The List Itself

Places to visit

1. Petra
2. Tanzania/Kenya/Zanzibar/Kilimanjaro
3. Glen Echo abandoned art deco amusement park, Maryland
4. Mount Doom (Mount Ngauruhoe at Tongariro National Park in New Zealand)
5. New York
6. Tunisia: The Skywalker Homestead
7. Paris
8. Belgium

Creativity

1.  Sell a piece of art to a stranger
2. Design and build a musical instrument
3. Write a novel
4.  Become a published author
5.  Make a (short) film

Skills

1. Repair an appliance
2. Master one “signature” dish & memorize the recipe
3. Take flying lessons
4. Learn how to sing (at least to the point that it’s no longer embarrassing)
5. Become good at chess
6. Brew something
7.  Learn Krav Maga   
8. Learn to speed read

Experiences

1. Fast for three days, drinking only water
2.  Attempt Beau Jo’s 2-man pizza challenge
3. Walk 20 miles
4. Save something from the dump & fix it up
5. Peg the speedometer
6. See the World Series
7. See Weird Al in concert
8. Complete a cross-country road trip. Visit the remaining states I haven’t been to yet
9. Leave a letter to myself in a library book, look for it 20 years later
10. Milk a cow & drink the milk
11. Eat something that I’ve killed myself
12. Break a sheet of plate glass with a ball peen hammer
13. Give all the money I have on me to a panhandler
14.  Hit 88 MPH in a Delorean
15. Meet a former president
16. Eat the following:

• Brains
• Heart
•  Kidneys
• Liver
• Tongue
• Rocky Mountain Oysters
• A Habañero pepper

Identity

1. Cultivate a reputation

Self-improvement

1. Choose a word or phrase and actively seek to never use it again
2. Take a vow & keep it (silence, celibacy, sobriety, etc.)

Movies:

1. Exhaust the Netflix queue (currently sitting at 170 DVDs and 103 streaming--separate post on this later)
2.  See every film that has won the Oscar for Best Picture
3. Watch all 3 Lord of the Rings movies (Extended Edition) in one sitting
4. Watch all 3 original Star Wars movies in one sitting