My Bucket List - Things I want to do and places I want to go before I die

Things I want to do:

Drink Vodka in Russia

Drive on the Pacific Coast Highway in California (cliffs)

Experience Har ki Pouri in Haridwar (India)

Get an Ayurveda Massage

Go on an African Safari

Go to Carnival in Rio

Ride a Horse 
Ride a cowboy (or least take a picture with the Times Square Naked Cowboy)

Scuba Diving

Visit the Great Pyramids 

See the Hollywood Sign

Visit a Step Well (India)

Visit a Ghost Town and an old Mine in Silverton, Colorado

Places I want to go:

Alaska
Australia
Bali

Block Island

Cape Cod

Colorado

Coney Island

Fiji

Germany

Grand Canyon

Hawaii
Iceland

Italy (especially Rome and Venice)
Japan

Las Vegas

Martha's Vineyard

Montreal

Mount Rushmore and Wall Drug Store/Black Hills South Dakota

Oregon
Paris

Rio de Janiro 

San Antonio (The Alamo)
Miami
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Cleveland, Ohio

San Diego
San Francisco 

Santa Monica Pier

Seattle

South Africa
Sri Lanka

Yellowstone Park /Old Faithful

The Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota

Williamsburg, Virginia

Winchester Mystery House in San Jose

Zion National Park, Utah

Foods I want to try:

Breadfruit (Philippines)

Cherymoya (custard apple - South America)

Cocona (South America)

Duku (Asia)

Horned Melon

Jabuticaba (Brazil)

Jicama

Mammee Apple (Mamey Apple or Santo Domingo Apricot - South America)

Mangosteen

Platonia (Brazil)

Rambutan (Chinese sucker - Southeast Asia and Costa Rica)

Rutabaga

Safou (Africa)

Salmonberry

Sugar Apple (India)

Yucca

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Things I Have Done :

Caribbean Cruise
Crawled under razor wire with live rounds flying a few inches above me

Driven a Humvee down a severely steep incline and through a lake

Driven my own snowmobile (I want to do this as an adult. Haven't since I was a kid)
Eat Indian Food in India

Fired an M16, M60, LAW, AT-4, Beretta, .38 revolver, Colt 45

Fishing with my Dad and Grandfather

Flown in a helicopter

Ice fishing

Ice Skating
Mud obstacle course (Rugged Maniac) 09/2012

Para-sailing

Rode a wave-runner
Rode a Camel  (India) 
Rode my bicycle from Springfield MA, to Boston
Rode my bicycle across the entire state of CT
Saw the Taj Mahal (India)

Saw the Terracotta Soldiers

Served in the Army
Skydiving

Smelting (tiny fish)

Snorkeling

Snow skiing

Thrown a live grenade

Walked on the Great Wall of China
Watched the Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) dance in the nighttime sky

Water skiing
Zip Line 09/2012

Places I Have Been:

Anniston, AL

Atlanta Braves Stadium

Atlanta, GA (1992-1995)

Atlantic City

Bar Harbor, ME

Basketball Hall of Fame

Beijing, Xi'an, and Shanghai China (April 2011)
Bermuda (Nov 2014)

Cancun Mexico (July 2001)

Chattanooga, TN

Chicago (July 2010)
Dallas, Texas

Disney World

Fenway Park

Hartland, New Brunswick, Canada

IKEA (finally!)
India (Delhi, Agra, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Jaiselmer, Pushkar) (Nov 2012)

London and Newcastle Upon Tyne, England (@2000)

Mt Katahdin (northern end of Appalachian Trail)

Mystic Seaport
New Orleans

Newport Mansions, RI

Niagara Falls (both sides) (Canada as a child and US 7/2010)

NYC 

Savannah, GA

Scotland (@2000)

Stone Mountain, GA

Washington D.C 

Foods I have eaten:

Asian pear (label also called it a Korean Pear) - (this was very good. Crisp and VERY juicy)

Blood orange (another nice citrus fruit)

Cactus pear (eh....it was ok, watery and bland)

Caviar

Dates

Escargot

Figs

Fried kool-aid

Fried pickles

Fried seaweed
Kulfi (Saffron and Pistachio Indian Ice Cream made with milk)

Kumquats (yummmmm)
Lime Pickles (India)

Lychee

Mango
Mango Pickles (India)

Papaya (bland - not a favorite)

Persimmon (pretty good)

Pitaya (Dragon Fruit)

Pomegranate

Real Chinese food

Rhubarb

Smelts

Sushi

Ugli fruit (nice citrus fruit)

I'll update this often. Please feel free to comment or give your suggestions. If you decide to do this, please link back to me and let me know!