Checking Things Off the Bucket List

There comes a time in every person’s life when they feel it is time to create a bucket list. That’s not to say that I think I am dying, because I am not. It just means that there’s a lot I aspire to do and in order to make sure I am continuously checking things off my list, I’d better get started. After all, who wants to be 65, find out they have terminal cancer and 50 things left on their bucket list.

      Many of the items on my list deal with travel, but I tried to spread things around and think of some great adventures, crafts, and experiences I can have at home, without spending a whole lot of money. I also reserve the right to add to this list as time goes on and I think of another exciting activity to add. My list is in no particular order. So, lets see how this list goes. It is my goal to tick off at least one item per year. In order to make sure I do that, selecting a line off my bucket list will become my New Years resolution. It will be come my goal to accomplish the feat before the end of the year. I’ve got some time to decide which item will be my 2013 bucket check off. I will report back.

Travel to Denmark

Ride in a hot air balloon

Take a cruise to Alaska

Black tie New Years Eve celebration

Take a dive from the stratosphere in Las Vegas

Get my hair braided in the Caribbean

Go on a relief mission for vacation

Take in breakfast at Tiffany’s

See the red wood trees

See Niagara Falls

Throw a New Years Day brunch

Visit all 50 states

Go on a bike tour through wine country

Go windsurfing

Learn to salsa dance

Climb to the top of a lighthouse

Send a message in a bottle

Write my memoirs

365-day photo project

Throw a dart at a map and go there

Drive route 66

Take a cooking class

Visit Stonehenge

Hike up volcano

Knit a hat

Make a gingerbread house

Learn to make dad’s peanut brittle

Go to a professional sports championship game/match

Visit a jazz club in New Orleans

Ride trolley in San Francisco

Cook a soufflé

Go gambling in Atlantic City

Invent a holiday and celebrate it

Grow my own vegetables

Ski New England

Go on a couples camping trip

Learn to dance the two-step and show it off

Take a sculpting class