Below is a list of the things I have accomplished from my Bucket List. I've been keeping a list of things I've wanted to do long before the movie came out. I officially "bucket-ized it" a few years ago when I read about someone keeping a running total of things they wanted to do and things they've accomplished. This list will keep growing as I keep expanding my list of things still undone.
Feel free to comment or offer suggetions for new things I can do. I'd love to read what you have to say. Until then, I hope that reading this helps motivate you to go out and do something you've never done before. Go ahead, life is far too short to put it off until tomorrow.
1. Plant 1,000 trees--In Progress (78 trees planted so far)
2. Create a gratitude list and continue to add to it
3. Write and publish a book
4. Travel to all 7 continents--In Progress (North America, Asia, Australia)
5. Leave some of my DNA (3 drops of blood) in all 7 continents √ In Progress
(North America, Asia, and Australia)
6. Read 1,000 books and magazines--In Progress
7. Return to the Philippine Islands
8. Sponsor more than 1,000 KIVA micro-loans--In Progress (currently 1,492)
9. Perform a marriage
10. Perform a funeral and a burial
11. Get bounced from a scheduled commercial airline flight and be
“appropriately compensated”.
12. Enter something in a cooking contest and win a prize
13. Visit all 50 states in the United States--In Progress
14. While serving as a bishop, experience a ward split
15. Establish a brand new branch of the church somewhere in a foreign country
16. Visit at least 50 different LDS temples In Progress
17. Create a collection of our favorite Anderson family recipes
18. Get comfortable using chop sticks
19. Have all my wisdom teeth pulled
20. Throw a surprise party for someone
21. Learn to cut my own hair
22. Learn how to make a German pancake
22. Read Old Man and the Sea by Hemmingway
23. Take some cooking classes
24. Establish an oral history program for Lindon City
25. Visit sacred places throughout the world
26. Get my Wood Badge award from the Boys Scouts of America
27. Buy central air conditioning for my home
28. Have my house completely paid off
29. Be more mindful of miracles that happen around me each day
30. Read The Pearl by John Steinbeck
31. Tell Donna each day that I love her
32. Have a hand in saving a marriage
33. Be more obedient
34. Be more kind
35. Go to Catalina Island (off the coast of Southern California)
36. Give hope to others who have little or no hope
37. Continually seek for greater light and knowledge
38. Experience some awesome things in nature
39. Do something that truly tests my limits
40. Marry a woman who I’m absolutely gaga in love with and who
will accept me for all my faults and "unique personality traits.”
41. Watch the American Film Institute’s top 100 inspirational films √ In Progress
42. Take time to meditate like I used to
43. Have some absolutely awesome kids
44. Get up close to a live active volcano
45. Climb to the top of a volcano
46. Soak in a hot pot that is warmed from underground springs heated
by geothermal activity
47. Raise bees and extract honey from a bee hive
48. Write more thank you notes to people
49. Run a 5 K run with Donna
50. Runs several 26 mile marathons
51. Run a 50 mile marathon--Two of them so far
52. Fast for 24 hours (no food no water)
53. Climb a mountain that is higher than 12,000 ft.
54. Climb a mountain that is higher than 14,000 ft.
55. Write my own personal list of Things that I Have Learned in Life.
56. See Shakespeare performed in the park
57. Eat lobster in Tonga
58. Go on a completely spontaneous road trip
59. Eat Durian
60. Kiss a my love on the top of a Ferris Wheel
61. Record my father’s oral history
62. Have a meaningful conversation with a complete stranger
63. Watch the video What the Bleep Do we Know
64. Talk to at least 10 strangers in a single day
65. Ride a mammal that is as big as a horse or bigger
66. See Les Miserable performed by a professional Broadway acting troop
67. Stay at a 5 star hotel
68. Listen to the 10 best musical masterpieces of all time
69. See how fortune cookies are made (I want to see how they put the fortunes in)
70. Work for a nonprofit group
71. See how maple syrup is harvested and made into a finished product
72. Bicycle to work
73. Join a book club
74. Quite a book club
75. Experience a Salmon run
76. Go Salmon fishing
77. Grow flowers and give them to people who would enjoy them
78. Work in a soup kitchen or a food pantry
79. Watch one or more Broadway plays performed with traveling professional Broadway
acting troops
80. Send a message to someone using a helium balloon
81. Learn something from a Shaman
82. Visit a butterfly sanctuary
83. Attend a small town festival or celebration
84. Visit an Indian Hindu temple
85. Start a fire with no matches or lighter
86. Find and buy the perfect “cochie bochie”
87. Buy a new furnace for my home
88. Digitize selected family photographs that come into my possession
89. Go on a cruise with Donna
90. Take Donna down 9–Mile Canyon and show her the Indian pictographs
91. Make possible a life changing surgery for someone in a developing country
92. Go the Pike’s Market in Seattle and watch them throw fish through the air
93. Give a woman in a developing country an opportunity to get an education
94. Ride in a submarine
95. Watch the video titled Mind Walk
96. Organize a “Trick or Treat for Hunger” food drive
97. Do everything I can to locate one or more of the three photograph collections
that I know exists somewhere.
98. Visit Escalante Grand Staircase and Calf Creek Falls
99. Go on a train ride to some place outside of Utah
100. Bury a treasure chest with treasure in it and let one of my children find it
101. Serve in the Young Men’s program of the Church
102. Experience the Indian Hindu Festival of Colors
103. Watch 15 of the greatest movies of all time (as ranked by the American
Film Institute)
104. Build a fish pond in my secret garden
105. Plant a large asparagus bed
106. Climb a coconut tree like the tuba gatherers do in the Philippine Islands
107. Raft down Flaming Gorge
108. Collect more insects
109. Do something illegal
110. Do a bicycle trip of 75 miles or more
111. Get caught in a tropical rain storm
112. Learn to play chess
113. Play 1,000 games of chess
114. Keep a nature journal
115. Keep a 250 gallon aquarium
116. Make a 100 gallon terrarium
117. Live on an island for more than a month
118. Go on cross country trip with a friend
119. Own ½ acre of land and make it into a restful eye pleasing place with an orchard
and lots of flower and vegetable gardens. Best of all it needs a secret garden with an
arbor and a stone path with moss growing in among the rocks.
120. Experience a grunion run in real life
121. Take someone to witness a grunion hunt along Doheney Beach in Dana Point,
California. (Yes, grunion are real!)
122. Go out into the woods and cut down my own real Christmas tree
123. Eat a papaya, a Rombutan, and a Lanzoni in one day
124. Read Upton Sinclair’s book, The Jungle
125. Craft an awesome summer tan
126. Run up the two killer hills on the old running trail at the end of California street in
Capistrano Beach
127. Do a run for charity
128. Watch the movie Young Frankenstein
129. Do an adventure with my brother Tom at least once a year
130. Watch some Monte Python movies
131. Record the GPS coordinates for Bumble Bee Rock in the Anza Borrego
desert (Native American sacred spot marked with the shaman’s X)
132. Index and/or arbitrate half a million names using the FamilySearch Indexing website
133. Visit Butchart Gardens in British Columbia, Canada
134. Own a pair of incredibly comfortable shoes
135. Go see the childhood home I grew up in
136. Ride the train to Chicago
137. Stay the night in a lakeside cottage
138. See the mass migration of a wild species
139. Go to the Sawdust festival in Laguna Beach.
140. Swim in the pools of Battani
141. Plant a more than 50 or more lilac bushes in my yard
142. Experience the monsoon season
143. Visit the cool La Bufadora blow hole outside of Ensenada, Mexico
144. See a cool blow hole in Samoa
145. Go away for a romantic weekend with Donna
146. Make up a cool story about one of the many scares on my body
147. Go to a movie at a theater that costs only 25 cents
148. Have a dog for a pet
149. Have a cat as a pet
150. Do something (besides mucus in any way, shape or form) come out of my nose
151. Regain the 30 pounds I lost in the Philippines
152. Hike to the summit of Santiago Peak near Saddle Back, California (5,686 ft.)
153. Hike up to the summit of San Jacinto peak with Tom without staying the night at
the midpoint to acclimate (10,833 ft)
154. Hike up to the summit of Mt. Timpanogos with Tom
155. Climb at least 10 of the mountain peaks along the Wasatch Range
156. Hike to Skunk Cabbage campground on San Jacinto Mountain
157. Take a photography class in school
158. Listen to the owls in the forest at night
159. Watch the full moon rise from and set into the ocean
160. Hike and explore in the Anza Borrego Deseret
161. Do a comedy routine on stage
162. Tell night time stories that scared the begeebers out of those who listen
163. Go to the Minnesota State Fair
164. Move to Southern California (but not anywhere near Los Angeles)
165. Join The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) and stay committed
to living what it teaches for the rest of my life. In other words, I don’t want to be a
fair weather Mormon.
166. Receive the Aaronic and Melchezidek Priesthoods
167. Be ordained an Elder
168. Be ordained a High Priest
169. Take an evening class to learn something fun, something I want to learn but don’t
really need to learn
170. Have my yard registered as a Certified Wildlife Habitat
171. Register my brother Dan’s yard as a Certified Wildlife Habitat
172. Build or purchase 10 or more bird houses, bird feeders and/or bird baths and place
them in our half acre yard
173. Serve a 2 year full time mission to anywhere where the Church sends me
174. Identify at least 100+ species of birds from places I’ve been around the world
175. Identify at least 200+ species of plants from places I’ve been around the world
176. Buy some awesome kites and fly them
177. Take some fun trips exploring the U.S. with Donna
178. Create a place in our garden where Donna and I and the kids can enjoy a nice fire
with friends and family
179. Be more mindful to celebrate life each day
180. Go into the wilderness and find the hair of a mouse (getting it from a mouse nest or
an owl pellet does not count)
181. Refresh the wilderness survival skills I learned at the Tom Brown Wilderness School
and learn some new skills
182. See that every member of my family has the opportunity to visit another country
183. Provide an opportunity for as many children as possible to get an opportunity for
a good quality education
184. Do something crazy and spontaneous
185. Donate 40 pints (5 gallons) of blood and red platelets.
186. Anonymously pay the dinner bill of someone or a couple who are poor college students
187. Find the perfect statue to put in my secret garden
188. Leave a legacy “worthy of all acceptation” for my posterity
189. Identify 5 of the most popular operas and learn what I can about them, and develop
a greater appreciation for them:
- Carmen
- Marriage of Figaro
- La Traviata
- The Barber of Seville
- La Boehme
200. Scuba dive into an ocean cave
201. Go to an Olympic venue
202. Stay in a beach house on a beach or hotel in southern California
203. Find something really unique and bizarre in the mountains
204. Go paintballing
205. Lose a portion of my memory because of a blow to my head
206. Watch a movie at a drive in theater
207. Give away a Christmas Jar to someone who really needs it
208. Work in an industrial sized kitchen
209. Belong to a sorority
210. Stay in the Blue Lantern Bed and Breakfast Inn overlooking the harbor in
Dana Point, California
211. Create a perfect place of solitude where I can go to meditate, do Tai Chi, and
completely relax
212. Listen to at least 20+ presentations from the Ted.com website
213. Save someone’s life
214. Inspire someone to be better
215. Visit an authentic Indian Kiva
216. Reestablish a relationship with an old friend
217. Help create a library somewhere that is in serious need of books (in a school, town,
senior citizen center, another country, etc.)
218. Leave more $ bills on the ground or in vending machines for other people to find.
It always makes someone’s day to find money on the ground.
219. Experience Kundalini
220. Win the Peeps challenge
221. Do Utah’s 5 awe inspiring “bucket list” adventures (this list was created by someone
in the news staff of the Deseret News
222. Visit the tide pools in the cement basin on the far side of cove #2 at the bottom
of 1,000 steps in Laguna Beach, Calif.
223. Drive to California and take part in Holly (my niece) and Danny Warren’s wedding
in the San Diego Temple
224. Catch fireflies (and then release them so they don’t die)
225. Save all my change in a change jar and at the end of each year, use it to do
something good for someone else
226. Make a lime drink from scratch using fresh natural ingredients and topped with
fresh mint leaves
227. Store a year’s supply of food
228. Learn about the Peace Pilgrim
229. Become a Reiki Master
230. Drive the Coast Highway (Hwy 1) through California up through Oregon
231. Scuba dive in the Caribbean
232. Do 15 things that will create eternal ripples of consequences on the pond of
humanity’s universal existence
233. Buy something on E-Bay
234. Buy something from a street vendor
235. Swim with the manatees in Puerto Rico
236. Learn how to do 10 fun things on the internet
231. Learn how to make lemon curd
232. Tie-day a tee shirt
233. Give something that means a lot to me, to someone else
237. Learn more about world geography
234. Tell a female stranger that she is pretty, hopefully without offending her or making
her think that I’m some kind of pervert trying to make the moves on her
235. Do a night hike up G Mountain (with no artificial light)
236. Get to know ALL the new members who move into our ward
237. Take more pictures of my loved ones and my friends
238. Take a cross country road trip with my son Jesse in a foreign country
239. Conquer one of my fears (TBT by me)
240. Hike the established trails at Arches National Parks
241. Do more to romance my sweetheart Donna
242. Take more time to relax, drink more of my favorite herbal teas and read more
interesting books
243. Get a medical checkup once a year and a dental check-up twice a year
244. Teach more young teens how to tap into their God given gifts and talents to make
their lives more productive and fulfilling
245. Find a way to get tires for Sandra M’s car so she and Zulma can drive safely to
their new jobs during the winter months
246. Befriend someone who needs a friend
247. Buy a gift for Elder David Demkie that I know he will enjoy. Elder Demkie is a
Down’s Syndrome boy I know who volunteers at the Church Office Building
248. Stay the night at the Inn at Temple Square before they tear the place down
249. Eat at 100 memorable restaurants (See Appendix 6)
250. Call a radio station and dedicate a song to someone
251. WIN something cool
252. Buy a box of Twinnings strawberry mango herbal tea and enjoy it with some
Marie Louise cookies with my son Jesse. We will enjoy them around the Christmas
tree with just the tree lights on
253. Be someone’s mentor
254. Sleep under the stars
255. See my children get a college education
256. Begin the habit of doing an act of kindness each day by carrying out 100 random
acts of kindness within three months (See Appendix 7)
257. Become scuba certified
258. Shop more yard sales and buy clothes that I can give to Remi Mataoa to give to his
Filipino friends who come to Salt Lake for General Conference.
259. Walk through a grave yard at midnight
260. Make “Pay it forward” my life creed
261. Take an I.Q. test
262. Enjoy a walk through a beautiful bamboo grove
263. Help Kim L. know that her family’s bishop really does care about her
264. Do something to help my sister Mickey’s passing be a positive experience for her
and for the rest of the family
265. Plant something new in my garden that I have never planted before
266. Grow an awesome herb garden that provides us with all the herbs we need in
any given year
267. Help each of my sons get their Eagle Scout award
268. Revel in my existence
269. Eat dog meat
270. Eat a rattle snake
271. Eat Iguana meat
272. Eat a grasshopper
273. Visit Chinatown in Los Angeles and San Francisco
274. Have fun teasing Jesse with the our psycho garden gnome
275. Learn how to use my subconscious mind to learn things that cannot be learned
in books
276. Share some of our family’s chocolate meringue mushrooms with people who have
never had them before
277. Plant and care for my own fruit orchard
278. Find 10 ways to find joy in the winter months
279. Plan next year’s garden
280. Visit and do a dip in 4 of the world’s major oceans
281. Let Jackie Meyer know that she is dearly missed
282. Help Michael lose another 80 pounds
283. Find the world’s best chocolate (See Appendix 8)
284. As I complete the previous goal, I will share that chocolate with someone who I
think will really enjoy it
285. Call my mother more often
286. Fix the gas fireplace
287. Quit procrastinating and start pruning my fruit trees when I’m supposed
to (like before they start blooming)
288. Name a star after Donna
289. Sleep on a beach
290. Be followed by a moon shadow
291. Swim in the pools along the Ortega Highway in California on a night with a full moon
292. Do a biology study project along the Ortega Highway
293. Go to a rock concert
294. Witness a car crash
295. Visit a Native American reservation
296. Visit and experience the 7 wonders of the modern world (according to USA Today
survey) and bring something back to remember them by
310. Send someone an anonymous gift with a note telling them what a good person they are
326. See more Cirque du Soleil circus shows on DVD or in person
311. Write a letter to my future self
238. Visit the Redwood forests in Northern California
239. Hike through the jungle
312. Do the Christmas cruise down the Provo River
313. Watch a live standup comedy show
314. Get 10 people to start creating a bucket list of their own
315. Have a sea anemone wrap its tentacles around my fingers
316. Buy a cool tie from a Salvation Army store and wear it to work multiple times
317. Take my son to an Owls baseball game in the summer time
327. Find an Indian artifact (and leave it where I found it)
328. Find someone from my youth and let them know how they have influenced my life
329. Get an I-Pod touch and start downloading talks, music and talking books to my
heart’s content
330. Find greater joy in the small things in life
331. Attend my niece Holly Anderson’s wedding in San Diego, California
332. Did an ice plunge in a health spa
333. Enjoy a meal in a café or restaurant in a fishing village along the ocean
334. Live my life using the following thought as my life motto:
When you were born,
You cried and
The world rejoiced.
Live your life
So that when you die,
The world cries
And you rejoice.
