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50 things to do before you die

50 things to do before you die

Bucket List: How To Create Your Bucket List and 101 Things To Do Before You Die “Every man dies – Not every man really lives.” ~ William Ross“The only people who fear death are those with regrets.” ~ Author Unknown A few days ago, I was surfing online when I came across someone’s bucket list. It quickly inspired me to create my own list and write an article about it at the same time. What’s a Bucket List? If you haven’t heard about the term “bucket list”, it is a list of all the goals you want to achieve, dreams you want to fulfill and life experiences you desire to experience before you die. Why Create a Bucket List? If you don’t live your days by personal goals and plans, chances are you spend most of your time caught up in a flurry of day-to-day activities. Even if you frequently live by goals or to-do lists, they are probably framed within a certain social context e.g. performance, career, health. It’s just like planning ahead all the highlights you want for YOUR whole life. To get the free ebook, enter your name & email: Create Your Bucket List 1. How about you? 2.

Best Trips 2015 -- National Geographic Traveler Bucket List: 225 Things to Do Before You Die | Lifed | Page 15 211. Zip Line in Monteverde, Costa Rica Zip line above and through the foggy, almost mystical cloud forests of gorgeous Monteverde in Costa Rica. These lines, courtesy of Costa Rica Sky Adventures, span mountain-to-mountain, shooting zip-liners (i.e. you!) over the jungle at up to 330ft and speeds approaching 40mph. 212. Visit and take in the Niagara Falls waterfalls in northern New York. 213. Dubai’s probably among the most unashamedly ritzy places on Earth—the likes of modern skyscrapers (one the tallest in the world), exotic cars, and swanky real estate seen everywhere. 214. While we’re talking about doing stuff involving lots of H2O, consider wakeboarding as one of your last bucket list to-dos. 215. What’do’ya know? Bolstering the argument for normally-risque nudism, The Guardian even named the island ‘one of the top ten places to go skinny-dipping’. 216. 217. 218. Have you experienced the dreadful fear of public speaking (a.k.a. 219. 220. 221. 222. 223. 224. Feel out-of-shape yet?

Incredible Things About Traveling You Can Learn From These 15 Inspiring Movies I enjoy traveling. It’s an amazing experience to explore this big world, understand different culture and meet people from around the world. How will you ever know what another country is really like if you’ve never been there? Besides, it’s such a big world out there that we’ll regret not seeing it with our own eyes before we die. Here I’ve collected some of the incredible things about traveling from 15 movies which will get you pack your stuff and go traveling. 1. “To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other, and to feel. 2. “Miner’s Wife: Are you two looking for work? 3. “You wake up at Seatac, SFO, LAX. 4. “I love waking up in the morning not knowing what’s gonna happen or who I’m gonna meet, where I’m gonna wind up.” – From Jack in Titanic 5. “We do not follow maps to buried treasure and X never, ever marks the spot.” – From Indiana Jones in “Last Crusade” 6. “Wandering around our America has changed me more than I thought. 7.

Welcome The 24 Most Terrifying Places In The World To Look Down If you’re afraid of heights, turn back now. These are the most incredible (and mortifying) places to stand...and look down. I didn’t know I could be afraid of heights while looking through a computer screen. Broadway Direct | Features | The Five Best Things to Do in Times Square It’s called the Crossroads of the World, because some 360,000 people walk through the heart of it every single day — about 42 million visitors a year, the world’s most visited tourist attraction. It’s called the Great White Way, because of the huge illuminated signs that have served as its signature ever since Broadway was one of the first streets to be electrified more than a century ago, now supplemented by Big Brother–size video screens. If Craig Dykers has his way, Times Square will be called The Lobby of the Theatre District. Dykers is cofounder of Snohetta, the architecture firm hired by the city to lead the five-year reconstruction project of Times Square’s pedestrian plazas, due to be completed in 2015. It is the latest transformation of an area of midtown Manhattan — roughly bounded by 40th Street to the south and 53rd Street in the north, between 6th and 9th Avenues — that seems to reinvent itself every couple of decades. People-Watching Celebrating Exploring Shopping Eating

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