Wednesday, January 1, 2014

What sort of things do you have on your 'bucket list'?

A little over two 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 wrote out 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 making 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. Last January, 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.

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 put my list in writing 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.

Some of you may remember that last year, I changed the name of my “bucket list” to “life list” because I thought “bucket list” sounded too morbid. This year, I’m changing it back to “bucket list” because I think it’s a more common term, and it just sounds better.

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 New Year’s Day, 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 again, moving from 1,000 items to 1,111 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.

  1. Attain the 33rd Masonic degree
  2. Attend a Birmingham Barons baseball game
  3. Attend a Catholic mass service
  4. Attend a College World Series game
  5. Attend a comic book convention
  6. Attend a fantasy baseball camp
  7. Attend a high school reunion
  8. Attend Alabama’s “A Day” spring football game
  9. Attend a luau
  10. Attend a Major League Baseball game on Opening Day
  11. Attend a Major League Baseball spring training game
  12. Attend a Mardi Gras ball
  13. Attend a Mobile Bay Bears baseball game
  14. Attend a Montgomery Biscuits baseball game
  15. Attend a Native American sweat lodge ceremony
  16. Attend an NCAA Final Four basketball game
  17. Attend an NFL game at the Superdome in New Orleans
  18. Attend an opera performance
  19. Attend a presidential inauguration
  20. Attend a Renaissance Faire
  21. Attend a Scottish Rite Maundy Thursday ceremony
  22. Attend a session of the Alabama Grand Lodge
  23. Attend a Star Trek convention
  24. Attend a taping of Saturday Night Live
  25. Attend a World Series baseball game
  26. Attend BayFest in Mobile
  27. Attend Comic-Con International in San Diego
  28. Attend Lollapalooza
  29. Attend Oktoberfest at Redstone Arsenal
  30. Attend Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany
  31. Attend Pensacola ParaCon
  32. Attend the Alabama Book Festival
  33. Attend the Army-Navy Football Game
  34. Attend the ASWA’s “Mr. Football” Banquet
  35. Attend the BCS National Championship Game
  36. Attend the Blessing of the Fleet in Bayou La Batre
  37. Attend the Boston Marathon
  38. Attend the Burning Man festival in Nevada
  39. Attend the Dauphin Street Beer Festival
  40. Attend the Daytona 500
  41. Attend the Fiesta Bowl
  42. Attend the Great American Beer Festival in Denver, Colo.
  43. Attend the Great British Beer Festival in London
  44. Attend the Greater Gulf State Fair
  45. Attend the Hangout Music Festival
  46. Attend the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival and CthulhuCon
  47. Attend the Indianapolis 500
  48. Attend the June 24th Masonic Day celebration in Florala
  49. Attend the Kentucky Derby, drink a mint julep and bet on a horse
  50. Attend the Little League World Series
  51. Attend the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
  52. Attend the Major League Baseball All-Star Game
  53. Attend the Masters Golf Tournament in Augusta, Ga.
  54. Attend the National Finals Rodeo
  55. Attend the NBA All-Star Game
  56. Attend the New Year’s Eve celebration in Time’s Square
  57. Attend the New York Marathon
  58. Attend the NFL Pro Bowl
  59. Attend the NHL All-Star Game
  60. Attend the Notre Dame-Michigan football game
  61. Attend the opening of the Iditarod in Anchorage, Alaska
  62. Attend the Opp Rattlesnake Rodeo
  63. Attend the Orange Bowl
  64. Attend the Republican National Convention
  65. Attend the Rocket City Brewfest in Huntsville
  66. Attend the Rose Bowl Game
  67. Attend the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona, Spain
  68. Attend the SEC Championship Football Game in Atlanta
  69. Attend the Stanley Cup Finals
  70. Attend the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Savannah, Ga.
  71. Attend the Sugar Bowl
  72. Attend the Super Bowl
  73. Attend the Tennessee Williams-New Orleans Literary Festival
  74. Attend the Tour de France
  75. Attend the UFO festival in Fyffe, Ala.
  76. Attend the Wimbledon Tennis tournament in London
  77. Attend the X-Games
  78. Attend Williams Station Day in Atmore
  79. Bake a birthday cake for my wife
  80. Bake a loaf of bread
  81. Bake a rhubarb pie from scratch
  82. Be a game show contestant
  83. Be an extra in a movie
  84. Be a vegetarian for one month
  85. Become a bonded notary public
  86. Become a certified beer judge
  87. Become a certified electrician
  88. Become a certified/licensed bartender
  89. Become a certified lifeguard
  90. Become a certified NWS Cooperative Weather Observer
  91. Become a certified pilot
  92. Become a certified plumber
  93. Become a certified private investigator
  94. Become a certified SCUBA diver
  95. Become a certified UFO field investigator
  96. Become a certified welder
  97. Become a licensed barber
  98. Become a licensed/certified ham radio operator
  99. Become a lifetime member of the National Geographic Society
  100. Become a lifetime member of the Scottish Rite
  101. Become a member of the Royal Geographical Society
  102. Become a member of the Smithsonian Institution
  103. Become a Shriner
  104. Be complaint-free for 30 days and earn a Complaint Free bracelet
  105. Bike a “century”
  106. Bowl a 300
  107. Break a Guinness World Record
  108. Brew (and drink) homemade beer
  109. Build a boat
  110. Build a cabin
  111. Build a model airplane
  112. Build a model ship
  113. Build and fly a kite with the kids
  114. Build and launch a model rocket with the kids
  115. Build a raft and float it down the river
  116. Build the kids a tree house
  117. Buy a good metal detector and use it
  118. Buy a GPS device and learn to use it
  119. Buy stock
  120. Cage dive amongst sharks
  121. Camp out in the backyard with the kids
  122. Catch a fly ball at a Major League Baseball game
