My Bucket List

Well, I may as well get the ball rolling....  the things I want to do before I die.  I would imagine to always be adding to this list and, hopefully, always crossing things off.  Click on the links for pictures and/or blog posts about the specific item.

I have added things I've already done, because they were goals... at one point.

Last Update: 7/6/22

1. Set foot in every U.S. State
   Alabama | Alaska | Arizona | Arkansas | California | Colorado | Connecticut | Delaware | Florida | Georgia | Hawaii | Idaho | Illinois | Indiana | Iowa | Kansas | Kentucky | Louisiana| Maine | Maryland | Massachusetts | Michigan | Minnesota| Mississippi | Missouri | Montana | Nevada | New Hampshire | New Jersey | New Mexico | New York | North Carolina | North Dakota | Ohio | Oklahoma | Oregon | Pennsylvania | Rhode Island | South Carolina | South Dakota | Tennessee | Texas | Utah| Vermont | Virginia | Washington | West Virginia | Wisconsin| Wyoming
2. Enjoy my mother
3. Go to Hawaii
4. Ride every roller coaster in the United States
5. Fly a plane
6. See the Golden Gate Bridge
7. Sell a photograph
8. Be in a parade
9. Dance on the street
10. Send a secret to Postsecret
11. Smash something
12. Take a photograph of {my} footprints in the sand
13. Write my name in the sand
14. Read more, and enjoy it
15. Walk across The Brooklyn Bridge
16. Go to a Drive-In movie
17. Plant a Tree
18. Get married
19. Make a difference in a child's life (I'm not sure if I'll ever be able to quantify this...)
20. Be on a game show!
21. Sit on the Jersey Shore (only partially due to watching the show)
22. Urban Explore the Gold Medal Flour Mill
23. Watch the sunset over the ocean, in the arms of someone I love
24. See The Statue of Liberty
25. See the "Grain Belt" Sign light up again
26. See The Northern Lights
27. Learn to drive a stick shift
28. Fly First Class
29. Capture a lightning bolt photograph
30. Meet Joe Mauer
31. Make love behind/under a waterfall (after Hawaii, I'm certain this will never happen)
32. Build a snow fort
33. Dine in the dark
34. Swim with Dolphins
35. See Niagara Falls
36. Enjoy a 100 year old bottle of Red wine
37. Make Green Eggs and Ham
38. Invent something
39. See the 7 Natural Wonders (Northern Lights, the Grand Canyon, Paricutin, Mount Everest, Harbor of Rio de Janeiro, Victoria Falls, and the Great Barrier Reef)
40. Invest (buy stock) in a new company and watch as it succeeds
41. Bungee Jump
42. Become fluent in Spanish
43. See Paris
44. Own a pair of Christian Louboutin shoes
45. Ride in a helicopter
46. Skydive
47. Make {and keep} a family tree with all my genealogy {5/21/14 - currently working on it}
48. Stay in a glass bottom house in Maldives
49. Forgive everyone
50. Attend the Olympics
51. Sit on a jury
52. Drive, East-West or West-East, across the U.S.A.
53. Dance the night away, until the sun comes up
54. Design my own kitchen
55. Go on a Hot Air Balloon Ride
56. Catch a Foul Ball at a Baseball game (preferably in Target Field)
57. See Mount Rushmore
58. Move out of my moms basement (might aide in #2)
59. See The Vikings win a superbowl (I realize that I have NO control over this)
60. Join a fantasy football league
61. Attend a ballet
62. Fly a kite
63. Go on a Picnic
64. See a show on Broadway in NYC
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