A little over three years ago, I kicked off a
project that’s turned into one of the best and most fun things that I've ever
done.
In December 2011, I drafted a 365-item “bucket list” and
tried to accomplish as many of the items on the list as possible during the
ensuing year. I got off to a slow start in early 2012, but in mid-May 2012 I
began to make a conscious effort to scratch off at least one bucket list item a
week. By the end of the 2012 calendar year, I’d managed to scratch 42 items off
my list.
In January 2013, I expanded my “bucket list” from 365 items
to 1,000 items, and between Jan. 1, 2013 and Dec. 31, 2013, I managed to
scratch 66 items off my list, a little more than one item a week. In January
2014, I again expanded my list from 1,000 items to 1,111 items, and between
Jan. 1, 2014 and Dec. 31, 2014, I managed to mark 83 items off my list.
If you’re reading this and have never tried to write your
own “bucket list” you might find that writing one is harder than you would
think. As many of you will already likely know, a “bucket list” is a wish list
of things you’d like to do before you “kick the bucket.” Many of you will be
familiar with this idea thanks to the 2007 comedy, “The Bucket List,” which
starred Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman.
I’ve always kind of walked around with one of these lists in
my head, but I’d never taken the time to actually write down my list until
December 2011. Something about the act of writing these goals down makes them
seem more concrete and doable. Setting a weekly deadline for myself in May 2012
also seemed to help me accomplish more of them and really ramped up the
project.
Before I go any further, I want to say that this project is
not about me, and I don’t do it to write about myself or to brag anything that
I’ve done. One of my main goals is to show people in the reading audience that
they can also do many of these same types of things, many of which don’t cost a
dime. I hope that my “bucket list updates” have and will continue to encouraged
others to get off the couch and do some things they’ve always wanted to do.
With a little planning and a little effort, you can do a lot of cool,
memorable stuff. I’m just a regular guy, so if I can do some of this
stuff, so can you.
How many of you out there have bucket lists of your own?
What sort of items do you have on your list? How many of your personal bucket
list items have you already accomplished? Which were your most memorable? Which
were the most difficult to accomplish? Let us know in the comments section below.
In the spirit of the start of another new year, what follows is my new and expanded bucket list. You’ll notice that it’s in alphabetical order, which I did on purpose to keep from duplicating entries. This year, I’ve also expanded the list once again, moving from 1,111 items to 1,500 items. Most of the items were on my list last year, but I also added a few more to replace those that I scratched off the list during the past 12 months. Please feel free to “borrow” any of them that you’d like to do.
In the spirit of the start of another new year, what follows is my new and expanded bucket list. You’ll notice that it’s in alphabetical order, which I did on purpose to keep from duplicating entries. This year, I’ve also expanded the list once again, moving from 1,111 items to 1,500 items. Most of the items were on my list last year, but I also added a few more to replace those that I scratched off the list during the past 12 months. Please feel free to “borrow” any of them that you’d like to do.
- Attain the 33rd Masonic degree
- Attend a Birmingham Barons baseball game
- Attend a Cape Cod League Game in Massachusetts
- Attend a Catholic mass church service
- Attend a College World Series baseball game
- Attend a comic book convention
- Attend a fantasy baseball camp
- Attend a high school reunion
- Attend a graduation ceremony at West Point
- Attend Alabama’s “A Day” spring football game
- Attend a luau
- Attend a Major League Baseball game on Opening Day
- Attend a Major League Baseball spring training game
- Attend a Mardi Gras ball
- Attend a Mobile Bay Bears baseball game
- Attend a Native American sweat lodge ceremony
- Attend a Navajo peyote ritual
- Attend an NCAA Final Four basketball game
- Attend an NFL game at the Superdome in New Orleans
- Attend an opera performance
- Attend a Pensacola Blue Wahoos baseball game
- Attend a poetry reading
- Attend a presidential inauguration
- Attend a Renaissance Faire
- Attend a Scottish Rite Maundy Thursday ceremony
- Attend a session of the Alabama Grand Lodge
- Attend a Star Trek convention
- Attend a taping of Saturday Night Live
- Attend a World Series baseball game
- Attend BayFest in Mobile
- Attend Comic-Con International in San Diego
- Attend Lollapalooza
- Attend MLB Fan Fest
- Attend Oktoberfest at Redstone Arsenal
- Attend Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany
- Attend Pensacola ParaCon
- Attend the Alabama Book Festival
- Attend the Alabama “Mr. Football” Banquet
- Attend the Alabama Renaissance Fair in Florence
- Attend the Angola Prison Rodeo
- Attend the Army-Navy football game
- Attend the Blessing of the Fleet in Bayou La Batre
- Attend the Boston Marathon
- Attend Burning Man
- Attend the Cotton Patch Festival at Uriah
- Attend the Dauphin Street Beer Festival
- Attend the Daytona 500
- Attend the Fiesta Bowl
- Attend the Great American Beer Festival in Denver, Colo.
- Attend the Great British Beer Festival in London
- Attend the Greater Gulf State Fair
- Attend the Hangout Music Festival
- Attend the Harvard-Yale football game
- Attend the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival and CthulhuCon
- Attend the Indianapolis 500
- Attend the June 24th Masonic Day celebration in Florala
- Attend the Kentucky Derby, drink a mint julep and bet on a horse
- Attend the Little League World Series
- Attend the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
- Attend the Major League Baseball All-Star Game
- Attend the Masters Golf Tournament in Augusta, Ga.
- Attend the Midnight Sun Baseball Classic in Alaska
- Attend the National Finals Rodeo
- Attend the NBA All-Star Game
- Attend the NCAA National Championship Football Game
- Attend the New Year’s Eve celebration in Time’s Square
- Attend the New York Marathon
- Attend the NFL Pro Bowl
- Attend the NHL All-Star Game
- Attend the Notre Dame-Michigan football game
- Attend the opening of the Iditarod in Anchorage, Alaska
- Attend the Orange Bowl
- Attend the Republican National Convention
- Attend the Rocket City Brewfest in Huntsville
- Attend the Rose Bowl
- Attend the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona, Spain
- Attend the SEC Championship Football Game in Atlanta
- Attend the Stanley Cup Finals
- Attend the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Savannah, Ga.
- Attend the Sugar Bowl
- Attend the Super Bowl
- Attend the Tennessee Williams-New Orleans Literary Festival
- Attend the Tour de France
- Attend the Triple A All-Star Game
- Attend the UFO festival in Fyffe, Ala.
- Attend the Wimbledon Tennis tournament in London
- Attend the World Baseball Classic
- Attend the X-Games
- Attend Williams Station Day in Atmore
- Bake a birthday cake for my wife
- Bake a loaf of bread
- Bake a rhubarb pie from scratch
- Be a game show contestant
- Be an extra in a movie
- Be a vegetarian for one month
- Become a bonded notary public
- Become a certified beer judge
- Become a certified electrician
- Become a certified/licensed bartender
- Become a certified lifeguard
- Become a certified NWS Cooperative Weather Observer
- Become a certified pilot
- Become a certified plumber
- Become a certified private investigator
- Become a certified SCUBA diver
- Become a certified UFO field investigator
- Become a certified welder
- Become a licensed barber
- Become a licensed/certified ham radio operator
- Become a lifetime member of the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society
- Become a lifetime member of the National Geographic Society
- Become a lifetime member of the Scottish Rite
- Become a member of SABR, the Society for American Baseball Research
- Become a member of the Royal Geographical Society
- Become a member of the Smithsonian Institution
- Become a Shriner
- Be complaint-free for 30 days and earn a Complaint Free bracelet
- Be inducted into a hall of fame
- Be in the stands for a no-hitter (or perfect game)
- Be knighted by the queen
- Bike a “century”
- Bird watch
- Bowl a 300
- Break a Guinness World Record
- Build a boat
- Build a cabin
- Build a house of cards
- Build a model airplane
- Build a model ship
- Build and fly a kite with the kids
- Build and launch a model rocket with the kids
- Build a raft and float it down the river
- Build the kids a tree house
- Buy a good metal detector and use it
- Buy a GPS device and learn to use it
- Buy lemonade from kids at a stand
- Buy stock
- Cage dive amongst sharks
- Camp out in the backyard with the kids
- Carry the Olympic torch
- Catch a fly ball at a Major League Baseball game
- Catch a marlin
- Catch a piranha and eat it
- Catch a shark
- Cave dive
- Celebrate Midwinter’s Day on Feb. 6 with a steak dinner
- Celebrate the Fourth of July in Washington, D.C.