  123. Catch a piranha and eat it
  124. Catch a shark
  125. Cave dive
  126. Celebrate the Fourth of July in Washington, D.C.
  127. Climb a forestry service fire tower
  128. Climb an active volcano
  129. Climb Mount Everest
  130. Climb Mount Fuji, Japan
  131. Climb Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania
  132. Climb Mount McKinley (Denali)
  133. Climb Mount Rainer in Washington
  134. Climb to the top of a water tower
  135. Compete in the World Championship Domino Tournament in Andalusia
  136. Complete a food challenge at a restaurant
  137. Complete an obstacle course adventure endurance race
  138. Complete a semester at the National Outdoor Leadership School
  139. Complete a sprint distance triathlon
  140. Complete an Ironman distance triathlon
  141. Complete an Olympic distance triathlon
  142. Complete the Alabama Hunter Education Course
  143. Cross the Artic Circle
  144. Cross the equator
  145. Dive the Great Barrier Reef in Queensland, Australia
  146. Do 10 pull-ups
  147. Do 30 burpees in a row
  148. Do 100 consecutive pushups
  149. Do a 24-hour fast
  150. Do a genealogy interview with my grandmother
  151. Do genealogy interviews with my parents
  152. Do the 30-Day Push-Up Challenge (100 push-ups a day for 30 days)
  153. Do The Art of Manliness’ “30 Days to a Better Man” Challenge
  154. Do the Polar Bear Plunge at the Flora-Bama on New Years Day
  155. Drink absinthe
  156. Drink a key lime milkshake at Stacey Old Tyme Soda Fountain in Foley
  157. Drink from an artisan well
  158. Drink Kopi Luwak
  159. Drink Old Crow bourbon
  160. Drink port
  161. Drink sake
  162. Drive a Corvette
  163. Drive across country from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean
  164. Drive the entire length of the Natchez Trace Parkway
  165. Drive the Lincoln Highway from New York to California
  166. Drink a Guinness Beer in Dublin, Ireland on St. Patrick’s Day
  167. Drink a pint in an English pub
  168. Drink milk from a fresh coconut
  169. Drive Alabama’s “Civil War Trail”
  170. Drive on the German Autobahn
  171. Drive Route 66 from Chicago to Los Angeles
  172. Drive the Explorers Highway across Australia
  173. Drive the Great Ocean Road in southern Australia
  174. Drive the Pacific Coast Highway in California
  175. Drive U.S. Highway 31 from Spanish Fort to Mackinaw City, Mich.
  176. Earn a black belt in karate
  177. Earn a Master’s Degree
  178. Earn an honorary degree
  179. Eat a cannoli
  180. Eat a ghost chili pepper
  181. Eat a hot dog from a street cart
  182. Eat alligator
  183. Eat an insect
  184. Eat at a Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse
  185. Eat at Emeril’s Delmonico Restaurant in New Orleans
  186. Eat at Emily’s Café in Greenville
  187. Eat a tequila worm
  188. Eat at every restaurant in Conecuh County at least once
  189. Eat at every restaurant in Monroe County at least once
  190. Eat at Ezell’s Fish Camp in Lavaca, Ala. (Choctaw County)
  191. Eat at Honey’s Hot Dogs in Dothan
  192. Eat at Huggin’ Molly’s restaurant in Abbeville
  193. Eat at Mama Nem’s in Thomaston
  194. Eat at McGuire’s Irish Pub
  195. Eat at Momma Goldberg’s in Auburn
  196. Eat at Sisters restaurant in Troy
  197. Eat at Tacky Jack’s in Gulf Shores
  198. Eat at The Battle House Hotel in Mobile
  199. Eat at The Compleat Angler Seafood Grille & Bar in Daphne
  200. Eat at the Dew Drop Inn in Mobile
  201. Eat at the Market By The Bay in Daphne
  202. Eat at the Tally-Ho restaurant in Selma
  203. Eat at The Victoria in Anniston
  204. Eat at the Wildflower Café in Mentone
  205. Eat at T.P. Crockmier’s in Mobile
  206. Eat Baba Ghanoush
  207. Eat caviar
  208. Eat chitterlings
  209. Eat crawfish pie at Ca-John’s in Faunsdale
  210. Eat Eggs Benedict
  211. Eat Escargot
  212. Eat Foie Gras
  213. Eat haggis
  214. Eat kangaroo
  215. Eat kimchi
  216. Eat peach ice cream at the Durbin Farms Market in Clanton
  217. Eat penguin meat
  218. Eat rabbit
  219. Eat sautéed grouper at The Rawl’s in Enterprise
  220. Eat seal meat
  221. Eat shark
  222. Eat turtle soup
  223. Escort my daughter down the aisle at her wedding
  224. Examine a crop circle
  225. Experience an earthquake
  226. Experience a session in a sensory deprivation tank
  227. Experience weightlessness
  228. Fast for three days, drinking nothing but water
  229. Feed a koala bear
  230. Find a four-leaf clover
  231. Find an arrowhead
  232. Finish a newspaper crossword puzzle
  233. Float in the Dead Sea
  234. Fly an airplane
  235. Fly at the speed of sound
  236. Fly first class
  237. Fly in an open cockpit airplane
  238. Fly with the Blue Angels
  239. Geocache
  240. Get 10,000 followers on Twitter
  241. Get a Commercial Driver’s License (CDL)
  242. Get a manicure
  243. Get a passport
  244. Get a pedicure
  245. Get a tattoo
  246. Go backpacking in Europe
  247. Go barefoot for an entire week
  248. Go clam digging
  249. Golf 18 holes
  250. Go on a “Bigfoot hunt” in the Pacific Northwest
  251. Go on a dog-sledding trip
  252. Go on a ghost tour in Savannah, Ga.
  253. Go on a humanitarian trip to Africa
  254. Go on a mission trip
  255. Go on an African safari
  256. Go on an alligator hunt
  257. Go on an urban exploration trip
  258. Go on a police ride along
  259. Go on a real duck hunt
  260. Go on a volkswalk
  261. Go to a midnight showing at a theatre
  262. Go whale watching.
  263. Grow my hair out, shoulder-length
  264. Have a “date night” with my daughter
  265. Have a Halloween bonfire with hot apple cider
  266. Have an article published in “The Historical News”
  267. Have washboard abs
  268. Help build a church
  269. Help build a Habitat for Humanity home
  270. Help deliver a baby
  271. Hike a glacier
  272. Hike Hadrian’s Wall Across the UK
  273. Hike in Alaska
  274. Hike the Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge trails
  275. Hike the Continental Divide Trail
  276. Hike the entire length of the Eastern Shore Trail
  277. Hike the Pacific Northwest Trail
  278. Hike the trails at Chickasabogue Park
  279. Hike the trails at Gulf State Park
  280. Hike the trails at Village Point Park in Daphne
  281. Hike the Walls of Jericho at Hytop
