Bucket List

Last Updated 5/11/12

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” - Mark Twain

I enjoy looking forward to the next adventure whether it’s learning a new skill or getting lost and exploring somewhere new. This is my on-going life bucket list in no particular order. Feel free to contact me by using the form below if you’d like to join me on one of these adventures or suggest some items I never thought of! What is on your list?

> Age Breakdown of goals

Learn

• dedicate 6 straight months to fitness and healthy living
• dedicate 1 year to fitness and healthy living
• to play golf
• to sing and play one guitar song really well
• Attend a religious event - Completed 11.7.11 Flood Church Thx Viatch!
• Learn about religion
• Become fluent in french or at least close
• to do some mad tricks on the snowboard
• Take Cooking classes from a pro
• Cook a DELICIOUS 4-course meal
• to do a backflip – ALMOST THERE! [Watch Video]
• Take dancing classes (on-going) - Completed 11.22.10 VAVi Salsa Dancing
• Know all 50 states and capitals, countries, etc. Become a google map!
• Drive a motorcycle - Completed 1.9.11 PSC Motorcycle Training Course Completion and now proud owner of a Suzuki sv650 [Watch Video]
• Learn to do own car repairs
• Change headlights Completed 3.6.11
• Oil Change
• Change fluids
• Change tire
• Learn to do own motorcycle repairs
• Change turn signal indicator light
• Replace brake fluid -Completed 8.21.11
• Read
• The Entire Bible
• Steve Jobs Biography
• 4-Hour Work Week
• The Dictionary
• The Alchemist
• The Art of Happiness - Completed 7.19.11 - Got me through my Europe trip where everything was stolen

Experience

• Submit a postcard to PostSecret.com
• Urban Exploration Around the World
• Finish a 365 Photography Project
• Milk a cow
• Be part of a Flash Mob
• Sleep in a hammock
• Pay for a strangers groceries/coffee
• Go cliff-diving
• Go base-jumping
• Jump out of an airplane (Sky Diving) - Completed 1.15.11 Sky Dive San Diego [Watch Video]
• Become a Certified Skydiver
• Go Hanggliding - Completed 12.28.11 Mission Soaring Center
• Have a place of my own (no roommates) - Completed 7.19.10 PB Apt
• Bungee Jumping - Completed 12.4.10 Bungee America Bridge to Nowhere [Watch Video]
• Shoot a gun Completed 5.26.11 P2K Shooting Range [Watch Video]
• Crowd surf
• Fly a Wing Suit
• Take Yoga classes & increase flexibility (ongoing)
• Find a loving wife
• Be a homeowner
• Buy an all inclusive vacation for my parents
• Work at a large corporation
• Own a company
• Own a boat
• Be in a magazine - Completed February 2012, Entrepreneur Magazine
• Be the featured subject of an article in a printed publication
• Be a mentor
• Have 2+ kids
• Build my kids a mini Katrina cottage / club house / tree house.
• Speak at TED
• Speak at a well known event
• Sustain a lifestyle through blogging – Guerrilla Marketing
• Create an AdAge Power 150 blog top #50
• Write a book
• Run a Marathon
• Run a Triathlon
• Run an Obstacle Course – Completed Gladiator and Del Mar Mud Run [Watch Video]
• Do the Color Run and take lots of photos without breaking my camera
• Help build a house (habitat for humanity)
• Go a month without the internet
• See how long I can disconnect from social media. Become more SOCIAL!
• Go a day without sight
• Be a wikipedia page
• Take a bartending course
• Mush a dog sled
• Attend Burning Man
• Goto a formal dance where I need to wear a tuxedo
• Create ‘carpe-diem’ like organization before I die list. unite people, spread passion/happiness, influence others, change the world.- Building Forward Motion
• Watch
• A movie at the drive-in / Outdoor movie
• Fireworks while Surfing
• Photos of me
• Photo doing light art at night with camera and glowsticks/sparklers
• on a really big mountains

Explore

Travel to the 7 Continents – Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America and South America

See pretty much anything on this list

• http://www.thecoolhunter.net/article/detail/1957/amazing-places-to-experience-around-the-globe-part-1
• http://www.forbidden-places.net/

