Bucket List


Current Bucket List - Last updated March of 2014

1.  Move out West
3.  Drive across the United States in a camper or pulling a trailer
4.  Have babies
5.  Fight in NYC
6.  Climb Half Dome in Yosemite National Park
7.  Raft the Colorado River through Grand Canyon National Park
8.  Write a cook book
9.  Get my second degree black belt
11. Get certified in Scuba diving
12. Have one pro fight
13. Own my own business
14. Travel to Alaska
15. Hike to a Glacier
16. Summit a fourteener
17. Go to Australia
18. Go hunting and shoot a pronghorn then get it mounted on my wall
19. Attend a cooking school
20. Go to Japan
21. Learn Japanese
22. Travel through Europe 
24. Swim with dolphins
25. Cage dive with a great white shark
26. See the aurora borealis 
28. Travel the Panama Canal
29. Climb a slot canyon
30. Corner a fighter from start to finish – hand wraps to hand raised
31. Volunteer at a soup kitchen
32. Sell items I grew at a farmers market or have an honesty stand
33. Participate in a cooking contest or bake off
34. Tour the great pyramids of Egypt and ride a camel
35. Have a photo get published in a magazine or book
36. Swim with manatees
37. Go on safari in Africa
39. Build a house with habitat for humanity
40. Walk on the Great Wall of China
41. Visit the Galapagos Islands
42. Grow grapes and make my own wine
43. Visit the ruins in Mesa Verde NP COMPLETED 9/27/11
44. See an erupting volcano
45. Grow old 
46. Foster for a GSP (German Shorthaired Pointer) Rescue
47. Help change someone’s life for the better
48. Apologize to ******** (name withheld) for not standing up for him in 3rd grade
49. Take a fan boat ride through the everglades
50. Hike through the desert and climb a sand dune
51. Try the flying trapeze
52. Fire walk on burning coals
53. Go on a bear viewing flight in Alaska
54. Walk off into Denali National Park
55. Pose for a group of artists naked
56. Hike a volcanic cinder cone in Lassen NP
57. Visit the La Brea Tar Pits
58. Watch the ball drop in Times Square on New Years
59. Go to Mardi Gras
60. See the Mummers Parade in Philly on New Years Day
61. Run a dog in a hunt test
62. Visit Manchu Picchu
63. Tour a castle in Ireland
64. Compete in a race
65. Win a golden gloves state championship
66. Win a world kickboxing title
68. Tour a bourbon distillery in Kentucky
69. Visit the Van Gogh Museum in the Netherlands
70. Visit the Georgia O’Keefe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico
71. Ride a mule into the Grand Canyon
72. Visit all 50 states: (30 complete – PA, NJ, DE, MD, VA, WV, NC, SC, FL, NY, NH, VT, CT, ME, NM, CO, UT, WY, MT, ID, CA, AZ, NV, HI, LA, OH, IL, IN, IA, SD)
73. Attend a Symphony
74. Meet a U.S. President
76. Visit the National Gallery of Art in DC
77. Visit the great city of Chicago
78. Hike in Olympic National Park
79. See Mount St. Helens
80. Visit Mt. Rushmore
82. Own chickens
83. Go to the Grand Ole Opry
84. Have Texas bbq in Texas
85. Swim with Stingrays
86. Go noodleing
87. Visit Seattle, Washington
88. Grow peanuts
89. Take a steamboat ride on the Mississippi
90. Tour the town of Tombstone
91. Do a polar bear plunge
92. See the Kentucky Derby
93. Visit Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello
94. Go on a Zero gravity flight
95. Learn to ballroom dance…well
96. Judge a sanctioned fight – COMPLETED 4/21/12
97. Ref a sanctioned fight
98. Learn to play an instrument
99. Visit the North Pole
100. Visit the South Pole
101. Go dog sledding
102. Go crabbing
103. Go clamming
104. Snowboard
105. Fish for salmon in Alaska
106. Visit Auschwitz in Poland
107. Visit Mt. Rainer NP
108. Hike in Joshua Tree NP
109. Tour a southern plantation
110. Hike in Glacier NP
111. Blow into the trunk of an elephant - COMPLETED 3/18/13
112. Milk a cow
113. Visit Savannah, GA
114. Fight in another country - COMPLETED 3/22/13
115. Hunt for Wild Boar
116. Kayak to a Glacier
117. Hike in Patagonia
118. Visit New Zealand
119. Eat a Raw Oyster
120. Upland hunt in South Dakota with our dogs
121. Visit Lincoln's Cottage in Washington, DC
122. Visit Tasmania
123. Go to Oktoberfest in Germany
124. See the statues on Easter Island
125. See ruins in Morocco
126. Snorkel or scuba dive at the great barrier reef
127. Visit Cuba
128. Drink margaritas in Key West
129. Enjoy wine in Sonoma, CA
130. Visit the Holocaust muesum in Washington, D.C.
131. Hold a Koala Bear
132. Eat Lobster in Maine - COMPLETED 7/16/13
133. See Niagra Falls
134. See Victoria Falls
135. Visit all 58 National Parks in the United States (13 Completed: Arches, Bryce Canyon, Canyonlands, Grand Teton, Haleakala, Kings Canyon, Mesa Verde, Rocky Mountain, Sequoia, Shenandoah, Yellowstone, Yosemite, Zion.)
136. Hike in Fiordland National Park in New Zealand
137. Visit Hiroshima
138. Visit Nagasaki
139. Pet a Lion or Tiger and not get mauled - COMPLETED 3/21/13
140. Visit the Islands of Bimini
141. See a sloth in Costa Rica
142. Attend a UFC fight in Las Vegas
143. Mine for gems
144. See a live TV show get taped
145. See the Carnival in Brazil
146. See a windmill in Holland
147. Take a boat ride down the Amazon River
148. Hike Mt. Everest
149. Visit Iguazu Falls in Argentina
150. Drink wine in Argentina
151. Visit the Longmen Grottos in China
152. See Mt. Fuji