  282. Hike the Weeks Bay Nature Trail near Fairhope
  283. Hike to Everest Base Camp
  284. Hike to the bottom of the Grand Canyon
  285. Hike to the top of Mount Cheaha
  286. Hold a bezoar
  287. Hunt and find ancient shark teeth
  288. Hunt and kill a bear
  289. Hunt and kill a coyote
  290. Hunt and kill a lion in Tanzania (legal there)
  291. Hunt and kill an elephant in South Africa (legal there)
  292. Hunt and kill a wild pig
  293. Hunt and kill a wild turkey
  294. Hunt for geese
  295. Ice fish
  296. Ice skate
  297. Install a home weather station
  298. Interview someone who claims to have been abducted by aliens
  299. Invent something and patent it
  300. Join a disaster relief effort
  301. Join the Alabama Archeological Society
  302. Join the American Legion
  303. Join the Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore
  304. Join the Knights of St. Andrew
  305. Join the Monroe County Heritage Museums
  306. Join the Monroe County Rescue Squad
  307. Join the National Rifle Association
  308. Join the Sons of the American Revolution
  309. Join the Veterans of Foreign Wars
  310. Join the York Rite of Freemasonry
  311. Kayak the Sepulga River Canoe Trail
  312. Kill a deer with a bow and arrow
  313. Kill a deer with a traditional muzzle-loading rifle
  314. Kiss the Blarney Stone in Ireland
  315. Kite-surf
  316. Launch a newspaper boat with the kids
  317. Learn a magic trick
  318. Learn archery
  319. Learn Bartitsu
  320. Lean Krav Maga
  321. Learn to braze
  322. Learn to cook
  323. Learn to fly-fish
  324. Learn to play cribbage
  325. Learn to play croquet
  326. Learn to play dominoes
  327. Learn to play golf
  328. Learn to kayak
  329. Learn to play backgammon
  330. Learn to play poker
  331. Learn to ride a motorcycle
  332. Learn to sail
  333. Learn to say the alphabet backwards
  334. Learn to solder
  335. Learn to speak Arabic
  336. Learn to speak French
  337. Learn to speak German
  338. Learn to speak Russian
  339. Learn to speak Spanish
  340. Learn to surf
  341. Lean to use a sextant
  342. Learn to whistle with my fingers
  343. Listen to Beethoven’s “Fifth Symphony” from start to finish
  344. Listen to Bob Dylan’s “Highway 61 Revisited” from start to finish
  345. Listen to George Handel’s “Messiah” from start to finish
  346. Listen to Hank Williams’ “40 Greatest Hits” from start to finish
  347. Listen to Johnny Cash’s “Live at Folsom Prison” from start to finish
  348. Listen to Mozart’s opera, “The Magic Flute”
  349. Listen to “Pet Sounds” by the Beach Boys
  350. Listen to Pink Floyd’s “The Dark Side of the Moon” from start to finish
  351. Listen to Rolling Stone’s ‘500 Greatest Albums of All Time”
  352. Listen to “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” by The Beatles
  353. Listen to the Grateful Dead’s “Live/Dead” from start to finish
  354. Listen to Tom Waits’ “The Heart of Saturday Night” from start to finish
  355. Listen to ZZ Top’s “Eliminator” from start to finish
  356. Live to see my first grandchild
  357. Live to see the return of Halley’s Comet
  358. Log 1,000 total lifetime hiking miles
  359. Make a candle
  360. Make a handmade bow and arrows set
  361. Make a hollow book
  362. Make an omelet
  363. Make a shillelagh
  364. Make homemade wine
  365. Make soap
  366. Meet a Heisman Trophy winner
  367. Meet A.J. McCarron
  368. Meet a past President of the United States
  369. Meet author Riley Kelly
  370. Meet Bear Grylls
  371. Meet Bill Belichick
  372. Meet David Duchovny
  373. Meet Eli Gold
  374. Meet George R.R. Martin
  375. Meet Harper Lee
  376. Meet Harrison Ford (Indiana Jones/Han Solo)
  377. Meet Jason Hawes from “Ghost Hunters.”
  378. Meet Joe Hill
  379. Meet Jon Krakauer
  380. Meet Kyle MacLachlan
  381. Meet Lou Holtz
  382. Meet Mike Mignola
  383. Meet Neil Young
  384. Meet Nick Saban
  385. Meet someone else with my name
  386. Meet the President of the United States
  387. Meet Stephen King
  388. Meet Warren St. John
  389. Meet Will Clark
  390. Meet William Shatner
  391. Meet Zak Bagans of “Ghost Adventures”
  392. Memorize Abraham Lincoln’s “Gettysburg Address”
  393. Memorize all the Super Bowl winners
  394. Memorize all the World Series winners
  395. Memorize “Do It Now” by Berton Braley
  396. Memorize Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven”
  397. Memorize the books of the Bible
  398. Memorize the Greek alphabet
  399. Memorize the Heisman Trophy winners
  400. Memorize the Presidents of the United States
  401. Memorize the world capitals
  402. Milk a cow. Drink the milk.
  403. Mule ride down the Grand Canyon
  404. Noodle a catfish
  405. Order a Martini, “Shaken, not stirred”
  406. Own a velvet Elvis
  407. Paddle the entire length of the Alabama Scenic River Trail
  408. Paint a self-portrait
  409. Pan for gold
  410. Paraglide
  411. Parasail
  412. Participate in an arm-wrestling competition
  413. Participate in an expedition
  414. Participate in a séance
  415. Photograph 100 historic markers
  416. Photograph a ghost
  417. Photograph a tornado from way too close
  418. Pierce something on my body
  419. Play a MMORPG
  420. Play roulette in Las Vegas
  421. Play rugby
  422. Play the bagpipes
  423. Publish a novel
  424. Publish a short story
  425. Pull a ride-along shift with LifeFlight
  426. Put together a “vampire hunting” kit
  427. Raft the Grand Canyon
  428. Read a banned book
  429. Read “Alabama Moon” by Watt Key
  430. Read “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll
  431. Read all 12 of the “Foxfire” books
  432. Read all 26 issues of the original “Who's Who in the DC Universe” series
  433. Read all 33 books in the “TIME-Life Mysteries of the Unknown” series
  434. Read all 125 of Agee Films “Great Southern Books”
  435. Read all of Agatha Christie’s books
  436. Read all of Bear Grylls’ books
  437. Read all of Carl Sagan’s books
  438. Read all of Charles Dickens’ novels
  439. Read all of Clive Cussler’s books
  440. Read all of Cormac McCarthy’s books
  441. Read all of George R.R. Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire” novels
  442. Read all of Hunter S. Thompson’s books