- Climb an active volcano
- Climb Angels Landing in Zion National Park
- Climb Mount Everest
- Climb Mount Fuji, Japan
- Climb Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania
- Climb Mount McKinley (Denali)
- Climb Mount Rainer in Washington
- Climb to the top of a water tower
- Compete in the World Championship Domino Tournament in Andalusia
- Complete a food challenge at a restaurant
- Complete an obstacle course adventure endurance race
- Complete a semester at the National Outdoor Leadership School
- Complete a sprint distance triathlon
- Complete an Ironman distance triathlon
- Complete an Olympic distance triathlon
- Complete the Alabama Hunter Education Course
- Complete the Scottish Rite Master Craftsman program
- Cross the Arctic Circle
- Cross the equator
- Cross the Rio Grande River
- Cross the “Rooster Bridge” in Demopolis
- Cut down my own Christmas tree
- Dive the Great Barrier Reef in Queensland, Australia
- Do 10 pull-ups
- Do 30 burpees in a row
- Do 100 consecutive pushups
- Do a 24-hour fast
- Do a genealogy interview with my grandmother
- Do genealogy interviews with my parents
- Don’t speak a single word for an entire day
- Do the 30-Day Push-Up Challenge (100 push-ups a day for 30 days)
- Do The Art of Manliness’ “30 Days to a Better Man” Challenge
- Do the Polar Bear Plunge at the Flora-Bama on New Years Day
- Drink absinthe
- Drink a key lime milkshake at Stacey Old Tyme Soda Fountain in Foley
- Drink champagne from a slipper
- Drink Kopi Luwak
- Drink port
- Drive a ’57 Chevrolet
- Drive a Corvette
- Drive across country from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean
- Drive a Ferrari
- Drive a Jaguar
- Drive a Mercedes
- Drive an Aston Martin
- Drive a Porsche
- Drive a Saab
- Drive a snowmobile
- Drive the 3,100 miles of Gulf shoreline between Florida and Mexico
- Drive the entire length of the Natchez Trace Parkway
- Drive the Lincoln Highway from New York to California
- Drink a bottle of wine that’s older than I am
- Drink a Guinness Beer in Dublin, Ireland on St. Patrick’s Day
- Drink a pint in an English pub
- Drink milk from a fresh coconut
- Drive Alabama’s “Civil War Trail”
- Drive from Austin, Texas to Great Falls, Montana
- Drive I-95 from Florida to Maine
- Drive on the German Autobahn
- Drive Route 66 from Chicago to Los Angeles
- Drive the entire length of the Alaska Highway
- Drive the Explorers Highway across Australia
- Drive the Great Ocean Road in southern Australia
- Drive the Pacific Coast Highway in California
- Drive U.S. Highway 31 from Spanish Fort to Mackinaw City, Mich.
- Drive U.S. Highway 61 from New Orleans to Wyoming, Minn.
- Earn a black belt in karate
- Earn a Master’s Degree
- Earn an honorary degree
- Eat a cannoli
- Eat a cheese steak sandwich in Philadelphia
- Eat a ghost chili pepper
- Eat alligator
- Eat an entire Boston cream pie
- Eat an insect
- Eat at a Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse
- Eat at Emeril’s Delmonico Restaurant in New Orleans
- Eat at Emily’s Café in Greenville
- Eat a tequila worm
- Eat at every restaurant in Conecuh County at least once
- Eat at every restaurant in Monroe County at least once
- Eat at Ezell’s Fish Camp in Lavaca, Ala.
- Eat at Honey’s Hot Dogs in Dothan
- Eat at Huggin’ Molly’s restaurant in Abbeville
- Eat at Mama Nem’s in Thomaston
- Eat at Momma Goldberg’s in Auburn
- Eat at Roscoe's House of Chicken 'n Waffles in Los Angeles.
- Eat at Sisters restaurant in Troy
- Eat at Tacky Jack’s in Gulf Shores
- Eat at the Battle House Hotel in Mobile
- Eat at the Compleat Angler Seafood Grille & Bar in Daphne
- Eat at the Dew Drop Inn in Mobile
- Eat at the Duchess Bakery in Cullman
- Eat at the Market By The Bay in Daphne
- Eat at the Mountain Parkway Grill in Sand Rock
- Eat at the Tally-Ho restaurant in Selma
- Eat at The Victoria in Anniston
- Eat at the Wildflower Café in Mentone
- Eat Baba Ghanoush
- Eat caviar
- Eat chitterlings
- Eat crawfish pie at Ca-John’s in Faunsdale
- Eat Eggs Benedict
- Eat Escargot
- Eat Foie Gras
- Eat haggis
- Eat kangaroo
- Eat kimchi
- Eat penguin meat
- Eat rabbit
- Eat Rocky Mountain oysters
- Eat sautéed grouper at The Rawl’s in Enterprise
- Eat seal meat
- Eat shark
- Eat steak tartare
- Eat turtle soup
- Escort my daughter down the aisle at her wedding
- Examine a crop circle
- Experience an earthquake
- Experience a session in a sensory deprivation tank
- Experience weightlessness
- Explore a creepy tunnel
- Explore the Forbidden City in Beijing
- Fast for three days, drinking nothing but water
- Feed a koala bear
- Find 365 geocaches
- Find 1,000 geocaches
- Find a four-leaf clover
- Find an arrowhead
- Find the “Original Stash” geocache in Oregon.
- Finish a newspaper crossword puzzle
- Float in the Dead Sea
- Fly an airplane
- Fly at the speed of sound
- Fly first class
- Fly in an open cockpit airplane
- Fly with the Blue Angels
- Geocache at night
- Geocache for an entire day
- Get 10,000 followers on Twitter
- Get a Commercial Driver’s License (CDL)
- Get a manicure
- Get a passport
- Get a pedicure
- Get a tattoo
- Go backpacking in Europe
- Go barefoot for an entire week
- Go clam digging
- Golf 18 holes
- Go on a “Bigfoot hunt” in the Pacific Northwest
- Go on a dog-sledding trip
- Go on a ghost tour in Savannah, Ga.
- Go on a humanitarian trip to Africa
- Go on a juice fast
- Go on a mission trip
- Go on an African safari
- Go on an alligator hunt
- Go on an urban exploration trip
- Go on a police ride along
- Go on a real duck hunt
- Go on a volkswalk
- Go on a walkabout in the Australian outback
- Go to a midnight showing at a theater
- Go whale watching.
- Grow my hair out, shoulder-length
- Hang glide
- Have a Halloween bonfire with hot apple cider
- Have washboard abs
- Help build a church
- Help build a Habitat for Humanity home
- Help deliver a baby
- Hike a glacier
- Hike a section of the Appalachian Trail
- Hike Hadrian’s Wall Across the UK
- Hike in Alaska
- Hike the Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge trails
- Hike the Continental Divide Trail
- Hike the entire length of the Eastern Shore Trail
- Hike the Pacific Northwest Trail
- Hike the trails at Chickasabogue Park
- Hike the trails at DeSoto State Park in Fort Payne
- Hike the trails at Gulf State Park
- Hike the trails at Oak Mountain State Park in Pelham
- Hike the trails at Village Point Park in Daphne
- Hike the Walls of Jericho at Hytop
- Hike the Weeks Bay Nature Trail near Fairhope
- Hike to Everest Base Camp
- Hike to the bottom of the Grand Canyon
- Hike to the top of Mount Cheaha
- Hold a bezoar
- Hunt and find ancient shark teeth
- Hunt and kill a bear
- Hunt and kill a coyote
- Hunt and kill a lion in Tanzania (legal there)
- Hunt and kill an elephant in South Africa (legal there)
- Hunt and kill a wild pig
- Hunt and kill a wild turkey
- Hunt for geese
- Ice fish
- Install a home weather station
- Interview someone who claims to have been abducted by aliens
- Invent something and patent it
- Join a disaster relief effort
- Join Masonic Lodge No. 3 in Monroeville, Ala.
