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Attend at least one major sporting event: the Super Bowl, the Olympics, the U.S. Open.

Throw a huge party and invite every one of your friends.

Swim with a dolphin.

Skydive.

Have your portrait painted.

Learn to speak a foreign language and make sure you use it.

Go skinny-dipping at midnight in the South of France.

Watch the launch of the space shuttle.

Spend a whole day eating junk food without feeling guilty.

Be an extra in a film.

Tell someone the story of your life, sparing no details.

Make love on a forest floor.

Make love on a train.

Learn to rollerblade.

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Ride the Trans-Siberian Express across Asia.

Sit on a jury.

Write the novel you know you have inside you.

Go to Walden Pond and read Thoreau while drifting in a canoe.

Stay out all night dancing and go to work the next day without havinggone home (just once).

Drink beer at Oktoberfest in Munich.

Be someone's mentor.

Shower in a waterfall.

Ask for a raise.

Learn to play a musical instrument with some degree of skill.

Teach someone illiterate to read.

Be one of the first to take a flight on the new Airbus A380.

Spend a night in a haunted house -- by yourself.

Write down your personal mission statement, follow it, and revise itfrom time to time.

See a lunar eclipse.

Spend New Year's in an exotic location.

Get passionate about a cause and spend time helping it, instead of justthinking about it.

Experience weightlessness.

Sing a great song in front of an audience.

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Ask someone you've only just met to go on a date.

Drive across America from coast to coast.

Make a complete and utter fool of yourself.

Own one very expensive but absolutely wonderful business suit.

Write your will.

Sleep under the stars.

Take a ride on the highest roller coaster in the country.

Learn how to complain effectively -- and do it!

Go wild in Rio during Carnival.

Spend a whole day reading a great novel.

Forgive your parents.

Learn to juggle with three balls.

Drive the Autobahn.

Find a job you love.

Spend Christmas on the beach drinking pina coladas.

Overcome your fear of failure.

Raft through the Grand Canyon.

Donate money and put your name on something: a college scholarship, abench in the park.

Buy your own house and then spend time making it into exactly whatyou want.

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Grow a garden.

Spend three months getting your body into optimum shape.

Drive a convertible with the top down and music blaring.

Accept yourself for who you are.

Learn to use a microphone and give a speech in public.

Scuba dive off Australia's Great Barrier Reef.

Go up in a hot-air balloon.

Attend one really huge rock concert.

Kiss someone you've just met on a blind date.

Be able to handle: your tax forms, Jehovah's Witnesses, your banker,telephone solicitors.

Give to a charity -- anonymously .

Lose more money than you can afford at roulette in Vegas.

Let someone feed you peeled, seedless grapes.

Kiss the Blarney stone and develop the gift of gab.

Fart in a crowded space.

Make love on the kitchen floor.

Go deep sea fishing and eat your catch.

Create your own web site.

Visit the Holy Land.

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Make yourself spend a half-day at a concentration camp and swear never to forget.

Run to the top of the Statue of Liberty.

Create your Family Tree.

Catch a ball in the stands of a major league baseball stadium.

Make a hole-in-one.

Ski a double-black diamond run.

Learn to bartend.

Run a marathon.

Look into your child's eyes, see yourself, and smile.

Reflect on your greatest weakness, and realize how it is your greateststrength.

50 Things to do Before you Die1. Set foot on each of the seven continents. Antarctica might be a tough one, but once you’vereached all seven you can truly call yourself a world traveler.

2. Cross a country on a bicycle. A bicycle tour takes some planning , but it beats beingseparated from a country though a passenger-side window.

3. Ride something bigger than a horse. Trekking through the jungle on the back of a two storytall elephant will surely be something you remember forever.

Photo by Dave & Susi

4. Live like a local for a month. The experience of visiting native peoples will give you waymore insight into another way of life than two years hopping from one backpacker ghetto tothe next.

5. Visit a “real” blues bar in Chicago . What better way to leave music’s commercialismbehind and find the soul of the blues?

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6. Learn another language. This is definitely a weighty and time-consuming proposition, butthere are plenty of resources out there to ease the process.

7. Go heli-skiing . The access to snow and terrain via heli is different (read: better) thatanything else you’ll ever experience.

