Bucket List of 101 | Jie Liu 刘洁

Inspired from Chip Huyen’s List 100 and the movie “The Bucket List”. Please do reach out if you have any recommendations.

Why 101?

My initial thought was 1001, but it feels excessive and burdensome.
And, while 1001 isn’t a prime number, 101 is!

1. ✗ Earn a PhD

A checkmark expected in ~half a year.

2. ✓ Learn paragliding

Did a tandem paragliding at Poo Poo Point, Seattle.

3. ✗ Take a hot-air balloon ride

4. ✓ Fall in love

5. ✗ Build my own home

6. ✗ Plant a cherry blossom tree

7. ✗ Build a hammock

8. ✗ Become a parent

9. ✗ Run a half marathon

10. ✗ Learn to play the guitar

Tried to teach myself after elementary school when I thought myself as a cool teenager (amn’t I?) I want to play pieces by Masaaki Kishibe!

11. ✗ Learn to play the piano

Learned for about a month after college, but I want to play the “Croatian Rhapsody”.

12. ✗ Eat at a 3 Michelin star restaurant

13. ✗ Go on an African safari

14. ✓ See the northern light

15. ✓ See a comet

16. ✗ Write a sci-fi novel

17. ✗ Scuba diving in tropical occean

18. ✗ Visit a winery in South Africa

19. ✗ Trip to the south pole

20. ✗ Trip to the north pole

21. ✗ Climb Great wall, China

Shamely never been to the Great Wall though spent 4 years living in Beijing…

22. ✗ Go to Tibet, China

23. ✗ Hike to Everest base camp

24. ✗ Carnival in Brazil

25. ✗ Watch bullfight in Spain

26. ✗ El Día de Muertos (The Day of the Dead) in Mexico

27. ✓ Niagara Falls

Lucky to be in a PhD program at upstate New York and the Niagara Falls is so accessible! Have been a must do since I was in elementary school.

28. ✗ Angel Falls in Venezuela

29. ✓ Cross country skiing through woods

30. ✗ Surf in Hawaii

31. ✗ Fly an airplane

32. ✗ Learn horse riding

33. ✗ Ask a stranger out

34. ✓ Learn archery

35. ✗ Go for hunting

36. ✗ Learn shooting

37. ✓ Camp in a desert

38. ✗ Do pull-ups

39. ✗ Water gliding

40. ✗ Parachuting/Sky diving

41. ✓ Live a life with a dog

My sweetheart Mochi >3

42. ✗ Get a non-engineering degree

43. ✗ Upload a vlog

44. ✗ Travel around Eastern Europe

45. ✗ Climb the Great Pyramid in Egypt

46. ✓ Watch a Broadway show in New York

47. ✗ Travel around The Middle East

48. ✗ Learn lead climbing

49. ✗ Learn mountaineering

50. ✗ Visit all Mediterranean countries

51. ✗ Travel to Siberia, Russia

52. ✗ Learn to dance a song

53. ✗ Take photos of 100 wildlife

54. ✗ Hike Angels Landing in Zion National Park

55. ✓ Road trip across the US

Round trips from Ithaca, NY to Richland, WA in 2023 summer. Beyond grateful to my companions!