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  A driving tour of the Netherlands

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  A driving tour of Denmark, especially Copenhagen

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  A visit to the sculpture gardens of Norway

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  A week in south Carolina visiting the Brookgreen Gardens

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  The Calgary Stampede in Alberta

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  Send my husband to a gourmet cooking school in France

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  Finally buy a house of our own (instead of the condo we have now)

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  Attend the week-long school of antique print study offered by the University of Virginia every Summer

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  Spend two weeks studying 17th Century prints at the National Gallery of Art

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  Taking a leisurely tour of the Rocky Mountains

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  Seeing how the few remaining oystermen of the Chesapeake Bay carry on their traditions

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  Taking an RV tour around America with my husband

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  Paying for my husband

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  Giving my nephew a wedding president he

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  Having an ornate wood chest custom made to hold my collection of thousands of antique bronze and silver medals

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  Getting a big-screen HD TV and sound system

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  A driving tour through Napa Valley wineries

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  A nature tour of Tasmania (Australia)

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  A visit with "the crocodile hunter" in Australia

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  Cruise around the Mediterranean Sea

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  Take a submarine dive to as low as they can go

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  Take a sub-orbital space flight

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  Travel by train all over Europe

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  Visit Tianimen Square in China to lay a wreath

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  Go to jail (again) for something I really believe in

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  Spend a week or two at Rangely Lake in Maine (again)

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  Visit Toronto for the first time

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  Work at the National Zoo with the small mammals (marmosets)

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  Learn how to cast my own bronze sculptures

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  Finally learn to play the guitar, banjo, mandolin or fiddle

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  Visit Auschwitz and other concentration camps

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  Volunteer with the National Holocaust Memorial Museum in DC

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  Go to the Vienna Opera House, Austria

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  Visit Prague and the countryside of the Czech Republic

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  Finish and pubish my book on the pictorial history of skinny dipping from the 15th Century to the 20th Century

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  Visit Coney Island! Ride the Cyclone!

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  Go to circus clown school in Florida

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  Go white water rafting down the Colorado River

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  Become a colonial reenactor for Colonial Williamsburg for a week

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  Learn to fly a Cessna solo

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  Take a research trip to study the Beluga whales off Nova Scotia

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  Cruise on the Windjammer to anywhere BUT the Bahamas

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  Spend some time on the Big Island in Hawaii

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  Tour with Jez Lowe and the Bad Pennies all over England

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  Attend the next Olympics, wherever they are

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  Fly all our closest friends to Paris for a week

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  Ride elephants in India

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  Pay a lawyer to complete the adoption process for our son

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  To visit the thermal baths of Iceland

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  To spend 3 weeks driving the back roads of Ireland and visiting every pub along the way

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  To tour the ruins of Pompey and the Herculaneum

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  To enjoy the islands of Greece

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  Portugal! Never been but always wanted to go

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  My heritage includes Scotland, so a tour of the Scottish castles is in order

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  Thailand beckons

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  Visit New Zealand

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  Finally seeing Alice Springs in the Australian Outback

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  Taking my son on a tour of Spain

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  Mongolia - no one ever goes to Mongolia, but it

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  Having a guided tour of Morocco and the Casbah

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  cruise Alaska

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  Taking the TransCanada railway all the way across the country

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  Paying my respects at the tomb of Oscar Wilde in Paris

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  Returning to Berlin to seee how things have changed since the Wall came down

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  Gambling at the chemin de fer tables in Monaco!

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  Taking a canal cruise in Vienna Italy

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  Seeing the rain forests of Costa Rico

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  Taking a second honeymoon in San Juan Puerto Rico

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  learning Spanish -- in Barcelona

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  Touring the paradors (castles, monasteries, etc.) of Spain

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  Spending several weeks in Tuscany

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  Visiting South Africa and learning about Bantus

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  Touring Yellowstone

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  Touring the Grand Canyon

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  Searching out music venues in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia

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  Spending a couple of weeks on Skye Island north of Scotland

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  Taking a boat cruise on the Volga River in Russia

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  Taking a boat cruise on the Danube

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  Visiting Yugoslavia and Hungary

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  Taking the river boat across Siberia

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  Taking a cruise down the Nile

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  Taking a paddle wheet streamer down the Mississippi

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  3 weeks in Paris to visit EVERY museum

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  A wine tour of the French countryside

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  Visit the Turkish baths -- in Constantinople

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  Go on a photo-only safari in Kenya

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  Attend the annual Phallic Festival in Kyoto Japan

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  Give my son the vacation of HIS dreams

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  Take a cruise to the Fiji Islands

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  Take my husband to see every opera by the Washington National Opera

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  Go on a shopping spree at Nordstroms for my husband and son

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  Outfit my entire office with iMac computers and related hardware/software

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  Have someone photograph and catalog my collection of art medals and publish the catalog

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  Have someone photograph and catalog my collection of 17th Century copperplate engravings

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  Throw myself an incredible 65th birthday party!

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  Take a hot air balloon ride over Arizona and New Mexico

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  Fly to Madrid for dinner at La Trucha restaurant

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  Go to Rio de Janeiro for Mardi Gras

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  Walk with the seals in Antarctica

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  Visit the Galapagos Islands