WHILE WE'RE IN VIRGINIA
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• Go on a ghost tour of Williamsburg
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• Go to Cape Charles
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• Myrtle Beach
TRAVEL
• Visit every state (Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New York, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, Wyoming;
• Visit the Magical World of Harry Potter at Universal Studios
• Visit Spain
• Visit a German castle
• See a Broadway show
• Go to the top of the Eiffel Tower
• Eat really good authentic French food
• Visit Niagara Falls
• Take a photo in a red phone booth in England
• Ride in a gondola in Venice
• Go to Greece and stay in one of those blue-roof cottages
• Swim in the Mediterranean Sea
• Visit Israel
• See the Great Wall of China
• Go on an Alaskan cruise
• Take a two-week cruise from the U.S. to Europe
• Visit the Badlands of North Dakota
RANDOM FUN
• Get hot abs for once in my life
• Play paintball
• Ride a motorcycle
• Go to the Texas State Fair
• Go see an OU/texas football game
• Pet a baby elephant
• Milk a cow
• Write a book
• Take Matt to Esther's Follies in Austin
• Go ziplining
• Take a trapeze class
• Try roller derby
• Become fluent in Spanish
• Take a pole-dancing exercise class
• For my birthday, do a random act of kindness for every year I've been alive
• Give a waiter a 100% tip
MATT'S LIFE LIST
• Go to a taping of The Price is Right
• Buy Rangers season tickets
• Stay in the ice hotel in Sweden
• Go to Copenhagen, Denmark
• Go to Wimbledon
• Visit every MLB ballpark
These are the adventures I've already crossed off my list:
Get married • Surprise Matt • Try falafel • Run a 5K • Go back to Las Vegas • Eat raw sushi • Visit the Caribbean • Spend a whole day reading without obligation • Eat a meal from a food truck • Get a pixie haircut • Try 10 foods I've never had before (kimchee salsa, eggplant, mussels, Indian food, yucca fritters, escargot, octopus salad, veal, plumcot, clams) • Design my own website • Find a job I love • Be self-employed • Start a compost pile • Find three ideas on Pinterest and execute them (quatrefoil pillows, sparkle art, accessory ladder) • Make someone a birthday cake • Buy produce from a farmer's market • Eat at a restaurant alone with no reading material • Go a day without speaking • One-week Internet fast • Get eight hours of sleep every night for a full work week • Follow a recipe with ingredient(s) that I don't know and learn about them • Go vegan for a week • Beat Zuma's Revenge Iron Gauntlet • Read 52 books in a year (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10) • Read three classic novels (The Great Gatsby, Wuthering Heights, The Grapes of Wrath) • Go to a rodeo • Spend time in Chicago (Part 1, Part 2) • Bake three things from scratch • Volunteer somewhere that isn't my own church • Become a vegetarian (for at least three months) • Learn how to drive stick-shift • Read through the Bible in one year • Go to Mexico • Have a vegetable or herb garden • Take a last-minute trip • Sample every flavor of Bluebell ice cream • Take a belly dancing class • Be asked to be a bridesmaid at a wedding • Pay off all student loans • Go to the opera • Climb a mountain • Go to a drive-in movie • Edit someone else's book • Travel alone (at least three days) • Go see a drag show • Feel financially secure • Go to the taping of a TV show • Tour Hollywood • Take a biking or walking journey (Freedom Trail, Boston) • Visit five faraway friends (1 Kansas, 2 Tulsa, 3 Florida, 4 Los Angeles, 5 Boston) • Have a surprise party thrown for me (29th birthday - Lefty's) • See a symphony (Roanoke Symphony Orchestra) • Volunteer consistently (library) • Take a knife skills class • Give blood • Walk a half marathon • Get a tattoo • Take a cooking class
Updated 10/7/24