- Join the Alabama Archeological Society
- Join the Alabama Bigfoot Society
- Join the American Legion
- Join the Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore
- Join the Knights of St. Andrew
- Join the Monroe County Rescue Squad
- Join the National Rifle Association
- Join the Peacock Family Association of the South
- Join the Sons of the American Revolution
- Join the Veterans of Foreign Wars
- Join the York Rite of Freemasonry
- Kayak the Sepulga River Canoe Trail
- Kill a deer with a bow and arrow
- Kill a deer with a traditional muzzle-loading rifle
- Kiss the Blarney Stone in Ireland
- Kite-surf
- Launch a newspaper boat with the kids
- Learn a magic trick
- Learn archery
- Learn Bartitsu
- Learn Krav Maga
- Learn tae kwon do
- Learn to braze
- Learn to cook
- Learn to fly-fish
- Learn to play cribbage
- Learn to play croquet
- Learn to play dominoes
- Learn to play golf
- Learn to kayak
- Learn to play backgammon
- Learn to play poker
- Learn to play the piano
- Learn to ride a motorcycle
- Learn to sail
- Learn to say the alphabet backwards
- Learn to solder
- Learn to speak Arabic
- Learn to speak French
- Learn to speak German
- Learn to speak Russian
- Learn to speak Spanish
- Learn to surf
- Lean to use a sextant
- Learn to whistle with my fingers
- Listen to Beethoven’s “Kreutzer Sonata” from start to finish
- Listen to Beethoven’s “Moonlight” Sonata
- Listen to Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the U.S.A.”
- Listen to Bruce Springsteen’s “Born to Run” from start to finish
- Listen to George Gershwin’s “Concerto in F”
- Listen to George Handel’s “Messiah”
- Listen to Hank Williams’ “40 Greatest Hits”
- Listen to Miles Davis’ “Kind of Blue”
- Listen to Mozart’s opera, “The Magic Flute”
- Listen to “Pet Sounds” by the Beach Boys
- Listen to Rachmaninoff’s “Third Piano Concerto”
- Listen to Rolling Stone’s ‘500 Greatest Albums of All Time”
- Listen to Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring”
- Listen to The Clash’s “London Calling”
- Listen to the opera “Carmen” from start to finish
- Live to see my first grandchild
- Live to see the return of Halley’s Comet in 2062
- Log 1,000 total lifetime hiking miles
- Make a candle
- Make a handmade bow and arrows set
- Make a hollow book
- Make an omelet
- Make a shillelagh
- Make homemade wine
- Make soap
- Meditate (for at least an hour)
- Meet a Heisman Trophy winner
- Meet A.J. McCarron
- Meet a Medal of Honor recipient
- Meet an astronaut
- Meet a past President of the United States
- Meet Bear Grylls
- Meet Bill Belichick
- Meet Cynthia Tucker
- Meet David Duchovny
- Meet Eli Gold
- Meet George R.R. Martin
- Meet Harper Lee
- Meet Harrison Ford (Indiana Jones/Han Solo)
- Meet Jason Hawes from “Ghost Hunters.”
- Meet Joe Hill
- Meet Jon Krakauer
- Meet Kyle MacLachlan
- Meet Lou Holtz
- Meet Mike Mignola
- Meet Neil Gaiman
- Meet Neil Young
- Meet Nick Saban
- Meet someone else with my name
- Meet the President of the United States
- Meet Stephen King
- Meet Warren St. John
- Meet Will Clark
- Meet William Shatner
- Meet Zak Bagans of “Ghost Adventures”
- Memorize Abraham Lincoln’s “Gettysburg Address”
- Memorize all the Super Bowl winners
- Memorize all the World Series winners
- Memorize “Do It Now” by Berton Braley
- Memorize Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven”
- Memorize Hamlet’s soliloquy
- Memorize the books of the Bible
- Memorize the Greek alphabet
- Memorize the Heisman Trophy winners
- Memorize the Presidents of the United States
- Memorize the world capitals
- Milk a cow. Drink the milk.
- Mule ride down the Grand Canyon
- Noodle a catfish
- Observe Andromeda, the most distant object visible to the naked eye
- Order a Martini, “Shaken, not stirred”
- Own a velvet Elvis
- Own season tickets
- Paddle the Coosa River in Ga. to where it joins the Tallapoosa in Ala.
- Paddle the entire length of the Alabama Scenic River Trail
- Paint a self-portrait
- Pan for gold
- Pan for gold in Sutter’s Creek
- Paraglide
- Parasail
- Participate in an arm-wrestling competition
- Participate in an expedition
- Participate in a séance
- Photograph 100 Masonic Lodges
- Photograph 100 survey benchmarks
- Photograph a ghost
- Photograph a tornado from way too close
- Pierce something on my body
- Play a MMORPG
- Play bridge
- Play Quidditch
- Play roulette in Las Vegas
- Play rugby
- Play the bagpipes
- Pray at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem
- Publish an article in “Alabama Heritage” magazine
- Publish a novel
- Publish a short story
- Pull a ride-along shift with LifeFlight
- Purchase a cemetery plot
- Put together a “vampire hunting” kit
- Raft the Grand Canyon
- Read “7 Habits of Highly Effective People” by Stephen R. Covey
- Read a banned book
- Read a book in another language
- Read all 12 of the “Foxfire” books
- Read all 26 issues of the original “Who's Who in the DC Universe” series
- Read all 33 books in the “TIME-Life Mysteries of the Unknown” series
- Read all 125 of Agee Films “Great Southern Books”
- Read all of Agatha Christie’s books
- Read all of Bear Grylls’ books
- Read all of Carl Sagan’s books
- Read all of Charles Dickens’ novels
- Read all of Clive Cussler’s books
- Read all of Cormac McCarthy’s books
- Read all of George R.R. Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire” novels
- Read all of Hunter S. Thompson’s books
- Read all of Jean Shepherd’s books
- Read all of John Grisham’s books
- Read all of John Keel’s books
- Read all of Louis L’Amour’s books
- Read all of Michael Connelly’s books
- Read all of Michael Crichton’s books
- Read all of Neil Gaiman’s books
- Read all of Raymond Chandler’s novels
- Read all of Richard Dawkins’ books
- Read all of Riley Kelly’s books
- Read all of Robert Ludlum’s novels
- Read all of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s “Sherlock Holmes” stories
- Read all of Sports Illustrated’s “Top 100 Sports Books of All Time”
- Read all of Stephen Ambrose’s books
- Read all of Stephen King’s books
- Read all of the “501 Baseball Books Fans Must Read Before They Die”
- Read all of the adventure books recommended by “The Art of Manliness”
- Read all of the books on the “101 Crackerjack Sea Books” list
- Read all of the “Twilight” novels by Stephenie Meyer
- Read all of Tom Clancy’s novels
- Read all of Truman Capote’s books
- Read all the Harry Potter books
- Read all the National Book Award winners
- Read “All the King’s Men” by Robert Penn Warren
- Read “American Psycho” by Bret Easton Ellis
- Read “America’s Goat Man” by Darryl Patton
- Read “Anna Karenina” by Leo Tolstoy
- Read “Around the World by Bicycle” by Thomas Stevens
- Read “A Sand County Almanac” by Aldo Leopold (1949)
- Read “A Separate Peace” by John Knowles
- Read “A Streetcar Named Desire” by Tennessee Williams
- Read “A Tale of Two Cities” by Charles Dickens
- Read “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers” by Thoreau
- Read “Bartram’s Travels”
- Read “Baseball: A History of America’s Game” by Benjamin G. Rader
- Read “Baseball: A Literary Anthology”
- Read “Batman: The Long Halloween”
- Read “The Black Stallion” by Walter Farley
- Read “Boris Godunov” by Aleksandre Pushkin
- Read “Bulfinch’s Mythology” by Thomas Bulfinch
- Read “Casino Royale” by Ian Fleming (1953) (First James Bond novel)
- Read “Charles Kuralt’s America” by Charles Kuralt
- Read “Cloud Atlas” by David Mitchell
- Read “Confederates in the Attic” by Tony Horwitz
- Read “David Copperfield” by Charles Dickens
- Read “Death of a Salesman” by Arthur Miller (1949)
- Read “Destry Rides Again” by Max Brand (1930)
- Read Discover Magazine’s “25 Greatest Science Books of All Time”
- Read “Doctor Zhivago” by Boris Pasternak (1958)
- Read “Don Quixote” by Miguel de Cervantes
- Read Edmund Spenser’s epic poem, “The Faerie Queene”
- Read Edward O. Wilson’s biography, “Naturalist”
- Read “A False Spring” by Pat Jordan
- Read “A Farewell to Arms” by Ernest Hemingway (1929)
- Read “Faust” by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Read “Fifty Shades of Grey” by E.L. James
- Read “Following the Equator” by Mark Twain
- Read “Football Scouting Methods” by Steve Belichick
- Read “Foucault’s Pendulum” by Umberto Eco (1990)
- Read “Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café” by Fannie Flagg
- Read “Gilgamesh”
- Read “Gone With the Wind” by Margaret Mitchell
- Read “Go Tell It on the Mountain” by James Baldwin
- Read “Great Expectations” by Charles Dickens
- Read “Gulliver’s Travels” by Jonathan Swift
- Read “The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood
