A simple wish

My heart yearns to see the greenery of Iceland and ice caps of Greenland; to dwell in the wilderness of South Africa and ruins of Rome; to witness the grandeur of Vatican and heritage of Athens; to suffer in the Russian cold and tropical sun of the Caribbean; to dream under the starry sky in the desert of the Sahara amidst the Egyptian mummies; to survive the mysteries of the Amazon and Bermuda triangle; to hop in the Alps and surf in the Mediterranean; to watch the sunrise in Japan and the sunset in Samoa; to behold the memories of northern lights of Norway and  the harbour of Rio de Janeiro; to swim through the corals of the Great Barrier reefs and scale the Mount Everest; to slide over the glaciers of the Antarctic and ice sheets of the Arctic; a wish to see them all and live to tell the tale.  

If only I could live long enough to see them all and live to tell the tale!