4 Sep

The List

Posted by Haley.

Yes. My List of Things to Do Before I Die. :)

Note: bold items are completed. *Starred items are Things to Do If I Have Enough Time.

1. *Move to Hawaii for a year.

2. Go camping.

3. Jump off a bridge.

4. Ride a motorcycle.

5. Visit all the lighthouses on the Outer Banks of N.C.

6. Take a boat tour of the Georgetown and Cape Romain Lighthouses.

7. Visit a waterfall. (12.23.08 – Horseshoe Falls, Musgrove Mill Historic Site, Clinton, SC)

8. Learn to swing dance.

9. Write a travel guide.

10. Go to Maine on a lighthouse expedition.

11. Attend a World Series.

12. See the sunset on the beach. (07.05.08 – Anna Maria Island, FL)

13. Swim in the ocean. (07.04.08 – Anna Maria Island – yes, this was my first time!)

14. See the Gulf of Mexico. (07.04.08 – Anna Maria Island)

15. *Visit a ghost town.

16. *See the Northern Lights.

17. Ride a horse.

18. Go to London.

19. *Go to Paris.

20. Take a road trip down all of Route 66.

21. Tour a castle.

22. *Speak French fluently.

23. Learn to play a musical instrument.

24. See the Grand Canyon.

25. Go to Texas.

26. See a rodeo.

27. *Go to Mount Rushmore.

28. Find Green Gables on Prince Edward Island, Canada.

29. Go to a Renaissance festival.

30. Learn to juggle.

31. Go to the Switchfoot Bro-Am tournament in San Diego.

32. Actually speak to Jon Foreman after a Switchfoot show. (06.11.09 – actually a Fiction Family show in Asheville)

33. Visit the Library of Congress.

34. Get a tattoo.

35. Have a piece of writing published.

36. Become a foster parent.

37. Fly on an airplane.

38. Ride on a train.

39. Get my Ph.D.

40. Go to Prague.

41. Visit all 50 states (and Washington, D.C.). (So far: SC, NC, GA, TN, VA, FL, AL, DC)

42. *Go to Australia.

43. See the Pacific Ocean.

44. Go to St. Louis.

45. Go to BOSTON (and Concord and Cambridge and Salem and Amherst)!

  • a) Walk the Freedom Trail in Boston. (08.03.09)
  • b) Visit the Concord Museum. (08.05.09)
  • c) Tour the Emerson House (08.06.09), the Old Manse, (08.06.09) and Orchard House (08.05.09).
  • d) Walk at Walden Pond. (08.05.09)
  • e) Visit Authors’ Ridge at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, where Thoreau, Emerson, Hawthorne, and the Alcotts are buried. (08.06.09)
  • f) Visit the Longfellow National Historic Site in Cambridge. (08.06.09)
  • g) Go to the Salem Witch Museum. (08.02.09)
  • h) Visit the House of the Seven Gables and the Hawthorne House in Salem. (08.02.09)
  • i) Tour the Emily Dickinson Homestead in Amherst. (08.07.09)

46. *See the Columbia River Gorge.

47. *Learn to sail.

48. *Go shrimping.

49. Go white water rafting.

50. *Make a quilt.

51. See a manatee. (07.05.08 – South Florida Museum, Bradenton, FL)

52. *Go parasailing.

53. Catch a lightning bug in a Mason jar. (07.11.09 – Look-Up Lodge – and I caught them in a Dixie cup for lack of a Mason jar)

54. Go to a minor league baseball game. (08.18.08 – Greenville Drive)

55. Go paddle-boating.

56. Go on the swing at Look-Up Lodge.

57. Visit Flannery O’Connor’s home in Georgia.

58. *Go rock climbing.

59. Go back to Tybee Island and climb the lighthouse.

60. Visit the lighthouse on St. Simon’s Island, GA.

61. See a Hopper painting in a museum.

62. Drive across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel.

63. Go to Cape Cod.

64. Visit Biltmore House. (03.29.09)

65. Go to Hollywild.

66. Go to the Greenville Zoo.

67. Start a revolution (or at least participate).

68. Go to Chimney Rock (again). (10.04.08)

69. Visit Nikki and Hope in New York.

70. Be honest.

71. Buy a telescope and take up stargazing with someone I really like.

72. Visit the Titanic Museum in Branson, MO.

73. Go to Musgrove Mill Historic Site in Clinton, SC. (12.23.08)

74. Go to Ninety-Six National Historic Site.

75. Go to Stumphouse Tunnel with the Leisters. (01.01.09)

76. Visit the Wren’s Nest. (03.10.09)

77. Find Thomas Wolfe’s grave in Asheville. (03.27.09)

78. Quote poetry at Poe’s grave in Baltimore. (08.01.09)

79. Go walking in Memphis.

80. See Mark Twain’s home in Hartford, Connecticut. (08.08.09)

81. Go to the Shoeless Joe Jackson Museum.

82. See the Angel Oak in Charleston.

83. Visit Ruth in Wake Forest.

84. Go to Sharpsburg, Maryland, where my great-great-great-grandfather died in the battle of Antietam during the Civil War.

85. Visit the Georgia Guidestones. (07.04.09)

86. Go to the Poe Museum in Richmond, VA. (08.09.09)

87. Enjoy authentic New England Clam Chowder in Massachusetts. (August 2009)

88. Take pictures outside Fenway Park. (08.04.09)

89. Go apple-picking.

2 Responses to this post.

  1. Posted by Harvin on July 1, 2009 at 1:27 pm

    I think you should write a travel guide for the Boston trip. I’ve repeatedly thought about starting a short-term blog for our Boston trip, a place where we can compile info, itineraries, to-do lists, reflections, relevant links, etc. to remember the trip by… like an e-scrapbook of sorts.

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    • Posted by Haley on July 1, 2009 at 1:31 pm

      Oh, don’t worry. I’ve thought about that, too. I thought about setting up an extra page within this blog just for Boston, so it’s always accessible. My laptop is coming with me, and I’m sure I’ll be blogging as often as possible. And there’s always my Twitter updates for “micro-blogging.” :)

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