99 things

So I have had this list going on for a while and well I figure with it being 2012 I should probably publish this, and once 2013 comes along I can look back and see all the awesome things I have accomplished. The bolded activities have been accomplished already. If it is not bolded and you're up for the adventure you know where to find me! :) By the way these are not in any particular order. (NOTE: I don't know whats up with the white highlighting. I am working on fixing it, but currently nothing is working...erm.) 


If you bother to read all of these things and think "she won't get to all of this" be prepared to be wrong. Approximately 9% of the things listed I hope to accomplish within the first half of 2012.

1. Teach English abroad (2011/2012)
2. Visit India and volunteer there in an orphanage
3. Get my art into an art gallery (199_)
4. Learn how to ride a motorbike (2011)
5. Learn how to play guitar(2010/2011)
6. Go windsurfing
7. Study a martial art, (2009-current - Kickboxing, Boxing, Jujitsu and Taekwondo)
8. Be a "Hash House Harrier"
9. Hold a huge snake
10.  Run the Boston Marathon
11. Ride in a helicopter
12. Learn how to use chopsticks (199_) 
13. Walk on fire
14. Skydive
15. Swim with sharks of any description
16. Try surfing
17. Sing karaoke solo (2011)
18. Get really, really lost (2011)
19. Spend a month as a vegetarian - let's try 4 years? (2006-2011)
20. Drive across Canada
21. Live in Asia (2011/2012)
22. Go caving (2010)
23. Run in the Men's Urbanathalon 
24. Attend a protest (2011)
25. Run the death race
26. Travel through the continent of Africa
27. Backpack through Europe
28. See my family in Germany
29. Master a martial art (aka get a black belt)
30. Volunteer on the Galapagos Islands
31. WOOF (Work on Organic Farms) / Helpex
32. Study Arabic in the Middle East
33. Learn Spanish in South America - Peru (2011)
34. Learn to change the oil on my car
35. Write a book - Thanks Uni. Prof (2010)
36. Raise $5000.00 for charity
37. Cycle across a country
38. Get a motorbike licence
39. Work for the United Nations
40. Shave my head for a cause
41. Backpack through South America
42. Climb the pyramids in Egypt
43. Travel with some family over seas
44. Teach Outdoor Education & trek with students
45. Be a speaker at a convention (2010) - Teachers Convention Swift Current
46. Volunteer with Hands On Disaster Response
47. Work for ______ without boarders
48. Watch the first sunrise of the year (2012)
49. Go to the running of the bulls in Spain
50. Scuba Dive
51. Participate in a Hand ice fishing festival (2012)
52. Eat live Octopus (2011)
53. Take a nap with a monkey (2011)

54. Work a ski / snowboard season
55.  Complete my undergraduate studies (2011)
56. Climb to the top of a volcano and look in
57. Visit the Yukon / NWT / Nunavut
58. Visit New York City
59. Swim with dolphins (2010)
60. Observe Wild Polar Bears
61. Hike to Everest Base Camp / Summit Everest
62. Live in Buenos Aires
63. Watch Thai kickboxing live
64. Hike the Annapurna trail
65. Hike Macchu Picchu (2011)
66. Hike along the Great Wall
67. See the Northern Lights (2010)
68. Learn to shoot a gun (at a target, legally)
69. Visit the Arctic and/or Antarctic
70. Hold a tarantula
71. Go on a multi-day hike (2011)
72. Visit somewhere not on any maps
73. Make videos of my travel adventures (2011 / 2012)
74. Volunteer with a homeless charity
75. Go on a camel trek in the Middle East
76. Take a cooking class (2011) - Korean Bibimbap
77. Attend  NOLS / COLTS
78. Get my Masters
79. Stay in a 5 star hotel
80. Fly on a private jet
81. Finish university (2011) - erm for now :)
82. Live for 365 days out of a backpack and carryon
83. Study tango in argentina
84. Buy a RTW (round the world) ticket and adventure
85. Throw beads at mardi gras in New Orleans
86. Work at an international school

87. Take part in a volunteer program (2011)
88. Volunteer with Red Cross
89. Visit Mongolia & volunteer doing care work in a village
90. Travel through SE Asia (in progress 2011)
91. Watch a live space shuttle launch
92. Go to a full moon party in Thailand
93. Spend a week on a beach / resort (2009/2010)
94. Sleep in a Quinzhee (2011) 

95. Get published
96. Visit a real blues bar in Chicago
97. See Ha Long Bay & Sapa
98. Go to Vegas
99. Hike the West Coast Trail

If you've made it this far you may be happy to know I have already accomplished ~30% of what I want. Most of these things have been accomplished in 2011. A huge thanks to everyone who has supported me and been a part of these things. I challenge you to come up with 99 things you want to do in the next few years. I think you'd be surprised how much you want to accomplish, I know I am. With 2012 still just starting out I am so excited to accomplish many more of these things this year. 


The original list has been modified from a fellow travel blogger. (click)


>> Also with 2012 in full swing I hope to change my approach to this blog. Sure everyone loves to hear about my adventures (or so I think) and see photos but it is time to move on and forward from just your average 'look what I've done' blogger. As I accomplish items on this list, travel and explore more of this wonderful world I think it is time to explore my abilities and learn all about travel blogging. Be prepared to learn a LOT more about where I have gone, what I have done and my thoughts about it all. << 


Until next post,


M