  443. Read all of John Grisham’s books
  444. Read all of John Keel’s books
  445. Read all of Louis L’Amour’s books
  446. Read all of Michael Connelly’s books
  447. Read all of Michael Crichton’s books
  448. Read all of Raymond Chandler’s novels
  449. Read all of Richard Dawkins’ books
  450. Read all of Riley Kelly’s books
  451. Read all of Robert Ludlum’s novels
  452. Read all of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s “Sherlock Holmes” stories
  453. Read all of Sports Illustrated’s “Top 100 Sports Books of All Time”
  454. Read all of the adventure books recommended by “The Art of Manliness”
  455. Read all of the books on the “101 Crackerjack Sea Books” list
  456. Read all of the “Twilight” novels by Stephenie Meyer
  457. Read all of Tom Clancy’s novels
  458. Read all of Truman Capote’s books
  459. Read all the Harry Potter books
  460. Read “Anna Karenina” by Leo Tolstoy
  461. Read “A River Runs Through It” by Norman Maclean
  462. Read “A Separate Peace” by John Knowles
  463. Read “A Streetcar Named Desire” by Tennessee Williams
  464. Read “A Tale of Two Cities” by Charles Dickens
  465. Read “A Wrinkle in Time” by Madeleine L’Engle
  466. Read “Bartram’s Travels”
  467. Read “Batman: The Long Halloween”
  468. Read “Billy Budd” by Herman Melville
  469. Read “Bulfinch’s Mythology” by Thomas Bulfinch
  470. Read “Charles Kuralt’s America” by Charles Kuralt
  471. Read “Cloud Atlas” by David Mitchell
  472. Read “Confederates in the Attic” by Tony Horwitz
  473. Read “Crisis on Infinite Earths”
  474. Read “David Copperfield” by Charles Dickens
  475. Read “Death of a Salesman” by Arthur Miller (1949)
  476. Read Discover Magazine’s “25 Greatest Science Books of All Time”
  477. Read “Don Quixote” by Miguel de Cervantes
  478. Read Edward O. Wilson’s biography, “Naturalist”
  479. Read “Following the Equator” by Mark Twain
  480. Read “Football Scouting Methods” by Steve Belichick
  481. Read “Foucault’s Pendulum” by Umberto Eco (1990)
  482. Read “Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café” by Fannie Flagg
  483. Read “Gilgamesh”
  484. Read “Gone With the Wind” by Margaret Mitchell
  485. Read “Great Expectations” by Charles Dickens
  486. Read “Gulliver’s Travels” by Jonathan Swift
  487. Read “Hints to Travelers” by Francis Galton
  488. Read “How Good Do You Want to Be” by Nick Saban
  489. Read “James and the Giant Peach” by Roald Dahl
  490. Read James Fenimore Cooper’s “Leatherstocking Tales”
  491. Read “Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Bronte
  492. Read “Jaws” by Peter Benchley
  493. Read Jim Butcher’s “The Dresden Files” series
  494. Read Lee Child’s “Jack Reacher” novels
  495. Read “Les Miserables” by Victor Hugo
  496. Read “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men” by James Agee and Walker Evans
  497. Read “Life of Johnson” by James Boswell
  498. Read “Lolita” by Vladimir Nabokov
  499. Read “Lonesome Dove” by Larry McMurtry
  500. Read “Maus: A Survivor’s Tale” by Art Spiegleman
  501. Read “Mein Kampf” by Adolph Hitler
  502. Read “Morals and Dogma” by Albert Pike
  503. Read National Geographic’s 100 Best Adventure Books
  504. Read Outside’s “25 Best Adventure Books of the Last 100 Years”
  505. Read “Perdido Street Station” by China Mieville
  506. Read Pickett’s “History of Alabama”
  507. Read Playboy’s “Top 20 Books Every Man Must Read”
  508. Read “Riley’s History of Conecuh County”
  509. Read Robert Ludlum’s “Bourne Trilogy” novels
  510. Read “Robinson Crusoe” by Daniel Defoe
  511. Read “Sons and Lovers” by D.H. Lawrence
  512. Read “South!” by Sir Ernest Shackleton
  513. Read Stieg Larsson’s “Millennium” trilogy
  514. Read “Stuart Little” by E.B. White
  515. Read “Tarzan of the Apes” by Edgar Rice Burroughs
  516. Read the 101 Books Recommended for College-Bound Readers
  517. Read the “300” graphic novel
  518. Read “The Aeneid” by Virgil
  519. Read “The Anubus Gates” by Tim Powers
  520. Read the Art of Manliness’ 50 Best Books for Boys and Young Men
  521. Read “The Better Angels of Our Nature” by Michael Halleran
  522. Read the Book of Mormon
  523. Read the books on the Horror Writers Association Horror Reading List
  524. Read “The Brothers Karamazov” by Dostoevsky
  525. Read “The Children of Levi Peacock” by John J. Pierce
  526. Read “The Civil War” by Shelby Foote
  527. Read “The Communist Manifesto” by Karl Marx
  528. Read the complete Bible – in Spanish
  529. Read the complete “Chronicles of Narnia” by C.S. Lewis
  530. Read “The Complete Grimm’s Fair Tales”
  531. Read the complete Neil Gaiman “Sandman” graphic novel series
  532. Read “The Complete Poems of Walt Whitman”
  533. Read “The Complete Stories of Franz Kafka”
  534. Read the complete “Walking Dead” comic book series
  535. Read the complete works of Jack London
  536. Read the complete works of John Steinbeck
  537. Read the complete works of William Faulkner
  538. Read the complete works of William Shakespeare
  539. Read “The Diary of Anne Frank”
  540. Read “The Divine Comedy” by Dante Alighieri
  541. Read “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test” by Tom Wolfe
  542. Read “The Federalist Papers” by Alexander Hamilton
  543. Read “The Glass Menagerie” by Tennessee Williams
  544. Read “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” by Douglas Adams
  545. Read the Ian Fleming “James Bond” novels
  546. Read “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair
  547. Read “The Kolchak Papers” by Jeff Rice
  548. Read the Koran
  549. Read “The Lands of Silence” by Clements R. Markham
  550. Read “The Life of Pi” by Yann Martel
  551. Read the major works of Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton
  552. Read “The Once and Future King” by T.H. White
  553. Read “The Origin of Species” by Charles Darwin
  554. Read “The Pilgrim’s Progress” by John Bunyan
  555. Read the play “Our American Cousin”
  556. Read “The Postman Always Rings Twice” by James Mallahan Cain
  557. Read “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich” by William L. Shirer
  558. Read “The Scarlet Letter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  559. Read “The Story of My Life” by Helen Keller