335. Start weight lifting to strengthen and rebuild my arms and upper body strength
336. Get healthier inside and out
337. See Mayan and Aztec ruins
338. Fall hopelessly and unconditionally in love
353. Walk on a glacier
339. See a mountain lion in the wild
318. Ride in a limousine
319. See a water spout
320. Leave a big tip for a waiter or waitress
321. Have a favorite shirt that has soft, comfortable and had lots of red in it
322. Learn how Paprika is made
323. Take a ride on a ferry
324. Take a ride in a glass elevator
325. Organize a fun raising event
326. Know someone who was hit by lightening and ask them what it was like
327. Play volleyball on the beach
340. Accept a dare that pushes me out of my comfort zone
354. Sleep overnight in the stone house at Emerald Lake near the summit of
Mt. Timpanogas
341. Go to at least 25 countries throughout the world √ On Going
355. Have a meaningful conversation with a beggar
356. Survive living in or visiting some place dangerous
357. Visit the birthplace of some of my ancestors
358. Cultivate AMAZING and remarkable friendships
359. Watch the whales migrating and/or romping in the wild
360. Be truly 100% satisfied with my job
342. Serve on jury duty
361. Read the story The Man who Planted Trees and help reforest a piece of the
earth (See goal #1)
362. Find a geo-cache
363. Spend quiet time in the wild watching and observing animals
364. Encounter something dangerous when swimming in the ocean
365. Confront a large animal head on in the woods
366. Rock climb with my children
367. Be more curious
368. Experience a phosphorescent tide
369. Survive hitting something very big with my car
370. Do a midnight walk on the ocean beach and On Going
371. See a red tide
372. Buy something vintage and wear it
373. Go to a fund raising dinner
374. Own a Venus Flytrap plant
375. Live in a house where the rats are as big as cats
376. Learn how to pickle olives
377. Learn how olive oil is made
377. Gather and donate 1,000 cans of food for the local food bank
378. Complete the 76 things a Man Should Know How to Do (a modified version)
from the Esquire magazine (see appendix 9)
379. Add at least 10 submissions to the FamilySearch family history blog
378. Write an article for a nationally distributed Magazine
379. Whenever I see a child with a Kool-Aid stand, top and buy something, pay
with a $5 bill and tell the kids to keep the change
380. Visit all the Spanish missions in California
381. Leave a detailed account of my and Donna’s life behind so that our posterity will
have plenty of resource material to know who their great great great great
grandparents were. It will also help to document all the stories that survive about
what a great person Donna was and about how odd and weird I was
382. Visit an ancient site
383. Read and understand my credit report
384. Write to my congressman and voice my feelings/opinion about something I feel
strongly about
385. Each year, identify a new good habit I want to incorporate into my life
386. Help people heal some of their old wounds
387. Change someone’s mind about something they feel strongly about
388. Eat fried green tomatoes
389. Skip all of my San Clemente high school reunions, except the 20th
390. Live my dreams
391. Learn more about Marco Polo
392. Leave a message in a library book
393. Carry a totem in my pocket and then give it away to someone as a token of
something they should do with their life.
394. Cultivate a “mystique” about me that keeps people guessing what I’m really
all about.
395. Do the Mentos challenge
396. Give up my seat on a bus or train for someone who may need it or out of
respect for an older person or a handicapped person
397. Bring home something useful from the dumps
398. Get rid of the unnecessary stuff I bring home from the dumps
399. Witness some kind of astronomical phenomenon Solar eclipse
400. Spend more quiet time in the desert
401. Keep visiting and exploring the Rock River
402. Live instead of just existing
403. Make a complete and utter fool of myself
404. Witness and live through a natural disaster
405. Visit Screaming Lizard Rock where there are dozens of matate holes and the
spirits of old Indian ladies grind their acorns
406. Take time to meditate and pray each day
407. Discover something new to be passionate about every year
408. Eat seafood that is fresh out of the ocean
409. Make things happen. Live by the motto, “IF IT IS TO BE, IT’S UP TO ME”
410. Take a secret to the grave
411. Write something that I can submit to the Family History Wikipedia
412. Be comfortable handling my taxes, Jehovah's Witnesses, my bank account, and
telephone solicitors
413. Explore Zion’s National Park and hike the trails there
414. Find fascinating people and listen to what they have to say
415. Keep my passport current so that when an opportunity to travel to a foreign
country comes along, I can grab it
416. Be completely debt free.
417. Keep up with my daily journal
418. Live my life deeply and with passion
419. Continually remind myself to “never completely grow up.”
420. Buy something at an auction
421. Learn more about George Washington Carver
422. Expand my culinary skills
423. Get up early enough each day so that I can have my quiet time to study,
read enlightening books, ponder and pray
424. Learn some useful (yes, I really mean useful) time-saving tricks and shortcuts
to make my life easier and more productive
425. Do all I can to give more to the world than I get
426. Learn more about The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
427. See the Carl Bloch art exhibit while it’s at Brigham Young University
428. Do something to improve the environment
429. See how hot dogs are made
430. Eat at Joe’s Café in Orem, Utah
431. Study and learn more about frequencies
432. Get up close to a wild mountain animal
433. Get back in touch with some of my mission companions and associates
434. Find the 2 missionaries who taught and converted me to the LDS Church
435. Get my priesthood line of authority for my ordination both as an Elder and
as a high priest
436. Reestablish contact with some of the Filipino people I taught as a missionary
437. Put flowers on the graves of those who have died so long ago that there is
no one left to remember them
438. Be better about laughing during very stressful times
439. See some of the early church history sites
440. Create 5 beautiful things
441. Take time to visit our ward nursery at the Church and be with the little children
442. Read stories to the kids in the ward nursery
443. Attend more family reunions
444. Compost my yard, garden and tree clippings and other organic refuse
445. Go 4-wheeling in Mexico
446. For once in my life, I want to fly 1st class on an airline
447. Make eating veggies and fruits a much bigger part of my daily diet
448. See auras (the kind that shine around a person’s body)
449. Own a safe
450. Put something more valuable than our chocolate and other goodies in our safe
451. Write something that over 1 million will see and read
452. Create a salsa worthy of being ooowwwwhhhed and aaaawwwwed over
453. Teach a child how to do something really fun
454. Teach a teenager how to do something really cool
455. Teach an adult how to do something really cool
456. Study world religions
457. Rent a safety deposit box at a bank
458. Create several recipes for amazing chocolate chip cookies and sell the recipes
through the mail
459. Learn how to breathe fire
460. Own a GPS device (and know how to use it)
461. See a volcano spewing lava in real life
462. Take joy in life’s great harvests
463. Read the 11 most significant lyrical poems written by American poets
464. Create a memorial fund on behalf of my sister Michelle Gay Anderson Perkins
with Deseret International
465. Visit some of the world’s great underground caverns and caves
466. Earn my Heart of Scouting award
467. Don’t be afraid or shy about asking for help
468. Decide What My Magnum Opus is
469. Read all the published poetry of Mattie J. T. Stepanek
470. Do something to improve my community
471. Find the place that makes the best hot dogs in America
472. Have a psychic tell me my future
473. Bike Slick Rock in Moab
474. Bike Gemini Bridges in Moab
475. Bike Onion Creek in Moab
476. Listen to coyotes howl in the night while camping
477. Go down deep into the earth in a mine
478. Hike down into the cone of a volcano
479. Listen to someone’s life story
480. Learn to be more patient
481. Enjoy the success of others as much as I enjoy my own success
482. Age with grace and dignity
483. Not play solitaire on my I-Pod for a month
484. Go to Disneyland
485. Take all my children to Disneyland
486. Find the perfect clam linguini recipe, preferable one that duplicates the recipe
used at Baci’s and at Caputo’s
487. Always remember to listen to both sides the story
488. Write a secret on a card, attach it to a helium balloon and let it fly away
489. Teach kids to be more aware of plants and animals around them and teach
them their names and habits
490. Gather 15 plants and animals from the wilderness and eat them
491. Walk through a BIG maze and find my way out
492. Go to a storage unit auction
493. Sign up to be part of a recycle program
494. Go to a hot air balloon festival
495. Keep a dream journal of my significant dreams
496. Write a letter of thanks to someone who has changed my
497. Ask 10 people to recommend a book they thought was great and read each
one √ In Progress
516. Make a list of the 200 coolest experiences in my life—(See Appendix 11)
498. Watch a silent movie from beginning to end
499. Make the world a better place for others to live in
500. Find a killer good chili recipe
501. Spend less than what I make so that I am not in debt and I have more money
to experience life with
502. Make more of an effort to fill my life with joyous
503. Make presentations at the Brigham Young University Family History conferences
504. Try chocolate with sea salt (really??!!?)
505. Buy some nice high quality sheets for our bed
506. Try every type of donut made by Daylight Donuts
507. Do a big time prank on one of my old school buddies
508. Find Whitey Hansen and see how much damage we did to this guy’s personality
by laying him in the Hinckley crypt for the night in the Maplewood cemetery.
509. Try my hand at learning several new skills and get a respectable level of proficiency
with each of the skills listed below. √ In Progress
- - Quality candy making
- - Home construction
- - Potter (Ceramics) √ Done
- - Culinary arts
- - Chocolatier
- - Creative writing (Poetry, children’s literature, fiction, etc.) √ Done
- - Wood Carving √ Done
- - Carpenter
- - Information manager √ Done
- - Published author √ Done
- - Lecturer/teacher/public speaker √ Done
- - Administrator of a non-profit humanitarian organization
- - A researcher of the plant world (think George Washington Carver)
- - Teach in a college or university
- - Landscape architect √ Done
- - Backcountry survival skills √ Done
- - Astronomer
- - Meditation √ Done
534. Learn more about hoarders and what makes them do the things they do
535. Try 100 new foods or drinks I have never experienced before
536. Weed out my home library on a regular basis and get rid of books that I haven’t
read or won’t read in the next 5-10 years.
511. Perform or assist a doctor performing surgery or some kind of medical procedure
on someone
512. Buy a time share in a place my family and I can enjoy coming to for family vacations
513. Do a sub for Santa for a needy family
514. Spend more time outside laying in the grass watching what’s happening in the sky
515. Discharge a fire extinguisher
516. Go disco dancing
517. Spend the entire summer sleeping in a small camper
518. Go on a sleigh ride
519. Go back to my old schools and see how things have changed
520. Find a section of highway and pick up all the trash that people throw on it.
521. Make a 15 foot chain out of gum wrappers
522. Write an angry letter to someone who is being a jerk 523. Own a cell phone
524. Buy or make a Chinese sky lantern (Kongming lantern) and launch it up into the
sky (and hopefully don’t burn anybody’s house down or start any fields on fire)
525. Stay in one of the most high end rentals at the Sundance Ski Resort
526. Be kind to little children
527. Eat dinner at La Caie restaurant
528. Listen to what a Jehovah’s Witness has to say
529. Take a paleography class on learn how to read old handwriting
530. Wear flip flops more
531. Throw a perfect spiral with a football
532. Catch a really big fish
533. Eat cassava pudding
534. Watch sand diggers extract sand from the bottom of a large river
535. Go down a zip line
536. Live in a home where I can leave my windows open at night and fall to sleep to
the sound of waves crashing on the beach
537. Own a chain saw
538. Have a “whale experience” with Mark Baxter
539. Become CERT certified (Citizen’s Emergency Response Team)
540. Do something that scares the heck out of me
541. Learn how to cook a great plate of mussels and clams
542. Speak at the funeral of someone I don’t know
543. Sleep in a hotel that is just as creepy and spooky as the Norman Bates Hotel
544. Be grateful for good friendships and healthy, functional relationships
545. Be the real “ME”. Be authentic
546. Go to a play in another language that I do not understand
547. Become an expert at something
548. Learn how to take a compliment
549. Find a patient and profoundly powerful mentor
550. Ride a ferry in the Puget Sound
551. Find out what is really down ZZYZX Road on Interstate 15 in California
552. Be a merit badge councilor for at least 5 BSA merit badges
553. Own a hammock
554. Sleep the night in a hammock
555. Visit the San Juan Islands in Washington State
556. Make an arrow and shoot it
557. Climb a Mayan pyramid in Central America
558. Work a graveyard shift someplace
559. Be completely and utterly awestruck by mountain light
560. Watch a Halloween play in a spooky castle
561. Ride a caribao (a water buffalo)
562. Ride a tram up a very steep mountain
563. Work for really great bosses
564. Work for a really bad boss
565. Be interviewed for a newspaper article
566. Eat a Krispy Kreme donut
567. Eat a burger and fries from In and Out Burger
568. Don’t die until I’m 80 years old
569. Give up caffeinated soft drinks
570. Do a deep meditation and reach all 4 states of consciousness
571. Own an HDTV
572. Climb down to a beach cove in Laguna Beach, California called 1,000 Steps.
573. Write a letter praising the service of someone or a product produced by
a business
574. Buy another copy of the children’s book, The Silly Woman so I can read
this story to my grandchildren
575. Hug a tree and see if it’s all people say it is
576. Sit out on a dock in Puget Sound and listen to the seals and the otters at night
577. Swim across the Colorado River
578. Visit Yellowstone Park
579. Experience the death of a loved one with hope and dignity
580. Sing as loudly as I want in my car and don’t worry about what anyone else thinks
581. Play mud football and loved it
582. Raft the Colorado River
583. Pull off the side of the road and pick wild berries
584. Eat Ube
585. Go from beginning to end of Mario Brothers 3 in one sitting
586. Walk through an orange grove in the evening and enjoy the smell of orange
blossoms in the moist night air
587. Hunt rattle snakes
588. Feed the seagulls at the San Clemente pier
589. Invent my own unique written language and use it often
590. Bike the Skyline trail from Ephraim to Spanish Fork Canyon in, Utah
591. Go to Joe’s Valley to camp and fish
592. Skype someone
593. Keep a hummingbird feeder full all summer long so that we have plenty of
hummingbirds nesting in our yard and in the neighborhood
594. Buy 32 gifts for Donna’s and my 32nd wedding anniversary
595. Drive all the way from Lindon, Utah to Newport Beach California and buy
cupcakes from Sprinkles bakery with Donna and Summer
596. Make a terrarium
597. Make a BIG terrarium
598. Invest in a piece of art and sell it later, making a respectable profit
599. Have my airline seat upgraded on a overseas flight at no expense to me
600. Attend the premiere of a film
601. Learn how to make Indian Kheer (Indian Rice Pudding with Cardamom)
602. Listen to Israel Kamakawiwo’ole sing Somewhere Over the Rainbow
603. Hitchhike somewhere
604. Win something at one of those stupid carnival games
605. Live more in the present moment
606. See more of God in everything around me
607. Become certified in something
608. Write a letter (or email) of complaint if and when warranted
609. Learn how to change the oil in my truck
610. Do a road trip with one or more friends
611. Grow my own fruits and vegetables, cook them, dry them, can them and
freeze them
612. Eat a big insect of some kind
613. Flatten a coin on a railroad track
614. Flatten a nail on a railroad track
615. Have an organ donor sticker on my driver’s license
616. Work in a book bindery
617. See the world as much as I can
618. Live my life so that I honor my parents and my ancestors
619. Visit the Cathedral of the Madeline church in Salt Lake City, Utah
620. Do a walking mediation and reach an Alpha state
621. Eat pig brain soup
622. Eat a balut (an egg that is only days away from hatching. It is a very popular
thing to eat in the Philippine Islands)
623. Plant a lemon tree
624. Be able to apologize when an apology is really needed and called for
625. Burn leaves in the street in the autumn to remind me of the smell of autumn
as a child in Minnesota
626. Catch wild pigeons and raise them
627. Forgive the really mean people and the jerks in life
628. Help someone by helping them carrying their emotional, financial and/or spiritual
burdens for a while
629. Cook more meals with Donna
630. Type 120 words per minute
631. Capture a wild bee hive
632. Work in a tee shirt silk screen shop
633. Own a business that I started from the very beginning
634. Go snowshoeing
635. Put money in a street musician’s donations jar
636. Witness the great toad migration in the Philippine Islands
637. Raise a raccoon as a pet
638. Leave change in a vending machine for someone else to find
639. When I get good service from an employee, write a letter to their boss and let
them know what a good job their employee is doing
640. Buy a truck
641. Find a quiet place in the mountains near a lake and play my recorder
(wooden flute, not a tape recorder)
642. Go to Goblin Valley National Park in southern Utah
643. Play out among the goblins and the hoodoos at night in Goblin Valley during a
full moon
644. Develop and rely on my intuition more
645. Learn how to listen to people better. No thinking of what I’m going to say next
instead of listening to what the other person is saying.
646. Canoe on a river or lake in the tropics
647. Canoe on the northern lakes of Minnesota or Wisconsin
648. Make a book; a physical tangible book. It doesn’t have to have anything written
in it, just make a book by hand using all basic materials and make it with several
signatures that I sew together to form a real hardbound book like I’d buy in a
bookstore.
649. Improve the quality of my handwriting
650. Eat a Crown Burger from the Crown Burger restaurant in Salt Lake City, Utah
651. Make homemade butter from natural cream
652. Bathe in a place called Mormon Falls in the Philippine Islands
653. Get good at archery
654. Own a gun
655. Raise my own bee hives
656. Ride a jet ski
657. Spend the night in a jungle, listening to all the jungle sounds and surrounding me
658. Go on a long trip using a GPS navigator
659. Go skeet shooting
660. Experience a typhoon
661. Run a trap line along the Rock River
662. Walk on London Bridge and see that it is NOT falling down
663. Stay in a seaside bed and breakfast
664. Pray daily
665. Visit Mt. Hood, Oregon
666. Visit the Bataan Death March Memorial in the Philippine Islands
667. Visit the remains of what was left after Mt. Pinatubo volcano blew its top
668. Eat at a Hard Rock Café
669. Continue to push myself outside of my comfort zone
670. Bath in a hot pot at Yellowstone National Park
671. Find my priesthood line of authority from when I was ordained a high priest
672. Ride a water weenie
673. Complete temple work for at least 10,000 of my ancestors
674. Be good enough to qualify to run varsity track in my 9th grade year of school
675. Earn my varsity letter from Luverne High School
676. Earn my varsity letter from San Clemente High school
677. Help someone begin a truly life changing journey of discovering universal truth
678. Go night crawler hunting at night in the rain
679. Create a collection of some kind
680. Have a Muslim make a sword for me
681. Compete in speech competitions
682. Watch dolphins surf the waves in Laguna Beach, California
683. Design and develop the landscape for a my half acre yard
684. Never needlessly kill an animal
685. Study French
686. Enjoy a fire on the beach during the early morning hours
687. Prove to my family that I was not mentally retarded when I was a little boy
688. Take a basket making class and learn how to make some awesome baskets
689. Plant a raspberry patch
690. Plant a blackberry patch
691. Figure out some way to make it so that Donna and I don’t get lost from each
other when I go with her to shop at a big store.
