Let's be honest: some bucket lists are lame. The chances of you going to the moon or meeting Katy Perry are about as real as waking up to learn Santa Claus is real. I set out to make a list of 40 things that I could realistically complete in a year. Here's the list. As each list is completed, the subsequent blog post will be linked to its number here.
1. Create a bucket list
2. Finish my book
3. Find true love
4. Go whitewater rafting
5. Pare down material possessions
6. Take a backcountry kayak trip around Isle Royale
7. Write letters to two influential people who have positively impacted my life thanking them (letter one is here)
8. Write letters to two people I have wronged in life/make amends.
9. Learn how to fly fish
10. Swim naked in a body of water
11. Visit the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
12. Stop drinking Diet Coke (for at least one week)
13. Grieve unabashedly
14. Turn 40 gracefully
15. Wait tables (again) after a 15 year hiatus
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Things I HAVE done in 39 years ...
1. Worked as a camel handler
2. Worked as a zookeeper
3. Donned a mohawk
4. Gotten a tattoo. And another. And another. And another...
5. Had my nose pierced
6. Heard wolves in the wild howling
7. Seen a mountain lion chasing antelope in the wild
8. Touched the paw of a jaguar
9. Eaten bear, elk and antelope (but never a pork chop or a BBQ rib!)
10. Seen a black bear in the wild
11. Lived in a cabin without running water
12. Ran a 90 mile sled dog race. Three times.
13. Kayaked the Pacific with California Sea Lion and dolphins
14. Swam in the Gulf of Mexico
15. Held a tree frog
16. Played drums in an all girl band
17. Had beer in a hash bar in Haight-Ashbury
18. Seen the Grand Canyon, Grand Tetons, the Badlands (of South Dakota and Wyoming)
19. Backpacked in Glacier National Park, Montana
20. Backpacked in Estes National Park, Colorado
21. Backpacked in the Black Hills, South Dakota
22. Shopped Wall Drug
23. Ridden a camel
24. Worked with horses worth more than most people's vehicles
25. Dissected a person (in cadaver lab)
26. Had a broken heart
27. Had a pet cow
28. Watched the sunrise over Crater Lake, Oregon
29. Watched the sunset over the Atlantic Ocean
30. Finished a master's degree
31. Saw a moose and calf in the wild...and lived to tell about it
32. Been to a Grateful Dead concert
