Things to do before I die

[Kate]

<font color='#736AFF'>I've been recommended to make a list of 10 things to do before I die.

I've tried racking my brains to think of thing and have only come up with.....

1. Dive in the open water with a wild Dolphin (did in the Red Sea last year)

2. Dive in open water with a whale - no preference as to which kind


Do you have a list and if so, what's on it?!

[aclivity]

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Originally Posted by [b

Quote[/b] (Kate @ Mar. 25 2004,14:38)]I've been recommended to make a list of 10 things to do before I die.

live a long, long time

It's like in diaries there used to be a section for personal information, to the question &quot;In the event of medical emergency, please contact ................&quot; I always used to write &quot;an ambulance&quot;

[Dominic]

Die?

I plan to live forever!

So far, so good

[Mark Davies]

<font color='#000080'>Well I've had a list for a long time;

1)  Scuba dive on a coral reef
2)  Drive a Ferrari
3)  Fly a plane
4)  Parachute jump
5)  Watch Liverpool win a trophy at Wembley
6)  Hear Barber's Adagio For Strings played by a live orchestra
7)  Visit Rome
8)  African safari
9)  Watch a sunrise over the Atlas mountains
10) See Pompeii

Very different things, for different reasons. I've done six of the list already. I guess it will probably change by the time I get to the end of it.

It's good to have goals in life. I don't want to get to the end of my time regretting the things I was just too busy to get round to.

[aclivity]

<font color='#810541'>A friend of mine wrote a list of 100 things he wanted to do, some small things like reading a certain book, some aspirational like living overseas for a while.  Last time I spoke to him he had done over 50 of them (he now lives in Korea).

One of the things he wanted to do was go into space. He had found something on the web whereby for about £10,000 (a few years ago) you could get a passenger ride on a Mig jet to the edge of space - black sky above, stars visible, pressure suits required, that sort of thing.  Must have been 50 or so miles up?

Anyway, he didn't have the cash to pay for this, so he went into his bank to ask about a loan.  All was going well until they asked him what he wanted to use the money for.  He said he wanted to go into space.  It all went downhill from there.


He didn't get the money.

[Dominic]

I saw a great aticle somewhere - Possibly New Scientist - about a company that was developing, not a kit car, but a kit space shuttle.

They reckoned that it actually wasn't that hard to build a rocket capable of getting you to the edge of space and back safely.

I'm not convinced I'd want to ride a rocket I knew I'd built myself

[Kate]

<font color='#736AFF'>3. Visit the Coliseum in Rome

[aclivity]

<font color='#810541'>cheesy, but:

sunscreen

[Rick Huggins]

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Originally Posted by [b

Quote[/b] ]1) &nbsp;Scuba dive on a coral reef
2) &nbsp;Drive a Ferrari
3) &nbsp;Fly a plane
4) &nbsp;Parachute jump
5) &nbsp;Watch Liverpool win a trophy at Wembley
6) &nbsp;Hear Barber's Adagio For Strings played by a live orchestra
7) &nbsp;Visit Rome
8) &nbsp;African safari
9) &nbsp;Watch a sunrise over the Atlas mountains
10) See Pompeii

Mark, I've done 6 of yours &nbsp;
Bet you've done some of mine though!

1) Visit Machu Pichu
2) Go for a ride in a Tornado (nearly had that one)
3) Dive/swim with wild dolphins
4) Dive/swim with turtles
5) Dive/swim with manta rays
6) Backpack around vietnam/thailand/cambodia/laos
7) Emegrate to Oz
8) Freefall from 30,000ft (O2)
9) Visit to K2 basecamp
10) See the earth from my garden on the moon

[Mark Davies]

Originally Posted by [b

Quote[/b] (Frogman @ Mar. 25 2004,16:16)]Mark, I've done 6 of yours  
Bet you've done some of mine though!

<font color='#000080'>Only one!