Bucket List

The Things I WILL Do Before I Die

1. Set Foot on North America (X), South America (X), Asia (X), Europe (X), Australia (X), Antartica and Africa (X)

2. Ride in a Hot Air Balloon – X (July 8th, 2007, Edmond, OK)

3. Personally Know Someone Famous – X (Carrie Underwood)

4. Dance with Miss America – X (Miss NSU 2005, Jennifer Berry)

5. Swim with a Dolphin – X (March 18th, 2008, Cabo San Lucas)

6. Learn a Foreign Language and Actually Use It

7. Have my Portrait Painted – X (December 23, 2010)

8. Watch a Space Shuttle Launch

9. Be an Extra in a Film

10. Skydive – X (March 14, 2014, Haskell, OK)

11. Scuba Dive

12. Ride a Train – X (June 9th, 2007, Oklahoma City to Ft. Worth)

13. Be a Member of a Studio Audience

14. Send a Message in a Bottle and get a Response

15. Go to Space

16. Plant a Tree and Watch it Grow – X (April 22, 2010)

17. Learn to Ballroom Dance…Properly

18. Sit on a Jury

19. Write an Autobiography

20. Be Someone’s Mentor

21. Shower in a Waterfall – X (November 12, 2012, Yellowstone National Park)

22. Learn to Legitimately Play a Song on any Musical Instrument

23. Teach someone illiterate to read

24. Spend the night in a haunted place – X (February 24, 2012, The Crescent Hotel, Eureka Springs, AR)

25. See a Lunar Eclipse – X (March 3, 2007)

26. Spend New Year’s Eve in Times Square

27. Drive Across America Coast-to-Coast

28. Go Snow Skiing – X (Spring Break 2007, Breckenridge, CO)

29. Crash an extravagant wedding

30. Write my will – X (June 10, 2014)

31. Sleep under the stars – X

32. Go white-water rafting – X (July 24, 2010, Canon City, CO)

33. Own my own house – X (April 13th, 2009)

34. Grow a garden and eat the produce

35. Have six-pack abs

36. Go Deep Sea Fishing

37. Spend time at a concentration camp

38. Create a Family Tree

39. Spoil my grandchildren

40. Catch a foul ball or home-run at a MLB game

41. Hit a hole-in-one

42. Run a marathon – X (April 26, 2009)

43. Swim with sharks

44. Experience weightlessness – no gravity

45. Go to a sumo wrestling match

46. See a tornado touch ground – X (When I was a kid)

47. Go to an active volcano

48. Go to a nudist colony

49. Travel on a safari – X (Oct. 18, 2017, Livingstone, Zimbabwe)

50. Ride a bull

51. Run with the bulls in Pamplona

52. Attend a Jewish wedding

53. Go to a Pow-Wow 

54. Ride a cable car in San Francisco – X  (July 19, 2017, San Francisco, CA)

55. Watch the Yankees-Red Sox in Fenway Park and Yankee Stadium

56. Try to make a guard laugh at Buckingham Palace – X (December 29, 2012, London, UK)

57. Walk a length of the Great Wall of China – X (October 23, 2010, Badaling, China)

58. Go to a drive-in movie theater – X (Aladdin, 1992)

59. See Mt. Rushmore – X (August 4, 2012, Keystone, SD)

60. Drive an 18-wheeler

61. Eat a meal from a world class chef

62. Crash a Hollywood Studio

63. Meet someone famous randomly

64. Spend a day in a spa – X (March 17th, 2008, Cabo San Lucas)

65. Walk the red carpet at a huge event

66. Stay at a 5-star hotel

67. See Stonehenge – X (December 30, 2012, UK)

68. Stand next to a pyramid

69. Ride a Gondola in Venice

70. Take a yoga class – X (June 28th, 2011, Tulsa)

71. Take a photography class – X (Summer Semester 2005, NSU)

72. Shake hands with a President

73. Learn how to sail

74. See the Northern Lights

75. Kiss on top the Eiffel Tower – X (January 1, 2013 – Paris, France)

76. Learn to Juggle – X (July 9th, 2008)

77. Get a tattoo – X (March 9th, 2008, Dallas, TX)

78. Crowd Surf at a rock concert

79. Bungee Jump

80. Save someone’s life

81. Get a book published – X (April 1, 2018 – Live Your List)

82. Get a standing ovation

83. Kill a wild game animal – X (December 24th, 2009, Oktaha, OK)

84. Make a clay pot

85. Relax in Tahiti for at least two weeks

86. Live abroad

87. Eat frog legs and gumbo and shrimp in the Deep South – X (November 27, 2007, New Orleans)

88. Snowboard

89. Be on a game show – X (Sept. 18, 2012 – Let\’s Ask America)

90. Go treasure hunting

91. Be involved in a heist

92. Own a pet monkey

93. Land a flip on a wakeboard

94. Surf the waves in Hawaii

95. Enter a professional Ping-Pong tournament

96. Give my daughter away at her wedding to a man who deserves her

97. Watch the sunset on a beach on my honeymoon – X (March 19th, 2008, Cabo San Lucas)

98. Coach my son’s little league baseball team

99. Run my own successful business, make a million dollars – X (Nov. 21, 2017 – Paradigm Shift)

100. Watch OU-Texas at the Red River Rivalry – X (October 11, 2008)