692. Hear the sound a frozen lake makes when it cracks from one shore to the other
693. Watch the horror movie Children of the Corn in a country home surrounded
by corn fields
694. Grow Lily of the Valley plants
695. Buy at least one thing from an army surplus store
696. Build and arbor and plant grapes to cover it
697. Build a large raised bed and plant it full of strawberry plants
698. Build a garden shed
699. Go shopping in a Muslim bizarre
700. Learn how to grow a salt garden
701. Learn how to make homemade wine
702. Make homemade ice cream
703. Grow bonsai trees
704. Do the Yellowstone hike from Beckler Ford to the Hot Pots and back with
the Bigney family
705. Learn how to make homemade pasta
706. Make homemade pasta with the kids and let them help so they can learn how it’s done
707. Have a family history heirloom quilt made for my family
708. Marry the perfect woman
709. Always treat my wife with absolute and unqualified love and respect and with
complete adoration
710. Marry only once
711. Marry in the temple and always honor the covenants I make there
712. Learn how to can, freeze and dry produce grown in my own garden
713. Work with old people
714. See the Pompeii Exhibit at Brigham Young University
715. Buy oil stocks and make money with them
716. See the King Ramses Exhibit at Brigham Young University
717. Take a woodcarving class
718. Own my own landscape company
719. Play tug-of-war over a river
720. Try to find the biological parents of someone who was adapted
721. Go into a frog house where frogs are raised and kept
722. Finish the PADI Open Water Diver Course
723. Watch two people (preferably a married couple) get into a BIG fight while
playing the game Risk
724. Work in an historical archive
725. Attend a week long outdoor hands on seminar where I learn how to track, learn
Native American philosophy, and wilderness survival skills from Tom Brown, a
world famous tracker
726. Go to San Juan Island, in the Puget Sound in Washington state
727. Ride a bicycle completely around San Juan Island
728. Fly an airplane
729. Go to Alaska and see an Alaskan summer night where the nights never get dark
730. Build an arbor
731. Build a stone path through my garden
732. Find something good in Las Vegas
733. Eat the onion rings at the Goodwood BBQ restaurant
734. Be a pallbearer at someone’s funeral
735. Learn more about Frazil Ice
736. Play on a school and town ball team
737. Live in Oregon
738. Swim in Mona Lake (Utah)
739. Live by the motto, Happy Wife, Happy Life
740. Stay the night at the Big Bear ski resort in California
741. Take part in an archeological dig
742. Make a fire using only a fire drill that I make myself
743. Continue doing something to show my love and appreciation for the people of
the Philippine Islands
744. Raise animals
745. Experience a record breaking flood
746. Run for class office while in high school
747. Sleep overnight along the Rock River near of Luverne, Minnesota
748. Sell animal furs at a real trading post
749. Be on my high school honor roll
750. Find a sport that I can take part in that Mr. Roberts will NEVER want to coach
751. See some cool and “once in a lifetime” natural phenomenon
752. Do the temple work for Miss Weigle
753. Be on television
754. Have a paper route
755. Travel all day in a rickety bus through winding mountain roads in a foreign country
756. Vote at each presidential election
757. Sing in a church choir
758. Stay in that “specially reserved place” in the airport where 1st class passenger wait
for their flights
759. Reconnect with my childhood friend Roger Kelderman and his wife
Colleen Hobina Kelderman
760. Find the technology that I can use to transcribe audio files into a word
processing file
761. Do an internship while in college
762. Find my good friend Garrett Smith
763. Plant potatoes
764. Sleep some place really weird
765. Go to Jackson Hole, Wyoming with the family
766. Take the family and stay at the Disneyland Hotel in California. Not at a hotel near
the park, but IN the park
767. Raise an owl as a pet
768. Buck hay for a summer
769. Watch a cock fight
770. Get involved in a spider fight
771. Be a hamburger jockey for a day
772. Grow fruits and vegetables to give away to others and/or give to the food bank
773. Raise tropical fish
774. Be out after curfew and ditch the authorities in a country where Marshall Law
is in effect
775. Live in a mansion
776. Live in a slum house
777. Run a trap line
778. Sit behind a waterfall
779. Explore Timpanogas cave
780. Stay under water for more than 2 minutes
781. Own a garden Nome
782. Cross the Equator
783. Find something good about North Dakota that would make it worth going there
784. Make something very imaginative and sell it at a flea market, a farmer’s market
or at a Christmas craft fair.
785. Have a suit hand tailored specifically for me
786. Be a legally ordained minister
787. Own an awesome looking jade plant
788. Build a new family room and bed room in my home
789. Visit the “old” relatives to get information from them about our family history and
locate some unknown sources I didn’t know about
790. Make my own potato chips
791. Ride on some awesome roller coasters
792. Raise chameleons
793. Learn to downhill ski
794. Learn to cross country ski
795. Develop an appreciation for ballet
796. Own a T-shirt with my son’s band name on it
797. Learn how to make a great gnash filling
798. Order hot chocolate from Starbucks
799. Be there for the birth of each of my children
800. Earn a 4.0 grade point average for at least one semester of college
801. Become a certified Museum curator
802. Work in an archive
803. Register a house in the state historic building register
804. Get a state grant and finance a community oral history project for my community
805. Write some of the absolutely awesome and memorable stories of things my
brother Tom and I did as we were growing up
806. Vow to NEVER EVER get involved in AMWAY
807. Build a tree house
808. See a traveling circus owned and run by a small family circus troop
809. Go back to Minnesota and do more family history research
810. Create a gift bag of very nice “life pleasures” and give it to a homeless person
811. Go looking at houses (and do the tour through the whole house) that
are wwwwwaaaaaaaayyyyyyyy out of my league
812. Give myself a haircut
813. Through doing my own research, get my family tree back more
than 15 generations
814. Do something nice for my children’s school teachers to say thank you for
all the hard work they’ve done for my children
815. Leave a thought provoking thought on someone’s car window
816. Enjoy a night at the opera
817. Smile at 1,000 strangers
818. Read more Shakespeare
819. Take a first aid training course
820. Google myself and see what I can find
821. So NO when I really mean NO
822. Say YES when I really mean YES
823. Be able to deliver bad news
824. Go spelunking
825. Visit a cemetery where plots are rented and then visit the area outside the
cemetery where the remains of those who “don’t pay their rent” are dumped
826. Go down a very scary waterslide
827. Tip toe through the tulips
828. Find the “mysterious quartz” stone that is said to guard the way to Bumble Bee
Rock in the Anza Borrego desert
829. Walk on a bamboo cat walk over a precariously dangerous area
830. Inner tube down a river
831. Inner tube down a very long and steep snow run
832. Visit a candy factory
833. Eat squid and octopus
834. Swing from a jungle vine
835. Be in a video that will be seen by at least 1 million people worldwide
836. Watch a movie being filmed
837. Learn how to drive a tractor
838. Manage a large commercial fruit orchard for at least 1 season
839. Ride a jeepney
840. Go inside a WWII Japanese pill box (bomb shelter)
841. Learn a foreign language good enough to be able to hold at least a basic level
conversation with someone
842. Eat a barracuda
843. Be quoted in a newspaper article
844. See a demolition derby
845. Wear a Barong Tagalog
846. Celebrate All Saints Day in the Philippines
847. Reactivate someone back into the Church
848. See a good Elvis impersonator
849. Stay someplace where I am the only white guy in the entire area
850. Eat jambalaya in New Orleans
851. Be awake enough to watch and understand and even carry on a conversation
with the doctor about what is happening when a doctor performs a surgery on me
852. Visit some awesome botanical gardens
853. Wear a Nehru jacket
854. Own and wear a Nehru shirt
855. Go to Disneyland (California) at least 25 times
856. Go paintballing
857. Leave money on a hiking trail so that someone else will find it with a note to use
the money to buy a drink or something to eat when they get back into town
858. Do the free fall from that big tower droppy thingy at Knott’s Berry Farm
859. Catch crayfish and eat them
860. Own a Moped
861. Preserve an artifact to remind me of the profound lesson I learned from an old
white Indian beggar women in Guatemala
862. Get good a using chopsticks
863. Watch the stars where there is little or no light pollution
864. Walk on the Bonneville Salt Flats
865. Help perform a tubal ligation
866. Perform a circumcision
867. Canoe the endless lakes of Northern Minnesota
868. Live in a home that has a full time house boy/girl to do all the house work for me
869. Do a backpack trip that is at least 1 week long
870. Learn how to cook something from a Cambodian Hmong woman
871. Be a volunteer for something good
872. Climb to the top of a Mayan temple
873. Go to a professional baseball game
874. Eat lunch in a pub
875. Walk the stairs to the top of the monument to those who died on the
Bataan Death March in the Philippines
876. Own a telescope
877. Watch an eclipse
878. Take a midnight walk on a beach (both lake and ocean)
879. Hunt and kill an animal and then eat it
880. Own a mood ring
881. Get rid of my mood ring
882. Eat pralines in New Orleans
883. Watch Old Faithful erupt in Yellowstone National Park
884. Go inside a pyramid
885. Do something to get an incredible,butt-tightening adrenaline rush
886. Find and use a two-seater outhouse
887. Pick wild berries from the side of the road
888. Spend time sitting quietly in a very old neglected and over grown orchard
on a summer morning and watch what happens
889. Watch a movie at a drive-in theater
890. Be engaged to be married
891. Own my home free and clear, owing nothing to anyone
892. Sell my own art work
893. Make my own love beads
894. Own some love beads and bell bottom pants
895. Learn how to preserve, restore and repair old books and documents
896. Have an author autograph a book for me that he/she has written
897. Walk through a VERY BIG patch of poison Ivy to see if I was allergic to it
898. See the following animals in their natural habitat
899. Live in a country that is ruled by a dictator
900. Spend Christmas in a foreign country away from family and all I am familiar with
901. Ensure the continuation of my genetic memory
902. Walk on the San Clemente pier
903. Sing in a barbershop quartet
904. Learn how to make soap
905. Tour the Granite Mountain Vaults in Little Cottonwood Canyon, Utah
906. Be a well read person
907. NEVER do a Sudoku puzzle
908. Go to 10 interesting museums
909. Walk through a massive field of wildflowers filled with flowers in full bloom as far
as the eye can see
910. Carve something out of wood
911. Make more new friends
912. Grow some huge sunflowers and use them to feed the birds
913. Grow a ton of Walla Wall Onions
914. Hire a lawyer to create a family trust
915. Do that G.I. Joe thing
916. Go barefoot more
917. Experience a root canal
918. Watch and listen to Sand hill cranes
919. Make ice cream in a can
920. Attend a cultural festival of some kind
921. Buy a piece of art that someone else has made
922. Complete my Master’s of Library Science (MLS) degree
923. Follow the food I eat from garden to table
924. Stay the night at a hotel that has some interesting history to it
925. Visit the French Quarters in New Orleans
926. Raise birds
927. Get someone to pee on an electric fence and see what happens
928. Take a word or phrase and use it enough with enough people that it becomes
part of everyday language
929. Have my wife remove stitches from a sutured wound (on me) rather than go to
a doctor to have it done.
930. Read bedtime stories to my children for over 1,000 nights
931. While doing family history research, discover a deep dark secret about an ancestor
(one of those fascinating skeletons that are often hidden away in the closets of one’s life)
that no one in my family knows about
932. Go through life without breaking a bone
933. Learn how to make my own plant dyes
934. Learn to ice skate
935. Do a chain letter
936. Sing a song on Broadway
937. Do the river hike at Zion’s National Park
938. Go back to school after graduating from college
939. Write a song
940. Start replacing old filament bulbs with energy efficient light bulbs in my home
941. Get a speeding ticket at least once in my life \
942. Learn how to play golf
943. Hike the loop that starts up Grove Creek Canyon, through the meadows on top
of G-Mountain and back down through Battle Creek Canyon
944. Have a semi-pro golfer give me some golfing tips to improve my game
945. Live close enough to the ocean that I can hear the waves crashing on the shore
from my bedroom window
946. Create a secret garden
947. Sit on the top of Diamond Head in Hawaii
948. Take my son on a treasure hunt with a “real” treasure map
949. Enjoy more naps
950. Write love letters to my wife
951. Make an artsy macramé wall hanging
952. Expend more effort to live GREEN
953. Go to a place where the Mimies live in the cracks of the rocks
954. Play ice hockey on a frozen lake
955. List 100 things that make America a great place to live
956. Don’t let others determine who I will be or what I will do with my life
957. Have a Chinese person give me a Chinese name
958. Get an article published in the Ensign magazine
959. Learn to wake up with my mental alarm clock
960. Buy a hoodie I really like
961. Drink a Boba drink
962. Don’t eat sweets for 1 week
963. Never forget the old abandoned bridge that was out by the Rock River in
Luverne, Minnesota
964. Read and learn more about Quantum Physics
965. Shop at more Farmer’s Markets
966. Spend a day in Tijuana, Mexico and eat the food from the local food stands
(without getting parasites or diarrhea)
967. Walk through the Norwegian Pine forests of Wisconsin
968. Make a jewel box cake with Donna
969. Build a remarkable detailed doll house for my daughter, made up of more
than 3,000 pieces
970. Learn how to replace and repair a toilet
971. Learn how to make incredible cinnamon rolls
972. Train several men so well that they can easily take my place when I am released as
a bishop and do an even better job than I did
973. Work in a convalescent hospital for old folks and help them be happy by
treating them well
974. Tour the Rice Research Center on Luzon Island
975. Eat Navaho fry bread
976. Using the records found at a city court house, do a historical search on someone’s
home to see if it qualifies to be put on a historical register.
977. Do that gag where you put dog poop in a bag, place it on someone’s front
doorsteps, set the bag on fire and then watch what happens next
978. Visit Pearl Island in Mindanao and spend a day there with friends
979. Be involved in an event that made national news
980. Help Beau find himself
981. Try boxing
982. Watch the movie The Sixth Sense
983. Go on a special picnic with Donna
984. Eat at Blazing Saddles restaurant in Heber, Utah
985. See the following volcanoes in person
986. Allow myself days that I can enjoy being 100% lazy and completely relaxed
987. Smoke a salmon (In a smoker, of course)
988. Have conversations with friends late into the night
989. Listen to a wild loon give that lonely sad call on a lake at sunset
990. Ride on a water weenie
991. Make homemade catsup using the recipe that my mother used when I was
a little boy
992. Put a vegetable in a jar, securely attach the lid and let the organisms consume the
contents until there is nothing left but water. I want to see that happen.
993. Eat a Pig Trough at Ferrell’s ice cream parlor
994. Don’t be afraid to fail
995. Be more mindful to speak good of others
996. Join FTA (Future Teachers of America)
997. Visit Pipestone Monument (in Pipestone, Minnesota) and watch the Hiawatha
Pageant
998. Taste caviar
999. Water ski at Lake Powell
1000. Water ski at Deer Creek Reservoir
1001. Fish for salmon on the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska
1002. Eat a roast pig that has been roasted the way the Polynesians do it
1004. Dress up as Santa Claus with the red suit and the whole getup and do Christmas
for a group of kids
1005. Stay at the Anniversary Inn in Salt Lake City, Utah
1006. Eat the perfect Filet Mignon
1007. Get my patriarchal blessing
1008. Go into a cave behind a waterfall
1009. Help compile a second volume of the oral histories of Lindon Resident. It will be
volume II of Leaves of the Lindon Tree.
1010. Listen to Arlo Guthrie in concert
1011. Go for a night swim in a lake, river or an ocean
1012. Get to where I’m comfortable using the authoring tools I work with:
1013. Do more to minister to the needs of the poor
1014. Totally indulge my passion for chocolate
1015. Get a physical every year
1016. Eat dill pickle potato chips
1017. Eat potato chips with homemade catsup and Miracle Whip
1018. Keep in close touch with my dying sister Mick
1019. Capture a hive of wild bees
1020. Get into a fist fight at least once in my life and feel the adrenaline rush
1021. Use Google Earth to visit and explore places I’ve never been or seen
1022. See the stars from:
- A houseboat on Lake Powell
- Yellowstone National Park
- A ship far out in the ocean
- Scofield Reservoir
- The jungle in Central America
- An island in the sea
- A desert
1023. Enjoy more of life’s small indulgences
1024. Donate 100,000 grains of rice using the Freerice.com website
1025. Find a great quote for my wall
1026. Eat the following fruits and nuts FRESH from the tree or vine
1027. Write and publish an article for a nationally circulated magazine
1028. Visit some place that is haunted
1029. Get a letter or email from someone famous
1030. Find a music box with a dancing clown that plays Send in the Clowns (just like
the one our kids used to have when they were little)
1031. Create or provide a family heirloom for each of my children.
1032. Learn 3 great lessons that the desert has taught me
1033. Provide lunch for a homeless person
1034. Take my family and help serve a Thanksgiving dinner to those living in the
community on Thanksgiving day
1035. Do a road trip to California with a good friend
1036. Start a business publishing a professional publication
1037. Meet and shake hands with someone famous
1038. Go to the international film theater at Brigham Young University
1039. Go to a Beach Boys concert
1040. Live by the motto, “Bloom where I am planted” and be proud of what I do and
what I leave behind when I leave this life
1041. Eat everything on BBC's 50 Things to Eat Before You Die list
1042. Watch someone get hypnotized
1043. Play truth or dare
1044. Be cautious of who I play truth or dare with
1045. Do something that makes someone say, "I really admire you for what you did!"
1046. Purchase an obscene amount of candy
1047. Meet someone with the same name as me
1048. Read a good book by a fireplace
1049. Go swimming under a full moon
1050. Visit the Polynesian Cultural Center in Hawaii
1051. Create a “Pass Along” Garden
1052. Turn off all the lights and listen to my favorite songs with headphones on
1053. Play tug of war over a stream
1054. Have a pen pal
1055. Be with someone while they are going through their “end of life” dying experience
1056. Push all the buttons in an elevator
1057. Go white water rafting
1058. Sail on the ocean on a ship
1059. Walk on a new beach
1060. Win a prize playing BINGO
1061. Learn to like sauerkraut
1062. Rappel down the face of a cliff
1063. Take a college class on ancient world history
1064. Take college classes that have nothing to do with my major or with general
education requirements. Take them just for the fun of learning something
new and unique
1065. Wrestle 8 neighborhood boys at once
1066. Bounce someone off a trampoline
1067. Be in a pie eating contest
1068. Be educated in and well informed on the subject of American politics
1069. Go trick or treating as an adult . . . . . and bring home some candy!
1070. Fall off a cliff without killing myself
1071. Record my children’s voices
1072. Video tape my young children playing and then let them watch those videos
when they are older and bring their dates to the house
1073. Be in a greased pig contest
1074. See a real Egyptian mummy
1075. Buy something from the Salvation Army
1076. Die Happy
1077. Raise Sea Monkeys
1078. Don’t get mad or voice my disgust at stupid drivers for 1 month
1079. No fast food for 1 month
1080. Haggle for the best price for something in a foreign market
1081. Eat a veggie burger
1082. Get someone to read a book that I think is a great book
1083. Stay at one of those really old creepy “haunted” hotels that remind me
of the Norman Bates hotel
1084. Get thrown into a pool with all my clothes on (and check book in my
back pocket, and watch on my wrist, and mints in my pocket, and . . . .)
