Dave Freeman, the co-author of the best-selling travel guide “100 Things To Do Before You Die”, died in an accident at his home yesterday. He was just 47, and just had visited half the places list in his book.
I think we need a travel wish-list, But 100 things is too many, I don’t want leave too much regret before I die.

I still love Freeman’s famous saying : “This life is a short journey. How can you make sure you fill it with the most fun and that you visit all the coolest places on earth before you pack those bags for the very last time?”

Dave Freeman’s book was published in 1999. Then it brought two kinds of phenomena: Before You Die And 100. Yeah, If you search “before you die” on Amazon today, you can find 4,162 Results in book category, with different numbers in title as 50, 100,101, or even 1001.

But these kinds of ambition was not fit for me. I’d like to do many interesting things but I don’t think I can do all of them well if they are too many. Life is my own experience, my own feeling, my own taste, my own interesting, It can’t be annotated as some big numbers.

But I still need travel wish-list. That’s a part of plan of my life. So, I wrote a list five years ago, It’s not a big wish of Before You Die list, just a 10-year wish-list:

iWalk’s travel wish-list:( 2003-2013), Let’s check how it get along:

1. Visit The Dead Sea, the lowest point on earth, Take a photo of mine there and send it to one of my middle school teacher (I hope I can finish her wish of many years ago).

2. Visit Everest, the highest point on Earth. (Already done last year. Though I only climbed up to the point about 5800 meters above the sea level from the base camp of Everest because of the weather condition and my own physical strength.)

3. Visit Macwolrd, listen to the keynote of Steve Jobs in present. (Already done in 2004. I was so exciting to see the hero who change the world.)

4. Visit the places of Russia which I read from the novels. ( I read many classic Russion novels when I was just a kid, I love those stories, and I love Putin too.)

5. Visit Provence in lavender season. (Already done in 2006)

6. Travel Europe by train. (I had traveled by train in Germany, France, Spain and Monaco, But there are still many places I should visit.)

7. Hike at Shangri-La in Autumn. （I had visited Shangri-La in 2003, But not a hike way. I hope I can finish a 7-days hiking plan in the future.)

8. Enjoy beer of Beer festival in Germany. (Yeah, I had enjoyed beer in some places of Gernmay such as Bamberg, Passau, Leipzig, Nurnberg etc. But I still want a chance to attend Beer festival)

9. Hike in desert, Sahara is the best choice. (Maybe I was infected by SanMao’s adventure stories about Sahara.)

10. Travel as a volunteer. (I had hoped I can have a chance to travel as a teacher to some place need me. But my first volunteer exprience was attributed to the magnitude-8.0 earthquake in China. I arrived Chengdu three days after earthquake and worked as a personal volunteer there for two month. I visited some of disaster areas, but not a travel.)

Yeah, All the wishs mark in brown should be done in next five years. I hope I can finsh my list on time.

And How about your travel wish-list?

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