- Hear Kim Addonizio read
- Go on a photography retreat
- Take a drawing class
- Publish a book of poetry
- Write a novel
- Write a travel book
- Learn to waltz
- Learn how to belly dance
- Learn how to ballroom dance
- Learn how to tango
- Learn to salsa
- Learn to rhumba
- Learn the flamenco
- See Van Morrison
- See Eric Clapton
- See U2
- See Dave Matthews Band
- See John Mayer
- Go on a literary tour of the UK
- Go on a literary tour of Ireland
- Learn how to write Copperplate Calligraphy
- Find Bramasole (France Maye’s house in Tuscany)
- See the Nutcracker in NYC
- See the Blue Man Group
- See Stomp
- See a Broadway Show (Phantom of the Opera)
- See the Chicago Blues Scene
- Preservation Hall (NOLA)
- Attend the Grand Ole Opry (Nashville, TN)
- Go to a Blues Bar in Chicago
- Sydney Opera House (New South Wales, Australia)
- Stradford-Upon-Avon, England (Shakespeare’s house)
- The Mark Twain House
- The Edgar Allen Poe House
- Go to the bus Chris McCandless died in (Into the Wild)
- Globe Theater
- Hear the Mormon Tabernacle Choir (Salt Lake City)
- See the Book of Kells (Dublin)
- Go to the Dublin Writers Museum
- Musee de Cluny (Paris)
- Musee D’Orsay (Paris)
- Attend the Paris Opera House
- Musee Picasso
- Anne Frank House (Amsterdam)
- Van Gogh Museum (Amsterdam)
- See Chopin’s Birthplace
- Albertina Museum (Vienna)
- Kunsthistorisches Museum (Vienna)
- Trinity Library (Dublin)
- Louvre
- Go to the MET
- See the Smithsonians in D.C.
- Learn to blow glass
- Learn to knit
- Learn to Quill
- Make soap
- Strahov Theological Hall in Strahov Monastery (Prague)
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (New Haven, CT)
- Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library ( University of Toronto)
- Admont Library (Admont, Austria)
- British Library ( London)
- Read at least 10 Books from Modern Library’s Best Novels List
- Eric Carle Museum (MA)
- Attend a Cirque du Soleil Show
- Go to the World Expo
- Go on a writing retreat
- Learn to yodel
- Go to the Opera House in Buenos Aires (converted into bookstore)
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