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Sunday, March 7, 2010

Why I can and can not die happy.

Places I have been, things I have done and things I have seen that if I died tomorrow I would have no regrets:

  • Standing on top of the twin towers
  • New York City
  • Washington D.C.
  • Grateful Dead concert (the real dead, with Jerry)
  • David Bowie concert
  • Las Vegas
  • Grand Canyon, AZ
  • Rocky mountains
  • Everglades
  • Disney world
  • Jazz fest in New Orleans
  • Golden Gate Bridge and Golden Gate Park
  • Big Sur in California
  • Arches National Park, UT
  • Zion National Park, UT
  • Lake Tahoe, NV
  • Sedona, AZ
  • Puerto Rican Rainforest
  • Costa Rican Rainforest
  • Zip-lining through above
  • Riding a quad up to an active volcano in Costa Rica
  • Amsterdamn
  • Tower of London
  • Buckingham Palace
  • Scotland Yard
  • Tate Modern in London
  • Van Gogh musem in Amsterdam
  • Rode the London eye
  • Have the obligatory red phone booth picture with Big Ben in the background 
  • St Patricks Day in Dublin, Ireland
  • Sagrada Familia in Barcelona
  • Monestary de Montseratt outside Barcelona
  • Dipped my feet in the Meditteranean sea in Spain, Italy and Israel
  • Guernica, Goya and Valasquez in Madrid
  • Sat by the Danube river in Prague, Czech Republic
  • Saw the Roots in Barcelona
  • Bratislava, Slovakia
  • Brussels, Belgium
  • Budapest, Hungary
  • Saw the Red Hot Chili Peppers in Vienna, Austria
  • Anne Frank's house in Amsterdamn
  • Roman Collosseum 
  • Pantheon in Rome
  • The Vatican City
  • St. Peters Basilica
  • Florence, Italy
  • Michelangelo's David
  • Tuscany, Italy
  • Sienna, Italy
  • Rode a Gondola in Venice, Italy
  • Was a regular at the famed Wetlands club in New York City
  • Sunset over Jerusalem
  • Wailing Wall, last piece of wall from King Soloman's castle
  • Birthplace of Judaism, Christianity, Islam
  • Sea of Galilee
  • Golan Heights
  • B'hai Gardens of Haifa, Israel
  • Partied in a Tel Aviv nightclub
  • Traveled across Israel with the IDF
  • Sat at the red sea and watched Egypt from across the water
  • Climbed Masada
  • Swam in the Dead sea
  • Camped in the Negev Desert with Bedouins
  • Ping pong show in Bangkok, Thailand
  • Kao San Rd, Bangkok
  • Grand Palace in Bangkok
  • Thai massage on the beach in Thailand
  • Chased by monkeys, Phetchaburi Thailand
  • Rode scooters through the rainforest in Krabi Thailand
  • Snorkeled in a lagoon off koh phi phi Thailand
  • Angkor Wat, Cambodia
  • Mt. Rainer, Washington state
  • Death Valley, CA
I can't die happy until I see these places/things:
  • Great Wall of China*
  • Forbidden City*
  • Tianiminn Square*
  • Tibet*
  • Mt. Everest*
  • Friendship highway*
  • Kathmandu, Nepal*
  • Chitwan national park, Nepal*
  • Darjeeling, India*
  • Kolkatta, India*
  • Taj Mahal*
  • Rajasthan, India*
  • Shwedagon Pagoda, Burma
  • Chiang Mai, Thailand
  • Killing Fields, Cambodia
  • Vietnam
  • Japan
  • Gobi Desert, Mongolia
  • Trans-Siberian Railway
  • Bali, Indonesia
  • Micronesia
  • Paupa New Guinea
  • New Zealand
  • Petra, Jordan
  • Dubai*
  • Pyramids of Giza
  • Luxor Egypt
  • Nile River
  • Morocco
  • Kenya safari
  • Cape town, South Africa
  • Mt. Kilamanjaro
  • Parthenon
  • Greek Islands
  • Oracle at Delphi
  • Sarajevo
  • Croatia
  • Sistine Chapel
  • Da Vinci's last supper
  • Uffizi Gallery
  • Capri, Italy
  • Swiss Alps 
  • Concentration Camps in Poland
  • Transylvania
  • Norwegian Fjords
  • Iceland
  • Toledo, Pamplona, Guernica, Andalucia, and Seville Spain
  • Oaxaca and Mexico City, Mexico
  • Alaska
  • Cuba
  • Tikal, Guatemala
  • Badlands North Dakota
  • Glacier National Park Montana
  • Panama
  • Cartegena, Columbia
  • Brazil
  • Bolivia
  • Machu Picchu, Peru
  • Pompeii, Italy
  • Potala Palace, Lhasa Tibet*
  • Argentina
  • Antarctica
  • Galapagos Islands
  • Sri Lanka
  • Sphinx
*If all goes well I should be in these places by the end of 2010!!

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