60 Before 60

Have you ever really sat back and thought about the things you want to do and accomplish in your life? Really take stock of all the adventures and goals you have and made them into a tangible list?

The bucket list. There are all kinds of them. Summer bucket lists. Fall bucket lists. Before I die bucket lists.

Mine is the sixty things I would like to do before I turn 60 list. So here we go.

1. Go skydiving (super cliche, but it’s true)
2. Zipline through the jungle
3. Find the person I want to grow old with and/or have an epic romance
4. Eat a deep-fried Twinkie
5. Visit Bali
6. Eat pasta in Italy
7. Take a photography class
8. Write a best-selling novel
9. Visit a hot spring  with the love of my life and sit in it unabashedly naked together
10. Take a cooking class
11. Have a picnic in Central Park
12. See the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade in New York
13. Listen to jazz in the French Quarter
14. Vacation alone
15. Live on the beach
16. Befriend a complete stranger
17. Visit a castle
18. Go clam digging
19. Eat Boston Baked Beans in Boston
20. Eat pizza in Chicago
21. Kiss a beautiful man on top of The Empire State Building
22. Spend an entire week in a cabin unplugged from the internet and cell service
23. Learn how to make soap
24. Be on someone’s bucket list and help them make it happen
25. Build a Habitat For Humanity House
26. Go vegan for a year
27. Go to a silent retreat
28. Attend a book signing, as an author
29. Order one of everything off a menu
30. Have a super fancy dinner party
31. Watch a play on Broadway
32. Learn to homestead
33. Perform at a slam poetry reading
34. Be a bridesmaid
35. Learn to sew
36. Kiss in the rain
37. Hold an otter
38. Learn how to make candles
39. Eat something bizarre in a foreign country
40. See Manchester Orchestra perform live
41. Visit Greece
42. Visit Ireland
43. Visit Germany
44. Get my palm read
45. Try fire cupping
46. Stay in a 5-star resort
47. Eat a meal cooked by a celebrity chef
48. Enter a food challenge at a restaurant
49. Learn how to make a killer cocktail
50. Cuddle a koala bear
51. Hold a monkey
52. Watch my boys turn into men
53. Plant a thriving garden
54. Press my own apple cider
55. Make a completely home-grown meal
56. Go to a floating lantern festival
57. Name a star
58. Go ghost hunting
59. Pay for a stranger’s groceries
60. Own a home

So that’s it. That’s my 60 before 60 list. What’s on yours?