My Bucket List - the completed items, and the To-Do List.
Those of you who knew me from the Red Wiki may have seen this already; please forgive me. Since I can no longer get in to either wiki, I'm reposting this here.
( Edit: Changed text color. The green was unreadable on my blue backdrop. Also added the To-Do list. What the heck, I was in here.)
My Bucket List of Things to Do Before Judgment Day:
Been There, Done That: Mostly while younger, fitter, and more daring.
1. Learn to play a musical instrument
2. Learn to take and develop photographs
3. Act on stage before an audience
4. Learn to troubleshoot and fix things
5. Design something and build it. (a tree-house)
6. Kiss in the rain
7. Drive at 125 MPH.
8. Write poetry, and get it published
9. Write songs
10. Scuba dive
11. Model in the nude
12. Program a computer
13. Meet a favorite author (Isaac Asimov)
14. Give a blood donation
15. Fly a hang glider at Kitty Hawk.
16. Ski a Black Diamond trail
17. Swim a whitewater rapid
18. Eskimo roll, pirouette, cart-wheel, and window-shade a kayak.
19. Teach a whitewater kayaking class
20. Rescue someone from a whitewater rapid
21. Stand under a waterfall
22. Kayak over a waterfall
23. Kayak Class V rivers in Alaska
24. See the Aurora Borealis
25. Compete for a spot on the US Olympic whitewater team
26. Go camping in the wild for weeks (Moisie River whitewater expedition)
27. Eat an animal I killed myself
28. Make love while swimming in a lake
29. Solo pilot an airplane
30. Land an airplane at night, with no engine or instruments
31. Recover from a full-power stall-spin.
32. Bicycle across North America
33. Learn to shoot well
34. Successfully fire a machine-gun qualification course.
35. Assist in the birth of my child
36. Own a home
37. Teach someone to read or to accomplish a life long skill (bicycle, math )
38. Write letters to my Senators and Congressmen
39. Challenge my Congressman in a public meeting
40. Have letters published in a newspaper
41. Run for elected office
42. Assist a car accident victim
43. Observe a solar and lunar eclipse
44. Climb a 5.8 or harder rock wall
45. Go skinny dipping with good friends
46. Learn a martial art: (Karate and Tae-Kwon-Do)
47. Watch a night launch of the space shuttle from New Smyrna Beach.
48. Visit a Nazi Concentration Camp.
49. Learn to Water-ski.
50. Visit Niagara Falls.
51. Attend the Watkins Glen Grand Prix auto race
52. Walk through a museum with a Boa Constrictor draped around my shoulders.
53. Get up at midnight to watch the Perseid meteor shower.
54. Took my child to see the 1997 Hale-Bopp comet that won’t return until 4377 A.D. (She doesn’t remember it)
55. Explore a wild cave with trusted friends. (no longer recommended, please avoid spreading White Nose syndrome between bat hibernation sites)
56. Took my daughter to a safe commercial cave: Howe’s Cave.
57. Visit the Smithsonian, Air & Space, and NY Museum of Natural History.
58. Visit the Deutsches Museum in Munich, Germany. (science and technology - they have an ME-262 on display)
59. Visit the Wright Brothers museum in Kitty Hawk. Talked the docent into letting me behind the ropes for a closer view of the motor!
60. Give an interview for a television news program.
61. Mountain bike above 10,000 feet (near Breckenridge, CO.)
62. Attend a lecture given in a foreign language you barely understand.
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Still To Do Before I Die (Some ideas pirated from the website)
1. Attend my daughter's college graduation
2. Hold my future grand-child.
3. Find a job that holds my interest
4. Attend the K1 World Championships
5. Play a Paint-ball game
6. Fly in an F16
7. Have one of my songs broadcast
8. Send a message in a bottle
9. Write my autobiography
10. Get a motorcycle license and own a motorcycle (BMW?)
11. Sky dive
12. Kayak a crossing out of sight of land
13. Start a fire by rubbing sticks together.
14. Write my will (and a living will)
15. Learn a real dance
16. Experience Zero Gravity
17. Fly in a helicopter
18. Learn to weld
19. Design and build a vehicle
20. Experience Mardi Gras in New Orleans, LA.
21. Hike the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu
22. Make love on a airplane
23. Kayak the Grand Canyon
24. Learn to drive a real race car
25. Stop cussing
26. Moonwalk out of a room