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Places or thing I want to experience before I die.

• Appear on TV or radio as an authority on a subject
• Attend a Buddhist worship ceremony
• Attend the opera again
• Attend worship at a mosque
• Bake stuff for a bake sale
• Be a member of the PTA
• Be a reference for someone on an application
• Be dunked in a dunking tank
• Be silent for a week
• Become a proficient artist on the wheel
• Become moderator of the PCUSA
• Cambodia…see Angkor wat…
• Climb Mount Kilimanjaro
• Compete in a competitive eating event
• Complete a PhD program and have people call me Dr. Pappan
• Complete seminary
• Create a painting worthy of display
• Cut down my own Christmas Tree
• Dance in Puerto Rico
• Dive for food in the South Pacific
• Drive from the west coast to the east coast via interstate 10
• Eat chilies in Chile
• Finish all of my tattoos
• Fish for salmon in Alaska and walk on glaciers in subzero temperatures.
• Fly in a helicopter
• Get married
• Go ice fishing
• Go to a ballet
• Go to a symphony
• Gorilla trekking in central Africa
• Grow a beard
• Grow my hair for six months
• Have children (natural or adopt)
• Hear the Tuvan throat singing in Tuva
• Join and perform in a choir
• Kayak in Canada
• Kayak in the Pacific Ocean
• Kayak the Hokitika River(NZ)
• Laos…I am not too sure what I want to do here
• Learn Greek, Hebrew, and Latin
• Learn how to quilt and make one
• Learn how to throw a double bladed ax
• Learn the tradition and ritual of a Shaman (The Pawnee or Kaw ways, my tribes)
• Learn the way of the samurai (bushido)
• Learn to dance, well
• Live in a monastery for a week
• Make a soufflé
• Marti Gras in New Orleans
• Navigate the Amazon River
• Navigate the Congo River
• October Fest in Germany
• Officiate at a wedding
• Own a home
• Own a hot rod
• Own a motorcycle
• Own a suit
• Pen love letters
• Perform at a spoken words thingama bob
• Perform comedy at amateur night
• Perform on stage with a band
• Pilot a plane
• Play baseball in the Dominican Republic
• Read all the books in my library
• Retire somewhere(Uganda?) and open a bar and restaurant
• Ride a camel caravan in North Africa
• Ride a horse in Mongolia
• Ride a swamp boat in pursuit of the crock or gator I will wrestle
• Ride buses, trains, and truck through Central America (specifically Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama).
• Ride in a NYC cab
• Rope something from horseback
• Run a marathon
• Run the bases at Chavez Ravine
• Sail a ship
• Sculpt something wonderful
• See a Broadway play
• Sky dive
• Sleep on a beach in the South Pacific
• Smoke a Cuban cigar in Havana
• Start a profitable religious cult
• Step foot on Antarctica
• Swim a mile
• Swim in Lake Titicaca
• Take a Mississippi River Boat Cruise
• Take yoga classes
• Thailand…visit the Phuket area and enjoy Bangkok (minus the sex shows and hookers)
• Trace the silk road
• Traipse in the jungles of Central and South America
• Travel via train in India
• Trek around Mexico.
• Trek in Afghanistan and Pakistan
• Trek in Japan
• Trek in Lebanon
• Trek in Nepal
• Trek in Palestine during Easter
• Trek in Russia
• Trek in Syria
• Trek in the Andes
• Trek in the UK, Ireland, Spain, Germany, Poland, Italy, Ukraine, Hungry, and Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Trek in Turkey…eat turkey in Turkey.
• Trek in Vietnam…have a drink in Hanoi, travel southward to Ho Chi Minh to the delta
• Trek in Western Africa
• Visit all 50 states
• Visit Ayers Rock
• Visit Chaco Canyon & Red River Wash
• Visit Greasy Grass
• Visit the Grand Canyon
• Visit the historical items in Washington DC
• Visit Tuvalu
• Visit Yellowstone
• Walk in the Gobi desert
• Watch a footie match in OZ
• Watch a Santos home match
• Watch Boca play a home match
• Watch Chelsea at home
• Watch the All Blacks play a home match
• Watch the BoSox play at Fenway
• Watch the Cubs play at Wrigley
• Weigh less than 200 pounds
• Worship in Ethiopia
• Worship in Korea
• Wrestle a bear (the toothless old circus kind)
• Wrestle a crocodile or Alligator
• Write a fiction book
• Write non-fiction theological book