Lately topics surrounding bucket lists have been coming up, and with you mentioning evaluating early retirement, it made me ask myself what I would want to do if I were retired, or had more time to do anything. I kind of gave up on the idea of retiring a long time ago, and now it seems waaaaaaay more obtainable than it did even a couple years ago. I remembered all the dream goals I had… like when people say “my dream is to be this” or “to do this” but it never fit into a neat package with a one sentence answer. So, I guess I have a list of things I’d like to try and accomplish in my lifetime:
– Drive the entire PanAm freeway. I know there’s a gap at Panama, and it’s dangerous. Idk if I’d ever get this opportunity anyway, but it’s only doable under the condition I learn Spanish.
– Obtain a pilots license.
– Learn to weld.
– Learn to drive a car with a manual transmission. You know, in case zombies.
– Learn ASL.
– Get fluent in Korean… probably live in Korea for a while.
– Get a tattoo in SK.
– Visit a Korean traditional village. Get custom hanbok. Attend tea ceremony.
– Go on an Alaskan cruise.
– See the aurora borealis.
– Take the train from one end of the US to the other.
– See NOLA.
– Visit Iceland.
– Smoke in a coffeeshop in Amsterdam.
– Visit Cuba.
– See Viscacha in Chile.
– Take the Trans-Siberian Railway.
– Visit Mongolia and stay in a yurt.
– Become happily partnered and in love. Combine lists.
– Drink absinthe in Paris.
– Sail around the Mediterranean Sea.
– See Green Gables farm in Prince Edward Island.
– Visit Arcosanti. Acquire bell.
– Go to Space Camp.
– Visit CERN.
– Attend Wave Gotik Treffen.
– See Utada Hikaru.
– Reserve time to use a telescope at an observatory. Come up with viable research project and justification if necessary.
– See all 7 continents.
– Visit Chernobyl.
– Visit Adamstown in the Pitcairn Islands.
– This can kind of tie into some of the others, but my main one is to see every UNESCO World Heritage Site. That list by itself feels impossible, but I want to get through as much of it as possible.
– If getting married, have dress designed by Rima Tadmory.