to-do list

category: Adventure

• fly a small airplane across the country
• take aerobatics lessons - fly inverted
• earn a sailplane/glider rating
• drive a small car from Europe across Asia (e.g. Mongol Rally)
• visit Saline Valley hot springs (Death Valley CA)
• work at the South Pole for ~3 months
• cross the Atlantic by some means other than regularly-scheduled commercial airline flight
• do some alpine mountaineering (Cascades, Alps, or even Adirondacks)
• visit Scammon's Lagoon for the birthing of the grey whales, and go beach-combing at Malarrimo (Baja California Sur, Mexico)
• Drive the Mojave Road in a jeep (CA)

category: Near-term social

• invite my German class over to cook dinner / potluck

category: Some things to do while in Europe

• visit Tony in Sweden
• tour the Airbus factory in Hamburg!
• experience All Soul's Day in Poland or Lithuania or somewhere else that it is observed (pic)