I am going to use this page to chronicle my Life (or Bucket) List. I have had an ongoing list for quite some time and I have been slowly (ever so slowly) getting things done.
I started this list on paper years ago and a few years ago moved it to my iPhone. It is called NOW for No Opportunity Wasted – from the book of the same name by Phil Keoghan.
The acronym works for me…You can’t wait for someday… Do it NOW
I started this list on paper years ago and a few years ago moved it to my iPhone. It is called NOW for No Opportunity Wasted – from the book of the same name by Phil Keoghan.
The acronym works for me…You can’t wait for someday… Do it NOW
These are in no particular order — merely as I thought of them when putting the list into my phone. When possible, I plan to put the date accomplished and am going to try and add pictures of (from, etc) for each. That will take time since some of these are going to have to go back a few years (ok Russia alone is from 1990)
- Israel
- Cruise Alaska
- Complete random acts of kindness project (I chose my 46th birthday and I completed it over my birthday weekend 2011)
- Drive with convertible top down (notice I said DRIVE- not RIDE– I did that on my trip from Minneapolis to Duluth, Minnesota!)
Fall in love and get married (hmm I guess that is two!). I have officially given up on this goal. FOREVER. December, 2011
- Get healthy
- Go sailing
- Hot air balloon ride
- Learn to like me
- Meet Elie Wiesel (done, October 87, Washington DC)
- Visit Switzerland
- Paddle a canoe or kayak
- Parasailing
- Rent a house at the beach for at least 2 weeks
- Ride on a motorcycle (done November 22, 2010)*
- Return to Paris– I’d love to stay 2 weeks
- Visit London
- Go to Amsterdam
- See REM (done- good thing since they are now splitting up- November 21, 1995)
- Smithsonian (done, October 87)
- Visit Arlington Cemetery and see Kennedy’s Grave (done, November 87)
- See a play on Broadway (done x 5, April and June 2006, August 2007, October 2008 and March 2010 ) or as I describe it- Mansfield, Marriott, Mela, Broadway Condo, Mela)
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| From October 2008 trip (stayed at 1600 Broadway) and saw Chicago |
- See Auschwitz
- Spend a night in every state ( I am at 22 plus Washington DC)
- Visit Russia (done, May 1990)
- Stand in Red Square (done, May 1990)
- Create a cookbook based on my Mother’s recipe notebook
- White Water Rafting
- Colonial Willamsburg
- Learn to ride a motorcycle*
- Write a book or ebook
- Drive cross country
- Go Minimalist
- Stand in California’s Redwood Forest
** thanks JP for the edits to the list as you explained to me the
difference between riding a motorcycle and riding ON A motorcycle and
teaching me how to erase the word drive and motorcycle from the same
sentence…..
difference between riding a motorcycle and riding ON A motorcycle and
teaching me how to erase the word drive and motorcycle from the same
sentence…..

Hi Rebecca,
I love your blog. You’re photos are amazing! The NOW list is a great idea. Mine is just a mental list but you’ve inspired me to put it in writing.
I found you through the blogging buddy group on facebook (blogelina). I hope you’ll stop by my blog. I”ll look for you in the group too.