  560. Read the “V for Vendetta” graphic novel
  561. Read “The Walton Experience” by Travis Walton
  562. Read the “Wheel of Time” series
  563. Read “The Wind in the Willows” by Kenneth Grahame
  564. Read “Thus Spake Zarathustra” by Friedrich Nietzsche
  565. Read “True Grit” by Charles Portis
  566. Read “UFO Contact at Pascagoula” by Charles Hickson and William Mendez
  567. Read “Ulysses” by James Joyce
  568. Read “Walden” by Henry David Thoreau
  569. Read “Walking the Amazon” by Ed Stafford
  570. Read “War and Peace” by Leo Tolstoy
  571. Read “Watership Down” by Richard Adams
  572. Read “Wuthering Heights” by Emily Bronte
  573. Receive a “Key to the City”
  574. Register for NaNoWriMo and Write a Novel in One Month
  575. Ride a bike across Alabama
  576. Ride a camel
  577. Ride a gondola in Venice
  578. Ride a Greyhound bus from Portland, Oregon to Portland, Maine
  579. Ride a mechanical bull
  580. Ride a plane or boat in the Bermuda Triangle
  581. Ride a San Francisco trolley
  582. Ride a steamboat on the Mississippi River.
  583. Ride in a blimp
  584. Ride in a helicopter
  585. Ride in a horse and carriage
  586. Ride in a hot air balloon
  587. Ride on the Orient Express
  588. Ride on the top of a moving train
  589. Ride the Chunnel
  590. Ride the Davis Ferry from Haines Island to Packer’s Bend
  591. Ride the Gee’s Bend Ferry
  592. Ride the London Underground
  593. Ride the New York City subway
  594. Ring the opening (or closing) bell on Wall Street
  595. Rock climb
  596. Run a marathon… without stopping at least once
  597. Run a Spartan Race
  598. Run a Tough Mudder race
  599. Run a Warrior Dash race
  600. Run for a political office
  601. Run in 100 official footraces
  602. Run in a “Color Run”
  603. Run in a foot race at night
  604. Run in the EMC Health & Wellness 5K
  605. Run the Chicago Marathon
  606. Run the Fifth Avenue Mile in New York City
  607. Run the Joe Cain Classic 5K in Mobile
  608. Run the Pensacola Double Bridge Run
  609. Run the Senior Bowl Charity Run in Mobile
  610. Run in the Waynesboro Whistle Stop 5K in Waynesboro, Miss.
  611. Run in the Williams Station Day 5K in Atmore
  612. Sail across an ocean
  613. Sample some Alaska Distillery vodka (made from glacial ice)
  614. SCUBA dive a ship wreck
  615. See a laser light show at a planetarium
  616. See a live performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony
  617. See all of the Saturn Award winning movies
  618. See a performance of Cirque du Soleil
  619. See a performance of “Phantom of the Opera”
  620. See a play performed at The Globe theatre in London
  621. See comedian Daniel Tosh perform live
  622. See Michelangelo’s “David”
  623. See Mount Rushmore in Keystone, South Dakota
  624. See Niagra Falls in person
  625. See the Acropolis in Greece
  626. See the Amazon River in person
  627. See the Boll Weevil Monument in Enterprise
  628. See the Bottle Creek Indian Mounds in the Mobile-Tensaw Delta
  629. See the Congo River in person
  630. See the Dropkick Murphys in concert
  631. See the statue of Edgar Allan Poe in the Bronx, New York
  632. See the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri
  633. See the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco
  634. See the Ignatius J. Reilly statue on Canal Street in New Orleans
  635. See the inside of the Old Civil Air Patrol Building in Evergreen
  636. See the Joe Louis Statue in Lafayette
  637. See the Nazca Lines in Peru
  638. See the Nile River
  639. See the Northern Lights from somewhere in the polar regions
  640. See the Rosetta Stone at the British Museum in London
  641. See the Seven Wonders of the World
  642. See the Sphinx in Egypt
  643. See the Whiskey Bottle Tombstone in Clayton
  644. Serve an enlistment in the U.S. Navy Reserves
  645. Serve as the Worshipful Master of a Masonic lodge
  646. Serve a term on the Monroe County Heritage Museums’ board of directors
  647. Set foot on all seven continents
  648. Sew something you can wear
  649. Shoot an AK-47
  650. Solve a Rubik’s Cube
  651. Skydive
  652. Sleep in a castle
  653. Sleep in a hammock
  654. Sleep in an igloo
  655. Sleep in an overnight train
  656. Sleep in a stable on a haystack
  657. Slide down a firehouse pole
  658. Smoke a Cuban cigar… in Cuba
  659. Snowboard
  660. Snow ski
  661. Spend “Fat Tuesday” in New Orleans during Mardi Gras
  662. Spend the night aboard the USS Alabama
  663. Spend the night at the bottom of the Grand Canyon
  664. Spend the night at the Hotel Provincial in New Orleans
  665. Spend the night at the King Plantation House at Uriah, Alabama
  666. Spend the night at the Myrtles Plantation in St. Francisville, La.
  667. Spend the night in a bed and breakfast
  668. Spend the night in a cave
  669. Spend the night in a submarine
  670. Spend the night in the Asa Johnston Farmhouse