1085. Watch a remarkable sunset with the woman of my dreams by my side
1086. See the Stadium of Fire
1087. Swing on rope that goes out of the water and drop from the highest point
1088. Make someone’s wish come true
1089. Ride a bicycle built for two
1090. Play laser tag and win
1091. Yell and cheer so much at a game that I am hoarse the next day
1092. Eat eggs I’ve gathered from a chicken’s nest
1093. Buy something at an auction
1094. Get a TB test
1095. Don’t log into Facebook for 1 month
1096. Hike down to Havasupai Falls in the Grand Canyon
1097. Bathe in a waterfall
1098. Ride in a helicopter
1099. Drive on the historic Route 66
1100. Hold a live bat without getting rabies or any kind of disease
1101. Fast (go without food and water for a given period of time)
1102. Learn to play tennis
1103. Sneak out of the house late at night and do something:
1104. Go asparagus hunting in Rock County, Minnesota
1105. Find a 4 leaf clover (or is that a four loaf clever?) No, I think it’s a 4
leaf clover
1106. Identify at least 50 songs that bring peace to my soul and joy to my heart
1107. Do an absolutely awesome meditation on the top of a mountain
1108. Visit Liberty Jail in Independence, Missouri
1109. Walk about in the forest in the middle of the night during a full moon
1106. Look at the clouds more
1107. Go to a high school senior prom
1108. Watch Monte Python movies
1109. Help Matt J. get on his mission
1110. Buy a VERY expensive truffle and use it to make something very tasty
1111. Buy an expensive bottle of really great balsamic vinegar
1112. Make my own infused honey
1110. Make a friend of someone I really don’t like
1111. Read the Twenty-five Books that Shaped America (as defined by
Thomas C. Foster)
1112. Use plaster of Paris to make a mold of a body part (hand, face, foot, etc.)
and make a clay rendition of that body part
1113. Own an expensive pair of leather work gloves
1114. Grow my own Shiitake mushrooms
1115. Make a basket with a basketball from the 3-point line
1116. Write a letter to Santa
1117. Have a picnic on a remote tropical island with friends
1118. Stay in a nipa hut
1119. Have a lead role in a play
1120. Make a pine needle basket
1121. Make homemade ketchup
1122. Learn more about Mrs. Groteguth
1123. Do the Martin’s Cove handcart trek
1124. Take some of my scouts and show them how much fun it is to stop at a stop
light, run to a nearby car and give them a box of Krispy Kreme donuts with $10
taped to the top of the box
1125. Give at least $20 or more to a complete stranger
1126. Learn more about multiple dimensions
1127. Tip over an outhouse
1128. Go to a rodeo
1129. Learn how to make Korean spring rolls
1130. Hunt for sea shells on a remote tropical beach
1131. Have a body part removed
1132. Write a script for a video that will be professionally produced
1133. Raise a Monarch butterfly from caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly
1134. Go duck hunting
1135. Go pheasant hunting
1136. Slow dance
1137. Ride on a boat along the River Walk in New Orleans
1138. Go snowmobiling
1139. Own a hand painted tie made by an artist I know personally
1140. Use the hand dryers at the Eagle Landing gas station in Scipio, Utah
1141. Work on a farm for a summer
1142. Go water skiing
1143. Grow rhubarb
1144. Listen to someone playing the blues in New Orleans
1145. Go on an awesome canoe trip
1146. Make a major career change
1147. Write a letter to a stranger and leave it somewhere where they will find it
1148. Enjoy some Zydeco jazz in New Orleans
1149. Intentionally walk through poison oak to see if I have a reaction to it
1150. Teach people how to make Lorena stoves in Guatemala
1151. Try more things that I don’t like to do
1152. Continue to find new trails to hike
1153. See my daughter dance in the Nutcracker Ballet
1154. Attend a summer camp or retreat
1155. Sneak out from my upstairs bedroom without my parents knowing,
many times
1156. Jump off of a railroad bridge
1157. See the stars (specifically the Southern Cross) in the southern hemisphere
1158. Sculpt something out of clay and fire it
1159. Sing in public
1160. See a frozen waterfall
1161. Do my own taxes
1162. Make cotton candy using one of those a cotton candy machine
1163. Skip a rock at least 7 times
1164. Get a complement from a person I have never met before
1165. Sing in the shower more
1166. Learn to ski
1167. Use a water balloon sling and pummel the neighbors with water balloons
1168. Try 62 different kinds of chocolate
1169. Mountain bike some cool trails
1170. Eat tofu
1171. Live my life by the following creed
1172. Find a killdeer’s nest in the wild
1173. Enjoy sitting out at night and watching fireflies at my brother’s farm
1174. 30 salads in 35 days
1175. Use a “sun shower”
1176. For 1 month, list something good that happens to me each day
1177. Watch 10 William Shakespeare plays
1178. Take my brother Tom to the Mesa Verde Indian ruins in Colorado
1179. Make something on a potter’s wheel and fire it
1180. Enjoy a meal at Joe’s Crab Shack
1181. Visit the Museum of Natural History in Chicago
1182. Eat Jambalaya in New Orleans
1183. Climb to the top of the point at Point of the Mountain
1184. See a tornado on land in real life
1185. Take a picture of an infant as a 3 or 4 year old child. Then take another picture
of that person at age 10 to 12 holding the picture of him holding his first picture.
Then, at age 19, take a picture of the boys holding the picture of himself several
years younger, holding a picture of himself several years younger, holding a
picture of him as an infant
1186. Perform an ordinance in every temple in Utah
1187. Celebrate All Saints Day in the Philippine Islands
1188. Find the cemetery where my great aunt Cora Bell Vail Smith and her two baby
children are buried
1189. Get my Hepatitis A and Hepatitis B shots so I can travel abroad
1190. Listen to Cheryl Wheeler play in concert
1191. Listen to John Gorka play in concert
1192. Visit the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago
1193. Skin an animal that I’ve hunted and killed
1194. Catch turtles in my Uncle Orval’s pond
1195. Find a sea slug in its natural habitat
1196. Record the oral histories of my family members:
1197. Eat a Navaho Taco
1198. Find a sun star fish
1199. Get my MLS (Masters of Library Science degree
1200. Watch a Wallace and Grommet movie
1201. For 1 month, find something each day that makes me happy and write it down
1202. Eat a fish taco
1203. Have my own dark room and develop my own film
1204. See the Nutcracker Ballet with my daughter
1205. Get a new e-mail address
1206. Find the GPS coordinates to Hidden Lake
1207. Do something constructive with the time I use commuting to and from work
1208. Collect 62 of my favorite quotes
1209. See some of the world’s “tiny Nations”
1210. Learn how to make traditional Chinese Pot Stickers myself
1211. Find an extraordinary King Triton’s Trumpet shell in the ocean
1212. Visit the mountain city of Antigua, the old capital city of Guatemala
1213. Eat a meal good enough to be my last
1214. Shoot the following guns:
1215. Own a sword
1216. Dip in all 5 of the Great Lakes
1217. Drive a vehicle at more than 100 mph
1218. Learn how to kick start a car and then do it
1219. Shingle a roof (and do a good job of it)
1220. Learn how to use a washing machine without ruining my clothes
1221. Yell “I LOVE YOU DONNA” as loud as I can from a top of a mountain
1222. Sing out loud from the top of a mountain
1223. See the “Body World” exhibit
1224. Write 25 stories or memories about my father
1225. Write 25 stories or memories about my mother
1226. Learn how to jump a car or truck battery without blowing it up or shocking
myself into oblivion
1227. Inner tube down a river
1228. Create a sacred place of my own in my mind where I can go anytime without
any preconditions and where all rules of reality exist according to what I decide.
By the way, I can change the rules in this place anytime I want.
1229. Show my son a moose in its wild habitat
1230. Explore more abandoned buildings (homes and businesses)
1231. Have business cards made up
1232. Do more composting
1233. Write my name in wet cement
1234. Start using recyclable bags for grocery shopping
1235. Own one of those floating glass orbs that break off from Japanese fishing nets and
floats in the ocean for years and years and years and finally come ashore on the beach
1236. Own an authentic ancient cultural artifact
1237. Eat from one of those catering trucks that go from construction site to construction
site. I remember we always called them the Roach Coach.
1238. Throw some coins in the fountains at the Bellagio Hotel
1239. Visit the Eiffel Tower. . . . in Las Vegas
1240. Tour the Hoover Dam
1241. Do a 1 sentence journal for 1 month
1242. See a water performances at the fountains at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas
1243. Visit Ottawa, Quebec, Canada
1244. Visit a city or a town starting with each letter of the alphabet
1245. Eat more Indian (Hindu Indian) food
1246. Pray for the unnamed 20 year old drunk boy I saw on Las Vegas Boulevard, that
he will find some way to overcome his addiction and find peace and a sense of
direction in his life
1247. Pick and pay for at least 1 bushel of fruit from a you-pick orchard
1248. Kiss under the mistletoe
1249. Body surf
1250. Walk the strip in Las Vegas on a Friday night and see all the different acts and
things people do to earn tips from passers by
1251. Eat cold cereal with orange juice instead of milk (I don’t like milk)
1252. Eat lobster in Tonga
1253. Plant an orange tree
1254. Plant a grapefruit tree
1255. Plant a lime tree
1256. Do the 62-62-62 thing (this is where I do 62 things 62 times before I turn 62.
62 is the age I will be when I retire, so I need to do all 62 things before I retire.)
See Appendix 19
1257. Visit the light house I pass by in Cedar City, Utah (a semi-desert region) every
time I drive to St. George or to California
1258. Go to an outdoor concert
1259. Completely blow off a day of school to do something fun
1260. Go gigging for frogs
1261. Find 20 great new recipe
1262. Eat frog legs
1263. Enjoy more fine pastry shops and don’t be overly concerned about calories
(within reason of course) 1264. Surf the ocean waves with a bogey board
1265. Leave a tip to thank the garbage collector who picks up our garbage every week
1266. Celebrate “Talk Like a Pirate” day
1267. Get our houseboy to stop cooking fish with the our vegetables
1268. Wave at people you don’t know and watch the looks they get on their faces as
they try to figure out who you are and if they know you
1269. Increase my reading speed
1270. Hike on a glacier
1271. Eat from one of the catering food tables on a movie set
1272. Bicycle around the parameter of San Juan Island in the Puget Sound
with Donna
1273. Live the same day twice
1274. Feel the excitement and adrenaline rush of being in a big earthquake
1275. Buy and wear a Samoan lava lava
1276. Jump off of the top of a house roof into a swimming pool
1277. Get one of those cool nature ring tones (meadow lark warbling, crickets chirping,
frogs croaking, etc.)
1278. See the movie Schindler’s List
1279. Call someone and ask them if
- Their refrigerator is running
- If they have Sir Walter Raleigh in a can
- All the other stupid phone tricks you hear about
1280. Eat one of those jaw breakers that are the size of a large chicken egg
1281. Take the following college entrance exams:
- ACT
- SAT
- GRE
1282. See the lavender fields in bloom at the Young Living Farms in Mona, Utah
1283. Do something nice for the postal delivery lady to say “thank you” for delivering
our mail all these years
1284. Learn how to make good pickles
1285. Do something in my life to honor Nelson Mandela, the great peace advocate and one
of my great heroes.
1286. Do something that gets people thinking
1287. Be able to list all 16 of my great grandparents from memory
1288. Stay home from work and get all the way from start to end playing Mario Brother’s 3
1289. Quit playing video games for good
1290. Learn how to make balsamic reduction
1291. Find some music that has a great beat and rhythm (Salisbury Hill by Peter Gabriel)
and dance where no one can see me with reckless abandon and to my heart’s content
1292. Watch the full moon rise as I stand on top of a mountain
1293. Try hominy and collard greens
1294. Always see and live my life in the larger more eternal perspective
1295. Find the fire within me. When I can’t see it, create it.
1296. Continually remind myself to see the true beauty within others and remember who
they really are
1297. Floss more
1298. Dance in the moonlight
1299. Increase my reading speed to 1,200 wpm.
1300. Where ever I live, make it a better, more beautiful, more joyful place for having
lived there
1301. Always look for the alternatives \
1302. Come up with a recipe for killer barbeque sauce
1303. Always look for ways to be more inspired and to inspire more
1304. Quit taking the commuter van, start taking the bus and put the money I save
(about $75 a month) into savings
1305. Feel life more
1306. Spend a Thanksgiving serving food to the community
1307. Wonder about more things and ask more questions about what is going on around me
1308. Get money out of my pass book savings account and put it into something that gives
me a better return of my investment
1309. Change the world in significant ways with my writing
1310. Walk different routes home and to other places to encourage variety in my thinking
and in my life habits
1311. Re-gift a present
1312. Sleep in my car
1313. Take a religion class
1314. Make my own pesto from scratch; that means growing my own basil and garlic
1315. Babysit someone else’s kid(s)
1316. Go door to door to sell something
1317. Become a regular some place so much so that they know about my wife and kids,
where I work, my likes and dislikes and (if it’s a restaurant) what I usually order