- Read “Hints to Travelers” by Francis Galton
- Read “How Good Do You Want to Be” by Nick Saban
- Read “Innocents Abroad” by Mark Twain
- Read “In Search of Lost Time” by Marcel Proust
- Read “James and the Giant Peach” by Roald Dahl
- Read James Fenimore Cooper’s “Leatherstocking Tales”
- Read “Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Bronte
- Read “Jaws” by Peter Benchley
- Read “Jefferson Davis” by Allen Tate
- Read Jim Butcher’s “The Dresden Files” series
- Read “Jubilee” by Margaret Walker
- Read “Jude the Obscure” by Thomas Hardy (1895)
- Read Lee Child’s “Jack Reacher” novels
- Read “Legend” by David Gemmell
- Read “Les Miserables” by Victor Hugo
- Read “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men” by James Agee and Walker Evans
- Read “Life of Johnson” by James Boswell
- Read “Life on the Mississippi” by Mark Twain (1883)
- Read “Lolita” by Vladimir Nabokov
- Read “Lyrical Ballads” by Wordsworth and Coleridge
- Read “Madame Bovary” by Gustave Flaubert
- Read “Main Street” by Sinclair Lewis
- Read “Maus: A Survivor’s Tale” by Art Spiegleman
- Read “Mein Kampf” by Adolph Hitler
- Read “Moneyball” by Michael Lewis
- Read “Morals and Dogma” by Albert Pike
- Read National Geographic’s 100 Best Adventure Books
- Read “North West Passage” by Roald Amundsen (1908)
- Read “Notes from the Underground” by Dostoevsky
- Read “O Pioneers!” by Willa Cather (1913)
- Read “Our Town” by Thornton Wilder
- Read Outside’s “25 Best Adventure Books of the Last 100 Years”
- Read “Perdido Street Station” by China Mieville
- Read Pickett’s “History of Alabama”
- Read Plato’s “Republic”
- Read Playboy’s “Top 20 Books Every Man Must Read”
- Read “Psycho” by Robert Bloch
- Read “Pygmalion” by George Bernard Shaw
- Read “Raging Bull: My Story” by Jake LaMotta
- Read “Rebecca” by Daphne du Maurier
- Read Robert Ludlum’s “Bourne Trilogy” novels
- Read “Robinson Crusoe” by Daniel Defoe
- Read “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead” by Tom Stoppard
- Read “Sailing Alone Around the World” by Joshua Slocum
- Read “Shoeless Joe” by W.P. Kinsella
- Read “Siddhartha” by Herman Hesse
- Read “Silent Spring” by Rachel Carson (1962)
- Read “Sons and Lovers” by D.H. Lawrence
- Read “Southern Mail” by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- Read “Stick and Rudder” by Wolfgang Langewiesche
- Read Stieg Larsson’s “Millennium” trilogy
- Read “Tess of the D'Urbervilles” by Thomas Hardy (1891)
- Read the 101 Books Recommended for College-Bound Readers
- Read the “300” graphic novel
- Read “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain
- Read “The Aeneid” by Virgil
- Read “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay” by Michael Chabon
- Read “The Anubus Gates” by Tim Powers
- Read the Art of Manliness’ 50 Best Books for Boys and Young Men
- Read “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” by Malcolm X and Alex Haley
- Read “The Better Angels of Our Nature” by Michael Halleran
- Read “The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract” by Bill James
- Read the Book of Mormon
- Read the books on the Horror Writers Association Horror Reading List
- Read “The Bridge of San Luis Rey” by Thornton Wilder
- Read “The Brothers Karamazov” by Dostoevsky
- Read “The Caine Mutiny” by Herman Wouk (1952)
- Read “The Children of Levi Peacock” by John J. Pierce
- Read “The Civil War” by Shelby Foote
- Read “The Civil War: An Illustrated History” by Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns and Ric Burns (1991)
- Read “The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter” (1965)
- Read “The Communist Manifesto” by Karl Marx
- Read the complete Bible – in Spanish
- Read the complete “Chronicles of Narnia” by C.S. Lewis
- Read “The Complete Grimm’s Fair Tales”
- Read the complete “Locke & Key” graphic novel series
- Read the complete Neil Gaiman “Sandman” graphic novel series
- Read “The Complete Poems of Walt Whitman”
- Read “The Complete Stories of Franz Kafka”
- Read the complete “Walking Dead” comic book series
- Read the complete works of Jack London
- Read the complete works of John Steinbeck
- Read the complete works of William Faulkner
- Read the complete works of William Shakespeare
- Read “The Crossing” by Cormac McCarthy
- Read “The Decline of the West” by Oswald Spengler (1918)
- Read “The Diary of Anne Frank”
- Read “The Divine Comedy” by Dante Alighieri
- Read “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test” by Tom Wolfe
- Read “The Federalist Papers” by Alexander Hamilton
- Read “The Federal Road through Georgia, the Creek Nation and Alabama, 1806-1836” by Henry DeLeon Southerland Jr. and Jerry Elijah Brown
- Read “The Glass Menagerie” by Tennessee Williams
- Read “The Glory of Their Times” by Lawrence S. Ritter
- Read “The Good Earth” by Pearl S. Buck
- Read “The Grass Harp” by Truman Capote
- Read “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter” by Carson McCullers
- Read “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” by Douglas Adams
- Read the Ian Fleming “James Bond” novels
- Read “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair
- Read “The Kolchak Papers” by Jeff Rice
- Read the Koran
- Read “The Lands of Silence” by Clements R. Markham
- Read “The Last Unicorn” by Peter S. Beagle (1968)
- Read “The Life of Pi” by Yann Martel
- Read “The Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- Read “The Makers and Romance of Alabama History” by B.F. Riley
- Read the major works of Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton
- Read “The Monuments Men” by Robert M. Edsel
- Read “The Motorcycle Diaries” by Ernesto “Che” Guevara
- Read “The Moviegoer” by Walker Percy
- Read “The Naked and the Dead” by Norman Mailer
- Read “The Natural” by Bernard Malamud
- Read the “Official Rules of Major League Baseball”
- Read “The Once and Future King” by T.H. White
- Read “The Origin of Species” by Charles Darwin
- Read the “Pentagon Papers”
- Read “The Pilgrim’s Progress” by John Bunyan
- Read “The Portrait of a Lady” by Henry James
- Read “The Postman Always Rings Twice” by James Mallahan Cain
- Read “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Read “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich” by William L. Shirer
- Read “The Satanic Verses” by Salman Rushdie (1988)
- Read “The Scarlet Letter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Read “The Spoon River Anthology” by Edgar Lee Masters
- Read “The Stories of John Cheever” by John Chever (1978)
- Read “The Summer Game” by Roger Angell
- Read “The Teammates” by David Halberstam
- Read “The Turner Diaries” by Andrew McDonald
- Read the Unabomber’s Manifesto
- Read the U.S. Air Force’s 1997 report on Roswell
- Read “The Very Worst Road” by Jeffrey C. Benton
- Read the “V for Vendetta” graphic novel
- Read “The Virginian” by Owen Wister (1902) (considered the first Western novel)
- Read “The Walton Experience” by Travis Walton
- Read “The Wealth of Nations” by Adam Smith
- Read the “Wheel of Time” series
- Read “The Wizard of Oz” by Lyman Frank Baum
- Read “Thus Spake Zarathustra” by Friedrich Nietzsche
- Read “Tom Jones” by Henry Fielding
- Read “Tropic of Cancer” by Henry Miller (1934)
- Read “True Grit” by Charles Portis
- Read T.S. Eliot’s poem, “The Waste Land” (1922)
- Read “UFO Contact at Pascagoula” by Charles Hickson and William Mendez
- Read “Ulysses” by James Joyce
- Read “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” by Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Read “The Universal Baseball Association, Inc” by Robert Coover
- Read “Vanity Fair” by William Thackeray
- Read “Veeck as in Wreck” by Bill Veeck
- Read “Waiting for Godot” by Samuel Beckett
- Read “Walden” by Henry David Thoreau
- Read “Walking the Amazon” by Ed Stafford
- Read “War and Peace” by Leo Tolstoy
- Read “Watership Down” by Richard Adams
- Read “When Hell was in Session” by Jeremiah Denton
- Read “Where the Red Fern Grows” by Wilson Rawls
- Read “Wuthering Heights” by Emily Bronte
- Read “You Know Me Al” by Ring Lardner
- Read “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” by Robert Pirsig
- Receive a “Key to the City”
- Register for NaNoWriMo and Write a Novel in One Month
- Ride a bike across Alabama
- Ride a double-decker bus in London
- Ride a gondola in Venice
- Ride a Greyhound bus from Portland, Oregon to Portland, Maine
- Ride a Harley-Davidson
- Ride a mechanical bull
- Ride a plane or boat in the Bermuda Triangle
- Ride a San Francisco trolley
- Ride a steamboat on the Mississippi River.