  671. Spend the night in the Claiborne Masonic Lodge at Perdue Hill
  672. Spend the night in the Hybart House in Monroeville
  673. Spend the night in the Old Lowrey Trust Store in Burnt Corn
  674. Spend the night in the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colo.
  675. Spend the night on a beach
  676. Spend the night on a houseboat
  677. Spend the night on Bradley Ridge
  678. Spend the night on Nancy Mountain
  679. Spend the night on the sandbar at Bailey’s Creek
  680. Spend the night on top of “Tater Hill”
  681. Spend the night out in the yard on a night there will be a hard frost
  682. Stand in a red British phone booth
  683. Stand on an off-shore oil rig
  684. Stand on the North Pole. Look for Santa.
  685. Stand on the South Pole
  686. Stand on top of a mesa
  687. Stand on top of the old Bank of Evergreen building
  688. Start a business
  689. Stay awake for 48 hours straight
  690. Summit Ayers Rock in Australia
  691. Swim across the Alabama River
  692. Swim in one of the Great Lakes
  693. Swim with dolphins
  694. Take a Greek Isles cruise
  695. Take an Alaskan cruise
  696. Take an Around-the-World cruise
  697. Take an art class
  698. Take an IQ test
  699. Take a Trans-Atlantic cruise
  700. Take a wine tasting class
  701. Take flying lessons
  702. Take my son to Las Vegas on his 21st birthday
  703. Take part in a Civil War battle reenactment
  704. Take part in an archeological dig or fossil hunt
  705. Take pictures in a photo booth
  706. Take the “Damn the Torpedoes!” Civil War Trail
  707. Take the Decatur Civil War Walking Tour
  708. Take the Hank Williams Trail tour from Georgiana to Montgomery
  709. Take the historic downtown Greenville walking tour
  710. Take the historic downtown Pensacola walking tour
  711. Take the Huntsville Ghost Walk Tour
  712. Take the Jack the Ripper tour in London
  713. Take the kids on an overnight camping trip
  714. Take the kids to a WWF wrestling event
  715. Take the kids to DeSoto Caverns
  716. Take the kids to Disney World in Orlando, Fla.
  717. Take the kids to Fort Gaines
  718. Take the kids to Fort Morgan
  719. Take the kids to Horseshoe Bend
  720. Take the kids to the Battle of Fort Mims reenactment in Stockton
  721. Take the kids on the Mobile Bay Ferry
  722. Take the kids to the Moundville Archeological Park
  723. Take the kids to the Senior Bowl in Mobile
  724. Take the kids to the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville
  725. Take the kids to Waterville
  726. Take the self-guided Black Belt Ghost Trail
  727. Throw a coin into the Trevi Fountain and make a wish
  728. Throw out the ceremonial first pitch at a baseball game
  729. Thru-hike the Appalachian Trail
  730. Touch a genuine crystal skull
  731. Touch a moon rock
  732. Tour a beer brewery
  733. Tour a book publishing facility
  734. Tour a Mayan ruin
  735. Tour Prague in the Czech Republic
  736. Tour the Borden House in Fall River, Mass.
  737. Tour the Catacombs of Paris
  738. Tour the Gettysburg battlefield
  739. Tour the USS North Carolina in Wilmington, N.C.
  740. Tour the Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Louisville, Ky.
  741. Transcribe, edit and revise my journals from my time in Kuwait and Iraq
  742. Travel coast to coast by train
  743. Travel the Forrest-Streight Route
  744. Travel the Monroeville Birdhouse Trail
  745. Travel the Silk Route
  746. Travel the Trans-Canadian Highway from coast to coast
  747. Try acupuncture
  748. Try a scary experiment I saw someone do on YouTube
  749. Try deep-fried twinkies
  750. Try Hakarl (fermented shark)
  751. Try stand-up paddle boarding
  752. Use a Ouija board
  753. Visit 177A Bleecker Street in New York’s Greenwich Village (Dr. Strange’s Sanctum Sanctorum)
  754. Visit Abraham Lincoln’s grave
  755. Visit a “Forbidden Planet” bookstore
  756. Visit Alcatraz prison
  757. Visit all 50 of the United States
  758. Visit and tour the oldest Masonic lodge in Alabama (Huntsville)
  759. Visit Angkor Wat in Angkor, Cambodia
  760. Visit a presidential library
  761. Visit Area 51
  762. Visit a synagogue
  763. Visit Auschwitz
  764. Visit Austin, Texas
  765. Visit Bailey’s Well at Franklin
  766. Visit Bangkok, Thailand
  767. Visit Beale Street in Memphis, Tenn.
  768. Visit Bear Bryant’s grave
  769. Visit Belcourt Castle in Newport, Rhode Island
  770. Visit Berlin
  771. Visit Bladon Springs Cemetery in Choctaw County
  772. Visit Boston, Mass.
  773. Visit Canada
  774. Visit Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico
  775. Visit Charleston, S.C.
  776. Visit Chernobyl in the Ukraine
  777. Visit Chile
  778. Visit China
  779. Visit Cleveland, Ohio
  780. Visit Colombia
  781. Visit Confederate Memorial Park in Marbury
  782. Visit ‘Confederate Rest’ & National Cemetery in Mobile
  783. Visit Connecticut
