#2 - Go to Alaska - DONE! Completed May 1, 2013, and revisited July 2019 and Oct 2024
#3 - Float along the Amazon
#4 - Dance the tango in Argentina
#5 - See my art in a gallery or store
#6 - Walk the Boardwalk in Atlantic City - DONE! Completed Jul 11, 2015
#7 - See an aurora - DONE! Completed Oct 1, 2024 near Fairbanks, Alaska
#8 - Drive the Autobahn
#9 - Bathe in the Ganges
#10 - Ride a penny-farthing bicycle
#11 - Ride a tandem bicycle - DONE! Completed July 4, 2021 in San Diego
#12 - Ride a recumbent bicycle
#13 - Ride in a blimp
#14 - Race a bobsled
#15 - Publish a book - DONE! Completed Feb 10, 2020
#16 - See a musical on Broadway - DONE! Completed Jul 6, 2008 seeing Wicked, and several more since!
#17 - Watch the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace - DONE! Completed August 16, 2024
#18 - Build a custom house with "secret" architectural features
#19 - Ride a bullet train - DONE! Completed May 21, 2016
#20 - Watch a fire-dancing show at Burning Man
#21 - Ride a cable car in San Francisco - DONE! Completed Mar 21, 2012
#22 - Golf in Cabo
#23 - Confront a cadaver - DONE!
#24 - Sleep in a capsule hotel - DONE! Completed May 19, 2016
#25 - Go to Carnival of Venice
#26 - Participate in a Carnival parade in Brazil
#27 - Spend the night in a castle
#28 - Tour Neuschwanstein Castle, Germany
#29 - Read Catch 22 - DONE! Completed Oct 29, 2016
#30 - Catch a fish
#31 - Walk the Champs-Élysées - DONE! Completed Jul 1, 2018
#32 - Ride through the Chunnel
#33 - Go cliff diving
#34 - See the Colisseum - DONE! Completed Jun 22, 2018
#35 - Visit a concentration camp
#36 - Road trip in a convertible with the top down and music blaring
#37 - Go on a vacation cruise with my parents - DONE! Completed May 1, 2013 cruising in Alaska
#38 - Smoke a real Cuban cigar - DONE! Completed Sep 19, 2013
#39 - Float in the Dead Sea
#40 - Help dig for dinosaur bones
#41 - Go dog sledding - DONE! Completed May 1, 2013
#42 - Swim with a dolphin - DONE! Completed Feb 27, 2020 in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, and also on Nov 22, 2021 at Discovery Cove in Orlando, FL
#43 - Ride on a red double decker bus in the UK - -DONE! Completed August 14, 2024
#44 - Watch a movie at a drive-in theater - DONE! Completed Feb 10, 2009
#45 - Go to the top of the Eiffel Tower - DONE! Completed Jul 1, 2018
#46 - Have dinner with someone famous
#47 - Join a flash mob - DONE! Completed Jan 10, 2010 at the Phoenix No Pants Lightrail Ride
#48 - Eat a fugu - DONE! Completed May 21, 2016 in Miyajima, Japan
#49 - Ride a gondola - DONE! Completed Jun 21, 2018 in Venice
#50 - Hike the Grand Canyon - DONE! Completed Mar 15, 2004
#51 - Attend a performance at the Grand Ole Opry - DONE! Completed Sep 16, 2022 for my sister's birthday, and featuring Brad Paisley!
#52 - Press grapes into wine with my bare feet
#53 - Snorkel or Scuba through the Great Barrier Reef - DONE! Completed Sep 25, 2017 near Cairns, Australia
#54 - Walk the Great Wall of China - DONE! Completed Jul 6, 2009
#55 - See Ground Zero - DONE! Completed Jul 4, 2008
#56 - Stay at the Hamptons - DONE! Completed Jul 14, 2017
#57 - Spend a night in a haunted house (or hotel, or castle, etc) - DONE! Completed Jul 30, 2016 at the Cooper Queen in Bisbee, AZ
#58 - Ride in a helicopter - DONE! Completed May 1, 2013
#59 - Tour the Hershey Chocolate Factory in PA - DONE! Completed Jul 13, 2015
#60 - Make a hole-in-one
#61 - Ride a horse - DONE! Completed Feb 6, 2012
#62 - Go up in a hot-air balloon - DONE! Completed May 6, 2006 and May 26, 2014
#63 - Design my own house, and see it constructed
#64 - Ice skate outside while its snowing
#65 - See an iceberg - DONE! Completed May 1, 2013
#66 - Travel India by train
#67 - Be interviewed by a reputable journalist in person
#68 - Spot a wild javalina - DONE! Completed Dec 25, 2014 in Vail, AZ
#69 - Sing in a karaoke competition - DONE! Completed Jun 15, 2013
#70 - Kayak through the jungle
#71 - Drink a mint julep at the Kentucky Derby
#72 - Bring mom to Las Vegas - DONE! Completed Sep 6, 2009
#73 - Look for the Loch Ness Monster - DONE! Completed Aug 9 - 12, 2024
#74 - Go on the London Eye - DONE! Completed August 13, 2024
#75 - Luau in Hawaii - DONE! Completed Aug 1, 2010
#76 - See a lunar eclipse - DONE! Completed Apr 16, 2014
#77 - Hike the Inca Trail in Machu Picchu
#78 - Tap a maple tree for sap - DONE! Completed Apr 7, 2018 at The Rocks in Bethlehem, NH
