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
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6 comments:
Good grief, bro, you do all that & you'll be the smartest and most "have-done-it-all" person around!!! LOL. Good list. I love it, but what's a bicycle thru statue? century?
That should have said "statute century", which you know means 100 miles. Good catch :)
a very nice long list you have! may you achive each and every thing on it.
does your wife have such a list? number one on her's should be.....
stay out of hubbies way! LOL
That should say, "learn ballroom dancing again..."
heheheh Do it for yourself, not for me.
ILY!
Wife
Are you giving them off the list yet?
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