The Bucket List
The older I get, the more I want to accomplish while on earth. The following is a list of things I want to do before I die. Everyone should have a list like this. If nothing else, it can give you an idea of something to do when someone asks the typical "what do you want to do?" question.
People have said my list is too ambitious, that there is no way to accomplish it all, but I would rather die trying to get it all in than to have a simple list that is easy to accomplish. It is better to push yourself and fall short than to always take the easy way out and meet your goals. As you look through my list, start working on your own. Your list should be a dynamic, ever-changing thing. As you experience new things or learn about a new, exciting place, add it to your list. I can find no sadder thing than a world with no new surprises in it. Life is short, get out end enjoy yourself. In the end, you will regret the things you didn't do more than the things you did. |
My List: In No Particular Order
Items in Red have been crossed off my list along with the date I Completed it.
- Be a good Husband
- Be a good Father
- Give My Daughter Away at her Wedding (to a person that is deserving)
- Make a difference in someone's life
- Earn an advanced Degree
- Experience a total Solar Eclipse (April 8, 2024?)
- Visit All 59 National Parks
- Visit Havasau Falls
- Visit "The Wave"
- Drive the Going-to-the-Sun Road 6/15
- Get my Kicks on Rt. 66 6/15
- Drive all of Route 66
- Drive the Pacific Coast Highway
- Drive the Shenandoah Parkway
- Drive the Old Fall River Road
- Drive Across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge
- See The Northern Lights
- Swim in the Boiling (Gardner) River
- Swim with a Manatee
- Visit the Hagia Sophia
- Ride a gondola in the Grand Canal of Venice 2/14
- Visit St. Marks Basilica
- Visit the Sistine Chapel
- Visit Dubrovnik, Croatia
- River cruise on the Danube 2/20
- Visit my Ancestral Homelands of Scotland and Ireland
- Visit the Louvre
- Learn how to solve a Rubik's Cube
- Learn to Play an instrument (Preferably Guitar, Banjo, or Mandolin)
- Become proficient in a second language
- Ride a train across Canadian/US Rockies
- Attend the Gathering of Nations Pow Wow
- Walk Across hot coals (Fire Walking)
- Watch the AFI's top 100 films
- Learn to ride a backwards bicycle
- Attend a World Cup Game
- Visit Mt St Michel
- View a Sunrise from the top of a mountain (numerous times, but feel like I haven't done it from a high enough one)
- Visit Prague (Walk across the Charles) 2/20
- Swim in bio-luminescent waters
- Travel the Trollstigem (Troll Road) in Norway
- Drive the Atlantic Road in Norway
- Attend the hot air balloon festival in Albuquerque
- Hike on a Glacier 6/15
- Drive the "Ring Road" in Iceland
- Attend the Hatch Chile Festival