:: eye of the storm ::


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A 27-year-old PA student who wants to visit all seven continents, write a book, work at a pediatric clinic in Africa, and basically meet as many of the world's challenges as possible.

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Life List

(already accomplished)

Become a PA

Visit all 7 continents

Take a SwimTrek trip

Bike through Western Europe

Raft the Grand Canyon

Improve my Spanish proficiency

Go on safari in Africa

Trace my roots at Ellis Island

Vacation in Hawaii

Work on a hospital ship in a Third World country

Celebrate New Year's in Times Square

Visit all 50 states (29 to go: AK, AZ, AR, CA, CO, HI, ID, IL, IN, IA, KS, MI, MN, MO, MT, NE, NV, NM, ND, OK, OR, RI, SD, TX, UT, VT, WA, WV, WI, WY)

See the ruins at Pompeii

Swim in Capri's Blue Grotto

Tour Mt. Vesuvius

Throw a coin in the Trevi Fountain

Tour the Colosseum

Visit the D-Day beaches

See the Mona Lisa

Visit the palace at Versailles

See the Acropolis and Parthenon

See the Egyptian pyramids

Hike the Inca Trail

Walk El Camino Santiago

Take an Alaskan cruise

View the Taj Mahal at sunrise

Hike Table Mountain in South Africa

Climb through the Amazon canopy

Walk at least part of the Great Wall of China

Get laser hair removal

Learn to surf, ski, and snowboard

Learn to drive a stick-shift

Learn to play the piano

Go on a tropical cruise

Ride horseback on the beach

Ride in a hot air balloon

Get tickets to the Olympics

Go to adult Space Camp

Witness a shuttle launch from up close

Build a full-sized snowman

Sew a quilt out of my old race T-shirts

Update and continue my Life Scrapbook

Become the oldest person to ever do the River Run

Live to be a happy, healthy 100 years old - at least!

(unlikely dreams)

zondag 21 maart 2004

Back - I forgot to add two things:

First: I rode along with Martin on the train again this afternoon... he had a schedule with Utrecht as the 'hub', something like Utrecht - Den Haag - Utrecht - Den Haag - Utrecht - Rhenen - Utrecht - Zwolle... anyway, so I rode along to Den Haag and as soon as we got there we heard that there was a broken 'bovenleiding'... the wire that hangs above the track... between Utrecht and Woerden. So we couldn't go back to Utrecht at all, and everybody who needed to go there (passengers) had to go via Schiphol (and thus also via Duivendrecht, of course). Really ridiculous... to give the non-Dutch an idea: picture a triangle. The connection I'm talking about is sort of like making the 'peak' of a triangle when you could make the connection in simply the bottom 'line' of the shape.

Anyway, so we sat around in Den Haag for a couple of hours and then got on a train which was supposedly going to Utrecht. Only it didn't; it went to Woerden and then there was another problem and it couldn't go any further. (Martin of course got swamped with people asking questions.) So we decided to take the bus to Utrecht (15 minutes), and got there just late enough for Martin to miss the train to Rhenen, so he had nowhere to go until 22.30 so we sat around in the 'verblijf' for the NS conductors and ate dinner and talked and stuff until I realized I really needed to go home, since I had my bike... so I went, and it of course started RAINING... grrr... but anyway, so that was my adventure and here I am. :)

And second: I LOVE THE NEW MARCO DVD... but I want to play the audio tracks on my mp3 player and I can't. If anyone knows how to rip DVD audio, please let me know...

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