bucket list

  1. climb the Tian Shan mountains
  2. fire a cannon
  3. live in a foreign country
  4. write a 21-book sci-fi novel series
  5. ...and maybe turn it into a comic book
  6. get published in a magazine
  7. acquire a commercial pilot's license
  8. ...and a seaplane rating
  9. ride a camel
  10. get my concealed weapons permit
  11. score a perfect 25 on the trap range
  12. fly upside-down
  13. visit Alaska, Australia, Mongolia, Chile, Liechtenstein, Uzbekistan, Bhutan, Israel...you get the idea
  14. ride the train across Russia and South America
  15. plant a flag at the South Pole
  16. start a weekly pinochle tournament out of my home
  17. put a penny on the railroad tracks
  18. work in a bar in some exotic corner of the world
  19. sail on a tall ship
  20. try some form of martial arts or hand-to-hand
  21. see Dr. Zhivago
  22. break a bone
  23. obtain a decent working knowledge of physics (or something else I know nothing about)
  24. run with the bulls in Spain while reciting the Gettysburg address
  25. get paid to fly (in Alaska or Arizona or the Philippines)
  26. ride in a submarine
  27. get in shape (at least once)
  28. safari in East Africa
  29. learn at least two foreign languages (I know Spanish pretty well, and have a decent grasp of basic Korean)
  30. eat a scorpion
  31. sample the booze of every country I visit
  32. take up the piano, the violin, and the concertina again
  33. learn how to dance
  34. stargaze on every continent
  35. read War and Peace by Tolstoy, Ulysses by Joyce, and Moby-Dick by Melville
  36. try the rotted shark in Iceland
  37. observe both the aurora borealis and the aurora australis
  38. go on a space flight (might have to wait on this one)
  39. visit Disneyland (finally!)
  40. drink the world's best glass of beer
  41. get a short story published (and get paid for it)