North America

• Road trip around the U.S.
• Hike Mt Whitney
• Hike Death Valley
• California
• Hike Half Dome
• San Francisco – Bike across the Golden Gate Bridge - Completed
• San Francisco – See the Golden Gate Bridge
• San Francisco – See Lombard Street
• San Diego – Hike Three Sisters - Completed 7.9.11 [Watch Video]
• San Diego – Hike Mt Woodson - Completed 6.18.11 [Watch video]
• San Diego – Hike Stonewall Peak - Completed [Watch Video]
• Los Angeles
• Watch Comedy set at the Laugh Factory in LA
• Watch/Drive Motorcycles on Muholland Dr in LA
• Utah
• Arches National Park in Moab, Utah
• Build a rope swing
• New York
• Photo with Charging Bull in financial district - Completed February 2012
• Enjoy Central Park - Completed February 2012
• Photo with the Statue of Liberty - Completed February 2012
• Empire State Building - Completed February 2012
• World Trade Center - Completed February 2012
• See a broadway show - Completed February 2012
• Photo in times square - Completed February 2012
• try new york style _____ foods - Completed February 2012
• Coney Island - Completed February 2012
• Arizona
• The Grand Canyon
• Chicago
• Sears Tower 103 Balcony
• Chicago Bean

South America

• Peru
• Visit Machu Picchu
• Brazil
• Carnival

Europe

• Live in Europe for at least a couple months (prefer 6 months to a year)
• Ride motorcycles
• The Aurora Borealis / Northern Lights
• Belgium
• Tree Tunnel
• Bulgaria
• Buzludzha - link
• France
• Travel to the South of France (Nice)
• See or stay at the Ritz Hotel in Paris
• Visit Le Vent des Forêts
• See Eiffel Tower
• Play and sing guitar under the Eiffel Tower - Completed Paris Study Abroad Trip
• Finland
• See Helsinki Cathedreal
• Esplanade Park
• National Library of Helsinki
• Finnish Sauna
• Photos in abandoned houses
• Eat a Lamprey
• Germany
• Spreepark in Germany (abandoned park)
• Beelitz in Germany (abandoned hospital)
• Checkpoint Charlie
• Have a beer at Oktoberfest (Munich)
• See the Berlin Wall – Completed
• Greece
• Epidaurus theater
• Ireland
• See The Spire – The highest sculpture in the world - Completed February 2012
• Pub Crawl - Completed February 2012
• Learn a traditional irish drinking song
• The Long Room of The Old Library, Trinity College (http://www.tcd.ie/Library/bookofkells/old-library/) - Completed February 2012 (p.s. not worth the price)
• Cliffs of Moher - Completed February 2012
• St. Patrick’s Day
• Iceland [2012 Video]
• Bathe in the Blue Lagoon Geothermal Spa - [Watch Video]  - Completed January 2012
• Eat traditional Icelandic food in Iceland (Tþorrablót) – Sheep Head, Pickled Testicle & Putrefied Shark - [Watch Video]
  ( don’t as me why I’d do this. I blame Bizarre Foods / Fear Factor )  - Completed January 2012
• Visit the main city of Reykjavik  - Completed January 2012
• See a Glacier  - Completed January 2012
• See a Geyser  - Completed January 2012
• See a Waterfall - Completed January 2012
• See the Northern Lights - Completed January 2012
• Party with the locals
• See Iceland when it’s all green
• Italy
• Visit Pompeii – Completed
• Sweden
• Kiruna
• Stay in the Ice Hotel - [Watch Video]  - Completed January 2012
• See the Northern Lights  - Completed January 2012 (p.s. AMAZIINGG)
• Stockholm
• Norway
• Preachers Rock
• Fjords
• Stavanger Rock
• Netherlands
• See the Red Light District – Completed 7.17.11 [Read Post]
• Poland
• Crooked Forest in Gryfino
• United Kingdom
• The Inside of the London Eye
• Play and sing guitar inside the London Eye
• Olympics 2012 in London
• Spain
• Run with the bulls in Pamplona  - Completed 7.13.11 Pamplona, Spain [Read Post]
• Party in Ibiza
• La Tomatina Festival
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Africa

Go on a safari

• Egypt
• See the pyramids
• Ride a camel

Asia

Lantern Festival

• China
• See the Great Wall
• Harbin Ice and Snow Festival
• Thailand
• Ride an elephant in
• India
• Experience Holi (Celebration of Color) in March [Video]

Australia / Oceania

• Australia
• Go surfing
• Photo at the Sydney Opera House
• New Zealand
• See the mountains
• Go ZORBing
• French Polynesia
• Visit any island. Preferably Bora Bora
• Stay in a bungalow

Antarctica