At work last week, we were discussing our life lists — the things we most want to do and see in our lifetimes. I compiled my Life List in March of 2004, and had it posted to my old online journal. I thought I’d share it here too.
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These are the 50 things I most want to do, see, experience, or achieve during my lifetime. As of today, I have completed 13 of them.
VISIT
- North and South Poles
- Great Wall of China
- Panama Canal
- The Galapagos Islands
- The Taj Mahal
- * Machu Picchu (with my wife-to-be Shannon in 2000)
- Little Diomede
- All 7 continents (3 of 7 so far, excluding the 4 A’s)
- All 50 states (all but Montana, Idaho, North Dakota, Maine, and Hawaii so far)
- * The Grand Canyon (1977)
- Victoria Falls
- * An active volcano (2001, got to watch the Arenal Volcano erupt as we drank cold Imperial beer from across Lake Arenal.)
- Havana, Cuba
- Crater Lake, Oregon
- Red Square, Moscow
SWIM IN
- Lake Victoria
- * Lake Superior (1988)
- Lake Titicaca
- Lake Nicaragua (we made it to within 5 miles of the lake before we were told that we couldn’t continue on with our Costa Rican rental car)
- The Caspian Sea
- * Pacific Ocean (1979)
- * Atlantic Ocean (1995)
EXPLORE UNDERWATER
- Coral reefs of Florida
- Great Barrier Reef, Australia
- Fiji Islands
- * The Bahamas (1999)
ACCOMPLISH
- Land on and take of from an aircraft carrier
- Parachute/sky dive
- Teach a college course
- Write a book
- * Ship aboard a freighter as a Merchant Marine (1995)
- * Serve in the US Army (as a 91B, Combat Medic from 1990-1993)
- * Graduate from college (BS in Professional Writing in 1998)
- Canoe the Mississippi River from source to mouth
- Ride my bike across Texas (El Paso to Orange)
- * Complete the 262-mile Texas Water Safari canoe race in under 100 hours (78:15 with my brother Marty in a Standard Class We No Nah Jensen 18′ canoe in 2003)
- Complete the Texas Water Safari solo.
- Own a 1963 Corvette
- * Take a cross-country train trip (1990, Minneapolis to New Orleans to Houston)
- Photograph a grizzly bear in the wild
- Sea kayak Prince Williams Sound, Alaska
- * Shake hands with a US President (current or former) — President Bill Clinton (Feb 27, 2008 at a speech on the UT campus)
- Hand-build a wood strip canoe
EVENTS
- * See Willie Nelson perform live (2004, at The Backyard in Austin)
- Go to the Kentucky Derby
- Go to the Indy 500
- Go to the Daytona 500
- Go to a World Series game
- Go to the Super Bowl
- Watch the Running of the Bulls (I used to want to run with the bulls, but as I’ve gotten older, I’ve grown content to just watch)
* Completed items in red
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Left by Arenal Volcano on December 6th, 2005 at 8:43 am