1318. Have a perfect days when everything goes right
1319. Act more on my intuition
1320. Go to the top of the Sears Tower in Chicago
1321. Watch lightening strike the ground
1322. Ride a jet ski
1323. Download some songs from Queen and U2 onto my I-Pod
1324. Learn to enjoy British comedy
1325. Get a Pell Grant
1326. Call someone a “whipper snapper” and see what they do
1327. Bake something in an easy bake oven
1328. Sell something at a roadside stand
1329. Learn to love unconditionally
1330. Ride in taxi
1331. Fall asleep in the arms of my sweet love
1332. Ride in a horse drawn carriage or buggy
1333. Live in a very small town
1334. Live in a big city
1335. Visit a real dinosaur excavation pit
1336. Ride in a paddle boat
1337. Stare into the eyes of a butterfly
1338. Get stung or bitten by something in the ocean
1339. Eat wasabi
1340. Get some cool flip flops that I really like
1341. Perform a circumcision
1342. Take part in a mock disaster drill
1343. Have a collection with at least 100 things in it
1344. Get a ring tone that reflects who I am
1345. Sleep in the jungle without a tent and someplace that’s creepy and scary
1346. Keep a body part after it has been surgically removed from me
1347. Stand under the St. Louis Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri
1348. Download a song from the internet
1349. Get completely soaked in the rain so that there is not a dry area anywhere on my body
1350. Spend the night in the hospital as a patient
1351. Spend the night in the hospital with someone who is a patient
1352. Plant a fern garden
1353. See the rings of Saturn through a telescope
1354. Live by the ocean
1355. Find enlightenment
1356. Have an out of body experience
1357. Share an apartment with a good friend
1358. Keep a kidney stone after it has been removed from someone
1359. Eat a truly remarkable and memorable crepe.
1360. Visit Ottawa, Canada
1361. Become expert on what kinds of wild sea life lives in the tide pools at Dana Point
1362. Own a pair of ridiculously hideous red pants and have the guts enough to
wear them in public
1363. Find something that is really butt ugly and wear it in public
1364. Be the “Mister Wilson” of Tool Time fame, to the young teens in my ward
1365. Baptize someone in the ocean
1366. Baptize someone in a river
1367. Own and use a pair of rollerblades
1368. Live on the plains of the Mid-Central states
1369. Take time to listen to the stories “the old ones” tell me
1370. Surprise people
1371. Have the financial discipline to live within my means and thus, be financially free to
do the things I want to do in life
1372. Eat lots of clams and mussels made just the way I like them
1373. Install a fireplace in my home
1374. Install a wood burning stove in my home
1375. Enjoy love in ALL its dimensions
1376. Eat a minced meat pie
1377. Eat a raisin pie
1378. See a major league baseball game
1379. Fire a rocket that is at very least, 3 feet tall
1380. Stop and help someone along a roadside
1381. Do a tour of a state penitentiary
1382. Make one of those secret storage places by cutting out the center of a book and
gluing the pages together
1383. Blow something up
1384. Visit a botanical garden
1385. See the Titanic exhibit
1386. Ride on the Heber Creeper steam engine train that runs from Heber up and
down Provo Canyon
1387. Enter flowers I’ve grown in the county fair
1388. Buy a teak wooden garden bench for my secret garden
1389. Get all the surgical “stuff” done that I need to get done
1390. Do more 30 day challenges
1391. Make a jewel box cake with Donna
1392. Build a tree house
1393. Own a set of pan pipes
1394. Go to a State Fair
1395. Go Christmas caroling with a group of carolers.
1396. Capture a Sphinx Moth
1397. Raise a Sphinx Moth from the Tomato Horn Worm stage, through cocoon stage to
the moth stage
1398. Find at least one of my dad’s track medals he earned running track in high school
1399. Learn how to make killer good pickled sweet peppers
1400. Harvest Dog Bane and dry it out so that I can use it to make cordage
1401. Live my life the way I want to be remembered
1402. See an air show from a canoe in the middle of Utah Lake
1403. Take more time to sit on the benches near the gardens at work and watch the mice
play in the flower gardens
1404. Learn to change the oil in a truck
1405. Pick up all the trash from a roadside and make the place look clean
1406. Visit the Queen Mary in Long Beach, California
1407. Share the fruits of my orchard with the neighborhood children
1408. Do a Sub for Santa for someone
1409. Take more time to walk among the aspens in the mountains
1410. Take an art class and learn to paint with acrylics
1411. Get up and sing and dance in front a BIG audience of more than 500 people
1412. Make flan
1413. Experience a whiteout blizzard on the plains
1414. Go to an international conference on International Cultural Awareness at
an International location
1415. Have some kind of a memorable “experience” in a Halloween haunted house
1416. Trap a
- Beaver
- Mink
- Muskrat
- Raccoon
- Skunk
- Gopher
1417. Stay at Zurmot resort in Midway, Utah
1418. Eat freshly made warm pralines
1419. Drive on the left side of the road (legally or without being inebriated)
1420. Climb the Widow Maker
1421. Be a chaperone for each of my children for some school event
1422. Make one of those prank phone calls, asking someone if they have Prince Albert in a can
1423. Refuse to get cable television
1424. Get a professional family portrait taken
1425. Go free climbing in Provo Canyon
1426. Kiss Donna at Squaw Peak
1427. Visit a ghost town
1428. Go deer hunting
1429. See what it is like to pass out
1430. Live the ideals and life goals of Wangari Maathia
1431. Go swimming with my friend Wayne C. at Bird Island on Utah Lake
1432. See a tornado develop from a funnel cloud
1433. Be in 4 states at once
1434. Be in 3 states at once (different states than the states mentioned in the previous goal)
1435. Eat fresh seafood someplace along the Northwestern seaboard
1436. Sing Acapella with someone and sound good
1437. Build a snow cave that would make an Eskimo proud
1438. Eat a chocolate covered bug of some kind
1439. Take my wife on a date touring through multi-million dollar homes that we could
never ever ever ever hope to own, nor would ever want to own
1440. Teach a group of people about creating a bucket list, what it can do for one’s life
and ideas for how one goes about doing it
1441. Punk someone big time
1442. See the musical Joseph’s Technicolor Dream Coat
1443. FEEL life more
1444. Get rid of my worldly material possessions until everything I own fits into
two banana boxes
1445. Take the day off on my birthday and do something just for myself
1446. Eat a food dish in another country that I will never eat anywhere else
1447. Work for a traveling carnival
1448. Blow up something
1449. Help a stranger
1450. Get rid of 100 things I don’t need in my life (See Appendix 28)
1451. Duct tape someone to a tree
1452. Get to a colored belt in some form of martial arts
1453. Pay off my student loans
1454. Go sailing on a catamaran
1455. Buy a lottery ticket and win
1456. Lick my finger and place it on a metal pole when the temperatures are freezing outside
1457. When a situation needs a leader, do not be afraid to say yes and give what is needed
to make the most of the situation
1458. Eat a Machine Gun sandwich
1459. Sneak over a fence and into a swimming pool at night and swim the night away
1460. Be content with what I have
1461. Play Asteroids
1462. Get thrown into a river with suit pants, shoes, a shirt and a tie on
1463. Gather and eat asparagus that was growing in a cemetery
1464. Eat dill pickle potato chips
1465. Eat an amazing crepe
1466. Learn to cook with curry
1467. Watch the movie, Pan’s Labyrinth
1468. Share a sucker with someone
1469. Burn a pile of leaves in the autumn and enjoy the incredible smell of burning leaves in
the fall. It’s intoxicating.
1470. Make someone cry because they were so happy to see me
1471. Drive through the Rocky Mountains in the fall and see the golden glow of aspen groves
in their autumn best
1472. Own a peace pipe made by a Native American Indian
1473. Clean up all the trash from a trashy roadside
1474. Give money to a street performer
1475. Explore an abandoned (haunted???) castle
1476. House sit for someone
1477. Cross a flooding creek without getting sucked away
1478. Go to that awesome bread store on the edge of town in Julian, California
1479. Enjoy a Christmas with no snow and where temperatures get up to 75 degree on
Christmas Day
1480. Listen, Listen, Listen, Listen, Listen
1481. Continually remember that it is better to err on the side of mercy
1482. Get a free upgrade to business class on an international flight
1483. Donate over 500 books to a non-profit organization
1484. Develop my intuitive nature
1485. Build a pair of stilts and then learn how to walk on them and use them to pick fruit
from someone’s tree
1486. Go through a real maze
1487. Bounce a person off a trampoline
1488. Go on a police ride-along
1489. Meet relatives I never knew as a child
1490. Visit Slieter’s bridge again and recall the old days when much happened there
1491. Use a ham radio
1492. Make a plaster cast of something and then make a clay replica of the object
1493. Dive into an underwater sea cave
1494. Go to a bible school summer camp
1495. Go to a Grey Hound bus station and watch people come and go
1496. Eat a Halo Halo
1497. See ALL of the Planet of the Apes movies
1498. Inhale helium and talk like a chipmunk
1499. Watch He Man and Teenage Ninja Mutant Turtles with my sons
1500. Gut punch someone
1501. Bathe in a mountain stream after a long day of hard work or after a long hard hike
1502. Buy stock in a BIG Corporation
1503. Find out what my blood type is
1504. Walk across a rope bridge where the foot path of the bridge is a single rope and
do it without falling
1505. Continue to be more spontaneous with my life
1506. Don't, for even a moment, be afraid to just be me
1507. Stay in a cabin at Mammoth Ski resort in California
1508. Eat at a Rain Forest Café
1509. Be a teacher to others
1510. Canoe up to Pagsanhan Falls
1511. Win the Lindon City Garden of the Year award
1512. See a Sun Dog
1513. Own a pair of bamboo socks
1514. Work in a nursing home
1515. Get one of those passport books for the national parks and monuments and get stamps
for at least 100 of them (see Appendix 23)
1516. Help deliver (give birth) a large animal
1517. Talk my way out of a traffic ticket
1518. See a license plate from all 50 states
1519. Hunt for mushrooms in the wild
1520. Eat mushrooms that were gathered from the wild
1521. Have my picture published in a newspaper (not the Police Beat section)
1522. Attended a street party
1523. Carve Donna’s and my name on a tree in the mountains
1524. Hike into the Uinta Mountains with one of my sons
1526. Be a visionary man
1527. Do not be afraid or discouraged when pursuing my passions
1528. Discover the absolute joy, rapture and wonder of being truly in love
1529. Always strive to develop greater faith
1530. Live my life for the experiences and memories I can take with me, not for the
possessions that mean nothing after I am gone
1531. Do my best to withhold judgment on all my 1st encounters
1532. Be a hard worker (always take pride in the work I do and find great joy in working hard)
1533. Remember each day to be grateful for the gifts of the day and be mindful to think of
at least one gift the day has given me
1534. Live my life so that my Mom and Dad can be proud of how I turned out
1535. Own a big time chain saw (I’m not talking about one of those wimpy things. I’m
talking PROFESSIONAL quality.)
1536. Be a good role model for others
1537. Keep life in perspective
1538. Take an art class and learn to paint with acrylics
1539. Go to the El Yunque rainforest in Puerto Rico and climb to the top of El Toro, the
tallest mountain in this rainforest
1540. Teach an awesome youth fireside
1541. Give something meaningful to my community
1542. Make the world a better place for having lived in it
1543. Be more adventurous
1544. Catch a live rattlesnake
1545. Meet and hang out with a group of friends in a public place in the middle of the night
after curfew without getting arrested
1546. Perform on stage
1547. Bathe using a sun shower
1548. Sing a baby to sleep
1549. Catch a snapping turtle without getting my fingers crushed
1550. Take the stairs instead of using the elevator as much as possible
1551. Learn to enjoy eating avocados
1552. Learn to roller skate
1553. Learn to roller blade
1554. Ice skate down frozen streets
1555. Dig a bungee pit
1556. Swim in a country creek
1557. Learn the stories of some of the local pan handlers in down town Salt Lake City and
learn how they came to be where they are today
1558. Learn to like hot cracked wheat cereal
1559. Have a religious debate in a public forum and feel like I did a great job presenting my
thoughts and ideas
1560. See an awesome show at a planetarium
1561. Jump from a steam sauna directly into a ice water plunge at a gym
1562. Be more teachable
1563. Complete the 75 Sites to See in Salt Lake City list -- In Progress
1564. Meet my namesake
1565. Watch a lightning storm over the ocean or over a lake
1566. Teach a wilderness survival skills class
1567. Take part in a dance competition AND WIN
1568. Climb up Y Mountain; continue climbing on to Maple Flats and drink from the clear
cold springs I’ve heard was up there.
1569. Be out after curfew in a foreign country that is under Martial Law without being arrested
or brought into the stockades for interrogation
1570. Find something valuable that someone lost or ditched
1571. Eat Nutella
1572. Eat Vegemite
1573. Watch heat lighting light up the sky over the city
1574. Eat a West Virginia coal miner’s breakfast
1575. Kiss someone in an elevator
1576. Fall asleep under a big shady tree
1577. Ride in a go cart
1578. Watch incredible sunsets and sun rises with my sweetheart
1579. Go to a red carpet premier of a new movie
1580. Carve my name into a tree
1581. Post something on the Post Secret website
1582. Ride the Amtrak California Zephyr train from Los Angeles to Oceanside, California
1583. Learn more about the great physicist Nikoli Tesla
1584. Learn how to make hard bound books by hand like they used to make in the old days
when a well made book could last more than a century
1585. Make an acid free hard bound journal with sown signature pages specially designed by me
1586. Take a pottery class and make something on a potter’s wheel
1587. Dance with reckless abandon and to my heart’s content on the top of a mountain
1588. Have a bottle broken over my head. I’m not talking about a movie prop bottles either. I’m
talking about a real pop bottle or a beer bottle.
1589. Work in a book printing and bindery shop where they mass produce books
1590. Go dipping in the Hood River
1591. Get a hysterical child to quit crying
1592. Pull a “very memorable” April Fool’s joke on someone
1593. Give a very nice Christmas gift to a homeless person
1594. See the musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat done
by a professional cast.
1595. Dissect something
1596. See the 12 most meaningful movies with important life lessons to learn as suggested by
Celestine Chua (creator of The Personal Excellent Blog)
1597. Start riding the bus for my commute and find ways to enjoy it I’ve found several things
that help A LOT.
1598. Watch all of the James Bond movies
1599. Eat Dim Sum in China Town, San Francisco
1600. Visit Ghirardelli Square in San Francisco and eat their chocolate
1601. Explore a fern canyon
1602. Take a helicopter ride in the Grand Canyon
1603. Ride the following rides at Disneyland California
1604. Visit the Golden Gate bridge
1605. Go spear fishing
1606. Collect something unusual and fun
1607. Order some chocolates from Christopher Elbow Chocolates in San Francisco for
Jim Trent and show him the best chocolate in the world
1608. Handle a dead body
1609. Create a remarkable family heirloom quilt
1610. Help build a Habitat for Humanity house
1611. Learn how to make a “singing bowl” sing
1612. Provide 1,000 meals to the homeless at the local Food and Care Coalition
1613. Walk through an “old growth” forest
1614. Help make someone’s dream come true
1615. Catch a katydid
1616. Listen to the cicadas in the summer time in the Midwest
1617. Learn how to do my own car repairs (and maintenance)
1618. Catch tadpoles from a pond in the country
1619. Sneak out from my bedroom in the middle of the night and do something fun without
getting caught (or arrested. You know, it’s that whole curfew thing.)
1620. Visit all 27 places on the Smithsonian Magazine Life List
1621. Be comfortable with and good at indulging in casual conversation
1622. Spin with the intensity of the whirling dervishes of Istanbul
1623. Eat at Ruth’s Diner up Immigration Canyon near Salt Lake City, Utah
1624. Take the missionary Elders grunion hunting at Dana Point after midnight
1625. Inspire others to live a simpler life, and become a better person for it
1626. Do something for someone that I know they will never be able to repay me for
1627. Join a sorority
1628. Keep a chocolate Easter bunny for more than 7 years
1629. Join a club
1630. Have a snowball fight with frozen snowballs (by the way, this isn’t really a good
idea. People get hurt pretty bad doing this.)
1631. See what skunk cabbage looks like in real life
1632. Get paid for writing
1633. Become fluent using WordPress as my blogging tool
1634. Sincerely and honestly be able to say everything on this list at least once in my
life to another person
1635. Make my own explosives
1636. Make Norwegian krumkake
1637. Make Norwegian Lefse
1638. Own some dress shirts with my initials monogrammed on the cuffs
1639. Plant a tree that will grow huge and climb up it
1640. Give a silver acorn to someone who will truly appreciate it and understand the significance
of what it means
1641. Eat spam
1642. Try every food listed on CNN’s list of the World’s Eat 50 Most Delicious Foods
1643. Discover something really cool
1644. Find out some funny (or stupid) laws that are still in existence and break them
1645. Explore a cave
1646. Learn how to interpret dreams
1647. Go whale watching
1648. Eat something at the Cheesecake Factory
1649. Eat good Chinese food at Friday Harbor on San Juan Islands, Puget Sound
1650. Blind fold myself, spin a globe and travel to the spot where my finger lands
1651. Grow a beard
1652. Grow a mustache
1653. Eat roasted chestnuts (we roasted them ourselves)
1654. Give someone a “Christmas Jar” full of money I’ve collected throughout the year.
1655. Swim among the jelly fish (without getting stung)
1656. Cut down a big tree with an ax
1657. Send a care package to someone who would really appreciate it
1658. Write a collection of memories from birth to age 16. When I was 16, I started
keeping a fairly consistent journal
1659. Make a list of 200+ things that describe me (See Appendix 15)
1660. Drink Matte
1661. Speak before a group of men in the Lyon’s Club
1662. Sleep outside for at least a week
1663. Take Donna to eat at the Sky Room on top of the Joseph Smith Memorial Building
for a memorable dining experience
1664. Find out what has become of Jimmy Halloran
1665. Work in a cannery and see how food is processed and canned
1666. Go to live performance of a symphony orchestra
1667. Go crawfishing
1668. Get and use a library card instead of buying all my books from the bookstore
1669. Do 62 adventures with my brother Tom
1670. Ride on a cable car
1671. Make cordage from dogbane
1672. Travel across the International date line
1673. Visit the 3 Corners monument stone of the Midwestern states
(Minnesota, Iowa, South Dakota)
1674. Ride a zip line
1675. Volunteer in a food pantry
1676. Be part of a focus group
1677. Snow ski with one ski
1678. Put money into someone’s expired parking meter
1679. Learn how to say “Thank You” in ten languages
1680. Take multiple occasions to visit some elderly people in a rest home who don’t have
family nearby to come visit them. Make them feel like someone cares about them.
1681. Be part of a neighborhood garden
1682. Run a 26 mile marathon for a charity
1683. Make my own envelops out of magazine pages and use them to mail a letter
to someone I like
1684. Be a paid custodian for a summer
1685. Learn how to program and then program something that really works
1686. Be part of a filming crew at a motion picture studio
1687. Ride an outrageous animal
1688. See the midnight sun in Alaska
1689. Own over 2,000 books
1690. Write my name in wet cement (no, I didn’t include my last name. Do you really think
that I’m that stupid?)
1691. Make a death mask (or a life mask as my son prefers to call it) of myself
1692. Make a beauty body care product from scratch
1693. Drink coconut milk right out of the nut
1694. Catch, gut and cook a fish
1695. Attend a party where everything is either captured in the ocean or grown/gathered
by hand from local groves or jungle
1696. Leave a 100% tip for a food server at a restaurant
1697. Own a chameleon
1698. Go to a renaissance festival
1699. Help catch a criminal
1700. Participate on a test panel that tests food products for a company before they are
available in the market
1701. Haggle and barter for something in an open market
1702. Do what it takes to get all that junk mail to stop coming to my home
1703. Drive an ATV (All Terrain Vehicle) across some awesome terrain
1704. Braid a wrist or ankle bracelet from natural plant fibers
1705. Drive to Grand Junction, Colorado and see what’s there
1706. Find an awesome “sleeper” item (something of great value that no one knows the
real value of)
1707. Hike up the Canyon of 11 Falls (that’s my name for it) to the meditation rock
in Provo Canyon
1708. Eat at an all you can eat Scandinavian smorgasbord
1709. Invest more than $100,000 in the stock market and make a profit
1710. Learn to wiggle my ears one by one independently
1711. See the massive flower fields of Carlsbad, California
1712. Get tested to see what things I’m allergic to
1713. Dedicate a grave
1714. Be a food tester for food products with a questionable future
1715. Take a ride on the ocean in a banka (a small Muslim boat)
1716. Go one year with NO television
1717. Help someone else accomplish one of their bucket list goals
1718. Find out what my teenage girl friends are doing now
1719. Write a poem of respectable quality
1720. Dance on the beach at night
1721. Ride the Supreme Scream at Knotts Berry Farm in Buena Park, California
1722. Experience a remarkable sunrise and sunset in the desert
1723. Enjoy a bonfire on the beach at 2 am in the morning
1724. Do something new every week for a year (see Appendix 29)
1725. Take part in a track and field meet where I throw the shot put and the discus
1726. Kiss someone at midnight on New Year’s Eve
1727. Have an old time picture taken of my brother and me
1728. Subscribe to the National Geographic Magazine
1729. Ride the Cork Screw at Knotts Berry Farm in Buena Park, California
1730. Be in a parade
1731. Learn to make Lemon Posset
1732. Snuggle with someone in a hammock
1733. Study Horticulture in college
1734. Create wonderful memories in our secret garden
1735. See a complete double rainbow
1736. Eat a crumpet
1737. Be truly happy
1738. Go on a cool scavenger hunt
1739. Marry once and marry right
1740. Put a star field with constellations on my children’s bedroom ceiling
1741. Learn CPR
1742. Learn about Chakras, what they do and how to use that knowledge
1743. Dive into an underwater cave
1744. Eat seaweed salad
1745. Memorize a poem and be able to recite it at will
1746. Shop at Trader Joe’s
1747. Collect sea shells on a tropical island
1748. Be awake and ask questions to a doctor while he’s doing surgery on me
1749. Acquire a taste for Sushi
1750. See a herd of buffalo
1751. Eat Pho
1752. Have an organic garden
1753. Live without email or a cell phone for at least one week, preferably more
1754. Have someone draw or paint my portrait
1755. Figure out what the Higgs Boson is and what Hadrons are and what they have to
do with the world around me.