- Ride in a blimp
- Ride in a helicopter
- Ride in a horse and carriage
- Ride in a hot air balloon
- Ride on a private jet
- Ride on the Orient Express
- Ride on the top of a moving train
- Ride the Chunnel
- Ride the Davis Ferry from Haines Island to Packer’s Bend
- Ride the Gee’s Bend Ferry
- Ride the London Underground
- Ride the New York City subway
- Ride the Staten Island Ferry
- Ring the opening (or closing) bell on Wall Street
- Rock climb
- Run a marathon… without stopping at least once
- Run a Spartan Race
- Run a Tough Mudder race
- Run a Warrior Dash race
- Run backwards for a mile
- Run for a political office
- Run in 100 official footraces
- Run in a “Color Run”
- Run in a foot race at night
- Run in the EMC Health & Wellness 5K
- Run the Chicago Marathon
- Run the Fifth Avenue Mile in New York City
- Run the Joe Cain Classic 5K in Mobile
- Run in the McGuire’s St. Patrick’s Day Run in Pensacola
- Run in the Opp Rattlesnake Rodeo 5K Run/Walk
- Run the Pensacola Double Bridge Run
- Run in the Waynesboro Whistle Stop 5K in Waynesboro, Miss.
- Run in the Williams Station Day 5K in Atmore
- Sail across an ocean
- Sample mescal
- Sample some Alaska Distillery vodka (made from glacial ice)
- Sample some Conecuh Ridge Alabama Fine Whiskey (Alabama’s state spirit)
- SCUBA dive a ship wreck
- See a laser light show at a planetarium
- See a live performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony
- See all of the Saturn Award winning movies
- See a performance of Cirque du Soleil
- See a performance of “Phantom of the Opera”
- See a play performed at The Globe theatre in London
- See a UFO
- See comedian Daniel Tosh perform live
- See Hitler’s typewriter at the Bessemer Hall of History
- See “Little Nadine’s Playhouse” in Oakwood Cemetery in Lanett.
- See Michelangelo’s “David”
- See Mount Rushmore in Keystone, South Dakota
- See one of the original copies of the Magna Carta
- See the Acropolis in Greece
- See the Amazon River in person
- See the Anasazi cliff dwellings in Mesa Verde
- See the Boll Weevil Monument in Enterprise
- See the Bottle Creek Indian Mounds in the Mobile-Tensaw Delta
- See the Cardinals play the Cubs
- See the Congo River in person
- See the Dropkick Murphys in concert
- See the statue of Edgar Allan Poe in the Bronx, New York
- See the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri
- See the Giant Blue Paper Clip in Spanish Fort
- See the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco
- See the Ignatius J. Reilly statue on Canal Street in New Orleans
- See the
inside of the Old Civil Air Patrol Building in Evergreen
- See the Joe Louis Statue in Lafayette
- See the mysterious Marfa Lights in West Texas
- See the Natural Bridge in Winston County
- See the Nazca Lines in Peru
- See the Nile River
- See the Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis)
- See the pyramids of Teotihuacan
- See the Romulus and Remus wolf statue in Rome, Ga.
- See the Rosetta Stone at the British Museum in London
- See the Seven Wonders of the World
- See the site of the ancient city of Troy
- See the Southern Cross
- See the Sphinx in Egypt
- See the “Strider of Chernobyl” in Brundidge
- See the Whiskey Bottle Tombstone in Clayton
- See the World’s Smallest City Block in Dothan
- Serve as a Salvation Army bell ringer
- Serve as the Worshipful Master of a Masonic lodge
- Serve a term on the Monroe County Heritage Museums’ board of directors
- Set foot on all seven continents
- Sew something you can wear
- Shoot a Glock
- Shoot an AK-47
- Solve a Rubik’s Cube
- Skydive
- Sleep in a castle
- Sleep in a hammock
- Sleep in an igloo
- Sleep in an overnight train
- Sleep in a stable on a haystack
- Slide down a firehouse pole
- Smoke a Cuban cigar… in Cuba
- Smoke cheroot
- Snowboard
- Snow shoe
- Snow ski
- Spend an afternoon reading in the Rose Reading Room of the New York Public Library.
- Spend “Fat Tuesday” in New Orleans during Mardi Gras
- Spend the night aboard the USS Alabama
- Spend the night at the bottom of the Grand Canyon
- Spend the night at the Hotel Provincial in New Orleans
- Spend the night at the Myrtles Plantation in St. Francisville, La.
- Spend the night at the Old Stoddard House in Evergreen
- Spend the night at the Watergate Hotel.
- Spend the night in a bed and breakfast
- Spend the night in a cave
- Spend the night in a submarine
- Spend the night in the Asa Johnston Farmhouse
- Spend the night in the Claiborne Masonic Lodge at Perdue Hill
- Spend the night in the Hybart House in Monroeville
- Spend the night in the Old Lowrey Trust Store in Burnt Corn
- Spend the night in the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colo.
- Spend the night on a beach
- Spend the night on a houseboat
- Spend the night on Bradley Ridge
- Spend the night on Nancy Mountain
- Spend the night on the sandbar at Bailey’s Creek
- Spend the night on top of “Tater Hill”
- Spend the night out in the yard on a night there will be a hard frost
- Stand in a red British phone booth
- Stand on an off-shore oil rig
- Stand on the equator
- Stand on the North Pole. Look for Santa.
- Stand on the Rock of Gibraltar
- Stand on the South Pole
- Stand on top of a mesa
- Stand on top of the old Bank of Evergreen building
- Start a business
- Stay awake for 48 hours straight
- Summit Ayers Rock in Australia
- Summit Mount Katahdin in Maine
- Swim across the Alabama River
- Swim with dolphins
- Take a Greek Isles cruise
- Take an Alaskan cruise
- Take an aerial photo
- Take an Around-the-World cruise
- Take an art class
- Take an IQ test
- Take a Trans-Atlantic cruise
- Take a wine tasting class
- Take flying lessons
- Take my son to Las Vegas on his 21st birthday
- Take part in a Civil War battle reenactment
- Take part in an archeological dig or fossil hunt
- Take pictures in a photo booth
- Take the Bermuda Hundred Campaign tour
- Take the “Damn the Torpedoes!” Civil War Trail
- Take the Decatur Civil War Walking Tour
- Take the Hank Williams Trail tour from Georgiana to Montgomery
- Take the Huntsville Ghost Walk Tour
- Take the Jack the Ripper tour in London
- Take the kids on an overnight camping trip
- Take the kids to a WWF wrestling event
- Take the kids to DeSoto Caverns
- Take the kids to Disney World in Orlando, Fla.
- Take the kids to Fort Gaines
- Take the kids to Fort Morgan
- Take the kids to Horseshoe Bend
- Take the kids on the Mobile Bay Ferry
- Take the kids to the Moundville Archeological Park
- Take the kids to the Senior Bowl in Mobile
- Take the kids to the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville
- Take the kids to Waterville
- Take the self-guided Black Belt Ghost Trail
- Taste a century-old wine
- Taste blood pudding
- Throw a coin into the Trevi Fountain and make a wish
- Throw out the ceremonial first pitch at a baseball game
- Thru-hike the Appalachian Trail
- Toss a coin into the Storyteller Fountain in Birmingham
- Touch a genuine crystal skull
- Touch a live tiger
- Touch a moon rock
- Tour a beer brewery
- Tour a book publishing facility
- Tour a coal mine
- Tour a Mayan ruin
- Tour a replica of the Nina, Pinta or Santa Maria
- Tour Prague in the Czech Republic
- Tour a scotch distillery
- Tour the Borden House in Fall River, Mass.
