#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. LewisLolita, 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.
- The Shawshank Redemption
The GodfatherThe Godfather Part 2- The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
- Pulp Fiction
- Schindler’s List
12 Angry Men- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
The Dark KnightStar Wars: The Empire Strikes BackCasablancaStar Wars- Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
- The Seven Samurai
- Good Fellas
Rear Window- City of God
Raiders of the Lost ArkFight Club- Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
- Once Upon a Time in the West
The Usual SuspectsPsycho- Silence of the Lambs
- Sunset Boulevard
The Matrix- Memento
- Dr. Strangelove
- North by Northwest
Se7enIt’s a Wonderful Life- Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
- Citizen Kane
- Leon, aka The Professional
- Apocalypse Now
American Beauty- American History X
- Taxi Driver
Forrest Gump- Vertigo
- Lawrence of Arabia
- Up
- Wall-E
Inglorious Basterds- Paths of Glory
Amelie- Double Indemnity
Alien- M
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day
To Kill a Mockingbird- Saving Private Ryan
A Clockwork OrangeThe Shining- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
- The Departed
- The Third Man
The Pianist- The Lives of Others
- Chinatown
- Spirited Away
- City Lights
AliensEternal Sunshine of the Spotless MindLA Confidential- Requiem for a Dream
- Das Boot
- Reservoir Dogs
- Bridge on the River Kwai
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Pan’s Labyrinth- Raging Bull
- All About Eve
- The Maltese Falcon
- Slumdog Millionaire
- Singin’ in the Rain
- District 9
- Rashomon
- Modern Times
Some Like It Hot- The Prestige
- Rebecca
- Downfall
- Gran Torino
- Cinema Paradiso
- Amadeus
The Apartment- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- The Elephant Man
Life is Beautiful- Metropolis
- The Great Dictator
- Once Upon a Time in America
Back to the Future- Full Metal Jacket
- The Bicycle Thief
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington- The Sting
- The Great Escape
- Braveheart
#77 Visit all US National Parks (12/58)
- Denali
- Gates of the Arctic
- Glacier Bay
- Katmai
- Kenai Fjords
- Kobuk Valley
- Lake Clark
- Wrangell – St. Elias
- American Samoa
- Grand Canyon
- Petrified Forest
- Saguaro
Hot Springs- Channel Islands
- Death Valley
- Joshua Tree
- Kings Canyon
- Lassen Volcanic
- Redwood
- Sequoia
- Yosemite
- Black Canyon of the Gunnison
- Great Sand Dunes
- Mesa Verde
Rocky Mountain- Biscayne
- Dry Tortugas
Everglades- Haleakala
Hawaii Volcanoes- Mammoth Cave
Acadia- Isle Royale
- Voyageurs
- Glacier
Yellowstone- Great Basin
- Carlsbad Caverns
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Cuyahoga Valley
- Crater Lake
CongareeBadlandsWind CaveGreat Smoky Mountains- Big Bend
- Guadalupe Mountains
- Virgin Islands
- Arches
- Bryce Canyon
- Capitol Reef
- Canyonlands
- Zion
Shenandoah- Mount Rainier
- North Cascades
- Olympic
Grand Teton