The Bucket List

I’ve always loved the idea of a bucket list, so here it goes. Please note this is the result of many years of dreaming. I will count myself lucky if I have the opportunity to experience even a few items on this list. I am truly brainstorming here. What is on your bucket list?

Found at Giggle Palooza

Things to Do

Buy an older home and fill it with antiques from a driving excursion to Tomball, Texas
Adopt
Start a writing group in Bay City
Raise a Golden Retriever and a Siberian Husky
Sea kayak
Education
- Study Portuguese
- Study Italian
- Earn graduate degree
- Earn PhD
- Become CPIM
- Study project management
Learn to quilt well
Learn to paint well
Start a Friends of the Library group for the Omer Library
Go whitewater rafting again, preferably abroad
Become a published author
Help my Mom publish her series of children’s books
Become a noted blogger
Start my own business
Archive as much family history as possible for the next generation
Watch Brian participate in the Richard Petty driving experience
Meet Paul McCartney
Meet and have an in-depth conversation with Sarah Palin, maybe even interview her
Meet Madonna
Research and write a true crime novel
Stay at the Stanley Hotel in the Rockies
Meet and interview Stephen King
Meet Steven Spielberg

Places to Visit

Abroad
- Argentina
- Chile
- Return to Ecuador, especially the Galapagos Islands and Quito
- Return to Mexico, preferably to sites associated with Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera
- The Bahamas
- Return to Ireland, Dublin in particular
- Return to Scotland
- Return to England, return to London and make an extended trip to Liverpool
- Italy, Rome and Tuscany in particular
- Return to Spain, finally visit Ibiza and Badajoz, return to Sevilla
- Poland
- Ukraine
- Cuba
- Brazil
- Costa Rica
- Belize
- Ontario, Canada, finally visit my parents’ cabin
US
- Alaska
- South Dakota, visit Mount Rushmore and Little House sites (DeSmet)
- Return to Colorado, especially Estes Park and Denver
- Arizona
- Nevada (I’d love to see Vegas just once!)
- Seattle, Washington
- Return to Washington, DC, including Mount Vernon, Gettysburg, and Eisenhower’s farm, spend days at the Smithsonian
- Return to Texas, San Antonio and Austin in particular, maybe see Spindle Top
- Missouri, visit the site of the Wilder’s Rocky Ridge Farm
- New Mexico, Santa Fe in particular
- Massachusetts, Lexington-Concord in particular, as well as the Buttrick home
- New York, New York
- Tennessee, Nashville in particular, seek out sites associated with Johnny Cash with Brian
- Minnesota, Deluth and return to Rochester