- Tour the Catacombs of Paris
- Tour the Catacombs of Rome
- Tour the Gettysburg battlefield
- Tour the Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory in Louisville, Ky.
- Tour the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland
- Tour the U.S. Military Academy at West Point
- Tour the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md.
- Tour the USS North Carolina in Wilmington, N.C.
- Tour the Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Louisville, Ky.
- Transcribe, edit and revise my journals from my time in Kuwait and Iraq
- Travel across Canada by train from Toronto to Vancouver
- Travel across the United States by train from coast to coast
- Travel over the George Washington Bridge in New York City
- Travel over the Mariana Trench near Guam, the deepest point on Earth
- Travel the Forrest-Streight Route
- Travel the Monroeville Birdhouse Trail
- Travel the Silk Route
- Travel the Trans-Canadian Highway from coast to coast
- Try acupuncture
- Try a scary experiment I saw someone do on YouTube
- Try deep-fried twinkies
- Try Hakarl
- Try spelunking
- Try stand-up paddle boarding
- Use a Ouija board
- View the Perseid meteor shower in August
- Visit 54 MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village
- Visit 177A Bleecker Street in New York’s Greenwich Village
- Visit Abraham Lincoln’s grave
- Visit a “Forbidden Planet” bookstore
- Visit Alaska
- Visit Alcatraz prison
- Visit all 50 of the United States
- Visit Amityville, New York
- Visit Angel Falls in Venezuela
- Visit the Andersonville National Historic Site in Georgia
- Visit the oldest Masonic lodge in Alabama
- Visit Angkor Wat in Angkor, Cambodia
- Visit a presidential library
- Visit Area 51
- Visit Ashley Street in Atmore, Ala.
- Visit a synagogue
- Visit Auschwitz
- Visit Austin, Texas
- Visit Bailey’s Well at Franklin
- Visit Bangkok, Thailand
- Visit Beale Street in Memphis, Tenn.
- Visit Bear Bryant’s grave
- Visit Bear Creek Swamp in Autaugaville
- Visit Belcourt Castle in Newport, Rhode Island
- Visit Berlin
- Visit Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Visit Boston, Mass.
- Visit California
- Visit Canada
- Visit Cape Cod, Mass.
- Visit Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico
- Visit Carlyle Hall in Perry County
- Visit Central Park in New York City
- Visit Charleston, S.C.
- Visit Chernobyl in the Ukraine
- Visit Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History
- Visit Chile
- Visit China
- Visit Cleveland, Ohio
- Visit Colombia
- Visit Colonial Williamsburg
- Visit Confederate Memorial Park in Marbury
- Visit ‘Confederate Rest’ & National Cemetery in Mobile
- Visit Connecticut
- Visit Corpus Christi, Texas
- Visit Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas
- Visit Cuba
- Visit Death Valley, California
- Visit Delaware
- Visit Dracula’s Castle in Romania
- Visit Easter Island
- Visit Edgar Allan Poe’s grave in Baltimore, Md.
- Visit Edinburgh, Scotland
- Visit Ernest Hemingway’s Birthplace and Museum in Oak Park, Ill.
- Visit Everglades National Park.
- Visit every country in Europe
- Visit Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco
- Visit Ford Field in Detroit
- Visit Fort Pickens
- Visit Fort Sumter, where the first shot of the Civil War was fired.
- Visit Four Corners (Utah, New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado)
- Visit Frankenstein’s Castle in Darmstadt, Germany
- Visit Franz Kafka’s grave in the New Jewish Cemetery in Prague
- Visit the “Fred - The Town Dog” grave in Rockford.
- Visit Freemason’s Hall in Edinburgh, Scotland
- Visit Freemason’s Hall in Philadelphia
- Visit Frog Eye in Tallapoosa County
- Visit Ghana
- Visit Glacier National Park in Montana
- Visit Graceland
- Visit Greece in Memphis, Tenn.
- Visit “Ground Zero” in New York
- Visit Harvard University’s campus
- Visit Hawaii
- Visit “Hell’s Half Acre” in Marengo County
- Visit “Hell’s Half Acre” in Wyoming
- Visit Helsinki, Finland
- Visit Herman Melville’s Grave at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, N.Y.
- Visit Hiroshima
- Visit Holmestead Farm in Perry County
- Visit Hong Kong
- Visit Howard’s Grove Hospital in Richmond, Va.
- Visit H.P. Lovecraft’s grave in Providence, R.I.
- Visit Idaho
- Visit Independence Hall in Philadelphia
- Visit India
- Visit Indian Springs Baptist Church in McWilliams
- Visit Indiana
- Visit Iowa
- Visit Ireland
- Visit Istanbul, Turkey
- Visit Japan
- Visit Jay and Silent Bob’s Secret Stash comic book store in N.J.
- Visit Jerusalem, Israel
- Visit Jim Morrison’s grave in Paris, France
- Visit Kansas
- Visit Kenworthy Hall near Marion
- Visit Lake Powell in Utah
- Visit Laos
- Visit Lebanon
- Visit Liechtenstein, the only nation entirely in the Alps
- Visit Loch Ness in Scotland
- Visit London, England
- Visit Los Angeles, Calif.
- Visit Machu Picchu in Peru
- Visit Maine
- Visit Mammoth Cave in Kentucky
- Visit Manhattan Island
- Visit Mark Twain’s Boyhood Home and Museum in Hannibal, Mo.
- Visit Martha’s Vineyard, Mass.
- Visit Massachusetts
- Visit McGowin Bridge
- Visit Melbourne, Australia
- Visit Mexico City, Mexico
- Visit Michigan
- Visit Minnesota
- Visit Missouri
- Visit Montana
- Visit Moscow, Russia
- Visit Mozambique
- Visit my great-uncle’s WWI grave in France
- Visit Namibia
- Visit National Geographic’s Headquarters in Washington, D.C.
- Visit Nebraska
- Visit New Hampshire
- Visit New Jersey
- Visit New York City
- Visit New Zealand
- Visit North Dakota
- Visit Norway
- Visit Oak Island in Canada
- Visit Oakleigh Mansion in Mobile
- Visit Omaha Beach in Normandy
- Visit Oregon
- Visit Panama
- Visit Paradise Falls
- Visit Paris, France
- Visit Patagonia, Argentina
- Visit Peacock’s Bridge in Stantonsburg, N.C.
- Visit Pearl Harbor
- Visit Petra, Jordan
- Visit Point Pleasant, West Virginia
- Visit Providence, Rhode Island
- Visit Puerto Rico
- Visit Quito, Ecuador, the world’s highest capital
- Visit Redwood National Park in California
- Visit Remlap in Blount County
- Visit Reykjavik, Iceland
- Visit Rhode Island
- Visit Rickwood Field in Birmingham
- Visit Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Visit Roanoke Island
- Visit Rocky Head in Dale County, Ala.
- Visit Rome
- Visit Rosslyn Chapel in Roslin, Scotland
- Visit Roswell, New Mexico
- Visit Rowan Oak in Oxford, Miss.
- Visit Salem, Mass.
- Visit Sanders Cave at Brooklyn
- Visit San Francisco, Calif.
- Visit San Francisco’s Chinatown District
- Visit San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury District
- Visit Shipps Pond
- Visit Shorter Cemetery in Eufaula
- Visit Singapore
- Visit Sir Richard Francis Burton’s grave at Mortlake, Surrey
- Visit Slap Out, Alabama
- Visit South Dakota
- Visit South Korea
- Visit Sri Lanka
- Visit St. Augustine, Fla. and the St. Augustine Lighthouse
- Visit St. Louis, Missouri
- Visit Stonehenge
- Visit Sturdivant Hall in Selma
- Visit Sweetwater Mansion in Florence
- Visit Switzerland
- Visit Tahiti
- Visit the 5,000-year-old Fortingall Yew tree in Scotland
- Visit the Adventurers Club in Chicago
- Visit the Alabama Governor’s Mansion in Montgomery
- Visit the Alabama Military Hall of Honor in Marion
- Visit the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame Museum in Birmingham
- Visit the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas
- Visit the Alamuchee-Bellamy Covered Bridge in Livingston
- Visit the Amazon Rain Forest
- Visit the American UFO Sci-Fi Museum in Wisconsin
- Visit the American Writers Museum in Washington, D.C.
