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Life List Continued

#4. Spend New Years in every time zone:

  • -12 Baker Island, Howland Island (uninhabited islands)
  • -11 Samoa, American Samoa
  • -10 Hawaii, Papeete, Tahiti
  • -9:30 Marquesas Islands
  • -9 Juneau, Fairbanks, Anchorage, Alaska, USA
  • -8 Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, Las Vegas, Baja California
  • -7  Alberta, Colorado, Arizona, Chihuahua, Sonora
  • -6 Chicago, Costa Rica, Dallas, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Houston, Manitoba, Mexico City, Nicaragua, Saskatchewan [New Orleans]
  • -5 Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal, Boston, New York, Cuba, Eastern USA, Jamaica, Haiti, Ecuador, Peru [Atlanta] 
  • -4:30 Venezuela
  • -4 Nova Scotia, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, Amazonas, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Argentina’s San Luis Province
  • -3:30 Newfoundland
  • -3 Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Brasilia, Argentina, Uruguay, Greenland
  • -2 Brazil’s Fernando de Noronha Islands, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
  • -1 Azores, Cape Verde
  • +0 United Kingdom, Iceland, Faroe Islands, Ireland, Portugal, Madeira, Canary Islands, Morocco, Senegal, Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire [London]
  • +1 Albania, Slovenia, Macedonia, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, metropolitan France, Switzerland, Austria, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, continental Spain, Italy, Croatia, Serbia, Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Tunisia, Algeria, Cameroon, Angola, Kinshasa, [Paris]
  • +2 Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Belarus, Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Israel, Egypt, Libya, Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa
  • +3 Russia’s Samara region, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Madagascar
  • +3:30 Iran
  • +4 Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, United Arab Emirates, Oman, Seychelles, Mauritius, Moscow, Saint Petersburg
  • +4:30 Afghanistan
  • +5 Russia’s Sverdlovsk region, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Maldives, Kazakhstan
  • +5:30 India, Sri Lanka
  • +5:45 Nepal
  • +6 Russia’s Novosibirsk region, Almaty, Kazakhstan, Bangladesh
  • +6:30 Myanmar (Burma), Australia’s Cocos Islands
  • +7 Russia’s Krasnoyarsk region, Thailand, Vietnam, Jakarta
  • +8 Russia’s Irkutsk region, Ulan Bator, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Western Australia
  • +9 Russia’s Zabaykalsky region, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, East Timor
  • +9:30 Northern Territory, South Australia
  • +10 Victoria, Tasmania, Queensland, New South Wales, Russia’s Primorsky region
  • +10:30 Lord Howe Island (Australia)
  • +11 Russia’s Kamchatka region, Solomon Islands, New Caledonia
  • +11:30 Norfolk Island (Australia)
  • +12 Fiji, New Zealand
  • +12:45 Chatham Islands (New Zealand)
  • +13 Tonga
  • +14 Line Islands

#32. Read TIME Top 100 Novels of All Time.

  • The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow
  • All the King’s Men, Robert Penn Warren
  • American Pastoral, Philip Roth
  • An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser
  • Animal Farm, George Orwell
  • Appointment in Samarra, John O’Hara
  • Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, Judy Blume
  • The Assistant, Bernard Malamud
  • A Swim-Two-Birds, Flann O’Brien
  • Atonement, Ian McEwan
  • Beloved, Toni Morrison
  • The Berlin Stories, Christopher Sherwood
  • The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler
  • The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood
  • Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy
  • Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
  • The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder
  • Call It Sleep, Henry Roth
  • Catch-22, Joseph Heller
  • The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
  • A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
  • Confessions of Nat Turner, William Styron
  • The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen
  • The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon
  • Dance to the Music of Time, Anthony Powell
  • The Day of the Locust, Nathanael West
  • Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather
  • A Death in the Family, James Agee
  • The Death of the Heart, Elizabeth Bowen
  • Deliverance, James Dickey
  • Dog Soldiers, Robert Stone
  • Falconer, John Cheever
  • The French Lieutenant’s Woman, John Fowles
  • The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing
  • Go Tell It On the Mountain, James Baldwin
  • Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
  • The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
  • Gravity’s Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
  • The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • A Handful of Dust, Evelyn Waugh
  • The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers
  • The Heart of the Matter, Graham Greene
  • Herzog, Saul Bellow
  • Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson
  • A House for Mr. Biswas, V.S. Naipaul
  • I, Claudius, Robert Graves
  • Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
  • Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
  • Light in August, William Faulkner
  • The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis
  • Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
  • Lord of the Flies, William Golding
  • Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
  • Loving, Henry Green
  • Lucky Jim, Kingsley Amis
  • The Man Who Loved Children, Christina Stead
  • Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie
  • Money, Martin Amis
  • The Moviegoer, Walker Percy
  • Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
  • Naked Lunch, William Burroughs
  • Native Son, Richard Wright
  • Neuromancer, William Gibson
  • Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
  • 1984, George Orwell
  • On the Road, Jack Kerouac
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey
  • The Painted Bird, Jerzy Kosinski
  • Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov
  • A Passage to India, EM Forster
  • Play It As It Lays, Joan Didion
  • Porthoy’s Complaint, Philip Roth
  • Possession, AS Byatt
  • The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene
  • The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark
  • Rabbit, Run, John Updike
  • Ragtime, EL Doctorow
  • The Recognitions, William Gaddis
  • Red Harvest, Dashiell Hammett
  • Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates
  • The Sheltering Sky, Paul Bowles
  • Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut
  • Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
  • The Sot-Weed Factor, John Barth
  • The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner
  • The Sportswriter, Richard Ford
  • The Spy Who Came In From the Cold, John Le Carre
  • The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
  • Things Fell Apart, Chinua Achebe
  • To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee
  • To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
  • Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller
  • Ubik, Philip K. Dick
  • Under the Net, Iris Murdoch
  • Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry
  • Watchmen, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
  • White Noise, Dan Delillo
  • White Teeth, Zadie Smith
  • Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys

#43. Watch IMDB Top 100 Films.

  1. The Shawshank Redemption
  2. The Godfather
  3. The Godfather Part 2
  4. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
  5. Pulp Fiction
  6. Schindler’s List
  7. 12 Angry Men
  8. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
  9. The Dark Knight
  10. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
  11. Casablanca
  12. Star Wars
  13. Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
  14. The Seven Samurai
  15. Good Fellas
  16. Rear Window
  17. City of God
  18. Raiders of the Lost Ark
  19. Fight Club
  20. Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
  21. Once Upon a Time in the West
  22. The Usual Suspects
  23. Psycho
  24. Silence of the Lambs
  25. Sunset Boulevard
  26. The Matrix
  27. Memento
  28. Dr. Strangelove
  29. North by Northwest
  30. Se7en
  31. It’s a Wonderful Life
  32. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
  33. Citizen Kane
  34. Leon, aka The Professional
  35. Apocalypse Now
  36. American Beauty
  37. American History X
  38. Taxi Driver
  39. Forrest Gump
  40. Vertigo
  41. Lawrence of Arabia
  42. Up
  43. Wall-E
  44. Inglorious Basterds
  45. Paths of Glory
  46. Amelie
  47. Double Indemnity
  48. Alien
  49. M
  50. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
  51. To Kill a Mockingbird
  52. Saving Private Ryan
  53. A Clockwork Orange
  54. The Shining
  55. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
  56. The Departed
  57. The Third Man
  58. The Pianist 
  59. The Lives of Others
  60. Chinatown
  61. Spirited Away
  62. City Lights
  63. Aliens
  64. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  65. LA Confidential
  66. Requiem for a Dream
  67. Das Boot
  68. Reservoir Dogs
  69. Bridge on the River Kwai
  70. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
  71. Pan’s Labyrinth
  72. Raging Bull
  73. All About Eve
  74. The Maltese Falcon
  75. Slumdog Millionaire
  76. Singin’ in the Rain
  77. District 9
  78. Rashomon
  79. Modern Times
  80. Some Like It Hot
  81. The Prestige
  82. Rebecca
  83. Downfall
  84. Gran Torino
  85. Cinema Paradiso
  86. Amadeus
  87. The Apartment
  88. 2001: A Space Odyssey
  89. The Elephant Man
  90. Life is Beautiful
  91. Metropolis
  92. The Great Dictator
  93. Once Upon a Time in America
  94. Back to the Future
  95. Full Metal Jacket
  96. The Bicycle Thief
  97. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
  98. The Sting
  99. The Great Escape
  100. Braveheart

#77 Visit all US National Parks (12/58)

  1. Denali
  2. Gates of the Arctic
  3. Glacier Bay
  4. Katmai
  5. Kenai Fjords
  6. Kobuk Valley
  7. Lake Clark
  8. Wrangell – St. Elias
  9. American Samoa
  10. Grand Canyon
  11. Petrified Forest
  12. Saguaro
  13. Hot Springs
  14. Channel Islands
  15. Death Valley
  16. Joshua Tree
  17. Kings Canyon
  18. Lassen Volcanic
  19. Redwood
  20. Sequoia
  21. Yosemite
  22. Black Canyon of the Gunnison
  23. Great Sand Dunes
  24. Mesa Verde
  25. Rocky Mountain
  26. Biscayne
  27. Dry Tortugas
  28. Everglades
  29. Haleakala
  30. Hawaii Volcanoes
  31. Mammoth Cave
  32. Acadia
  33. Isle Royale
  34. Voyageurs
  35. Glacier
  36. Yellowstone
  37. Great Basin
  38. Carlsbad Caverns
  39. Theodore Roosevelt
  40. Cuyahoga Valley
  41. Crater Lake
  42. Congaree
  43. Badlands
  44. Wind Cave
  45. Great Smoky Mountains
  46. Big Bend
  47. Guadalupe Mountains
  48. Virgin Islands
  49. Arches
  50. Bryce Canyon
  51. Capitol Reef
  52. Canyonlands
  53. Zion
  54. Shenandoah
  55. Mount Rainier
  56. North Cascades
  57. Olympic
  58. Grand Teton