1756. Put a live star fish on a hairy arm or chest, let him stay there for a minute and
pull it off. (Try it, it’s an interesting experience.)
1757. Go to an outdoor concert
1758. Go to Sea World and see the “Habitat for Huge Manatees”
1759. Celebrate my 1st wedding anniversary with Donna
1760. Celebrate my 10th wedding anniversary with Donna
1761. Celebrate my 25th wedding anniversary with Donna
1763. Go to some awesome botanical gardens
1764. Own and get good at using nunchucks
1765. Read a book that has been banned
1766. Go to a tourist attraction in or very close to my own town
1767. Stay in a bed and breakfast place
1768. Spend the night in a log cabin in the woods and/or along a lake
1769. Walk through a rice paddy at night when all the fire flies are out
1770. Watch all of the Poltergeist movies (I, II, and III)
1771. Play an Ocarina
1772. Find a King Triton’s Trumpet in excellent condition
1773. Go to a rodeo
1774. Touch the Black Nazarene in the Church in the Quiapo District of Manila
1775. Learn tree identification by the shape, color, and leaf pattern recognition
1776. Collect antique cameras
1777. See Christopher Lloyd live on stage
1778. Have my DNA and my family pedigree be part of a worldwide genetics study
1779. Be a fry cook in a hamburger stand
1780. Cook a recipe that my mom cooked when I was a child
1781. Microwave a bar of Ivory soap
1782. Do a book review for a professional journal
1783. Be someone’s godfather
1784. Be part of a Chinese fire drill
1785. Kiss someone underwater
1786. Make one of those hollowed out books that that you can store secret stuff in
1787. Chew on a coca leaf
1788. Make a special snow angle
1789. Go sparking with wintergreen mints
1790. Walk in fields of gold
1791. Enjoy a green Christmas
1792. Live somewhere with palm trees and orange groves and temps rarely get
below 60 degrees
1793. Eat seafood at Fisherman’s Wharf
1794. Never complete everything on my bucket list
1795. Back pack into the Sierra Nevada Mountains
1796. Fall asleep under a palm tree
1797. Be awestruck by something
1798. Discover something really cool
1799. Spend Christmas in the tropics
1800. Have a picture taken of me that I honestly believe looks relatively good
1801. Write and publish an article for a internationally circulated magazine
1802. Go into a store and while no one is looking, add something funny to someone’s
shopping cart. Juvenile; YES. Funny; I like to think so.
1803. Find a cool and awesome fossil in the earth (not something from an established
fossil dig or a “planted” fossil)
1804. Eat at least 15 different varieties of bananas
1805. Create my own stationary
1806. Own my own smart phone
1807. Make a list of 50 things that made me what I am today
1808. Do something good to someone that they will never know who did it
1809. Be known by a nickname
1810. Do a spontaneous “city break” where I leave town and go somewhere far away just
to get away from it all
to get away from it all
1811. Take the 5,000 question survey about myself
1812. Use valet parking
1813. Get other people to invest in providing microloans from the KIVA. org website
1814. Create my own secret alphabet and continue to use it over the years
1815. Find a humming bird’s nest with eggs or chicks and look at it closely
1816. Sit in a steam sauna
1817. Sit in a dry sauna
1818. Sit in a sauna and then immediately jump into an ice plunge pool
1819. Ride on a ski lift
1820. Mountain bike at Slick Rock in Moab, Utah
1821. Vow to NEVER EVER EVER EVER again go to an Amway party
1822. Create my own blog
1823. Join a workout gym
1824. Learn how to play
- Tennis
- Handball
- Racket ball
1825. Take part in a pinewood derby with my sons
1826. Learn how to make beef jerky and then make some
1827. Go tubing down the Provo River
1828. Make something usable out of leather
1829. Learn how to complain with style and get results
1830. Take the two year allergy shot series so that I can get rid of some of my allergies
1831. Buy something from a farmer’s market
1832. Buy something from a junk yard
1833. Kiss a beautiful woman in the rain
1834. Work on a farm for a summer
1835. Fight for something I feel strongly about at a city council meeting
1836. Shoot off a fire extinguisher
1837. Have a pie thrown in my face
1838. Throw a pie in someone else’s face
1839. Go to a Rotary Convention
1840. Take part in a big time, serious spider fight
1841. Light candles in a Catholic Cathedral
1842. Have a 5 star (*****) chief prepare a culinary event for me
1843. Eat Mofango at Fefo’s restaurant in Puerto Rico at
1844. Eat Tostinoes in Puerto Rico
1845. See the old forts of El Morro and San Christobal in Puerto Rico
1846. Visit the resting place of the Spanish explorer Ponce del Leon
1847. Go on a Caribbean cruise with my wife Donna
1848. Eat Escargot
1849. Eat a shrimp pistolle
1850. Wear a very expensive watch
1851. Go kayaking in among the mangroves in the tropics
1852. Go sea kayaking
1853. Swim with the sting rays
1854. Dive down and touch a sunken ship at sea
1855. Order room service
1856. See a really ugly baby
1857. Stay overnight in New York City
1858. Hold a sting ray
1859. See a flying fish fly
1860. Visit the Caribbean Islands
- St Croix
- St Lucia
- St. Maartin’s
- Antigua
- Barbados
1861. Paddle to a bio-luminescent bay and see the plankton light up in the night
1862. Own a multipurpose tool that fits into my pocket
1863. Watch one of those cheap Asian martial arts films where the biggest budget expense
is spent on fake blood
is spent on fake blood
1864. As an adult, go without a car for 1 year
1865. Eat at least 75 things listed on the Omnivore’s List of 100 foods One Should Eat Before
You Die.
You Die.
1866. Learn how to tie a bowtie
1867. Go bicycling someplace in the countryside and just totally relax, I mean totally,
completely, utterly and without reservation—RELAX
completely, utterly and without reservation—RELAX
1868. Discover what makes me truly happy and then pursue it
1869. Make tamarind chutney
1870. Hike Little Wild Horse Canyon near Goblin Valley, Utah
1871. Pick up a hitch hiker
1872. Make 20 quilts that will be given to little children who are in need of something
warm, soft and comforting
warm, soft and comforting
1873. Raise hamsters
1874. Mountain bike a Sundance Ski Resort
1875. Buy a piano
1876. Have someone teach me how to sing
1877. Go to 6 Flags of America amusement park
1878. Start collecting old fashioned cameras, and maybe even take pictures with some of them
1879. Develop my own catch phrase
1880. Go so high up into the atmosphere that I can see the blackness of outer space
1881. Move away from the plains of Minnesota
1882. Taste Poi without gagging
1883. Go to a Judy Collins live concert
1884. Learn how to make and preserve gourmet foods
1885. Buy something from a roadside fruit stand that is run on the honor system
1886. Experience a night so quiet that the only sound I can hear is the sound of my
heart beating
heart beating
1887. See what it’s like to have amnesia
1888. Cross over the Continental Divide
1889. Complement a complete stranger
1890. Eat eel sushi
1891. Eat at a chocolate bar where I can choose anything I want from at least 30
different kinds of chocolate
different kinds of chocolate
1892. Experience a real Haboob
1893. Go on a walk about
1894. Help bring a baby into this world
1895. Learn how to whistle like our canary, George
1896. Make an olive oil lamp
1897. Find a street with my name on it
1898. Ride a cable car in San Francisco
1899. Own a waterbed
1900. Ride a bike with no brakes
1901. Go on a hay ride
1902. Own my own single reflex lens camera
1903. Own my own digital camera
1904. Get finger printed by the police
1905. Take a CRAZY taxi ride in Asia (the kind of taxi ride where you pray and make all
kinds of crazy promises to God if he will just deliver you from this madness)
kinds of crazy promises to God if he will just deliver you from this madness)
1906. Swim in the ocean at night
1907. Do a night time dip in Lake Elsinore (California)
1908. Buy and burn amber-patchouli incense
1909. Get food to stick on the ceiling
1910. See the movie The Time Machine
1911. Read all of the Post Secret Books
1912. Talk to someone who claims they have actually seen a UFO
1913. Shoot guns at a shooting range
1914. Drink soymilk just to see what it tastes like
1915. Go to a big street part
1916. Take a Brigs Meyer personality test and see what my personality is like
1917. Run long and hard to get a runner’s endorphin high
1918. Find my animal totem
1919. Read a book that was so awful I couldn’t finish reading it
1920. Own an awesome leather jacket
1921. Plant a tree and climb it when it is grown
1922. Celebrate a holiday I’ve never celebrated before
1923. Be on a large frozen lake and hear the ice crack from shore to shore
1924. Eat Pop Rocks
1925. See a movie for each letter of the alphabet
1926. Learn to hula to the song of Pearly Shells
1927. Sun bathe
1928. Harvest oranges from an orange grove
1929. Learn to spin a basket ball on one finger
1930. Eat Spaetzle
1931. Create my own unique signature
1932. Make a Christmas gingerbread house
1933. Peer over the edge of a VERY high cliff (the kind that makes you sphincter muscles
1934. Tour a fish hatchery to see where trout are made (hatched)
1935. Go turkey bowling
1936. Take my kids camping at some cool places
1937. Write a letter of recommendation for someone
- To get into a college
- To get credit
- To continue working at the university they were working at
- To get a job
- An application for a scholarship/grant
1938. Enjoy a candle light bath with essential oils in the water and my favorite music playing
1939. Celebrate Chinese New Years at a Chinese restaurant
1940. Eat an anchovy
1941. Own my own I-Pod
1942. Find a public place where I can get people to put their “love lock” or “lock of love”
(a padlock or a key lock representing their love for someone) up for public display
1943. Eat beer battered fries from Chubbies
1944. 1958. Go into a car wash and use the automatic window opener to open the window of
the person in the passenger’s seat. Then, enjoy the excitement.
1945. Hang a pair of shoes from a telephone line that runs across a main thorough fare
1946. Set a world record
1947. Create a newsletter that is distributed to more than a quarter million people
1948. Create my own special flavor of ice cream or frozen yogurt
1949. Create a humanitarian webpage
1950. Continue my genetic line
1951. Fix some piece of electronic machinery or equipment
1952. Stop and change a stranger’s flat tire on the roadside
1953. Take someone on a grunion run that has never seen grunion before
1954. Kayak among the 7 caves of La Jolla off the coast of southern California
1955. Sleep overnight on a ship at sea
1880. Surprise people around me
1956. Eat something with an expensive truffle in it
1957. Learn how to make a plate of awesome, mouthwatering, tasty clams and mussels
1958. Go to the Yellow Deli Restaurant in Ventura, California
1959. Collect mistletoe from the wild with Tom
1960. Go to the Pageant of the Masters in Laguna Beach, California
1961. Give each of my college professors an honest chance before deciding how good a
teacher they are
1962. Try some non-dairy products and see if they are any good
1963. Eat wasabi
1964. Walk out into the ocean up to my chest and have a BIG wave smash down and
crush me into the sand
1965. Step out of my comfort zone more often
1879. Be a millionaire (in some world currency)
1966. Do something that will benefit mankind
1967. Experience complete and utter silence
1968. Use the executive lounge at the airport while waiting for a flight
1969. Go to the Olympic Village in Park City, Utah and watch the athletes do their stuff
1970. Go dumpster diving with my brother Tom
1971. Start a non-profit organization or foundation
1972. Eat raw fish
1973. Have my DNA tested
1974. Do a second test of my DNA to validate the findings of the first test
1975. Find a hummingbird’s nest in the wild and watch the mother feed her young
1976. Be able to die with some scars on my body that have some cool stories to them
1977. Buy the perfect pair of sun glasses
1978. While hiking, find a mountain stream and lay down in it
1979. See what it’s like to get shin splints. (Then recover from shin splints)
1980. Help catch a thief and get him/her behind bars
1981. Get a personal trainer for Donna
1982. Die in a dream
1983. Eat something made on an Indian reservation
1984. Get rid of my telephone land line
1985. Go bush-whacking in some tough unmarked wilderness area
1986. See how long I can ride a shopping cart without having to push it
1987. Get within 20 feet of a very big wild animal
1988. See a set of authentic conopic jars (4 burial jars that Egyptians used to store the vital
organs of a mummy they were embalming.)
1989. Do 90 of the 100 most accomplished goals found on the www.43things.com website
1990. Stay tattoo free all my life
1991. Stay body piercing free all my life
1992. Share 30 of my favorite websites (See Appendix 35)
1993. Feed an Elephant
1994. Do all my banking online
1995. Post old family history photographs on the internet for others to enjoy
1996. Take more than 1,000 pictures with my I-Phone
1997. Take my son on an inside tour of the Oscar Meyer wiener-mobile
1998. Toss a pair of shoes on the “shoe tree” in Park City
1999. Find something really unique and bizarre in the desert
2000. Experience altitude sickness
2001. Have a notable impact on the lives of at least 100 people
2002. Make onion rings from onions I’ve grown myself
2003. Find something or someone that died in an avalanche
2004. Be a tourist in my own home valley and visit 25 places I’ve never been before
2005. Know someone from each state of the Union
2006. See moon beans in the night sky
2007. Get a wild bird to eat out of my hand
2008. Eat an MRE (Meals Ready to Eat)
2009. Visit the Bahi Temple in Chicago, Illinois
2010. Cut down a banana tree with a single swipe of a sword
2011. Walk into an ice cave that was formed by wind currents
2012. Be in among a herd of wild animals without them running away or attacking me
2013. Swim in a flooded ditch after a rain storm
2014. Learn how to make descent pickles
2015. Chase a skunk without getting sprayed
2016. Drink from a mountain spring without filtering the water and without getting
giardia or any other parasites
2017. Drink Mexican hot chocolate
2018. Rent a P.O Box
2019. Eat an entire pizza by myself
2020. Find a dead dragonfly and keep it
2021. Eat a McRib Sandwich from McDonalds
2022. Stop and give a great sincere, heartfelt “Good Morning” salutation to a Nun
2023. Take a picture of 50 unique doors (Seep appendix 38)
2024. Eat halibut and cod fish before they are put on the endangered species list, or
worse, before they go extinct
2025. Hike down to Moody Falls (below Havasupai Falls) without dying
2026. Make sushi
2027. Eat some of the BYU (Brigham Young University) blue corn tortilla chips and
see what happens.
2028. Collect a license plate from each state of the Union (Appendix 39)
2029. Eat a bacon maple donut
2030. Grow a BLACK flower
2031. Taste a bento box
2032. Go to quality restaurants starting with each letter of the alphabet from A to Z
2033. Eat tacos from a roadside stand in Tijuana, Mexico
2034. Say a special THANK YOU to someone
2035. Eat stuff outside of my comfort zone
2036. Have a lawyer write up a trust for me and my family
2037. Be passionate about a cause
2038. Learn how to make a dish and become known for that dish
2039. Help Matt James get his Eagle Scout award
2040. The a Rorschach test and see how crazy I am
2041. Learn how to suture a wound
2042. Drive over Hell’s Backbone in Southern Utah
2043. Eat a moon pie
2044. Explore the tide pools at Dana Point more
2045. Get on the Junior High basketball team
2046. Get on the Junior High football team
2047. Get on the high school track team
2048. Watch the sun set from the sea cave at the end of Dana Point as the tide is
coming in
2049. Play miniature golf and get good at it
2050. Visit Multnomah Falls, Oregon
2051. Eat at that really nice vintage restaurant across the street to the north of the old mission in San Juan Capistrano, California
2052. Leave an inspiring note in a library book
2053. Eat a blood orange and see how it tastes different from other oranges
2054. Roast a whole bulb of garlic and eat it
2055. Leave my hand print in wet concrete
2056. Buy a diamond ring for my sweetheart
2057. See what it’s like to get road rash (without being hospitalized for it)
2058. Take a walk in the rain
2059. Take a long walk in a big time serious snow storm
2060. Grow massively huge sunflowers and use the heads to feed the birds with all the seeds
I harvest from it
2061. Do something that I thought I would never do
2062. Visit the old Spanish mission in San Juan Capistrano where the swallows come back
the same day each year
2063. Grow red sunflowers
2064. Discover some new herbs and spices I’ve never tried before and learn how to
cook with them
2065. Go to a concert in the park
2066. Visit a Buddhist temple
2067. Teach someone how to drive a car
2068. Eat a fresh fig (no dried figs allowed for this goal)
2069. Ride the Octopus at the Rock County Fair
2070. Play the leading role in a play
2071. Eat a Krispy Kreme hot off the conveyer belt
2072. Have surgery done on my sinuses so that I get some relief from sinus headaches
2073. Give money to a homeless person
2074. Run up to President Richard Nixon’s Western White House (or at least to the
property as far as the security guys would let me go
2075. Go on a horse drawn carriage ride
2076. Jump using a pogo stick
2077. Have the career of my dreams
2078. Survive a serious fire experience
2079. Live in a house that I love living in
2080. Make and taste fried ice cream
2081. See the Chrystal Cathedral Garden Grove, California
2082. Carry on a conversation in Mandarin Chinese
2083. Ride a Greyhound bus out of my home state
2084. Complete 30 bucket list goals in 30 days, from September 27th to October 27th
2085. Get a hot shave with an old fashioned straight edge razor
2086. Leave a significant sum of money in plain sight somewhere in the mountains for someone
to find. However, it can NOT be on a well worn trail. It will be found only be someone
with an adventurous soul who doesn’t mind doing some bush whacking.
