bucket list

"Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?"
- Mary Oliver


Buy a house, close to nature and green, with enough rooms for both of us to have our own "realms"
Visit nature and disconnect for a week (no television, no internet, no phone, no movies)
Find a better job with a better commute
Ride in a hot air balloon
Go skydiving
Explore an old European castle
See the northern lights
Go whale watching
Go sailing
See John Williams in concert at the Hollywood Bowl
Go stargazing in the desert
Go strawberry picking
Go to a shooting range
Go kayaking
Get a tattoo
Learn to play the piano again
Learn to play the cello
Show my photography in an art gallery
Sell my art in a physical store (photographs, cross stitch)
Write a short story
See a movie at the drive-in
Complete my macramé project
Keep up my new hobby of cross-stitching
Get back into block printing and make something awesome

Visit family in Florida
Visit family in Ohio
Visit family in Virginia and North Carolina
Visit my sister in Washington, DC
Visit Anacapa Island off the coast of Santa Barbara
Take a trip to Sarasota, Florida, with my parents
See the flower fields in Carlsbad or the Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve
Go to Joshua Tree National Park
See the Grand Canyon
Visit the Very Large Array - National Radio Astronomy Observatory in New Mexico
Take a weekend trip to Las Vegas
Take a train ride along the Pacific Coast Highway to Canada
Visit San Francisco again
Visit Point Reyes again and eat oysters
See Haystack Rock in Cannon Beach, Oregon
Take a train ride across the country
Drink a manhattan in Manhattan
Tour the lighthouses of New England and eat clam chowder
See wild horses on Assateague or Chincoteague Island
Take a road trip with my mother and sister (Virginia, Washington DC, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont)

Travel to a foreign country for the first time (and for a long overdue honeymoon)
Take a Viking River Cruise
Slovenia
Ireland
Scotland (The Isle of Skye)
Italy (Tuscany)
United Kingdom (London)
France (Paris)
Spain
Iceland
Africa
Japan
New Zealand
Australia
Sweden

Visit all 50 states (Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, District of Columbia)

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