Bucket List

I believe in dreaming, and goal-setting. Life can be much more than the status quo, if we only think outside of the boxes we are given. Truman got out. Neo got out. So can we.

Here is my bucket list, as of December 21st, 2012. Click this link to view the current list on Google Docs.

This is my bucket list. May I complete these tasks, or die trying.

1. Write a letter to the President
2. Ride a bull
3. Hike the Appalachian Trail
4. Go on tour with a band
5. Visit a monastery
6. Travel in a vehicle that runs on vegetable oil
7. Explore a shipwreck
8. Witness a solar eclipse
9. Knit a hat
10. Drive to Chicago.
11. Drive to New York in a van with my friends
12. Go to dinner in character
13. Make pesto with homegrown basil
14. Make Chicago style deep dish pizza
15. Make home-made moon pies
16. Memorize 100 digits of pi.
17. Get Straight A’s for a semester
18. Visit IHOP in Kansas City
19. Play at Cornerstone Music Festival
20. Run a half marathon
21. Go to the top of a volcano
22. Propose to someone
23. Bike from coast to coast across the United States
24. Visit New York, LA, and Chicago
25. Watch a volcano erupt
26. Read the Bible from front cover to back cover
27. Go a day without saying anything sarcastic.
28. Get a 4.0 GPA
29. See a forest fire
30. Speak Spanish
31. Teach a class
32. Take a road trip to Alaska
33. Watch the sunset from Pass-A-Grille, Florida
34. Visit Prague, Czech-Republic
35. Go hangliding
36. Visit Puerto Rico with the most beautiful person in the world
37. Paint a silo
38. Watch the sunrise on the Atlantic and the sunset at the Pacific on the same day.
39. Perform a skit with improv everywhere.
40. Build a home. Literally.
41. Have a family
42. Fall in love and get married.
43. Travel from San Diego to Seattle/Vancouver via the Pacific West Coast Highway (Highway 1)
44. Visit the Grand Canyon
45. Learn how to idle on a fixed gear bicycle
46. Take a trip down the Mississippi
47. See the Hudson Bay
48. Go around the world in less than 80 days.
49. Grow a tree and eat its fruit
50. Go a day without speaking
51. Go a day in a wheelchair
52. Walk a mile in someone else’s shoes
53. Take a picture picking the nose of a wax figure
54. Live out of a backpack for a month
55. Visit all continental states
56. Ride on a train, on the outside.
57. Protest at Capitol Hill
58. Go a week without shoes
59. Go somewhere with 12 children and say they come cheaper by the dozen
60. Travel on the Transiberian railroad
61. See a Bansky piece on the street
62. DJ a wedding
63. Ride a snowmobile
64. Go in an outdoor Jacuzzi during winter
65. Bicycle around Lake Michigan
66. Bicycle around Puerto Rico
67. Bicycle around Lake Superior
68. Ride in a hot air balloon
69. Go surfing
70. Go kite surfing
71. Visit Washington DC
72. Make a meal completely with home-grown ingredients
73. Be in the audience on a TV show
74. Visit a go-kart park
75. Go paintballing with friends
76. Break 100,000 blog visits
77. Make pasta from scratch
78. Graduate from College with honors
79. Start a business
80. Start a non-profit organization
81. Go lasertagging
82. Read a book by Tolstoy
83. Speak conversational Chinese
84. Get a Master’s Degree
85. Take an Accounting class
86. Teach a class on personal finance
87. Teach a Spanish lesson
88. Teach an English lesson
89. Write a book.
90. Publish a book.
91. Write a novel for NanoWriMo
92. Visit the Hudson Bay
93. See the Northern Lights in full glory
94. Build a bicycle-powered blender
95. Build a bicycle-powered electricity generator
96. Build a bicycle-powered washing machine
97. Live forever or die trying