Life List
1. Set foot in every state (as of 4/2011, 31/50) (California, Washington, Oregon, Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska, South Dakota, Kansas, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, Wisconsin, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Pennsylvania)
2. See the Grand Canyon with Jeff and the kids
3. Bike around the Netherlands.
4. Learn Dutch.
5. Run another 5k
6. Run a 10k
7. Run a half-marathon
8. Take tap dancing lessons
9. Watch a baseball game in every MLB ballpark (as of 4/2010, 11/30) (NY Yankees, Chicago White Sox, Cleveland, Detroit, Kansas City, Minnesota, Seattle, NY Mets, Chicago Cubs, St. Louis, San Diego)
10. Have a huge garden that will mostly supply my family’s food for one summer
11. Get an academic essay published in a peer-reviewed journal Edith Wharton Review, forthcoming spring 2012
12. Get an academic book published
13. Retrace the steps of one of my favorite travel authors (like Steinbeck in Travels with Charley or Bryson in The Lost Continent)
14. Write a book about #13
15. Plant a fruit tree
16. Live overseas for a period longer than two months
17. Cross the ocean on a steam liner (like the Queen Elizabeth II)
18. Cross a country on a train
19. Go on safari
20. Visit the pyramids in Giza
21. See the Taj Mahal
22. Visit Italy
23. Visit New Orleans and have a coffee and a beignet at Café Du Monde
24. Endow a named award at my alma mater
25. Paint my children’s portraits
26. Raise some chickens
27. Visit Machu Picchu
28. Photograph someone’s birth Cora Jane Pool, May 15, 2011
29. See Mt. Everest
30. Set foot on every continent (done: North America, Asia, Europe)
31. Eliminate processed foods from my family’s diet for one year
32. Join a roller derby team
33. Win something in Las Vegas
34. Buy a few pieces of art I really love
35. Fly first class on a longer flight
36. Take the kids to the Iowa State Fair August 2010
37. Get my MA August 2007
38. Get my PhD
39. Save enough for my kids to go to college
40. Visit Washington D.C.
41. Learn to play the guitar
42. Drink really good scotch in Scotland
43. Photograph a tornado
44. Stay a night at the Algonquin Hotel in NYC
45. Take family on a cross-country road trip in a camper
46. Be an extra in a major motion picture
47. Vacation on a tropical island
48. Write and publish a novel
49. Read the Chronicles of Narnia books to Charlotte and Sam
50. Visit Prince Edward Island
51. Be in Alaska on the longest day of the year
52. Go back to Luxembourg and Bruges with Jeff
53. Go back to Oxford with Jeff and the kids
54. Pay off student loans
55. See the Sacre Couer in Paris
56. Learn how to fix an engine/work on a car
57. Brew my own beer
58.Read the Harry Potter books to Charlotte and Sam
59.Experience an earthquake (attempt missed 11/5/2011)
60. More to come…
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