153. Go Faconeering
154. Touch a Rhino
155. Paddleboard in Hawaii
156. Hike the Caminito Del Ray (King's Little Pathway) in Malaga Spain
157. Drive an excavator
158. Travel to Bali
159. Parasail
160. Run a half marathon
161. See penguins in the wild
162. Go on a New England / Canadian Cruise
163. Visit Sir Lanka
164. See the Falkland Islands
165. Hunt over my own dog
166. Visit a rainforest in Ecuador
167. Go fishing in Asia
168. Visit Vietnam
169. Visit Laos
170. Watch sea turtles hatch
171. Make homemade yogurt
172. Photograph an owl in the wild
173. Fly in a helicopter
174. Tour the Guiness brewery in Ireland
175. Learn to speak Thai
176. Learn to do transcendental meditation
177. Slide down a fire pole in an actual firehouse
178. Take a scenic train ride
179. Learn how to do night photography / star photography
180. Photograph lightning
181. Enjoy time in cafe in Morrocco
182. Take a gondola ride in Venice
183. Eat a hotdog in Coney Island, NY
184. Visit Chincoteague Island in VA
185. Visit the Louvre in Paris
186. See Cloud Gate (AKA the Bean) in Chicago
187. Visit the Guggenheim in NYC
188. See the Belmont Stakes
189. Tour a winery in Italy
190. Tour Black House and White Temple in Chiang Rai, Thailand
191. See the beaches in Phuket
192. Tour Frank Lloyd Wright's Falling Water
193. Run a 10K
194. Go to Los Angeles
195. Take a trip with my Dad
196. Hand feed a Kangaroo
197. Visit Vancouver
198. Hold a bat
199. Tour the Whitehouse as an adult
200. See the Rockettes
201. Tour the Alamo
202. Listen to live blues in Memphis, TN
203. Hike the "Wave" in Utah
204. Camp in Grand Staircase - Escalante National Monument
205. See the Bonneville Flats
206. See Ayers Rock in Australia
207. Go to space
208. See the Taj Mahal in India
209. See pyramids in Chichen Itza, Mexico
210. See the Opera House in Sydney
211. Drive into the Valley of the Gods in Utah
212. Visit Jasper National Park in Alberta, Canada
213. Spend a day on Lake Powell
214. Visit the Oregon Coastline
215. Visit Plymouth, Massachusetts
216. Pet a wombat
217. Visit the "Shire" in New Zealand
218. Swim with a whale shark
219. Listen to live country music in Nashville, TN
220. See a live fight at either Lumpinee or Rajadamnern stadium
221. Go Spluenking
222. Sleep in a swanky hut in Bora Bora
223. See Phytoplankton light up in the sea
224. Visit Baton Rouge
225. Catch an alligator with professional help
226. See the worlds edge in England
227. Go to the Coney Island Mermaid Parade
228. Meet Howard Stern
229. Learn to Tye Dye
230. See where the great wall of China meets the sea
231. Experience Songkran in Thailand
232. Run on a log in the water
233. Attend Bonnaroo
234. See a drag show
235. Experience Burning Man
236. Go to Comic-con
237. Surf in Australia
238. See the southernmost point in Key West
239. Visit the Dallas book depository / grassy knoll
240. Take one picture a day for one year
241. See the Avenue of Baobabs in Madagascar
242. Go hiking in the mountains in Austria
243. Summit Sigiriya (Lion Rock) in Sri Lanka
244. Go paragliding
245. Go to St. Lucia
246. Visit Cape Town, South Africa
247. See the Berlin Wall
248. Collect honey from a beehive
249. Have shenanigans in Amsterdam
250. See the Great Sphinx of Giza in Egypt
251. See Silverback Gorillas in Rwanda, Africa
252. Go snowmobiling
253. Go on a photo exhibition tour
254. Hike in Olympic National Park
255. See rice terraces in Asia
256. Snorkel at Hidden Beach in the Marieta Islands in Mexico
257. See the fairy pools in Glen Brittle, Scotland
258. Visit the Chand Baori Step Well in Abhaneri, India
259. Grow a cotton plant
260. Take one picture a week for a year
261. Operate a crane
262. Fly fish in Paradise Valley
263. Experience Loy Krathong in Thailand
264. Visit Dry Tortugas, have Rum and talk like a Pirate
265. See the Skagit Valley Tulip Fields in Washington State
266. See all 5 Great Lakes
267. Visit all 7 continents (3 complete - North America, Europe & Asia)
268. See the Sentinel "trees" of the Artic in Finland
269. Explore a Glow worm cave in New Zealand
270. Visit Mono Lake in California
271. Photograph rock formations at Makoshika State Park









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