Bucket List

  • Appear on the front page of a newspaper
  • Ask myself for a raise
  • Attend a baseball game at every Major League park (Visited Metrodome, Target Field)
  • Attend a high school reunion
  • Attend a MLB game (Many years ago and multiple times)
  • Attend a show at the Grand Ole Opry
  • Attend a title fight in Las Vegas
  • Attend a Triple Crown Race
  • Attend a World Series game
  • Attend an NCAA Final Four Tournament
  • Attend Mardi Gras
  • Attend my child/children’s college graduations
  • Attend Oktoberfest in Germany
  • Attend the Academy Awards
  • Attend the birth of a grandchild
  • Attend the Country Music Awards
  • Attend the Inauguration of a President
  • Attend the Kentucky Derby
  • Attend the Super Bowl
  • Be a great dad
  • Be a guest on the radio
  • Be a landlord
  • Be happily married
  • Be happy
  • Be in a major magazine
  • Be in a time/financial position to help others
  • Be interviewed by the media (April-ish, 2010)
  • Be my ideal weight (Hit it in 2010, obviously ongoing)
  • Be my own boss
  • Be on television (2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004)
  • Be recognized on the street by a stranger
  • Become a net-worth millionaire
  • Become an expert on a subject based on this statement: “If you read from 30 to 50 books in a particular subject you become an international expert in that area of knowledge.” (2 on financial literacy, 1 on motivation)
  • Become and stay debt free.
  • Become financially stable and independent
  • Become proficient at piano, guitar, and bass guitar
  • Become Scuba certified
  • Bike across an entire state.
  • Brew my own beer
  • Build a cabin
  • Catch a home run at a baseball game
  • Celebrate at my children’s weddings
  • Celebrate my 25th wedding anniversary
  • Celebrate my 50th wedding anniversary
  • Celebrate New Year’s Eve in Times Square
  • Circumnavigate the globe without flying.
  • Climb a mountain
  • Climb to the top of a volcano
  • Complete a marathon
  • Cross the Golden Gate Bridge
  • Design my own home
  • Dine at the Eiffel Tower
  • Donate blood regularly
  • Donate time/money to cancer research
  • Drink a bottle of wine that’s more than 50 years old
  • Drink ale in a pub in England
  • Drink beer in Germany
  • Drink something with an umbrella in it in Hawaii (Summer, 2010)
  • Drive a Bentley (Summer 2009)
  • Drive a Ferrari (Summer 2010)
  • Drive a Lamborghini
  • Drive a Porsche (Summer 2009)
  • Drive a Rolls Royce (Summer 2010)
  • Drive across America, Coast-to-Coast
  • Drive the Autobahn
  • Drive the Gulf Coast Highway
  • Drive Up Pike’s Peak (Summer 2009)
  • Earn a 6-figure income
  • Earn a Bachelor’s Degree
  • Eat a bratwurst in Germany
  • Eat a bug (Spring 2009)
  • Eat a fish I caught myself (Many times over the years…)
  • Eat a hot dog in Chicago
  • Eat Chinese food in China
  • Eat chocolate in Switzerland
  • Eat crab in Baltimore
  • Eat crepes in France
  • Eat fish and chips in London
  • Eat pasta in Italy
  • Eat Pastry in France
  • Eat strudel in Germany
  • Eat tortillas in Mexico
  • Find a meaningful retirement project
  • Finish my own basement
  • Fire a machine gun
  • Fix my own car when all but the most serious things go wrong
  • Fly first class
  • Fly in Air Force One
  • Get a 4.0 for one semester in college
  • Get a tattoo
  • Get certified at CPR (2004, need to be re-certified)
  • Give an award acceptance speech
  • Go back to Hawaii at least once
  • Go on a cruise
  • Go on family vacations with my own family
  • Go to a luau in Hawaii (Summer 2010)
  • Go to the Country Music Hall of Fame
  • Go to the Rock-N-Roll Hall of Fame
  • Guest lecture at a university
  • Have a second honeymoon
  • Have at least one child
  • Help my grandchildren through college
  • Hike in Alaska
