random stuff I want to do someday — things I’d just like to experience or places I want to see. Dr. Suess promises, “Oh, the places you’ll go!” and I just can’t wait. The best part is that where I go or what I do next might not even be on the list … because that’s part of life’s unpredictable adventure.

See my other lists: Culinary Adventures  | Playing Tourist at Home

Adventures Left to Come

• Ride in a hot air balloon across a landscape
• Go on a whale-watching tour — and actually see a whale.
• Whitewater raft down a river (even if only the fake kind.)
• Go to the Westminster Dog Show in NYC
• Ride on a jet ski
• Go to the Super Bowl
• Go to a game at Wimbledon
• Ride an elephant
• Go on a sand dune “safari” in Dubai
• Write a book; be published
• Spend New Year’s Eve in Sydney
• Take a pottery class
• Be invited to a garden party at Buckingham Palace
• See the Taj Mahal
• Go to a game during the Final Four
• Stay a weekend at the Greenbrier
• Ride horses on the beach
• See Graceland in Memphis
• Make a quilt
• Drive the U.S. coast to coast
• Ride on a dog sled
• Walk on the Great Wall of China
• See the Northern Lights
• Sail the Queen Mary to England from NYC
• Visit (internationally): Greece!, Bermuda, Monaco, Italy, Vancouver, Iceland, Bora Bora, Paris/the vineyards of France, Egypt and the pyramids, Sweden/Scandanavia, the Maldives,  Croatia and the Dalmatian coast, Prague, Jordan
• Visit (domestically): Alaska, Maine, Newport, Nashville, Salt Lake City, Hawaii, New Orleans, St. Simon’s Island/Cumberland Island, Sante Fe/Taos, Dallas, Austin, Gulf coast of Florida

Checked off the list:

• Visit Jerusalem, Israel  — complete! (May 2014)
• Ride a camel — complete! (May 2014)
• Take a photography class — complete! (April 2014)
• Zipline through a rain forest — complete! (October 2012)
• Travel by myself  — complete! (June 2012)
• Join a book club — complete! (March 2012)
• Go on safari in Africa — complete! (May 2011)
• Get a dog — complete! (March 2011)
• Climb the Sydney Harbour Bridge — complete! (August 2010)
• Go to a NASCAR race  — complete! (May 2010)
• Parasail in the Caribbean — complete! ( St. Thomas: February 2005)
• Ride in a helicopter  — complete! Twice! (Antigua: 2005; Las Vegas: 2006)
• Go to the U.S. Open (tennis) — complete! (2006)
• UK: England, Scotland
• South Africa: Cape Town, Johannesburg, Entabeni
• Australia: Sydney, the Hunter Valley
• Ireland
• Israel
• Germany: Munich, Bavaria | Austria: Salzburg, Innsbruck
• Caribbean: San Juan, St. Thomas, Antigua, Barbados, Montserrat, Grenada
• Canada: Montreal, Victoria
• US: Napa Valley/San Fran, LA, Sedona, Miami/the Keys, Chicago, Seattle, Boston/Cape Cod