#79 - Celebrate Mardi Gras in New Orleans - DONE! Completed Feb 25, 2009
#80 - Find a message in a bottle
#81 - Be an extra in a movie
#82 - Go to a red-carpet film premiere
#83 - Have something named after me
#84 - Tour Niagara Falls - DONE! Completed Jul 10, 2015
#85 - Float along the Nile
#86 - Golf through Nullarbor Links
#87 - Drink in Germany for Oktoberfest
#88 - Be a spectator at an Olympic event
#89 - Cruise through the Panama Canal - DONE! Completed Feb 19, 2020
#90 - Be awarded a patent
#91 - Visit Pearl Harbor - DONE! Completed Aug 2, 2010
#92 - See Petra, Jordan
#93 - Photograph an endangered species - DONE! Completed Dec 21, 2023 by photographing multiple Ne ne birds while hiking Haleakalā on the island of Maui with nephew David
#94 - Try pole vaulting
#95 - Participate in a police lineup
#96 - Walk the ruins of Pompeii - DONE! Completed Jun 1, 2018
#97 - Have my portrait painted
#98 - Send in a postsecret
#99 - Carve a pumpkin - DONE! Completed Oct 30, 2009
#100 - See the pyramids of Egypt
#101 - See the Louvre Pyramid - DONE! Completed Jul 1, 2018
#102 - See the pyramids of Chichen Itza
#103 - Drive a race car around a real track
#104 - Dance with someone in the rain - DONE! Completed May 1, 2013
#105 - Go to a rodeo - DONE! Completed Nov 6, 2010
#106 - Order over-priced room service in a 5 star hotel - DONE! Completed Oct 31, 2011 at Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas
#107 - Walk a runway
#108 - Learn to sail
#109 - Build a real sand castle - DONE! Completed Jul 6, 2005
#110 - Swim with giant sea turtles - DONE! Completed Jul 22, 2014
#111 - Give a person a second chance on life
#112 - Set foot on each of the seven continents
✓ North America (born here)
✓ South America - First visited while on Panama Canal cruise in 2020 - Columbia Feb 18, Costa Rica Feb 21, Guatemala Feb 23
✓ Europe - First visited in June 2018 - Italy, France and Spain
✓ Asia - Studied abroad in Hiroshima, Japan, summer of 2004
Africa
✓ Australia - First visited Sept 2017
Antarctica
#113 - Shake hands with someone who has truly changed a country.
#114 - Eat at a Shenanigans
#115 - Go water skiing
#116 - Ski or snowboard in Colorado
#117 - Ski in Dubai
#118 - Slide down the evacuation slide of an airplane - DONE! Completed Nov 3, 2010
#119 - Learn to use a slide rule
#120 - Drive a snowmobile
#121 - Be in the stands when two rival South American club teams play each other in soccer.
#122 - Go into orbit/outer space
#123 - Have dinner at the top of the Space Needle - DONE! Completed May 1, 2008
#124 - Watch the launch of a space shuttle - DONE! Completed (for a rocket, since the shuttle program was shut down) Mar 1, 2013
#125 - Visit the statue of Christ the Redeemer, Corcovado
#126 - Visit the Statue of Liberty - DONE! Completed Dec 31, 2009 among other times (I saw it as a child, but don't recall specific dates)
#127 - See Stonehenge - DONE! Completed August 14, 2024
#128 - Ride in a submarine - DONE! Completed Aug 1, 2010
#129 - Watch a Sumo wrestling match - DONE! Completed May 18, 2016
#130 - Attend the Super Bowl
#131 - Learn to surf and catch some waves - DONE! Completed Jul 16, 2013
#132 - Watch a show at the Sydney Opera House - DONE! Completed Sep 28, 2017
#133 - See the Taj Mahal
#134 - Drink at the Taste of Chicago - DONE! Completed Jul 8, 2015
#135 - Attend a tea party /picnic during the cherry blossoms - DONE! Completed Mar 26, 2019
#136 - Ride a camel in Timbuktu
#137 - See the ball drop on New Years Eve in Time Square - DONE! Completed Jan 1, 2010
#138 - Stay at an underwater hotel
#139 - Climb an active volcano - DONE! Completed Aug 3, 2010 on the Big Island of Hawaii
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| Mt Vesuvias Jun 24, 2018 |
#140 - Make out in a waterfall - DONE! Completed Sep 18, 2010
#141 - Go whale watching and see a whale - DONE! Completed May 1, 2008
#142 - Go white water rafting
#143 - Go wine tasting in California - DONE! Completed Sep 1, 2010
#144 - Go wine tasting in Europe - DONE! Completed Jun 26, 2018
#145 - Eat at a Wingers - DONE! Completed Apr 1, 2022 in St. George, UT
#146 - Write that "one song"
#147 - Time Old Faithful at Yellowstone National Park
#148 - Do the Dirty Dancing lift
#149 - Help set a world record
#150 - Open a million dollar hot dog stand
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