8. Travel India by train. With its extensive rail network, this mode of transport is the best wayto see one of the world’s most colorful and diverse countries.

9. Climb one of the world’s Seven Summits. Climbing mountains is not for the faint-hearted,but everyone has had a dream of standing atop one.

10. Dive with a whale shark. Swimming with these gentle giants is among the most powerfulwilderness experiences in the world.

11. Participate in a Carnival parade in Brazil. You haven’t had a good night out until you’vebeen to the biggest party in a nation of big parties .

12. Dance Tango in Argentina.

13. Surf . It’s not about being a ripper but just catching waves.

14. SCUBA in the Great Barrier Reef. The largest coral reef in the world is a must for diveenthusiasts. It is the world’s most unique aquatic environment .

15. Publish an article about your travels. Part of traveling is sharing your experiences withothers. Plus, getting published might be easier than you think .

Photo by Jon Kotsifas

16. Volunteer abroad for a month.

17. Follow in the footsteps of your favorite travel book . What better guide than a book thatinspired you to travel in the first place?

18. Take a bush plane ride into Africa’s interior. These lightly visited regions are filled withunique cultures and diverse wildlife.

19. Cross a glacier on foot. Traversing these fast-disappearing natural wonders is anadventure that future generations might not be able to experience.

20. Visit the source of one of the world’s great rivers. Great rivers, like the Nile , have humblebeginnings.

21. Climb an active volcano .

22. Buy a boat and learn to sail . Before the Brothers Wright, everyone traveled by windpower. It’s still the most sustainable way to travel there is.

23. Follow your food from field to table. Most people in the world still eat what they havepicked with their own hands. Why not get back to these basics ?

24. Bathe in the Ganges . What better way to experience the spiritual heart of India?

25. Travel around the world. Sure, you could do this without ever setting foot outside of planes and airports, but few people ever truly traverse the entire globe. Round the worldtickets are great for budget-minded wanderers.

26. Photograph an endangered species. Aside from an image you can keep for a lifetime, itwill remind you, and others, how fragile life can be .

27. Participate in Burning Man . As they say: “Trying to explain Burning Man to someonewho has never been is like trying to explain color to a blind person.”

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28. Spend 24 hours alone in the jungle .

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29. Learn how to make a national dish. What is the one and only thing that everyone has in

common? Eating .30. Teach English in a foreign country. Sure, it’s a way to fund your travels, but also theexperience of a lifetime .

31. Attend a music festival in another country.

32. Cross a country using only public transportation . See a country the way most of its peopledo: from the window of a bus, train, or ferry.

33. Spend the night in a storied/historic hotel. You might not even have to leave town toexperience a night of classic atmosphere.

34. Attend the Olympics. Whatever you say about the commercialism of the Olympic Games ,

they are one of the biggest events on the planet.35. Meet your favorite (living) travel writer. They’ve inspired yo u; now thank them for it.

36. Travel to Germany to experience Love Parade. It’s one of the biggest festivals ,attendance-wise, on the planet.

37. Partake in a Japanese Tea Ceremony. This timeless tradition is at the heart of Japaneseculture .

38. Join a caravan in the Sahara. See how people can thrive in one of the world’s harshestenvironments .

39. Go to Oktoberfest. The meeting of over 6 million beer afficionados and drinking songsingers is one of the biggest parties in Europe.

40. Stand at the North or South Pole .

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41. Be in the stands when two rival South American club teams play each other in soccer.Soccer (sorry, football) is a passion for most of the world’s population.

42. Visit the birthplace or gravesite of a cultural icon. Could be Che Guevara or Picasso or Levi Strauss or the guy who invented widgets; anyone you think is important.

43. Find your version of “The Beach.” One of the best travel books ever inspired a generationof backpackers. Why not find your own version of untouched paradise?

44. Enjoy a freshly rolled cigar in Cuba. Taste a hand rolled specialty close to its source .

45. Visit every capital city in Europe. The crowded continent is full of beautiful architectureand diverse cultures.

46. Watch an orchestral performance in Vienna .

47. Skydive. It is the ultimate thrill, unless you add a wingsuit, and actually fly .

48. Bike the Pacific Coast Highway .

49. Shake hands with someone who has truly changed a country .

50. Participate in the world’s biggest water fight during Thailand’s New Year’s festivities (Songkran).