When I Retire

I've still got nearly a decade before planned retirement, but I'm getting ready now. Just to make sure I won't be getting bored (or underfoot around the house) here's a start on my list of things to do:

- Attain and maintain my ideal body weight (170 lbs?)
- Learn ballroom dancing and dance often with my wife
- Earn my Extra Class Amateur Radio ticket
- Sail the US coasts
- Practice intensive urban gardening
- Learn to swim well
- Learn to play guitar, banjo, keyboard, mandolin, tin whistle, harmonica, and other instruments
- Learn Morse code
- Learn Spanish, Irish , Comanche, and other languages
- Visit every state in the USA
- Visit every country in the world
- Learn enough about astronomy to actually find and recognize celestial bodies through a telescope
- Build a battery powered/solar charged lawn mower
- Climb a mountain
- Sailboard
- Buy a 66 mustang for my wife
- Own a motorcycle (again) for a while
- Snorkel
- Paraglide / parasail / skydive
- Learn a martial art
- Photograph a cougar in the wild
- Hike all the trails at Quartz Mountain State park
- Learn to build a bicycle wheel
- Learn mathematics through Calculus
- Kayak the North Fork of the Red River
- Ride a mule to the bottom of the Grand Canyon
- Bicycle across Oklahoma (again)
- Bicycle a stature century
- Ride a motorcycle to Alaska
- Do a kayak roll
- Snow ski
- Set up and use an 18th century woodworking shop
- Read a self-selected list of the great books
- Live to be 100 years old