  784. Visit Consolation Church in Butler County
  785. Visit Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas
  786. Visit Cuba
  787. Visit Dracula’s Castle in Romania
  788. Visit Easter Island
  789. Visit Edgar Allan Poe’s grave in Baltimore, Md.
  790. Visit Edinburgh, Scotland
  791. Visit every country in Europe
  792. Visit Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco
  793. Visit Ford Field in Detroit
  794. Visit Fort Pickens
  795. Visit Fort Stoddert near Mount Vernon
  796. Visit Four Corners (Utah, New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado)
  797. Visit Frankenstein’s Castle in Darmstadt, Germany
  798. Visit Freemason’s Hall in Edinburgh, Scotland
  799. Visit Freemason’s Hall in Philadelphia
  800. Visit Gaineswood in Demopolis
  801. Visit Ghana
  802. Visit Glacier National Park in Montana
  803. Visit Greece
  804. Visit “Ground Zero” in New York
  805. Visit Harvard University’s campus
  806. Visit Hawaii
  807. Visit Helsinki, Finland
  808. Visit Hong Kong
  809. Visit H.P. Lovecraft’s grave in Providence, R.I.
  810. Visit India
  811. Visit Ireland
  812. Visit Istanbul, Turkey
  813. Visit Japan
  814. Visit Jay and Silent Bob’s Secret Stash comic book store in N.J.
  815. Visit Jerusalem, Israel
  816. Visit Jim Morrison’s grave in Paris, France
  817. Visit Laos
  818. Visit Lebanon
  819. Visit Loch Ness in Scotland
  820. Visit London, England
  821. Visit Los Angeles, Calif.
  822. Visit Machu Picchu in Peru
  823. Visit Maine
  824. Visit Mammoth Cave in Kentucky
  825. Visit Manhattan Island
  826. Visit Melbourne, Australia
  827. Visit Mexico City, Mexico
  828. Visit Moscow, Russia
  829. Visit Mozambique
  830. Visit my great-uncle’s WWI grave in France
  831. Visit Namibia
  832. Visit National Geographic’s Headquarters in Washington, D.C.
  833. Visit New Jersey
  834. Visit New York City
  835. Visit New Zealand
  836. Visit Norway
  837. Visit Oak Island in Canada
  838. Visit Oakleigh Mansion in Mobile
  839. Visit Old Cahaba
  840. Visit Omaha Beach in Normandy
  841. Visit Panama
  842. Visit Paris, France
  843. Visit Patagonia, Argentina
  844. Visit Peacock’s Bridge in Stantonsburg, N.C.
  845. Visit Pearl Harbor
  846. Visit Petra, Jordan
  847. Visit Point Pleasant, West Virginia
  848. Visit Pratt Hall at Huntingdon College in Montgomery
  849. Visit Providence, Rhode Island
  850. Visit Puerto Rico
  851. Visit Red Eagle’s grave
  852. Visit Redwood National Park in California
  853. Visit Reykjavik, Iceland
  854. Visit Rickwood Field in Birmingham
  855. Visit Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  856. Visit Roanoke Island
  857. Visit Rome
  858. Visit Rosslyn Chapel in Roslin, Scotland
  859. Visit Roswell, New Mexico
  860. Visit Rowan Oak (William Faulkner’s home) in Oxford, Miss.
  861. Visit Salem, Mass.
  862. Visit Sanders Cave at Brooklyn
  863. Visit San Francisco, Calif.
  864. Visit San Francisco’s Chinatown District
  865. Visit San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury District
  866. Visit Singapore
  867. Visit Sir Richard Francis Burton’s grave at Mortlake, Surrey
  868. Visit Sketoe’s Hole in Dale County
  869. Visit Slap Out, Alabama
  870. Visit South Korea
  871. Visit Sri Lanka
  872. Visit St. Augustine, Fla. and the St. Augustine Lighthouse
  873. Visit St. Louis, Missouri
  874. Visit Stonehenge in Wiltshire County, England
  875. Visit Sturdivant Hall in Selma
  876. Visit Switzerland
  877. Visit Tahiti
  878. Visit the Adventurers Club in Chicago
  879. Visit the Alabama Military Hall of Honor in Marion
  880. Visit the Alabama Museum of Natural History in Tuscaloosa
  881. Visit the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame Museum in Birmingham
  882. Visit the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas
  883. Visit the Alamuchee-Bellamy Covered Bridge in Livingston
  884. Visit the Amazon Rain Forest
  885. Visit the American UFO Sci-Fi Museum in Wisconsin
  886. Visit the Atlantic City Boardwalk in Atlantic City, NJ
  887. Visit the Ave Maria Grotto in Cullman
  888. Visit the Azores islands
  889. Visit the Baja Peninsula
  890. Visit the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y.
  891. Visit the “Bear Man” grave at New Hope Baptist Church at Natchez
  892. Visit the Beauvior House (Jefferson Davis’ home) in Biloxi
  893. Visit the Berman Museum of World History in Anniston
  894. Visit the “Betty and Barney Hill Incident” site in New Hampshire
  895. Visit the birthplace of Edgar Allan Poe in Boston, Mass.
  896. Visit the British Museum in London
  897. Visit the Chickamauga National Military Park
  898. Visit the Choctaw County Historical Museum in Gilbertown
  899. Visit the Coney Island Boardwalk
  900. Visit the crash site of the “Little Eva” in Australia
  901. Visit the Devil’s Tower National Monument in Wyoming