101. Walk across hot coals

102. Go to all 50 U.S. States – X (Oct. 14, 2016, Hawaii)

103. Be on a Reality TV show.

104. Be completely out of debt.

105. Go on a cruise. X (July 11-14, 2013 – Bahamas)

106. Drive through a Redwood Tree.

107. Ride the Skycoaster at the Royal Gorge. X (June 24th, 2010 – Canon City, CO)

108. Go to the Summer Olympic Games

109. Have acupuncture

110. Visit the Hoover Dam – X (June 15, 2013 – Boulder City, NV)

111. Climb Chichen Itza – X (Nov. 8, 2017, Yucatan, Mexico)

112. Stand beside the Christ the Redeemer statue – X (June 21, 2012 – Rio De Janeiro, Brazil)

113. Walk around the Colosseum in Rome – X (January 2, 2013 – Rome, Italy)

114. Hang out with a Llama at Machu Picchu – X (November 25, 2016, Machu Picchu, Peru)

115. Explore Petra

116. Take a picture in front of the Taj Mahal – X (May 8, 2018 – Agra, India)

117. Go to Dusseldorf, Germany and tour Eller Castle

118. Travel to the center of all religion, Jerusalem

119. Ride a Segway

120. Attend a World Cup Match

121. Go Ice Fishing

122. Take the Polar Plunge in a cold weather country – X (July 27, 2015, Iceland)

123. Give a commencement speech

124. Sleep on a Trampoline – X (June 5, 2012 – Fayetteville, AR)

125. Swim in every ocean

126. Fly an airplane – X (May 9, 2013 – Tulsa, OK)

127. Go to a NASCAR race

128. Have a street named after me

129. Visit the White House – X (August 24, 2013 – Washington, DC)

130. Set a World Record

131. Get something patented

132. Catch a trout while fly fishing

133. Eat at a Brazilian Steakhouse in Brazil – X (June 21, 2012 – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

134. Visit an orphanage in a foreign country – X (June 22, 2012 – Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil)

135. Ride a Double Decker Bus in London – X (December 29, 2012 – London, UK)

136. Set atop the London Eye – X (December 29, 2012 – London, UK)

137. Give a TED Talk – X (Sept. 23, 2014 – Tulsa, OK)

138. Stand upon a glacier -X (Oct. 9, 2014 – Glacier View, Alaska)

139. Go to the North Pole.

140. Go to the South Pole

141. Jump off a waterfall.

142. Go paragliding in a foreign country.

143. Take the walk of faith at Tienanmen Mountain in China.

144. Travel to an international city after throwing a dart at a map.

145. Climb to the base of Mount Everest

146. Take a round-the-world cruise

147. Swim in the Devil’s Pool at Victoria Falls – X (Oct. 18, 2017, Livingstone, Zambia)

148. Drive a professional race car.

149. Visit every country in the world.

150. Visit every county in Oklahoma

151. Camp in every US National Park

152. Camp in every OK State Park

153. Attend the Super Bowl

154. Go to Final Four Game

155. Watch the OKC Thunder in the NBA Finals

156. Travel in an RV with Kristin for a summer

157. Take my family on a car family vacation

158. Step Foot in Every Country in North America

159. Step Foot in Every Country in South America

160. Step Foot in Every Country in the Americas

161. Step Foot in Every Country in Europe

162. Step Foot in Every Country in Africa

163. Step Foot in Every Country in Asia

164. Step Foot in Every Country in Oceana

165. Travel through every US county

166. Be married for the rest of my life

167. Graduate with a doctorate degree

168. Write a book with My Mom

169. Attend a professional seminar with Melissa

170. Take a trip with Leslie

171. Take my family to Disney World –  X (April 22, 2017, Orlando, FL)

172. Complete a Half-Ironman Competition – X (Sept. 24, 2012, Branson, MO)

173. Complete a Full Ironman Competition

174. Hike for a week on the Appalachian Trail

175. Drive a boat

176. Go on a whale-watching tour

177. Have a Scholarship Foundation in my Name

178. Spend the night in a jail cell

179. Pay for someone’s college education (other than my children)

180. Spend time in a sensory deprivation tank

181. Walk with lions in their natural habitat – X (Oct. 16, 2017, Livingstone, Zambia)

182. Ride a camel in the middle east – X (Oct. 12, 2017, Dubai, UAE)

183. Experience a Total Solar Eclipse – X ( Aug. 21, 2017, Sedalia, MO)

184. Eat a traditional meal in the Middle East – X (Oct. 12, 2017, Dubai, UAE)

185. Soak in the mist of Niagara Falls – X (Oct. 15, 2016, Niagara Falls, Canada)

186. Watch someone become a US citizen – X (July 23, 2017 – Muskogee, OK)

187. Ride an Elephant – X (Oct. 16, 2017, Livingstone, Zambia)

188. Walk across the Capilano Suspension Bridge – X ( Dec. 20, 2013, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)

