51 things to do before I die

Attend at least one major sporting event: the Super Bowl, the Olympics, the U.S. Open. Swim with a dolphin Have my portrait painted. Learn to speak a foreign language and use it. Go skinny-dipping at midnight in the South of France. Watch the launch of the space shuttle. Have sex on a forest floor. Have sex on a train. Own a room with a view. Buy a round-the-world air ticket and a rucksack, and run away. Put my name down to be a passenger on the first tourist shuttle to the moon. Send a message in a bottle. Ride a camel into the desert. Learn to ballroom dance properly. Go to Walden Pond and read Thoreau while drifting in a canoe. Stay out all night dancing and go to work the next day without having gone home (just once). Shower in a waterfall. Drive across America from coast to coast. Go wild in Rio during Carnival. Drive the Autobahn Donate money and my name on something: a college scholarship, a bench in the park. Build my own house and then spend time making it into exactly what I want. Kiss the Blarney stone Visit the Holy Land. Learn to bartend. Learn to Weld Have a bit part in a television show Be on the New York Times list Write a screenplay Play roulette in Monte Carlo Spend a summer in Italy Write a song Visit all seven continents Ride a horse through countrside on my own. Send a message in a Bottle Wade in a public fountain Experience weightlessness Crowd Surf Drive the PCH in a Convertible Make a huge slip and slide Spend two weeks at Canyon Ranch/Golden Door See the Getty, MoMA, Louvre, Chicago Institute of Art, Float in the Dead Sea Visit the Hagia Sophia Go to Delphi Get drunk on Guinness in Dublin Get a ton of beads at Mardi Gras See the Taj Mahal See the pyramids Run for the Senate Visit an Active Volcano