2087. Buy a nice fountain pen
2088. Listen to a complete stranger tell me about a person they are having a problem with.
When they are done, recommend that they get a gun and shoot the person and be done
with it. See what response I get.
2089. Drive a convertible with a roof down
2090. Drive an awesome sporty car that makes me feel like a kid again
2091. Say YES to everything for 1 day
2092. Make and eat a funnel cake
2093. Unwrap a starburst candy in my mouth with my tongue, no hands
2094. Get my journals, letter book and histories hard bound
2095. Play my recorder (my wooden flute, not a tape recorder) in the desert, the mountain
or some secluded
2096. Die Easter Eggs with silk fabric and see how it turns out
2097. Tell a veteran that I appreciate all he’s done for me, my family and my country and
buy him lunch or do something to thank him
2098. Withdraw $50 from my savings account in $1 bills and leave the bills around town for
people to find
2099. Submit one of my own photographs to the online LDS Media Library
2100. Spend time staying at a lakeside home or hotel
2101. Learn to play Mahjong
2102. Learn to dream lucidly
2103. Visit the graves of my ancestors
2104. Work on doing a better job of staying focused and on task
2105. Make a colorful, warm, wonderfully soft quilt and give it to a child I do not know
2106. Try not to whistle so much when I’m around my family
2107. Kiss someone with my eyes open
2108. Learn an artesian craft that I didn’t know how to do before
2109. Make homemade lemonade
2110. Drop from a very high placed to the ground by jumping from a building or a cliff, grabbing
the top of a supple tree and letting the tension of the tree safely slow down my descent.
2111. Spend at least one night in a hospital
2112. Win at least one game of Monopoly
2113. Write a letter to a head of an organization and get a telephone call in response to my
comments
2114. See what it’s like to be bitten by a snake
2115. Eat more fruits and veggies in my daily diet
2116. Silk screen an awesome design on a tee shirt
2117. Make sparks come out of the ends of my fingers
2118. See what it’s like to throw up blood
2119. Learn to make awesome Chinese pot stickers
2120. Come up with a great dipping sauce for the pot stickers I make
2121. Touch a real live bat (Fleutermouse) and not get rabies
2122. I want to hear my father tell me that he's proud of me
2123. Take and pass the test to become a United States citizen
2124. Take a picture of someone who does not want their picture taken
2125. Survive the world disasters that are supposed to come at the end of the
Mayan Calendar
2126. Learn how to make gourmet ganache truffles
2127. Learn about Chakras and how to realign them to create perfect body harmony
2128. Skip school for a day. . . or two. . . or more
2129. Try walking a slack line
2130. Hit the bullseye with a bow and arrow
2131. Buy an external hard drive with some very serious amounts of memory
2132. Own a music collection of more than 200,000 songs
2133. Buy ice cream from a Good Humar ice cream truck
2134. Learn more about the Ogallala Aquifer
2135. Walk bare foot in the snow
2136. See if toilets really do flush counter clockwise in the southern hemisphere
2137. Read something written by a Holocaust survivor
2138. Learn more about the Tarahumara Indians of Mexico
2139. Watch butterflies hatch from their chrysalises
2140. Do an "Explore California" road trip
2141. Learn to make tortillas from scratch
2142. Read the book The Life of Pi then watch the movie
2143. Own a piece of stone used to build a very ancient building inhabited
by ancient people
2144. Have a pair of shoes specially hand made just for me
2145. Learn to make some national dishes of specific countries
2146. Walk along the ocean beach by myself after midnight
2147. Have lunch with a complete stranger
2148. Have breakfast served to me in bed
2149. Eat at the very least, 10 different Indain dishes
2150. Make a hot tea made from something I harvest from the wild and then
drink it
2151. Eat a cactus
2152. Eat an artichoke
2153. Eat cat tail roots
2154. Harvest honey from a wild bee hive
2155. Eat an inanimage object (a coin, a BB, dirt, a stone, a paper note, etc.)
2156. Enter an eating contest of some kind
2157. Eat something from a street vendor in a 3rd world country
2158. Eat something that is still moving
2159. Eat something that is utterly disgusting (besides the things that is still
moving in the previous goal
2160. Eat or drink something that is so cold it takes my site away
(a padlock or a key lock representing their love for someone) up for public display
1943. Eat beer battered fries from Chubbies
1944. 1958. Go into a car wash and use the automatic window opener to open the window of
the person in the passenger’s seat. Then, enjoy the excitement.
1945. Hang a pair of shoes from a telephone line that runs across a main thorough fare
1946. Set a world record
1947. Create a newsletter that is distributed to more than a quarter million people
1948. Create my own special flavor of ice cream or frozen yogurt
1949. Create a humanitarian webpage
1950. Continue my genetic line
1951. Fix some piece of electronic machinery or equipment
1952. Stop and change a stranger’s flat tire on the roadside
1953. Take someone on a grunion run that has never seen grunion before
1954. Kayak among the 7 caves of La Jolla off the coast of southern California
1955. Sleep overnight on a ship at sea
1880. Surprise people around me
1956. Eat something with an expensive truffle in it
1957. Learn how to make a plate of awesome, mouthwatering, tasty clams and mussels
1958. Go to the Yellow Deli Restaurant in Ventura, California
1959. Collect mistletoe from the wild with Tom
1960. Go to the Pageant of the Masters in Laguna Beach, California
1961. Give each of my college professors an honest chance before deciding how good a
teacher they are
1962. Try some non-dairy products and see if they are any good
1963. Eat wasabi
1964. Walk out into the ocean up to my chest and have a BIG wave smash down and
crush me into the sand
1965. Step out of my comfort zone more often
1879. Be a millionaire (in some world currency)
1966. Do something that will benefit mankind
1967. Experience complete and utter silence
1968. Use the executive lounge at the airport while waiting for a flight
1969. Go to the Olympic Village in Park City, Utah and watch the athletes do their stuff
1970. Go dumpster diving with my brother Tom
1971. Start a non-profit organization or foundation
1972. Eat raw fish
1973. Have my DNA tested
1974. Do a second test of my DNA to validate the findings of the first test
1975. Find a hummingbird’s nest in the wild and watch the mother feed her young
1976. Be able to die with some scars on my body that have some cool stories to them
1977. Buy the perfect pair of sun glasses
1978. While hiking, find a mountain stream and lay down in it
1979. See what it’s like to get shin splints. (Then recover from shin splints)
1980. Help catch a thief and get him/her behind bars
1981. Get a personal trainer for Donna
1982. Die in a dream
1983. Eat something made on an Indian reservation
1984. Get rid of my telephone land line
1985. Go bush-whacking in some tough unmarked wilderness area
1986. See how long I can ride a shopping cart without having to push it
1987. Get within 20 feet of a very big wild animal
1988. See a set of authentic conopic jars (4 burial jars that Egyptians used to store the vital
organs of a mummy they were embalming.)
1989. Do 90 of the 100 most accomplished goals found on the www.43things.com website
1990. Stay tattoo free all my life
1991. Stay body piercing free all my life
1992. Share 30 of my favorite websites (See Appendix 35)
1993. Feed an Elephant
1994. Do all my banking online
1995. Post old family history photographs on the internet for others to enjoy
1996. Take more than 1,000 pictures with my I-Phone
1997. Take my son on an inside tour of the Oscar Meyer wiener-mobile
1998. Toss a pair of shoes on the “shoe tree” in Park City
1999. Find something really unique and bizarre in the desert
2000. Experience altitude sickness
2001. Have a notable impact on the lives of at least 100 people
2002. Make onion rings from onions I’ve grown myself
2003. Find something or someone that died in an avalanche
2004. Be a tourist in my own home valley and visit 25 places I’ve never been before
2005. Know someone from each state of the Union
2006. See moon beans in the night sky
2007. Get a wild bird to eat out of my hand
2008. Eat an MRE (Meals Ready to Eat)
2009. Visit the Bahi Temple in Chicago, Illinois
2010. Cut down a banana tree with a single swipe of a sword
2011. Walk into an ice cave that was formed by wind currents
2012. Be in among a herd of wild animals without them running away or attacking me
2013. Swim in a flooded ditch after a rain storm
2014. Learn how to make descent pickles
2015. Chase a skunk without getting sprayed
2016. Drink from a mountain spring without filtering the water and without getting
giardia or any other parasites
2017. Drink Mexican hot chocolate
2018. Rent a P.O Box
2019. Eat an entire pizza by myself
2020. Find a dead dragonfly and keep it
2021. Eat a McRib Sandwich from McDonalds
2022. Stop and give a great sincere, heartfelt “Good Morning” salutation to a Nun
2023. Take a picture of 50 unique doors (Seep appendix 38)
2024. Eat halibut and cod fish before they are put on the endangered species list, or
worse, before they go extinct
2025. Hike down to Moody Falls (below Havasupai Falls) without dying
2026. Make sushi
2027. Eat some of the BYU (Brigham Young University) blue corn tortilla chips and
see what happens.
2028. Collect a license plate from each state of the Union (Appendix 39)
2029. Eat a bacon maple donut
2030. Grow a BLACK flower
2031. Taste a bento box
2032. Go to quality restaurants starting with each letter of the alphabet from A to Z
2033. Eat tacos from a roadside stand in Tijuana, Mexico
2034. Say a special THANK YOU to someone
2035. Eat stuff outside of my comfort zone
2036. Have a lawyer write up a trust for me and my family
2037. Be passionate about a cause
2038. Learn how to make a dish and become known for that dish
2039. Help Matt James get his Eagle Scout award
2040. The a Rorschach test and see how crazy I am
2041. Learn how to suture a wound
2042. Drive over Hell’s Backbone in Southern Utah
2043. Eat a moon pie
2044. Explore the tide pools at Dana Point more
2045. Get on the Junior High basketball team
2046. Get on the Junior High football team
2047. Get on the high school track team
2048. Watch the sun set from the sea cave at the end of Dana Point as the tide is
coming in
2049. Play miniature golf and get good at it
2050. Visit Multnomah Falls, Oregon
2051. Eat at that really nice vintage restaurant across the street to the north of the old mission in San Juan Capistrano, California
2052. Leave an inspiring note in a library book
2053. Eat a blood orange and see how it tastes different from other oranges
2054. Roast a whole bulb of garlic and eat it
2055. Leave my hand print in wet concrete
2056. Buy a diamond ring for my sweetheart
2057. See what it’s like to get road rash (without being hospitalized for it)
2058. Take a walk in the rain
2059. Take a long walk in a big time serious snow storm
2060. Grow massively huge sunflowers and use the heads to feed the birds with all the seeds
I harvest from it
2061. Do something that I thought I would never do
2062. Visit the old Spanish mission in San Juan Capistrano where the swallows come back
the same day each year
2063. Grow red sunflowers
2064. Discover some new herbs and spices I’ve never tried before and learn how to
cook with them
2065. Go to a concert in the park
2066. Visit a Buddhist temple
2067. Teach someone how to drive a car
2068. Eat a fresh fig (no dried figs allowed for this goal)
2069. Ride the Octopus at the Rock County Fair
2070. Play the leading role in a play
2071. Eat a Krispy Kreme hot off the conveyer belt
2072. Have surgery done on my sinuses so that I get some relief from sinus headaches
2073. Give money to a homeless person
2074. Run up to President Richard Nixon’s Western White House (or at least to the
property as far as the security guys would let me go
2075. Go on a horse drawn carriage ride
2076. Jump using a pogo stick
2077. Have the career of my dreams
2078. Survive a serious fire experience
2079. Live in a house that I love living in
2080. Make and taste fried ice cream
2081. See the Chrystal Cathedral Garden Grove, California
2082. Carry on a conversation in Mandarin Chinese
2083. Ride a Greyhound bus out of my home state
2084. Complete 30 bucket list goals in 30 days, from September 27th to October 27th
2085. Get a hot shave with an old fashioned straight edge razor
2086. Leave a significant sum of money in plain sight somewhere in the mountains for someone
to find. However, it can NOT be on a well worn trail. It will be found only be someone
with an adventurous soul who doesn’t mind doing some bush whacking.
2087. Buy a nice fountain pen
2088. Listen to a complete stranger tell me about a person they are having a problem with.
When they are done, recommend that they get a gun and shoot the person and be done
with it. See what response I get.
2089. Drive a convertible with a roof down
2090. Drive an awesome sporty car that makes me feel like a kid again
2091. Say YES to everything for 1 day
2092. Make and eat a funnel cake
2093. Unwrap a starburst candy in my mouth with my tongue, no hands
2094. Get my journals, letter book and histories hard bound
2095. Play my recorder (my wooden flute, not a tape recorder) in the desert, the mountain
or some secluded
2096. Die Easter Eggs with silk fabric and see how it turns out
2097. Tell a veteran that I appreciate all he’s done for me, my family and my country and
buy him lunch or do something to thank him
2098. Withdraw $50 from my savings account in $1 bills and leave the bills around town for
people to find
2099. Submit one of my own photographs to the online LDS Media Library
2100. Spend time staying at a lakeside home or hotel
2101. Learn to play Mahjong
2102. Learn to dream lucidly
2103. Visit the graves of my ancestors
2104. Work on doing a better job of staying focused and on task
2105. Make a colorful, warm, wonderfully soft quilt and give it to a child I do not know
2106. Try not to whistle so much when I’m around my family
2107. Kiss someone with my eyes open
2108. Learn an artesian craft that I didn’t know how to do before
2109. Make homemade lemonade
2110. Drop from a very high placed to the ground by jumping from a building or a cliff, grabbing
the top of a supple tree and letting the tension of the tree safely slow down my descent.
2111. Spend at least one night in a hospital
2112. Win at least one game of Monopoly
2113. Write a letter to a head of an organization and get a telephone call in response to my
comments
2114. See what it’s like to be bitten by a snake
2115. Eat more fruits and veggies in my daily diet
2116. Silk screen an awesome design on a tee shirt
2117. Make sparks come out of the ends of my fingers
2118. See what it’s like to throw up blood
2119. Learn to make awesome Chinese pot stickers
2120. Come up with a great dipping sauce for the pot stickers I make
2121. Touch a real live bat (Fleutermouse) and not get rabies
2122. I want to hear my father tell me that he's proud of me
2123. Take and pass the test to become a United States citizen
2124. Take a picture of someone who does not want their picture taken
2125. Survive the world disasters that are supposed to come at the end of the
Mayan Calendar
2126. Learn how to make gourmet ganache truffles
2127. Learn about Chakras and how to realign them to create perfect body harmony
2128. Skip school for a day. . . or two. . . or more
2129. Try walking a slack line
2130. Hit the bullseye with a bow and arrow
2131. Buy an external hard drive with some very serious amounts of memory
2132. Own a music collection of more than 200,000 songs
2133. Buy ice cream from a Good Humar ice cream truck
2134. Learn more about the Ogallala Aquifer
2135. Walk bare foot in the snow
2136. See if toilets really do flush counter clockwise in the southern hemisphere
2137. Read something written by a Holocaust survivor
2138. Learn more about the Tarahumara Indians of Mexico
2139. Watch butterflies hatch from their chrysalises
2140. Do an "Explore California" road trip
2141. Learn to make tortillas from scratch
2142. Read the book The Life of Pi then watch the movie
2143. Own a piece of stone used to build a very ancient building inhabited
by ancient people
2144. Have a pair of shoes specially hand made just for me
2145. Learn to make some national dishes of specific countries
2146. Walk along the ocean beach by myself after midnight
2147. Have lunch with a complete stranger
2148. Have breakfast served to me in bed
2149. Eat at the very least, 10 different Indain dishes
2150. Make a hot tea made from something I harvest from the wild and then
drink it
2151. Eat a cactus
2152. Eat an artichoke
2153. Eat cat tail roots
2154. Harvest honey from a wild bee hive
2155. Eat an inanimage object (a coin, a BB, dirt, a stone, a paper note, etc.)
2156. Enter an eating contest of some kind
2157. Eat something from a street vendor in a 3rd world country
2158. Eat something that is still moving
2159. Eat something that is utterly disgusting (besides the things that is still
moving in the previous goal
2160. Eat or drink something that is so cold it takes my site away
2161. Experience a "knock you on your butt" electrical shock
2162. Do something that is actually good for me, every day for a month
2163. See what it's like to lose conciousness
2164. Undergo an invasive surgery using only local anesthesia
2165. Undergo an invasive surgery and watch what the doctor is doing, asking
questions and watching him cut part of my body away.
2166. Burn something I once held dear to me
2167. Attend the services of someone else's religion
2168. Have the courage and compassion enough to euthenize a pet when it
needs to be put to sleep
2169. Get an industry certification
2170. Take a course/class/seminar that forces me to reevaluate my basic core
beliefs about who I am and what I want out of life
2171. Discover who my biological father is
2172. Do something very romantic
2173. Steal something and don't get caught
2174. Spend the winter in a VERY COLD place (I hate winter and
I don't like being cold)
2175. Blow something up
2176. Feed a live animal to a snake
2177. Shower during a thunder storm and see if anything happens
2178. Survive a curse
2179. Stay in a cockroach hotel; I mean a real dive of a place where I know
that I'm going to wake up the next mornign with bedbug bits up
and down my legs2180. Visit an embassy in a foreign country
2181. Smuggle something through customs (by the way, this goal
really is not recommended for anyone who might find it to
harrowing to spend time in prison in a foreign country.)