189. Stand Next to Seljalandsfoss in Iceland – X (July 28, 2015, Seljalandsfoss, Iceland)

190. Work with a school in Africa – X (Oct. 17, 2017, Lusaka, Zambia)

191. Ski in the Mall in Dubai – X (Oct. 18, 2013, Dubai, UAE)

192. Practice Kung Fu in the Shaolin Temple – X (Oct. 28, 2010, Shaolin, China)

193. Hang out on top of the St. Louis Arch

194. Walk out on the Skybox at the Sears Tower – X (Aug. 18, 2007, Chicago, IL)   

195. Hang out with Koalas in Australia – X (Oct. 21, 2014, Melbourne, Australia

196. Try every flavor of Snow Cone at the local snow cone stand – X (Aug. 31, 2017, Broken Arrow, OK)

197. Graduate with a Master’s Degree – X (May 6, 2008, Tahlequah, OK)

198. Defend the Alamo – X (Oct. 15, 2006, San Antonio, TX)

199. Freeze in a Cryotherapy Tube – X (Oct. 10, 2017, Tulsa, OK)

200. Air Boat across an Alligator Infested Swamp

201. Arrive By Seaplane to a remote location

202. Attempt to ice climb over a glacier

203. Bamboo raft down a mystical river

204. Be a seat filler at the Oscars

205. Bet on a horse at the horse races

206. Bury a time capsule and open it years later

207. Explore a cave while spelunking

208. Go to a ceremony of a religion that is not your own

209. Karate chop and break a board

210. Plant a flag on top of a mountain

211. Rise above the water while Flyboarding in a Water Jet Pack

212. Stand up paddle board

213. Team up with someone and ride a tandem bicycle

214. Walk on stilts – X (June 12, 2018, Cheyenne, WY) 

215. Figure out how many licks it actually takes to get to the tootsie roll center of a Tootsie Pop

216. Perform stand up comedy at a comedy club

217. Solve a Rubik’s cube without cheating

218. Celebrate my 50th Wedding Anniversary with the love of my life

219. Attend the NBA All-Star Game

220. Summit Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania

221. Guess the age of a Baobab Tree in Madagascar

222. Watch the Migration of the Animals at Serengeti in Tanzania

223. Attempt to ride a train in India

224. Admire the Shwedagon Pagoda in Rangoon, Burma

225. Behold Bagan in Myanmar

226. Brave the climb to the Tiger’s Nest, Taktsang Palphug

227. Cruise in Ha Long Bay, Vietnam

228. Experience Istanbul’s Call to Prayer

229. Face the Lion’s Rock at the ancient royal compound of Sigiriya in Sri Lanka

230. Feel the awe of history in the Buddhist cave temples of Dambulla

231. Find myseflf lost in a crowd in Tokyo

232. Float in the Dead Sea

233. Go vertical caving in Yogyakarta, Indonesia

234. Hike the Caucasus in Georgia

235. Hold on for dear life at the Walk of Faith in Tianmen Mountain

236. Hunt with eagles in Mongolia

237. Participate in the color festival (Holi) in India

238. Ride the elevator to top of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai – X (Oct. 18, 2017, Dubai, UAE)   

239. Chase waterfalls in Bosnia-Herzegovina

240. Climb Leukerbad Via Ferrata in Switzerland

241. Climb Skellig Islands off of the coast of Ireland

242. Cross the Straits of Gibraltar on a ferry – X (Dec 28, 2017, Gibraltar) 

243. Drive as fast as I can on the Autobahn in Germany

244. Touch the white walls of Santorini

245. Walk through the Plitvice Lakes in Croatia

246. Bike down Haleakala in Hawaii

247. Board down an active volcano in Nicaragua

248. Commit to doing the Half-Dome ascent in Yosemite National Park

249. Catch mist at Angel Falls in Venezuela

250. Reflect at Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia

251. Swing at the end of the world in Ecuador

252. Unexpectedly discover Kaieteur Falls, Guyana

253. Jump off of a cliff into a Cenote – X (Nov. 8, 2017, Cenote Ik kil, Yucatan, Mexico)

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