Bucket List

Still to do

• Hop a train
• Have a full conversation in another language
• Drive a semi-truck
• Weave a rug on a loom
• Go on a solo backpacking trip
• Attend the Royal Henley Regatta
• Sit an all-night vigil on Mount Athos
• Try Kweichow Moutai
• Do a Murph
• Try a cask ale
• Make birch syrup
• Walk St. Olav’s Way to Nidaros Cathedral, Norway
• Fight in the Battle of the Oranges in Ivrea, Italy
• Watch the Palio di Siena horse race from the piazza
• Go to the Festival au Désert in Timbuktu, Mali
• Go to a powwow
• Visit the “Matisse Chapel” in Vence, France
• See Carnival in Brazil
• Canoe the Northern Forest Canoe Trail
• Catch a python in the Everglades
• Compete in a powerlifting meet
• See the Ksar Draa of Timimoun
• Attend the Wikimania conference
• Surf one of the Great Lakes
• Catch a peacock bass (Cichla ocellaris)
• Catch a goliath tigerfish (Hydrocynus goliath)
• Catch a mahseer (Tor putitora)
• Catch a Murray cod (Maccullochella peelii)
• Discover and name a species
• Score a first descent of a river
• Go to Musky Fest in Lakeview, IL
• Get a Master Angler award
• Get listed in the Long Riders’ Guild
• Tickle a trout
• Watch a World Cup match live
• Catch a Lake Michigan salmon from shore
• See BattleBots live
• Swim in Lake Baikal
• Trip pipe on an oil derrick
• Visit the S. Watanabe Woodcut Prints shop
• Break and run a game of pool
• See a wild manatee
• Shuck an oyster
• Read Hemingway’s entire collection
• Go on a horsepacking trip
• Shear a sheep
• Summit Lone Peak in the summer
• Crush a watermelon between my legs
• Skydive
• Follow a honeyguide to a hive
• Paddle the Devil’s River in Texas
• See the Himalayas
• Surf a barrel
• Make a vessel from wild clay
• Have a sauna at the Sanduny baths in Moscow
• Hitchhike on the highway
• Ride a reindeer
• Catch a fish from horseback
• Start a business
• See the Temple of the Sun in Capitol Reef National Park
• Catch a 5-pound bass
• Make $1,000 from a side hustle
• Hike the Continental Divide Trail
• Visit the Richat Structure in Mauritania
• Go to a World Armwrestling League match
• Have a pimento cheese sandwich at The Masters
• Spend the night at the Bass Pro Pyramid in Memphis, TN
• Visit The Explorers Club in New York, NY
• See a lucha libre match
• Use an atlas
• Get on the Kiss Cam at a pro sports game
• Collect a pearl from a Texas freshwater mussel
• Get a private tour of the U.S. Capitol from a staffer
• Throw a javelin
• Have a drink at the Aztec Inn in Las Vegas, NV
• Catch a fish on a fly I tied
• Travel via container ship
• Go to a rave
• Experience Mardi Gras in New Orleans, LA
• Fry an egg on a car hood
• Fly on a private jet (Boca Raton to Chicago)
• Attend the Redneck Rave
• Attend an Ignatian Retreat
• Put on a complete suit of armor
• See the Catatumbo lightning storms over Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela
• Drink Hungarian Eszencia wine
• Hypnotize a chicken
• Dive in a shark cage
• Attend an immigrant naturalization ceremony
• Deadlift 500 pounds
• Get on the Scientology cruise ship
• Cross the equator by boat
• Eat a Coco de Mer fruit
• Catch a golden trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss aguabonita)
• Attend a Japanese tea ceremony
• See a blue whale in the wild
• Send my own Christmas card
• Get forklift certified
• WWOOF
• Fast for seven days
• Use a scythe
• Find an arrowhead
• Solve a Rubik’s cube
• Catch a golden dorado (Salminus brasiliensis)
• Catch a tarpon (Megalops atlanticus)
• Catch a surubim catfish (Pseudoplatystoma fasciatum)
• See a Heilung concert
• Find a gold nugget
• Sled down a ski run
• Have a drink at JP Bar and Grill in Moruca, Guyana
• Visit the Louvre
• Drive a limousine
• Serve on a jury
• See the Great Tarantula Migration in La Junta, CO
• Make sourdough bread from scratch
• Shoe a horse
• Take a Rorschach test
• Play calcio storico in Florence
• Attend a cooking class
• Visit the May Natural History Museum in Colorado Springs, CO
• See the aurora borealis
• See the aurora australis
• Visit the Guelaguetza Indigenous Festival in Oaxaca, Mexico
• Get stitches from a veterinarian
• Visit a palm reader
• Build a bow
• Run with the bulls in Pamplona, Spain
• Drive coast to coast across America
• Visit the National Geographic Museum in Washington, D.C.