  • Hike in Colorado
  • Jet ski
  • Kayak
  • Know someone famous
  • Landscape my yard
  • Learn a foreign language
  • Learn to bartend
  • Lengthen my attention span
  • Live alone for a time
  • Live in a place I love (Minnesota, my whole life so far)
  • Live in a small town (Prior Lake is pretty small, but I want to experience smaller)
  • Live in Colorado
  • Live in Hawaii
  • Live in Montana
  • Live in the middle of nowhere
  • Live somewhere that’s warm year-round
  • Live somewhere with seasons
  • Live the 10 Commandments
  • Make exercise a regular habit
  • Make the Dean’s List
  • Meet a billionaire
  • Meet a famous baseball player/coach (Multiples including Blyleven, Mauer, Cuddyer, Coomer, and others)
  • Meet a famous basketball player/coach (Kevin Garnett and others)
  • Meet a famous football player/coach (Erin Henderson, Visanthe Shiancoe)
  • Meet a famous hockey player/coach
  • Meet a famous person (not sports-related)
  • Meet a US president
  • Own season tickets for the Vikings
  • Parasail
  • Pay for a car in cash
  • Pay my children through college
  • Pay off my mortgage
  • Pick a date and abstain from alcohol from that point forward
  • Publish a piece in a magazine
  • Publish a poem (Spring 2010)
  • Register as an organ donor (April, 2007)
  • Renovate an old house
  • Retire
  • Re-visit D.C. and all memorials and museums
  • Revisit Deacon Lake, Wyoming
  • Revisit the tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington
  • Ride a bull
  • Ride in a limo (A few years ago…trip to FL)
  • Rock climb
  • Run a 10K
  • Run for a political office and win
  • Save a year’s reserve of money
  • Save enough in my retirement fund to live off the interest
  • Save someone’s life
  • Scuba dive the Great Barrier Reef
  • Scuba in the Bahamas
  • See a birth
  • See a bullfight
  • See a meteor shower
  • See a space shuttle or rocket launch
  • See a total eclipse of the moon
  • See a total eclipse of the sun
  • See Eiffel Tower
  • See Ground Zero
  • See my kids become successful
  • See Northern Lights
  • See Sistine Chapel Ceiling
  • Set up a college scholarship
  • Shake hands with a world leader
  • Sit in the first row behind the dugout (First St. Paul Saints game, a number of years ago)
  • Spend minimum 2 weeks in Europe
  • Study scripture daily
  • Surf (Summer 2010)
  • Surf in Hawaii (Summer 2010)
  • Swim in the Atlantic (Many years ago, trip to FL)
  • Swim in the Pacific (A few years ago, trip to CA)
  • Take a year off
  • Tour a Penitentiary
  • Tour an old concentration camp
  • Tour Gettysburg
  • Tour the FBI Building
  • Tour the White House (Spring 2004)
  • Visit a Tropical Island (Hawaii, Summer 2010)
  • Visit Alcatraz
  • Visit all 50 states and D.C. [28/51 (States: AL, AK, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, HI, ID,  IL, IN, IA, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NE, NM, ND, NV, NH, NJ, NY, NC, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, UT, VA, VT, WA, WV, WI, WY)]
  • Visit Area 51
  • Visit Australia
  • Visit Buckingham Palace
  • Visit Camp David
  • Visit Ireland
  • Visit Mt. Cadillac, Bar Harbor
  • Visit Pearl Harbor (Summer 2010)
  • Visit the Bahamas
  • Visit the baseball hall of fame in Cooperstown
  • Visit the Caribbean
  • Visit the football hall of fame
  • Visit the Grassy Knoll where JFK was shot
  • Visit the Great Wall of China
  • Visit the Hollywood Walk of Fame
  • Visit the Pyramids in Egypt
  • Walk my daughter/daughters down the aisle
  • Walk the Pentagon Circumference
  • Walk through Central Park, NYC
  • Watch changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace
  • Water ski barefoot
  • Win a writing award
  • Win an award for poetry
  • Write a book

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