This whole blog started for a few reasons. As much as I love a good story, my memory isn’t what it used to be and this was going to be my way of capturing and documenting the stories and moments of my life. For a while, it always seemed like I was doing or preparing to do something on my bucket list. This list is a living document. I’ve added new ideas and experiences that have caught my attention. I’ve removed things that in the moment seemed like something I strived for but after some thought were more of a fleeting thought. I’ve triumphantly crossed things off after prepping and planning to accomplish them, or when the opportunity unexpectedly presented itself and I’ve seized it! I’ve edited things to be more specific or focus or simply to clarify what exactly it was/is that I wanted to achieve. Bottom line: this list has changed, it is changing, and it will continue to change–and that’s okay. Because it’s mine. It was made by me, for me. But I’m sharing it with you. Why? Because maybe we have some overlap. Because maybe you can help me cross something off. Because it’s a quick and easy reference point for past, present and future blog posts. Because it’ll help me focus on the things that I had decided I wanted to do someday. And because maybe, just maybe, it’ll give you the push you’re looking for to create your own. (And when you do, I’d love to see it if you’re willing to share!)
(This list is in no particular order and is subject to change.)
- Adopt a child
- Host an exchange student
- Get a dog
- Read a novel in a different language
- Learn to play the piano
- Perform a hip hop routine
- Go to a meditation retreat
- Fill the pages of a passport
- Go back to Greece
- Go to the Olympics (winter and summer) (Winter: February 2010)
- Learn how to snowboard (February 2011)
- Learn how to curl (as in the sport) (October 2010)
- Get a tattoo (July 25th, 2010)
- Fly somewhere for dinner/on a whim
- Try 1000 different dishes/types of food
- Read 1000 books
- Go skydiving (somewhere cool) (Feb 12, 2011 in Tonga)
- Learn how to play tennis
- Sit courtside (feet on hardwood) at a basketball game
- Wakeboard for at least a minute
- Rock a bikini.
- Learn how to juggle
- Go to the “top” game of a sport I like. (Winter Olympics: Mens’ Gold Medal Hockey Game: February 28, 2010)
- Run a mile. Straight. (And eventually complete a half marathon.) (June 2010)
- Travel to all 9 provinces and 3 territories in Canada
- Get married
- Get my motorcycle license (March 2010)
- Travel alone. (February 2011)
- Help make someone’s dream come true
- Get dual citizenship (December 17, 2014)
- Catch a fish
- Go bungee jumping (May 2010)
- Go white water rafting on a level 5 rapid
- Teach someone how to read
- Shoot guns at a shooting range. (Shotguns: May 2009. Handguns: August 2012)
- Have something named after me
- Laugh until I cry.
- Touch an Olympic Medal. (July 2010)
- Finish a NYT crossword in pen.
- Be an extra in a movie/tv show. (August 4, 2015)
- Start an annual tradition.
- Go to a Full Moon party in Thailand
- Participate in the Running of the Bulls
- Whistle with my fingers in my mouth
- Learn how to surf (First attempt: May 30th, 2014)
- Be on CNN.
- Be on the Jumbotron (January 8th, 2011)
- Cry in a movie. (September 17, 2011)
- Milk a cow.
- Go to Ibiza.
- Walk on hot coals.
- Jump off a waterfall (September 2016)
- Officiate a wedding (April 5, 2013)
- Kiss the greatest guy I know
- Significantly help a complete stranger for the greater good (February 2016)
- Have my picture in the paper. (December 2010)
- Learn how to drive stick (in progress)
- Go to Fiji (Feb 12, 2011, kinda)
- Take flying lessons
- Get SCUBA certified (Feb 18, 2011)
- Complete a DIY home renovation project (November 2012)
- Save someone’s life (January 7, 2012)
- See my name in lights
- Wish on a shooting star (July 31st, 2011)
- Go shark diving
- Visit the 7 wonders of the world (Machu Picchu, Colisseum, Petra, Christ Redeemer, Great Wall, Chichen Itza, Taj Mahal)
- Explore the Great Barrier Reef
- Ride a gondola in Venice
- Do a sprint triathlon
- Get a turkey in bowling
- Salsa in the salsa capital of the world (Cali, Colombia) .
- Visit the Egyptian Pyramids
- Become fluent in French
- And Spanish.
- Ride in a hot air balloon (October 2012)
- Blow glass (May 23, 2011)
- Take a picture with the Stanley Cup. (March 21, 2014)
- Reach a healthy weight for my age/height and maintain it.
- Make a 4 course meal. From scratch
- Meet Barack Obama
- Go volcano boarding (October 19, 2015)
- Stay at an ice hotel
- Live abroad for a year (non North America)
- Jump into a pool fully clothed
- Solve the Rubik’s cube (2016)
- Go hang gliding
- Celebrate Diwali in India
- Raise $10,000 for charity (February 2016)
- Climb a mountain (June 2010: Mount Neahkahnie)
- Learn ethnic food to the point where I can walk into any restaurant, order and know what I’m about to eat
- Watch every movie that has won an academy award for “Best Picture”
- Help deliver a baby
- Go to a taping of Ellen
- Fix a flat tire (April 14, 2012. Doug supervised.)
- Go on a safari in Africa
- Become fluent in sign language
- Be part of a flash mob. (June 23, 2011)
- Become a public notary
- Go to the World Cup
- Read 52 books in a year
- Swim with dolphins
- Go streaking (May 11, 2011)
- Complete a yoga challenge
- Complete a trick on the flying trapeze (April 15, 2012)
- Hold a koala bear
- Participate in the Tomatina festival
- Visit Auschwitz
- Travel a million miles
- Go on a cupcake crawl in NYC
- Try everything on the Taco Bell Menu
- Learn how to code .
- Do the Sydney Bridge Climb
- Eat at French Laundry in Napa
- Ride the highest roller coaster in the world
- Write a book
- Visit all 50 states in the USA
