40. The age of the mid life crisis. In an effort to make the most of our youth, we (Pearl and Angela) created a 40 by 40 list, which we must complete together. It isn’t often you find a pair where one doesn’t know what trek means and the other thought Alaska was an island, so we have tailored our list to fit our particular type of crazy. Besides those two little things taking away any credibility we had as grown ups; we see something incredibly special (read:stupid) in it. Last summer we had a little test run (backpacking through Europe round 1!) on this and concluded that this list is ultimately doable, and knowing us we’d have a fair share of adventure. This summer we realized how completely codependent we are, and how we are utterly obsessed with one another; therefore we decided there is no other person we would rather take on this list with. Attempting this list preserves our idea of having the world at our feet, with everything and anything up in the air for us to tackle.
1.Skydiving (in footie pajamas…YES WE’RE SERIOUS)
2. Backpacking through Europe ROUND 2!
3. Get a drink named after us at Hobson’s or Trax (any bar really…)
4. Go on a cruise
5. Touch every ocean/sea
6. Visit every continent
7. Ride an elephant in Thailand
8. Ride a camel in the Middle East
9. Go to the World Cup
10. Go to the Olympics
11. Publish a book of our misadventures
12. Make money as street performers
13. Cross-country road trip
14. Ice hotel
15. Feed penguins
16. White water rafting
17. Go Zorbing
18. Spend Christmas and New Year’s in another country
19. Go on a real African safari
20. Master the art of baking French macaroons and crème brulee
21. Go bungee jumping off a bridge in Germany
22. Go to Bonaroo
23. OKTOBERFEST
24. Make a video montage of us doing a the macarena in every country we go to (during our backpacking through Europe round 2)
25. Find someone at a bar singing to Hall and Oates and finding out he’s my soulmate
26. Learn how to say “Cheers” in 7 languages and utilize it VERY WELL
27. Go running with the bulls
28. Have a picnic of dinosaur chicken nuggets in front of five famous landmarks
29. Eat sushi in Japan
30. Go to Ireland and find Irish farm hands who become the loves of our lives like in “P.S. I love You” but they stay alive
31. Have a drink with Jeff at Moby Dick
32. Go to a Renaissance Festival in England
33. Spend a summer mailing each other back and forth a pair of pants, which we share and include letters of the stories it brings us
34. Go cliff jumping in Greece
35. Attend a red carpet event
36. Crash a wedding. …. AND MAKE A TOAST
37. Go to a baseball game in every stadium in the country
38. Live in an apartment on top of a bar
39. Break out into song in a café and do a choreographed dance
40. TREK THROUGH ALASKA!