- Visit the Atlantic City Boardwalk in Atlantic City, NJ
- Visit the Ave Maria Grotto in Cullman
- Visit the Azores islands
- Visit the Babe Ruth Birthplace & Museum in Baltimore, Md.
- Visit the Baja Peninsula
- Visit the Baker House in Selma
- Visit the Barnstable Bat Company in Cape Cod, Mass.
- Visit the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y.
- Visit the Battlefield Sycamore near the front steps of the Alabama Capitol
- Visit the Beauvior House in Biloxi
- Visit the Berman Museum of World History in Anniston
- Visit the “Betty and Barney Hill Incident” site in New Hampshire
- Visit the Big Oak in Geneva, Ala.
- Visit the Birmingham Botanical Gardens
- Visit the birthplace of Edgar Allan Poe in Boston, Mass.
- Visit the Blue & Gray Museum of North Alabama in Decatur
- Visit the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah
- Visit the Boyington Oak in Mobile
- Visit the British Museum in London
- Visit the Burford House in Wilcox County
- Visit the Capital Willow Oak in Tuscaloosa
- Visit the Chickamauga National Military Park
- Visit the Choctaw County Historical Museum in Gilbertown
- Visit the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame & Museum in Cincinnati, Ohio
- Visit the Coliseum in Rome
- Visit the Coney Island Boardwalk
- Visit the “Coon Dog Cemetery” in Colbert County
- Visit the crash site of the “Little Eva” in Australia
- Visit “The Crater” in Petersburg, Va.
- Visit the Crow’s Nest in Gloucester, Mass.
- Visit the Dauphin Island Indian Shell Mound Park
- Visit the Devil’s Tower National Monument in Wyoming
- Visit the Drish House in Tuscaloosa
- Visit the Eastern State Penitentiary in Pa.
- Visit the Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond, Va.
- Visit the Edmund King House in Shelby County
- Visit the Egyptian Museum in Cairo
- Visit the Elite Café in Phenix City
- Visit Elysian Fields in Hoboken, NJ
- Visit the Emma Sansom Monument in Gadsden
- Visit the Eocene Lisbon Formation at Claiborne
- Visit the Escambia River L&N train trestle in Flomaton
- Visit “The Exorcist” steps in Georgetown, Va.
- Visit the Explorers Club in New York City
- Visit the Field of Dreams movie site in Dyersville, Iowa
- Visit the Florida Everglades
- Visit the Fort Mitchell Historic Site on the Chattahoochee River
- Visit the Galapagos Islands
- Visit the Geocaching Headquarters in Seattle
- Visit the geographic center of Alabama in Montevallo
- Visit the George Washington Masonic Memorial in Wash., D.C.
- Visit the Georgia Dome
- Visit the Governor’s Mansion in Montgomery
- Visit the Grand Lodge of England
- Visit the grave of Elizabeth Dixon Smith in Wilcox County
- Visit the grave of Fred D. McClammy at Lone Star Church
- Visit the grave of Grancer Harrison
- Visit the grave of John Wilkes Booth in Baltimore, Md.
- Visit the grave of Noah Dallas Peacock
- Visit the grave of Robert E. Howard in Brownwood, Texas
- Visit the grave of Rube Burrow in Friendship Cemetery in Lamar County
- Visit the grave of Sidney Manning in Flomaton
- Visit the grave of Susan Henderson
- Visit the grave of T.H. Ball in the Creighton Cemetery in Clarke County.
- Visit the grave of William Coombs (aka “The Brokenhearted Stranger”)
- Visit the grave of William Wayne Seay in Brewton
- Visit the Great Serpent Mound in Ohio
- Visit the Great Wall of China
- Visit the Guggenheim Museum in New York City
- Visit the Hank Aaron Childhood Home & Museum in Mobile
- Visit the Hank Williams Museum in Montgomery
- Visit the Hank William star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
- Visit the headwaters of Murder Creek
- Visit the “Heaviest Corner on Earth” in Birmingham
- Visit the Hermitage, the home of Andrew Jackson, in Nashville, Tenn.
- Visit the highest point in Georgia
- Visit the highest point in Mississippi
- Visit the highest point in Tennessee
- Visit the Hinkle Fieldhouse at Butler University in Indianapolis
- Visit the Hodges Meteor site in Oak Grove
- Visit the House of the Temple in Washington, D.C.
- Visit the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C.
- Visit the intersection of Wilcox County Roads 59 and 24
- Visit the Ivan Allen Jr. Braves Museum & Hall of Fame in Atlanta, Ga.
- Visit the Jackson Live Oak in Baldwin County
- Visit the Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park
- Visit the Jemison-Van de Graaf Mansion in Tuscaloosa
- Visit the John F. Kennedy assassination site
- Visit the Kathryn Tucker Windham House in Selma
- Visit the Kathryn Tucker Windham Museum in Thomasville
- Visit the Kring Coffin Shop in Gainesville
- Visit the Leaning Tower of Pisa
- Visit the Legends of the Game Museum in Arlington, Texas
- Visit Little River Canyon in Fort Payne
- Visit the London Zoo, oldest in existence
- Visit The Louvre in Paris, France
- Visit the Margaret Mitchell House and Museum in Atlanta
- Visit the Marion Female Seminary in Marion
- Visit the “Martian Landing Site” monument in Grover’s Mills, N.J.
- Visit the Mary Daniel Bridge in Crenshaw County
- Visit the Masonic lodge in Uriah, Ala.
- Visit the Midway Cave
- Visit the Museum of Mobile
- Visit the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond, Va.
- Visit the Nathan Bedford Forrest Monument in Cedar Bluff, Ala.
- Visit the National Civil War Naval Museum in Columbus, Ga.
- Visit the National Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola
- Visit the National Peanut Festival in Dothan
- Visit the National Shrimp Festival in Gulf Shores
- Visit the Nautilus, the world’s first nuclear submarine, at Groton, Conn.
- Visit the North Rim of the Grand Canyon
- Visit the Obscura Antiques & Oddities store in Manhattan
- Visit Theodore Roosevelt’s Gravesite in Oyster Bay, N.Y.
- Visit the Old Appomattox Courthouse-McLean House in Appomattox, Va.
- Visit the Old Beulah Cemetery in Conecuh County
- Visit the Old Depot Museum in Selma
- Visit the Old Jewish Cemetery at Claiborne
- Visit the Orkney Islands
- Visit the original Ground Zero in New Mexico
- Visit the Panama Canal
- Visit the “Pascagoula Abduction” site
- Visit the Pensacola Historical Museum
- Visit the Perdue Hill Indian Mound
- Visit the Philippines
- Visit the Playboy Mansion
- Visit the “Prayer Log”
- Visit the Pro Football Hall of Fame
- Visit the Purefoy House at Furman
- Visit the Pyramids at Giza in Egypt
- Visit the Queen Mary in Long Beach, Calif.
- Visit the Rawls Hotel in Enterprise
- Visit the Richards DAR House in Mobile
- Visit the Robert E. Howard Museum in Cross Plains, Texas
- Visit the Roman Coliseum
- Visit the ruins at Pompeii
- Visit the Russell Cave National Monument in Bridgeport
- Visit the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Cullman
- Visit the Sam Dale Monument in Daleville, Miss.
- Visit the San Diego Zoo
- Visit the Shakespeare & Co. bookstore in Paris
- Visit the “Shaw” steamboat wreck site
- Visit the Sistine Chapel
- Visit the site of Custer’s Last Stand at the Little Bighorn in Montana
- Visit the site of the first Alabama-Auburn football game
- Visit the site of the former Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, NY
- Visit the site of the former Polo Grounds in New York, NY
- Visit the Sloss Furnaces in Birmingham
- Visit the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
- Visit the source of the Nile
- Visit the Southern Museum of Flight in Birmingham
- Visit the St. James Hotel in Selma
- Visit the Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Australia
- Visit the Taj Mahal in Agra, India
- Visit the Talladega Superspeedway
- Visit the Templar Church in London
- Visit the Temple of Karnak in Egypt
- Visit the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
- Visit the top of the Empire State Building
- Visit the top of the Statue of Liberty in New York City
- Visit the Tower of London
- Visit the Ty Cobb Museum in Royston, Ga.
