# Things to do/see before you die
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-to-do-see-before-you-die/392954
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [February 20, 2007, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-to-do-see-before-you-die/392954 "2007-02-20T13:12:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
**Page:** 3
### Author:  [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2007, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-to-do-see-before-you-die/392954/41 "2007-02-25T04:27:06Z")
[QUOTE=Ranchoth]
See a human walk on the moon again.
[/QUOTE]
There’s a coincidence. I’d like to walk on the moon. (But, Alas! I can’t add “again.”)
---
### Author:  [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2007, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-to-do-see-before-you-die/392954/42 "2007-02-25T05:26:12Z")
[QUOTE=Nava]
Ah, but I already read Einstein and got the MS in Quantum Chemistry… _gets her (sun)glasses on so she can push them up her nose, all nerdy-like_
[/QUOTE]
:: crushes hopelessly on **Nava** ::
Things I’d love to do someday…[ul][li]Visit the Alhambra. (Doesn’t “Alhambra” include a “the” in Arabic?)[_]Sail through the Golden Gate on a glorious evening, as the tawny grass-covered Californian hills are lit by the setting sun. (I’ve seen it from the shore, and it was stunning then, but not from the water.)[_]Sail into New York harbour on a fine clear summer morning.[_]Visit the Louvre.[_]Visit the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris. (It is to my shame that I have only seen it from the outside. I was passing through Paris and looking for a place to stay. I sat in the square outside Notre Dame, and called around to hostels looking for a bed. I was going to visit the cathedral and then go to whichever hostel I found, but the hostel I called who had a bed said, “If you can get to Metro Hoche in 45 minutes, you can have the bed.” I did, I had a place to sleep, but I didn’t get back to the Cathedral. Or to the Louvre.)[_]Visit San Carlos de Bariloche, a beautiful alpine town in Argentina. A friend went there and brought back pictures.[_]Visit Iguacu Falls. The same friend also went there. [_]Visit the Taj Mahal.[_]Visit the Pyramids…[/ul]There are so many places and wonders I’d like to see. I could spend years just exploring interesting bridges, for instance.[/li]
In smaller-scale affairs, I would like to…[ul][_]Finish a comic book or even a story for once and actually get it published! (I have all these great ideas…)[_]Actually learn higher math, like three-dimensional calculus and vectors and stuff.[_]Actually learn French to the point where I can conduct meaningful conversations with strangers in it. (It is to my shame that I do not know one of my country’s official languages well enough to speak to 20 percent of my fellow Canadians.)[_]Actually get my people-drawing skills to the point where I can do a decent job of drawing people, directly out of my head, with no need for a model or photograph.[_]Get married.[_]Go to space. Or at least take a suborbital flight. (I have a horrible suspicion that I would be extremely space-sick. That wouldn’t stop me, though.)[/ul]
---
### Author:  [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2007, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-to-do-see-before-you-die/392954/43 "2007-02-25T06:37:35Z")
My list:
- Punch somebody and knock them unconscious
- Have a girl wear a strap-on and have anal sex with me (geez… blushing)
- Visit every continent on the planet, every country if I find time
- Become either a key politician or a major evangelist (weird I know)
- Get a self-created thread put in Threadspotting
- Meet Cecil
- Get to the finals in American Idol
- Have sex with a lot of Asian strippers (then feel guilty about it)
- Revolutionize the Internet
- Raise a great family
- Bench 200+ pounds
- Get at least 4-pack abs
- Be able to orgasm without emission (i’ve done it before, but not well)
- Become very skilled at oral sex
- Try acid
- Wrestle an alligator and win
- Fight a lion with a sword and shield and survive
- Find a loving and caring wife (goes with the family thing)
- Do my best to love everyone ^^
That’s quite the varied and sometimes contradictory list, but I assure you every entry was serious.
---
### Author:  [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2007, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-to-do-see-before-you-die/392954/44 "2007-02-25T07:31:19Z")
I’m not much for traveling in general, but I’d like to see Scotland, Ireland and England. And maybe California.
Publish any one of the four craft-instruction books I’ve been working on for the last millennium.
Have a one-woman gallery show of my jewelry.
Act in a play.
Learn how to roll makizushi really well.
Get my conversational Spanish back up to conversational, and learn at least tourist-level French.
See my daughter grow up, and see her turn 50 😃
---
### Author:  [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2007, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-to-do-see-before-you-die/392954/45 "2007-02-25T08:04:44Z")
[QUOTE=LifeOnWry]
Learn how to roll makizushi really well.
[/QUOTE]
I am a sushi chef, albeit a new one. If you need any pointers, just give the word 🙂
---
### Author:  [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2007, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-to-do-see-before-you-die/392954/46 "2007-02-25T09:30:21Z")
Win the Lottery.
That would pretty much ensure that I could do many things before I die, things I had never even considered possible.
---
### Author:  [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2007, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-to-do-see-before-you-die/392954/47 "2007-02-25T10:11:53Z")
[QUOTE=Autolycus]
- Have a girl wear a strap-on and have anal sex with me (geez… blushing)
[/QUOTE]
Well, if you can make it to Bangkok, the girls at the Eden Club in Sukhumvit Soi 7/1 can accommodate you. That is one of their specialties. Being happily married, I’ve not sampled that myself, nor do I think I would even if I were single. But reports from there have been good.
---
### Author:  [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2007, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-to-do-see-before-you-die/392954/48 "2007-02-26T04:24:40Z")
[QUOTE=Siam Sam]
Well, if you can make it to Bangkok, the girls at the Eden Club in Sukhumvit Soi 7/1 can accommodate you. That is one of their specialties. Being happily married, I’ve not sampled that myself, nor do I think I would even if I were single. But reports from there have been good.
[/QUOTE]
Phew! I’m glad I didn’t wander into that place accidentally when I was in the Patpong!
---
### Author:  [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2007, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-to-do-see-before-you-die/392954/49 "2007-02-26T04:36:47Z")
[QUOTE=Darryl Lict]
Phew! I’m glad I didn’t wander into that place accidentally when I was in the Patpong!
[/QUOTE]
Well, you couldn’t have, because it’s over off of Sukhumvit Road, not in Patpong. However, there are a handful of places in Patpong that you may or may not have been glad to have wandered into by accident, depending on how shy you are, hehehe. 😃
[Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-to-do-see-before-you-die/392954.md?page=2)