That leaves books for last....and probably my favorite.  Although travel and books seem to go hand in hand.  I guess eating should be added to that too.  Anyways....my list begins with the best books of all time.  There are always books coming out that I want to read, so this list will probably just keep growing.  But look forward to my reviews when I am done reading!  :)

1. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
2. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
3. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
4. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
5. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
6. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
7. The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
8. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
9. The Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov
10. Middlemarch by George Eliot

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1578073,00.html#ixzz1hu0uL4bB

The Divine Comedy

Wuthering Heights

One Thousand and One Nights

The Stranger

Journey to the End of Night

Nostromo

Crime and Punishment

The Idiot

Invisible Man

One Hundred Years of Solitude

A Doll's House

The Trial

The Castle

The Sound of the Mountain

Zorba the Greek

Catch-22



And so many more....

Next up is travel.....since I am in Missouri I want to be able to experience the things that I have yet to experience of life here in this great state.  So...I am going to visit all those touristy-type places that I have overlooked for the past 30 years.  Here are a few I want to make it to this year....


******Wine Country Gardens

*******Winston Churchill Memorial  (I think I went there on a field trip once, but don't remember)

******Hermann, Missouri  

******The Butterfly House

******Harry Truman Library

*****Pony Express, St. Joesph

******Ozark National Park

*****Hannibal, MO.  (as a tourist)  :)

******Precious Moments Park

*******Clarksville, MO

******Missouri Covered Bridge

******Mansfield, MO.  (home of Laura)

*****Missouri History Museum

******Arrow Rock

****George Caleb Bingham House

******Louis Buldoc House


*****Christ Church Cathedral


*******Field House


****Fort Osage




The list will probably keep growing....

I'm going to start with restaurants...here are a few of my top pics...more to come later                                                                                                                                                               

***Addison's American Grill

****Bambino's Italian Cafe

*****Bangkok Gardens

*****Bengals Bar and Grill

*****Bleu Restaurant and Wine Bar

******Boone Tavern and Restaurant

******Broadway Diner

******Casablanca Med. Grill

*****CJ's

*****Coffee Zone

*******Coley's American Bistro

******El Rancho

*****Ernie's Steakhouse

*******Flat Branch Pub and Brewing Co



Okay....so there's the list so far....