First posted: Saturday, Feb. 5, 2011

Skills to acquire

• Become fluent in:
  • Japanese
  • Mandarin Chinese (currently competent with spoken communication, working on reading/writing)
  • Russian
  • Spanish (currently ok with newspaper-level reading, working on other aspects)
• Learn to make:
  • Really good homemade bread
  • Layered cakes with fancy decorations
  • Fancy beaded earrings
  • Skirts and dresses
  • Quilts (in progress, learned basic patchwork)
• Other:
  • Basic home and car repair

Travel

• Africa:
  • Cairo
• Americas:
  • Grand Canyon
  • West coast road trip, from San Diego to Vancouver
  • Belize
  • Costa Rica
  • Machu Picchu
  • Rio de Janeiro
• Asia/Oceania:
  • India
  • Sydney, then hop over to New Zealand
  • Wolong panda reserve and the Great Wall of China
• Europe:
  • Amsterdam
  • Athens
  • Barcelona
  • Dublin
  • Innsbruck
  • London
  • Madrid (again)
  • Paris
  • Prague
  • Rome (again)
  • Vienna

Other experiences

• Get a dog
• Have kids
• Own a nice house
• Plant a vegetable garden
• Can my own food once
• Home composting
• Go sport shooting once
• Run a sub-27-minute 5K
• Run a 10K