• Attend the Coupe Icare paragliding festival
• Do reformer pilates
• Memorize five poems (4/5: Ulysses by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Sonnet CVI by William Shakespeare, Sweeney Among the Nightingales and Mr. Eliot’s Sunday Morning Service by T.S. Eliot)
• Memorize ten prayers (7/10: the Prayer of St. Francis, the Act of Contrition, the Prayer of Generosity, the Hail Mary, the Our Father, the Glory Be, the Jesus Prayer)
• Attend the Calgary Stampede in Calgary, Alberta
• Stay on a houseboat
• Be the best man at a wedding
• Add twine to the World’s Largest Ball of Twine in Cawker City, KS
• Bench press 315 pounds
• Jump through a folding table
• Walk the Camino de Santiago
• Write a book
• Attend a Rough N’ Rowdy boxing match
• Visit the Museum of Hunting and Nature in Paris, France
• Attend a Maha Kumbh Mela
• Go to the Wai Kru tattoo festival
• Complete a voice course
• See a volcanic eruption
• Shoot a fish with a speargun
• Send a fax
• Visit Stonehenge on my birthday
• See a wild mountain lion
• See a wild jaguar
• See a wild tiger
• BASE jump
• See an avalanche
• Place a bet at the Kentucky Derby
• Squat 405 pounds
• Catch a bass on the fly
• Live outside of the U.S. for one year
• SCUBA dive at night
• Fly an airplane
• Attend the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, NV
• See a forest fire
• Paraglide 50 miles cross-country
• Do a hike-and-fly trip
• Design, forge, and handle a knife
• Become a father
• Catch a marlin
• Ski the Big Couloir in Big Sky, MT
• Go backcountry skiing
• Get my astrological birth chart read
• Cross into the Arctic Circle
• Run the Grand Canyon in a dory
• Ride a dog sled
• Get a PADI license
• Attend a world title boxing match
• Hike the Grand Canyon rim-to-rim
• Close down the Mark II Lounge
• Get a black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu
• Run a Spartan Race
• Earn one million dollars
• Visit Wall Drug in Wall, SD
• Do a gainer
• Play yukigassen in Japan
• Visit Salvation Mountain in Niland, CA
• Marry the woman of my dreams
• Visit every continent
• Coach a youth sports team
• Kayak a Class V rapid
• Train a puppy
• Drive a cigarette boat
• Kick a field goal
• Own my own home
• Do a standing backflip
• Build a treehouse
• Attend the summer Olympic Games
• Ride a motorcycle
• See a flash flood
• Ride a snowmobile
• Noodle a catfish
• See a wild wolverine (Gulo gulo)
• Attend a silent retreat
• Read the New Testament
• Ski in a foreign country
• Attend the Highland Games
• Go on a big game hunting trip
• Drive an AC Cobra
• Save a life
• Juggle
• Get hypnotized
• Throw out the first pitch at a baseball game
• Attend a lumberjack competition
• Deliver a baby
• Drive the Pan-American Highway from Alaska to Panama
• Milk a cow
• Monoski
• Complete an Adventurists race
• Ride the Trans-Siberian Railway
• Visit Carhenge in Alliance, NE
• Attend the Turkey Testicle Festival in Huntley, IL
• See a banana slug
• Get my fortune told
• Visit the Naadam festival in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
• Visit the Great Wall of China
• Plant a tree
• Chop a big tree down with an axe
• Visit Chet Baker’s memorial plaque in Amsterdam
• Score 200 points in a bowling match
• Attend Up Helly Aa in Shetland, Scotland
• Circumnavigate Lake Manicouagan in Quebec, Canada
• Find desert truffles in the Middle East
• Witness Timkat (Ethiopian Epiphany) in Gondar, Ethiopia
• Complete the Mongol Derby
• Make a beef Wellington
• Ride a horse bareback
• Make a Baked Alaska
• Gallop a horse