I stole this idea from my dear friend Megan Reichart, who just so happens to be one of my top notch travel companions. She has her Bucket List on her blog, too. She is also the first person I convinced to make a bucket list.
Tally - 19/101
- Skydive
Drive a car at 100mph (7/2012) in my dad's convertible on I-81 in Virginia.- Waterski
- Backpack in Europe
- SCUBA dive in the Great Barrier Reef
Swim with dolphins (7/2012) with Rachel during our Shem Creek/Crab Bank Island kayak trip during our Charleston, SC, mini-vacation. Because of a recent realization about the treatment of dolphins in captivity, it is against my nature-hippy beliefs to swim with dolphins in the traditional capacity. - Volunteer abroad
- African safari
Try moonshine (12/2011) on the night of my 23rd birthday at my boss's apartment- Learn how to French braid my own hair
Climb Old Rag (2/2011) in February 2011 without any traction devices, was with Brad and my dad- Thru-hike the AT
- See turtles hatch (e.g. The Last Song)
- Harry Potter Project (re-read books, re-watch movies, visit the HP theme park in Orlando)
- Run a half-marathon
- Learn conversational Spanish
- Learn to play the guitar
- Beat a video game
- Take an exotic dance class
- Drive a speedboat
- Go jet skiing
- Swim with sharks
Be in two places at once (10/2012) Stood with one foot in West Virginia and one foot in Virginia after hiking Tibbet Knob in the George Washington National Forest- Go bungee jumping
- Learn how to snowboard
- Meet a Philadelphia Eagle
- Make a kite and fly it in Big Meadows
- Achieve my ideal weight of 147lbs
Shower in a waterfall (6/2011) Whiteoak Canyon Upperfalls with Brad, naked, but we went out separately. Also, we didn't use soap because that's not environmentally-friendly- Item 30
- Write a novel—50,000 words or more
- Visit all fifty states (Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia)
Go on a helicopter ride (8/2011) Brad and I did this at the Rockingham County Fair before we went to the Demolition Derby- Ride in a hot air balloon
Learn how to shoot a handgun (3/2011) Brad taught me at the indoor range here in Harrisonburg- Hike the Pacific Crest Trail
Dance on a bar (7/2010) at Jack Brown's in Harrisonburg, VA on my friend's 21st birthday- Gamble in Vegas
- Climb up the Statue of Liberty
Visit Ground Zero (3/2012) Went with Megan Reichart and her friend, Elizabeth- Ride the Tower of Terror
Go to a Broadway show (3/2012) Went with Megan Reichart, and her friends, Elizabeth, Rachel, and Seth. We saw Death of a Salesman starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Andrew Garfield- Visit Auschwitz
- Get certified to teach yoga
- Witness a solar eclipse
- Learn to make pottery
- Visit 10 different countries at least 7 on different continents
- Grow a vegetable garden
- Make a list of 100 books and read them
- Eat gumbo or jambalaya in Louisiana
- Gamble in a riverboat casino on the Mississippi
- Experience weightlessness
- Write a children’s book, get it published, and read it at my old elementary schools
- Build a Habitat for Humanity house
- Give up meat for a year
- Visit a castle
- Stand on the glass ledge at the Grand Canyon
- Participate in the Susan G. Komen 3 Days for a Cure
- Go whale watching
See the Rockefeller Christmas tree lit (12/2012) with John Lohmann, Jessie Kreuger, and John's cousin after Santacon NYC 2012. I remember it better because I went again the next day with Megan.Eat sushi (3/2011) Ate it at Market One on campus at JMU- Climb an active volcano
- Run a mile in 8 minutes or less
- Get married...maybe
- Buy a house
- Surf in the Pacific
- Solve a Rubik’s Cube
- Get a tattoo
- Visit a Wonder of the World
Bake a not shitty two-layer cake from scratch (3/2011) Two layer strawberry cake with strawberry cream cheese icing for my dad's b-day- Learn how to drive stick
- Sleep in a haunted house
- Ride a horse bareback
Finish reading Atlas Shrugged (8/2010) Finished in the parking lot of a Dick's Sporting Goods in Myrtle Beach, SC
- Drink a beer with an Irishman in an Irish bar in Ireland
Sleep under the stars (10/2012) I fell asleep at like 7PM before the sunset, but I woke up to see the sky blanketed with stars. Brad and I were in our tent (sans rain fly so we could see the stars) in the backcountry of Shenandoah National Park.Skinny dip (7/2010) in the Delaware Water Gap after late at night after a few too many adult beverages- Watch a sunrise in just a blanket in a majestic place
- Item 79
- Hold a snake
- Go on the Gettysburg National Cemetery self-guided walking tour
- Write “Who is John Galt” at the Rivercity Café in Myrtle
- Watch every episode of M*A*S*H
- Visit all of my old houses including Arkansas Children's Hospital
- Sing karaoke for at least 30 people
- Finish all the hikes in the Shenandoah National Park guidebook
- Write a poem and recite it at a poetry reading
- Take Rex on a walk every day for a year straight
Unplug for 48 hours (10/2012) 3-day backpacking trip in the North District of Shenandoah National Park. - Go on an Alaskan cruise
- Go to an airport and buy a ticket for the next flight out
- Watch a meteor shower
- See a bobcat and a coyote in the wild
- Take a canopy tour on a zipline
- Name a star after my favorite literary character
- Plant an apple tree in the yard of the house that I someday have with Brad and eat an apple from it
- Name one of my children after the place he/she was conceived
Overnight train ride (12/2011) From Washington, DC to Los Angeles, CA on The Capitol and The Southwest Chief- Ride on all of the cross-country Amtrak routes (Southwest Chief)
- Go whitewater rafting
- Go hang-gliding
