Call it a life list, bucket list, or just another bunch of stuff to do. I made my first list in high school, and have kept adding to it, checking things off and sometimes removing things that are no longer important to me. I don’t find these lists morbid or depressing, actually I think that they are quite the opposite. A person’s list tells you a lot about them. Writing down your list and sharing it with others seems to make things happen. I am constantly adding to the list and maybe I will never finish it all, but I will keep trying as long as I can. In no particular order, here’s what I want to do as of today:

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• Beekeeping
• Visit all 50 states
• Travel to 75+ countries
• Learn calligraphy
• Make a quilt
• Fly a plane
• Write a book
• Parasail
• Get a donkey
• Learn to sail
• Become a black belt
• Learn how to be a decent gambler
• Create a non-profit foundation and give, give, give!
• Learn sign language
• Be conversational in at least 3 other languages
• Take a road trip with no pre-determined destination
• Cycle through Tuscany
• Go on a safari (photos only, obviously!)
• Help instill great values in those who surround me
• Start/help start/volunteer with a community garden
• Practice guerilla gardening
• Do cartwheels on the Great Wall
• Ride a unicycle
• Photograph the welcome signs for all 50 states
• Live as an ex-pat
• Build a well for a village in Africa
• Spend the night in a tree house
• Scuba dive
• Paintball
• Volunteer abroad
• Take a trip by myself
• Start composting
• Stop bitching about something and try to change it
• Help someone through Kiva
• Donate blood regularly
• Try 100 new foods that I haven’t tried
• Try 50 foods that I think that I don’t like
• Join a CSA or the locally grown food co-op or both
• Scan old family photos, create DVDs, and send to all family members
• Take a photography class
• Get a new camera and then use it
• Create a travel life list
• Cage dive with sharks
• Rock climbing
• Repel down a skyscraper
• Be a catcher at an Ironman
• Visit all the US National Parks
• Read the 1001 books to read before you die
• Go to a big soccer match – EPL, world cup, CL etc – big, crazy, lots of fans
• Hike part of the Appalachian Trail
• Set foot on all seven continents
• Create something in stained glass
• Hang gliding
• Zero debt
• Photograph the big five
• Learn how to play golf
• Reach financial independence (from work and location)
• Learn how to slackline
• Zorbing
• Whale watching
• Trapeze lessons
• Sleep in a castle
• Build a tree house
• See Willie Nelson live
• Complete some sort of athletic event in all 50 states (must be more than a 5k run)
• Learn how to drive a boat
• Attend one of the tennis majors
• Choose a country each year or two and learn not only the language, but study its customs, cuisine, art and history
• Learn Esperanto (constructed language meant to serve as a universal second language to foster peace and international understanding)
• Have a piano again, and play
• Build a well rounded music library of all genres
• Take belly dancing lessons
• Dive a shipwreck
• Zero gravity
• See a platypus in the wild
• Hold a koala bear
• Ride a camel
• Elephant sanctuary
• Watch turtles hatch and run for the ocean
• Read the greatest adventure books
• Pogo stick
• Become a pool shark
• Build a piece of furniture or cabinetry
• Get a bird’s eye view of important topics such as history, economics, international politics and geography
• Second home – beach or mountains (or both)
• Build a habitat home
• go WOOFING
• Attend an opera
• Attend a Cirque de Soleil show
• Attend the Olympics
• See the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade in person
• Learn how to read tarot cards
• Sleep in a haunted house/hotel
• Catch a foul ball at a baseball game
• Throw someone a surprise party
• Start a gratitude journal
• Learn a new word every day for a year
• Go to a drive in movie
• Protest something
• Create a yearly book for travel photos
• Clear clutter and organize and remodel the back 40
• Be able to identify 10 constellations
• Climb a mountain
• Renovate a house
• Learn to make candles from my beeswax
• Create an annual me day
• Learn to surf
• Take a class every year
• Document childhood memories and help others do the same
• Buy original artwork
• Hot air balloon
• Skydive
• Take a fencing class
• Help on an archeological dig
• Zipline
• See penguins in their natural habitat
• Learn to instantly convert between metric/US standard and Celcius/Farenheight
• Clean up email boxes/computer files/contact lists
• Learn how to do flying dismounts on bike and roll it by the seat
• Since I read reviews so often and use their info, start leaving reviews myself
• Help pay down someone’s student loans
• Milk a cow
• Host an exchange student
• Go to a drive in
• Be the kind of person people come to for advice, but never offer unless asked, and then only sparingly and judiciously
• Host a bingo night
• Send a care package to a friend who needs a pick-me-up
• Have a veggie garden fruitful enough to feed another family (as well as my own)
• Help build a house in another country
• Mentor someone
• Sponsor a child
• Spend a major holiday on the beach
• Find and commit to a regular volunteer activity
• Rescue a pet
• Host a retreat for my favorite people (where they don’t have to pay to attend and just show up and have fun)
• Learn how to pick a lock
• Become educated about a cause and help spread the word (without being an asshat)
• Make a list of 100 interesting words and attempt to add them to my vocabulary

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