2182. See the Southern Cross in the sky
2183. Go deep into the wilderness and camp for an extended stay
2184. Build a piece of furniture
2185. Read a galley copy of someone's book
2186. Cut up a piece of furniture with a chain saw
2187. Shot off an illegal firework and talk my way out of a ticket
2188. Write an article that gets published
2189. Take a picture of someone who does NOT want their picture taken
2190. Sign a petition of significant importance
2191. Win a contest sponsored by a radio station
2192. Invests in precious metals
2193. Break into a place after it has been closed and secured
2194. Tresspass on a military fascility without getting caught
2195. Tresspass on government property where signs are posted and fences
have been constructed to keep people out
2196. Be a door to door salesman
2197. Haggle with someone in an open air market
2198. While negotiating a contract, make an insanely unrealistic proposal and
see what happens
2199. Be part of a class action law suit
2200. Hire someone
2201. Fire someone
2202. Go into business with a friend
2203. Walk off a really lousy job and never come back again
2204. Apply for a job that I am hopelessly over qualified and over educated for
2205. Quit a job without having another one lined up
2206. Apply for a job that I have absolutely no hope of getting
2207. Carry on a conversation with someone who is cerifiably crazy
2208. Survive a bite from another human being
2209. Live for at least 1 year in a nation that is ruled by a dictator
2210. Acquire a taste for something that most people cannot stand
2211. Be a member of a significant committee
2212. Give someone some unsolicited advice and see what they do with it
2213. Radically change my appearance
2214. Remove hair from my body using a chemical solution
2215. Remove hair from my body using a wax treatment
2216. Start a rumor and see how far it goes
2217. Act as a mediator between two opposing sides
2218. Ride a tobaggon
2219. Snowshoe in the back wilderness country
2220. Fight someone in a real competition
2221. Go bouldering
2222. Get punched in the gut at least once
2223. Go off roading in the desert
2224. Ride a snowmobile
2225. Drive safely through a severe tire blowout without wrecking the car or the wheel
2226. Explore an old abandoned mine
2227. Climb down to the bottom of Mooney Falls near Havasupai Falls
2228. Get punched in the face at least once in my life; I mean seriously punched
2229. Experience a rip tide
2230. Run until I reach a point of sheer and utter exhaustion
2231. Walk on the ledge of a building
2232. Go wake boarding
2233. Run down the face of a mountain
2234. Cross the street while pretending to be blind
2235. Drive in a foreign country
2236. Ride a Go Cart
2237. Jump from a moving:
- Car
- Bike
- Train
- Water Craft
2239. Buy something I could not afford to buy
2240. Begin researching my genetic family line
2241. Find the very best tamale in the WORLD
2242. Leave my name on a community wall
2243. Hold a grandchild in my arms
2244. Help someone find themself
2245. Roast peppers
2246. Survive an especially nasty disease
2247. Teach my children how to can and preserve food they've grown
2248. Purposely walk under a ladder and see if any kind of bad luck occurs
2249. Purposely expose myself to something I am allergic to and see what happens
2250. Sing someone to sleep
2251. Win a raffle
2252. Do a Polar Ice Plunge
2253. See if there is a book so Awful that I Cannot Finish Reading it
2254. See Rembrandt's painting, The Dutch Masters
2255. Get up close to a Moose in the wild
2256. Rock side to side so hard in a moving elevator that the elevator stops
2257. Travel the world with somone I love
2258. Ask the 10 "end of life" questions
2259. Do a 365 day challenge (I put aside $1 a day for 365 days and then used
to money to buy surguries that restore eyesight to those who have lost
their sight due to cateracts.
2260. Do the Mr. Chesley Science Experiment. This experiment consists of keeping
a large piece of fruit in a sealed container and let the bacteria eat all the
contents up. When it's done eating all the contents up, it will begin to consume
itself until only 1 bacteria is left. It will then die of starvation, leaving only
pure water. Of course, this is all theoretical. I want to see if it works in reality.
2261. Eat falafal
2262. Cuddle up with my wife when she is 9 months pregnant and feel my child in
womb
2263. Eat at least 100 flavors of the 200+ flavors of Lays potato chips (In progress)
2264. Lay my body across the Four Corners Monument
2265. Watch the Harlem Globe Trotters play a game of basketball
2266. Ride in a horse drawn sleigh in the winter time
2267. Use one of those coton candy machines and make a huge ball of cotton candy
2268. Visit a country or territory for each letter of the alphabet
2269. Find somone who has had an honest to goodnes near life experinece and
talk with them about it
2270. Walk from Sioux Falls, South Dakota to Luverne, Minnesota
2271. Create a postive cast of a wild animal track
2272. Smash a melon to smithereens with a baseball bat
2273. Make a list of 100 things I want to do before I turn 65
2274. Walk through a building that is honestly haunted with evil spirits
2275. Try a dermabrassion on my face and see what it's like
2276. Explore an attic that is filled with some really cool boxes of things
2277. Skinny dip in a geothermal hotpot in Yellowstone National Park
2278. Drive the 4 great drives in the United States (In Progress)
- U.S. Route 1 that goes from Maine to Florida
- Route 66 from start to end
- The Great River Road
- The Pacific Coast Highway
2280. Do 10 things from the booke titled Change the World for a Fiver
2281. Go where nobody knows my name
2282. Buy a piece of art or artifact that has an interesting story behind it
2283. Read 5 books by 5 authors I have never heard of before
2284. Learn how to cook scallops perfectly
2285. Refuse to go to Burning Man festival (everyone has that on their bucket
list. So, I've decided that this is one place I don't want to go, since it seems
to me that it will be terribly over crowded.)
2286. Have an all timefavorate summer time Southern California beach song that
whenever I hear it, it remindes me of all the wonderful summer days I spent
living in San Clemente, California as a kid (In the Summer Time by Mungo Jerry)
2287. Eat sugar cane right out of the field
2288. Learn how to make awesomely tasty pretzels
2289. Touch a real stalagtite and stalagmite
2290. Go back and visit every home I've ever lived in in the U.S.
2291. Take a statistics class and pass it (I barely passed it but I did it.)
2292. Learn to recognize that call of at least 30 wild birds
2293. Regift something
2294. Eat at a real Ameican diner
2295. Avoid McDonald's Restaurant for 1 year
2296. Take some fun college classes
2297. Do a 500 piece puzzle
2298. Find a very quiet place in the moutains where no one will bother me
and go there to be alone and meditate
2299. Own an ant farm
2300. Give up Mt. Dew for lent
2301. Beat death at least once (I did this one 4 times)
2302. Learn how to make fortune cookies and the make some
2303. Throw a full lighter into a fire and see what happens
2304. Sit under the San Clemente pier at night
2305. Find someone who was born on exactly the sam day as I was and get
to know them
2306. Cook a serious meal on a very hot rock
2307. Learn more about Australian aboriginal dream time
2308. Own some loyalty stocks
2309. Build a cabin along the Rock River
2310. Visit Kolab Canyon in Utah
2311. Visit the lighthouse in Cedar City, Utah
2312. Play human fooseball
2313. See an Iridium flare
2314. WOW someone with something I've done in my life
2315. Experience what it's like to lose consciencness but be awake enough to see
it coming
2316. Buy flowers for my wife at least once a month every month for a year
2317. Learn how to make beagles
2318. Put a lime in a coconut and drink them all up (thank you Nielson)
2319. Make a dish my wife finds posted on Pinterest
2320. Undergo an invasive surgery involving local aeisthesia
2321. Write an article and submit it to Wikipedia
2322. Discover the "Spirit" of the Rock River
2323. Create something that will last long after my death
2324. Walk at least 1,000 miles
2325. Swim among the sharks without a shark cage
2326. Learn how to sing a song in another language
2327. Own an expensive road bike
2328. Buy something hot and tasty for one of those guys who ring the Salvation Army
bell at Christmas time
2329. Take a ride on an old steam powered steam engine
2330. Go somewhere that requires me to wear a head lamp
2331. Climb all the way up that stupid rope in the gymnasium at Luverne Elementary
School
2332. Find an authentic WW II Japaese pillbox and go explore inside
2333. Experience 4 extreme climates:
- Desert DONE
- Jungle DONE
- Mountain DONE
- Arctic
2335. Be personally involved in a Las Vegas wedding ceremony
2336. Buy a lunch from one of those traveling food trucks (we used to call them the
Roach Coach)
2337. Watch air airshow with the Blue Angles
2338. Get lost in a foreign country
2339. Travel to a remote place where I have no idea where I'm going to sleep and that has
no hotels or commerical places for visitors to sleep
2340. Find something really ugly and then wear it in public
2394. Be personally involved in a Las Vegas wedding
2395. Make handprints on a cave wall using the same technique as the ancient ones used
2396. Experience 4 extreme climates
2397. Go inside an authentic Japanese WWII pill box (bomb shelter)
2398. Climb all the way up that stupid rope in the gymnasium in Luverne
Elementary School.
2399. Sleep overnight in the upstairs of an old farm house with the windows open and
listen to crickets and katydids outside on a hot summer night
2400. Take a ride on one of those old coal fired steam engine trains
2401. Go somewhere that requires me to use a head lamp
2402. Buy something warm and tasty for those guys that ring the bell at those
Salvation Army kettles during the Christmas season
2403. Eat a sample of every fruit I can find from around the world
2404. Learn to sing a song in another language
2405. Own an expensive road bike
2406. Swim among the sharks
2407. Walk at least 1,000 miles
2408. Discover the “Spirit” of the Rock River
2409. Create something that will last long after I have left this world
2410. Visit more antique stores and see if I can find that special “thing” I’ve been
looking for
2411. Put the lime in the coconut and I drink it up (think Harry Nielson)
2412. Learn how to make beagles
2413. Submit an article to Wikipedia or make some serious and significant edits
to an existing Wikipedia article
2414. Make $1,000,000 (1 million) U.S. American dollars before I turn 60
2415. Undergo an invasive surgical procedure involving local anesthesia
2416. Experience what it’s like to lose consciousness and be alert enough to see
myself losing consciousness
2417. Buy flowers every month for a year (at the very least) for my wife Donna
2418. Wow someone with all the cool things I’ve done with my life
2419. Play human foosball
2420. See an iridium flare
2421. Visit the light house I pass by in Cedar City, Utah every time I drive to
St. George or to California
2422. Become fluent in speaking Pig Latin
2423. Visit Kolab Canyon
2424. Build a cabin along the Rock River from trees harvested by me and my brother
from the woods along the river
2425. Take part in a medical trial or new procedure of some kind
2426. Cook a meat dish on a hot rock
2427. Own some loyalty stocks
2428. Find Elder Melvin K. Miller, that skinny little Hawaiian guy who was my
first missionary companion in the mission field and tell him “Thank You” for
the incredible job he did training me for what was to come during the following
year and a half of my mission
2429. Meet someone who was born exactly the same day and year I was
2430. Learn more about Australian aboriginal dream time
2431. Sit under the San Clemente pier with someone and talk about some serious things
2432. Own a computer
2433. Throw a full cigarette lighter into a fire and see what happens
2434. Make my own fortune cookies
2435. Beat death at least once
2436. Do a cross word puzzle all the way through to completion and get the
right answers
2437. Find something really cool on Pinterest and do it, cook it, or in some way,
make it happen
2438. Own an ant farm
2439. Make a candle
2440. Give up all caffeinated drinks (Mt. Dew, Rock Star, etc.) for lent
2441. Sit on the roof of my house and watch the sun come up on a clear sub-freezing
winter morning
2442. Do a 500 piece puzzle
2443. Find a secret place in the mountains where I can go to be completely alone,
to meditate, to think and to talk with God
2444. Take some fun college classes
2445. Visit more antique stores and see if I can find that special “thing” I’ve been
looking for
2446. Avoid eating a McDonalds for 1 year
2447. Re-gift something
2448. Eat at a real American diner
2449. Identify the call of at least 30 different birds
2450. Complete a statistics class in college and get a high enough score that I don’t
ever have to take another one again
2451. Be more appreciative and understanding of the use of symbolism
2452. Go back and see every house I’ve ever lived in within the United States
2453. Touch a real stalactite and stalagmite
2454. Learn how to make awesome soft bread pretzels
2455. Find an all time favorite summer time song that every time I hear it or sing it,
I will remember my endless wonderful summers and summer days at the beach
as a teenager in San Clemente, California
2456. Eat raw sugar cane right out of a sugar cane field
2457. Refuse to go to the Burning Man Festival (so far, so good)
2458. Learn how to cook scallops so that they turn out deliciously perfect
2459. Read 5 books by 5 authors I have never heard of before
2460. Buy a piece of art or an artifact that has an interesting story behind it
2461. Do 10 things from the book, “Change the World for a Fiver”
2462. Go someplace where nobody knows my name
2463. Do something awesome in every state in the union (See appendix 43)
2464. Drive the 4 great drives in the United States
2465. Skinny dip in a geothermal hot pot in Yellowstone National Park
2466. Explore an old attic filled with really cool things
2467. Try a dermabrasion on my face and see what it’s like
2468. Walk through a building that is haunted with evil spirits
2469. Smash a melon to smithereens with a metal baseball bat
2470. Create a100 Things to Do Before I Turn 65 bucket list and do as many as of them
as I can. Create it with input from Donna since she will do some of these things
with me. (see Appendix 44)
2471. Create a positive cast of a wild animal track
2472. Walk from Sioux Falls, South Dakota to Luverne, Minnesota
2473. Meet someone who has had a near death experience and talk to them in detail
about what it was like and what they’ve learned from it
2474. Visit a country or territory that starts with each letter of the alphabet
2475. Ride in a horse drawn sleigh in the winter time
2476. Taste at least 100 different flavors of Lays Potato Chips
(see Appendix 45) 70 completed so far.
2477. Use one of those cotton candy machines to make a cotton candy ball as big as
I’ve always wanted to have when I was a kid
2478. Watch the Harlem Globetrotters play basketball
2479. Lay my body across the center point at the Four Corners Monument
2480. Cuddle up to my wife, holding her tummy when she’s 9 months pregnant
2481. Eat Falafel and see what it’s like
2482. Do a Mr. Chesley Science experiment (see Appendix 46 for pictures and
updates)
2483. Write and get published, an article for an internationally circulated magazine
2484. Celebrate a birthday overseas in a foreign land
2485. See Rembrandt’s painting The Dutch Masters
2486. Pick a travel idea from a Sunset Magazine and go do it
2487. Get up close to a wild moose in the wilderness
2488. Rock side to side in a moving elevator so hard that it stops to elevator
between floors
2489. Have my own calling card
2490. Do something “Earthy” for Earth Day
2491. Legally change Dan’s name to include my middle name
2492. Collect a wasp’s nest bigger than a football
2493. Make a hard bound book from scratch with sewn signatures. Make it so it will
last for more than 100 years
2494. Learn how to play least 5 songs on a guitar
2495. Do a 365 day challenge (do something every day of the year)
2496. Answer the 10 “End of Life Questions” in a way that I can feel good
about (See Appendix 47)
2497. Write and send off a message in a bottle
2498. Eat the 15 American foods that foreigner s find weird or disgusting
2499. Become an accredited genealogist
2500. Learn to cook a national Malaysian food dish
2501. Place a full bird feeder outside my window and watch all the birds that come
to feed there.
2502. Go to a Joshua James concert with Jesse
2503. Travel the world with someone I love
2504. Collect at least 20 video versions of “ A Christmas Carol”
2505. Walk across the old abandoned San Luis Rey Old River bridge before it
is torn down and forever lost
2506. Collect sea glass
2507. Take a Thai cooking class and learn how to make sticky rice with sweet
coconut cream sauce and sweet mango
2508. Learn how to make that wonderfully sweet and coconutty sweet sticky rice
desert with sweet coconut cream and mangos
2509. Go to the Dana Point tide pools during a minus tide
2510. Build or buy a bat house (for bats, not the batman kind of bat house. That’s a
bat cave and I’m not interested in making a bat cave.)
2511. Create something that will long outlast me
2512. Be cited by someone else in a professional publication (in paper or on line)
2513. Change jobs so that I can get into something that really stretches me
2514. Reforest 5 to 10 acres of land
2515. Eat a raw oyster
2516. Go on a cross country trip and see some touristy roadside attractions
2517. Eat seafood at Bear Flag restaurant on the peninsula in Newport Beach, California
2518. Visit Venice Beach in Venice, California
2519. Stay the night in a haunted hotel and see if I experience any “paranormal action.”
2520. Get a wild bird to eat out of my hand
2521. Take part in a photograph scavenger hunt
2522. Stay overnight on Coronado Island and visit the Hotel Del Coronado
2523. Learn how to make a desert out of sticky rice
2524. Eat some of that famous Andersen split pea soup in Buellton, California
2525. See the Nit Wit Cottage on Nit Wit Ridge in Cambria, California
2526. At least once in my life, stay the night in a hostel
2527. Visit the Danish village of Solvang in central California
2528. Visit Hurst Castle in San Simian
2529. Walk on a black sand beach
2530. Visit the Monterey Bay Aquarium
2531. Attend a NGS (National Genealogical Society) or FGS (Federation of
Genealogical Societies) conference
2532. Taste a Dirty Dr. Pepper and a Mango Mt. Dew from the Sip Shack in
St. George Utah
2533. Start some fun family traditions
2534. Eat an Otter Bar
2535. Go to an Elton John concert
2536. Send my compliments to the chef
2537. Make my own root beer and have a root beer float party for the entire
neighborhood
2538. Go to Mall of America
2539. Ask someone else to come up with a bucket list goal for me
2540. Have someone else pay for me to travel overseas to more than 1 country
2541. Pay it forward to at least 50 people
2542. Visit the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Oho
2543. Eat a Kobe beef hot dog from Red Dog's
2544. Touch a cadaver
2545. Hold a hummingbird in my hand and marvel at the features of this
remarkable bird
2546. Walk through the Kirtland Temple
2547. Walk through the place where the School of the Prophets was held
2547. Eat something from a specialty food truck
2548. Do my best to make this world a little less polluted by using less
plastic and styrofoam
2549. Inspire a teenager to do something to make the world a little better place.
2550. Speak in front of a crowd of at least 1,000 people
2551. Walk among the clouds
2552. Learn how to make incense
2553. Get a VIP pass to some kind of important event
2554. Back pack for at least a week through Yellowstone National Park
2555. Pass my knowledge about life on to future generations
2556. Learn how to swallow a sword
2557. Eat a lotus root
2558. See my name in the cover of a published book
2559. Do a book review for a professional journal
2560. Read 15 books that I will never forget
2561. Record the oral history of my great great grandfather's daughter, Cora
Leicher Fisher
2562.
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