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New Bucket List
In my Unsettled Life, my bucket list is always evolving, changing, expanding and contracting. So I’ve broken it up it a few lists for those that have short attention spans, or for those with more time on their hands – the complete list is below.
Items Completed
Current Projects
2011 Goals
- Start a business
- Meet my soul mate
- Climb a mountain
- Marry the man of my dreams
- Zipline through the jungle
- Ski the Rockies
- Get engaged on top of the world
- Stand at the base of a volcano
- Christmas in New York City
- Save an animal’s life
- Run a half-marathon
- Write a novel
- Visit all 50 states (33/50)
- Finally hit my goal weight (135)
- Swim in Every Ocean (3/10)
- Visit all U.S. National Parks (13/58)
- Swim with the dolphins
- Hike the Inca Trail to Machu Pichu
- Watch the sunrise & sunset from different coasts in the same day
- Have a 6 pack, just for one summer
- Meet Bruce Springsteen
- Bike across the country
- Run a marathon
- Hike a 14′er (14,000 ft mountain in Colorado)
- Publish an article in a national travel magazine
- Wine Taste through France
- Visit my distant family in Sicily
- Ski the Alps
- See Hagie Sophia, Turkey
- Visit the Galapagos Islands
- Become an expert in something
- Attend the Olympics
- Visit the Coliseum in Rome
- Turn a small business into a Fortune 500 company
- Visit the Kremlin
- Visit the Pyramids of Egypt
- Capture lightning in a photo
- Pilot a plan
- Cruise through the Mediterranean
- Learn how to sail
- Tour Great Britain
- Make the New York Times Best Seller List
- Appear on national television
- Eat through Italy
- Attend Oktoberfest
- See the Monterey Peninsula
- Meet a celebrity
- Climb Kilimanjaro
- See the Parthenon
- Sail around the world
- Walk the Great Wall of China
- Rent a private villa in Fiji
- Heli-ski in Alaska
- White water raft through the Grand Canyon
- Buy a house
- Visit the Liberty Bell & Constitution Center and appreciate it
- Pose like Rocky in front of the Art Museum
- Visit all the wine regions of the world
- Do 3 laps on the Highlands Bowl in one day
- Be Fluent in Spanish, Italian and French
- Walk a runway
- Cook a meal for the best chefs in the country and impress them
- Make my own wine
- Get a standing ovation for my karaoke performance
- Raise a family
- Make a difference in the world
- Go white water rafting
- See the Taj Mahal
- Say a prayer at the Vatican
- Brew beer
- Sight see in Aspen (Greece)
- Live between the beach & the mountains
- Watch a meteor shower
- Visit every continent
- Visit Notre Dame
- Eat at a James Beard award winning restaurant
- Stay at a 5 diamond resort
- Throw a theme party
- Learn how to shuck oysters
- See the Statues of Easter Island, Chile
- Stand at the North Pole
- Experience a triple crown
- See “The Boss” in Asbury Park, New Jersey
- Renovate an old home (and keep the character!)
- See Gaudi’s La Sagrada Familia, Spain
- Learn how to make sushi
- Do a handstand and hold it
- Take an African Safari
- Go on a real shopping spree
- Visit 100 countries
- Hunt for truffles
- Crush grapes
- Hit it big in Vegas
- Deliver an impactful speech
- Cross the intersection at Abbey Road
- Stand on the equator
- Read all of Shakespeare’s work
- Become a travel writer
- Experience zero gravity
- Stand behind a waterfall
- Buy a house
- Ride an elephant
- Buy a second home in Aspen
- Invent something
- Learn how to play the piano
- Run the circumference of the world in one year
- Visit Tibet
- Teach my kids to life live for the moment
- Make 6 figures a year
- Remodel a house and keep its character
- Vacation in a castle
- Go indoor skydiving
- Own an award winning…something
- Make a Forbes list
- Ride a camel
- Hire a maid
- Write my own cookbook
- Fly on a trapeze
- Be an extra in a movie
- Learn how to play “Backstreets” (Springsteen) on the piano
- Ski the Alps
- Stand on the international date line
- Heli-hike
- Take a coast to coast road trip
- Make a discovery
- Storm chase a tornado
- Set a record in the Guinness Book of World Records
- See a space shuttle launch
- Take an award winning photo
- See a volcano erupt
- See Aurora Borealis
- Create my own word
- Create a signature drink
- See both the solar and lunar eclipses
- Drink the world’s greatest wines
- Go dog sledding
- Drive Pacific Coast Highway complete from north to south
- Get paid to travel
- Learn how to cook
- Sell a piece of art
- Learn how to (really) take a photo
- Finally learn how to do my hair perfectly in 5 minutes
- Live in paradise
- Send a message in a bottle
- Host a seminar
- Become an expert skiier
- Try a detox diet
- Master makeup
- Help my family accomplish their goals
- Be in awe
- Take a perfect picture
- Attend OSU v. Michigan in the Horseshoe
- Write a letter to myself
- Purchase my own stationery
- Get my 15 minutes of fame
- Make something I can wear
- Write a screenplay
- Become debt free
- Discover my family history
- Repel down a waterfall
- Whitewater raft
- Spend Christmas in the tropics
- Be on the cover of a magazine
- Have a White Christmas
- Create a passive income
- Hug a Redwood
- Be organized
- Visit all the island chains of the Bahamas
- Skinny dip
- Carve our names into a tree
- Visit the Grenadines
- Sail the BVI’s
- Eat at the world’s greatest restaurants
- Make my own fresh pasta
- Party like a rock star
- Visit the Great Barrier Reef
- See the Panama Canal
- Create my own signature dish
- Make my own ice cream
- Attend a Broadway play
- Write a fan letter to Bruce Springsteen
- Get an outdoor couples massage
- Jump off a cliff into (deep) water
- Ski the world’s greatest resorts
- Visit Niagara Falls
- Horseback ride
- Take a hot air balloon ride
- Ride in a helicopter
- Hike the Appalachian Trail
- See Victoria Falls
- See Iguassau Falls
- Float down the Amazon
- Live a long, healthy life with my husband and watch my family grow
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