- Visit the U.S. Army Aviation Museum at Fort Rucker
- Visit the U.S. Virgin Islands
- Visit the Vatican
- Visit the Vaughn Smitherman Museum in Selma
- Visit the Very Large Array (VLA) in New Mexico
- Visit the Vulcan statue in Birmingham
- Visit the Wall Street Financial District in New York City
- Visit the Washington County Museum in Chatom
- Visit the Washington Monument
- Visit the Wetumpka Impact Crater site
- Visit the Winchester Mansion in California
- Visit the Witherington Home at Lyeffion
- Visit Thomas Jefferson’s home at Monticello
- Visit Tibet
- Visit Tijuana, Mexico
- Visit Tokyo, Japan
- Visit Tombstone, Arizona
- Visit Truman Capote’s old apartment in Brooklyn, N.Y.
- Visit Tuscany, Italy
- Visit the “Unfilled Hole” in Wilcox County, Ala.
- Visit Uruguay
- Visit Utah
- Visit Vancouver, Canada
- Visit Vermont
- Visit Vicksburg, Mississippi
- Visit Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe
- Visit Vienna, Austria
- Visit Vietnam
- Visit Walden Pond in Concord, Mass.
- Visit Washington Irving’s grave in Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.
- Visit William Faulkner’s grave in Oxford, Miss.
- Visit Wisconsin
- Visit Woodbury, Georgia
- Visit Wyoming
- Visit Yellowstone National Forest
- Visit Yosemite National Park in California
- Volunteer at a homeless shelter
- Walk across Abbey Road in London, England
- Walk across the Brooklyn Bridge
- Walk from Appomattox, Va. to Burnt Corn
- Walk from my house to my parents’ house
- Walk Montgomery’s Civil Heritage Trail
- Walk on an iceberg
- Walk on hot coals
- Walk somewhere at least 50 miles away
- Walk through “The Grove” at Ole Miss on game day
- “Walk to Mordor”
- Watch “61*” (2001)
- Watch a ballet performance
- Watch a basketball game at Madison Square Garden
- Watch a Braves Game at Turner Field
- Watch a Broadway play or musical
- Watch a Cubs game at Wrigley Field in Chicago
- Watch a Durham Bulls baseball game
- Watch a football game at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium in Gainesville, Fla.
- Watch a football game at Commonwealth Stadium in Lexington, Ky.
- Watch a football game at Kyle Field in College Station, Texas
- Watch a football game at Razorback Stadium in Fayetteville, Ark.
- Watch a football game at Sanford Stadium in Athens, Ga.
- Watch a football game at Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge, La.
- Watch a football game at Tuskegee University
- Watch a football game at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium in Oxford, Miss.
- Watch a football game at War Memorial Stadium in Little Rock, Ark.
- Watch a football game at Williams-Brice Stadium in Columbia, S.C.
- Watch a game of cricket
- Watch a Cactus League Spring Training baseball game
- Watch a Grapefruit League Spring Training baseball game
- Watch a high school football game in Odessa, Texas
- Watch a live rocket launch
- Watch all of Alfred Hitchcock’s movies
- Watch all of Ken Burns’ documentary films
- Watch all of Sports Illustrated’s “Greatest Sports Movies”
- Watch all of The Art of Manliness’ “17 Best Western Movies”
- Watch all of the “Hellraiser” movies
- Watch all of the “James Bond” movies
- Watch all the Academy Award Best Picture winners
- Watch all the old episodes of “The Twilight Zone”
- Watch all the old episodes of the “V” sci-fi series
- Watch a Monday Night Football Game in person
- Watch an arena football game in person
- Watch an Arizona Fall League baseball game
- Watch a NASCAR race in person
- Watch an “Egg Bowl” in person
- Watch an Elvis movie
- Watch an Independent League baseball game
- Watch an interleague Major League Baseball game
- Watch a Packers game at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisc.
- Watch a performance of Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker”
- Watch a pro soccer game in the U.K. in person
- Watch a Red Sox game at Fenway Park in Boston
- Watch a solar eclipse
- Watch a stage production of “A Streetcar Named Desire.”
- Watch a Triple A International League game
- Watch a Triple A Pacific Coast League game
- Watch a World Cup soccer game in person
- Watch a Yankees game at Yankee Stadium in New York
- Watch “Bang the Drum Slowly” (1973)
- Watch “Birth of a Nation” (1915)
- Watch “Brian’s Song” (1971)
- Watch “Bull Durham” (1988)
- Watch Cartoon Network for 24 hours
- Watch Don Siegel’s “Dirty Harry” (1971)
- Watch every episode of “24”
- Watch every episode of “American Horror Story”
- Watch every episode of “Battlestar Galactica”
- Watch every episode of “Breaking Bad”
- Watch every episode of “Dark Shadows”
- Watch every episode of “Fringe”
- Watch every episode of “Game of Thrones”
- Watch every episode of “Ghost Adventures”
- Watch every episode of “Ghost Hunters”
- Watch every episode of “Hill Street Blues”
- Watch every episode of “MST3K”
- Watch every episode of “The Outer Limits”
- Watch every episode of “The Sopranos”
- Watch every episode of “The X-Files”
- Watch every episode of “Walking Dead”
- Watch Fangoria’s “101 Best Horror Movies You’ve Never Seen”
- Watch Fangoria’s 300 Best Horror Films
- Watch “First Spaceship on Venus” (1960)
- Watch “For Love of the Game” (1999)
- Watch “La Dolce Vita” (1960)
- Watch my son kill his first deer
- Watch Outside Magazine’s Best Documentary Films
- Watch “Singin’ in the Rain” (1952)
- Watch Stanley Kubrick’s “Spartacus” (1960)
- Watch Sumo wrestling live
- Watch the American Film Institute’s 100 Funniest Movies
- Watch the Angels play at Angel Stadium in Anaheim
- Watch the Arizona Diamondbacks play at Chase Field
- Watch the “Backyard Brawl” game between Thomasville and Clarke Co.
- Watch “The Battle of Murder Creek” football rivalry game in person
- Watch the “Battle of Prichard” football game between Vigor and Blount
- Watch the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace
- Watch the Chicago White Sox play at US Cellular Field
- Watch the Cincinnati Reds play at Great American Ballpark
- Watch the Cleveland Indians play at Progressive Field
- Watch the Colorado Rockies play at Coors Field
- Watch the Decatur-Austin football game in person
- Watch the Detroit Tigers play at Comerica Park
- Watch the documentary “Kon-Tiki” (1950)
- Watch the Dodgers play at Dodger Stadium
- Watch the Dodgers play the Giants
- Watch the Florida Marlins at Marlins Park
- Watch the Houston Astros play at Minute Maid Park
- Watch the Huntsville Stars play at Joe Davis Stadium in Huntsville
- Watch the Kansas City Royals play at Kauffman Stadium
- Watch “The Lawless Breed” (1953)
- Watch “Them!” (1954)
- Watch the Milwaukee Brewers play at Miller Park
- Watch the Minnesota Twins play at Target Field
- Watch “The Miracle Worker” (1962)
- Watch the Moon Pie Drop in Mobile on New Year’s Eve
- Watch the Murphy – McGill-Toolen football game in person
- Watch the musical “Hello, Dolly!”
- Watch the New York Mets play at Citi Field
- Watch the Oakland A’s play at Oakland Alameda County Coliseum
- Watch the Old Faithful geyser erupt
- Watch the Opelika-Auburn football rivalry game
- Watch the original three “Star Wars” movies back to back to back
- Watch the Pensacola Pelican Drop
- Watch “The Pride of the Yankees” (1942)
- Watch the Rays play at Tropicana Field
- Watch “The Rookie” (2002)
- Watch the San Diego Padres play at Petco Park
- Watch the San Francisco Giants play at AT&T Park
- Watch the Seattle Mariners play at Safeco Field
- Watch the St. Louis Cardinals play at Busch Stadium
- Watch the sun set at Key West
- Watch the Super Six football championships in Birmingham
- Watch the Texas Rangers play at the Rangers Ballpark at Arlington
- Watch the Toronto Blue Jays play at the Rogers Centre
- Watch the Washington County-Millry football rivalry game
- Watch the Washington Nationals play at Nationals Park
- Watch the Yankees play the Red Sox
- Watch “Your Cheatin’ Heart” (1964)
- Water ski
- Wear a 10-gallon hat
- Wear a Rolex watch
- Win a political office
- Win my fantasy baseball league
- Win my fantasy football league
- Work in Antarctica
- Work on a fishing boat
- Write 100 poems
- Write 100 short stories in my Eli McMorn series
- Write a letter to my descendants
- Write a letter to someone famous
- Write a novel
- Write a sonnet
- Write my memoirs
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