  902. Visit the Drish House in Tuscaloosa
  903. Visit the Eastern State Penitentiary in Pa.
  904. Visit the Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond, Va.
  905. Visit the Egyptian Museum in Cairo
  906. Visit the Elite Café in Phenix City
  907. Visit the Emma Sansom Monument in Gadsden
  908. Visit the Eocene Lisbon Formation at Claiborne
  909. Visit “The Exorcist” steps in Georgetown, Va.
  910. Visit the Explorers Club in New York City
  911. Visit the Florida Everglades
  912. Visit the Galapagos Islands
  913. Visit the George Washington Masonic Memorial in Wash., D.C.
  914. Visit the Georgia Dome
  915. Visit the Grand Lodge of England
  916. Visit the grave of Ottis Johnson
  917. Visit the grave of Pinckney D. Bowles
  918. Visit the grave of Robert E. Howard in Brownwood, Texas
  919. Visit the grave of William Coombs (aka “The Brokenhearted Stranger”)
  920. Visit the Great Wall of China
  921. Visit the Hank Williams Museum on Commerce Street in Montgomery
  922. Visit the Hank William star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
  923. Visit the headwaters of Murder Creek
  924. Visit the “Heaviest Corner on Earth” in Birmingham
  925. Visit the highest point in Florida
  926. Visit the House of the Temple in Washington, D.C.
  927. Visit the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C.
  928. Visit the Jemison-Van de Graaf Mansion in Tuscaloosa
  929. Visit the John F. Kennedy assassination site
  930. Visit the Kathryn Tucker Windham Museum in Thomasville
  931. Visit the Leaning Tower of Pisa
  932. Visit The Louvre in Paris, France
  933. Visit the Marion Female Seminary in Marion
  934. Visit the “Martian Landing Site” monument in Grover’s Mills, N.J.
  935. Visit the Mary Daniel Bridge in Crenshaw County
  936. Visit the Midway Cave
  937. Visit the Museum of Mobile
  938. Visit the Nathan Bedford Forrest Monument in Cedar Bluff, Ala.
  939. Visit the National Civil War Naval Museum in Columbus, Ga.
  940. Visit the National Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola
  941. Visit the North Rim of the Grand Canyon
  942. Visit the Obscura Antiques & Oddities store in Manhattan
  943. Visit the Old Appomattox Courthouse-McLean House in Appomattox, Va.
  944. Visit the Old Depot Museum in Selma
  945. Visit the Old Flag Tree site at Old Town
  946. Visit the old Jewish cemetery at Claiborne
  947. Visit the old Searcy Hospital in Mount Vernon
  948. Visit the Panama Canal
  949. Visit the Pensacola Historical Museum
  950. Visit the Perdue Hill Indian Mound
  951. Visit the Philippines
  952. Visit the Playboy Mansion
  953. Visit the Pro Football Hall of Fame
  954. Visit the Pyramids at Giza in Egypt
  955. Visit the Queen Mary in Long Beach, Calif.
  956. Visit the Rawls Hotel in Enterprise
  957. Visit the Robert E. Howard Museum in Cross Plains, Texas
  958. Visit the Roman Coliseum
  959. Visit the ruins at Pompeii
  960. Visit the Russell Cave National Monument in Bridgeport
  961. Visit the San Diego Zoo
  962. Visit the Shakespeare & Co. bookstore in Paris
  963. Visit the “Shaw” steamboat wreck site
  964. Visit the Sistine Chapel and the Vatican in Italy
  965. Visit the site of the first Alabama-Auburn football game
  966. Visit the Sloss Furnaces in Birmingham
  967. Visit the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
  968. Visit the source of the Nile
  969. Visit the Southern Museum of Flight in Birmingham
  970. Visit the St. James Hotel in Selma
  971. Visit the Sulphur Creek Trestle near Athens, Ala.
  972. Visit the Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Australia
  973. Visit the Taj Mahal in Agra, India
  974. Visit the Talladega Superspeedway
  975. Visit the Templar Church in London
  976. Visit the Temple of Karnak in Egypt
  977. Visit the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
  978. Visit the top of the Empire State Building
  979. Visit the top of the Statue of Liberty in New York City
  980. Visit the U.S. Army Aviation Museum at Fort Rucker
  981. Visit the U.S. Virgin Islands
  982. Visit the Wall Street Financial District in New York City
  983. Visit the Washington County Museum in Chatom
  984. Visit the Winchester Mansion in California
  985. Visit the Witherington Home at Lyeffion
  986. Visit Tibet
  987. Visit Tijuana, Mexico
  988. Visit Tokyo
  989. Visit Tombstone, Arizona
  990. Visit Tuscany, Italy
  991. Visit Uruguay
  992. Visit Vancouver, Canada
  993. Visit Vicksburg, Mississippi
  994. Visit Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe
  995. Visit Vienna, Austria
  996. Visit Vietnam
  997. Visit William Faulkner’s grave in Oxford, Miss.
  998. Visit Woodbury, Georgia
  999. Visit Yellowstone National Forest
  1000. Visit Yosemite National Park in California
  1001. Volunteer at a homeless shelter
  1002. Walk across Abbey Road
  1003. Walk from Appomattox, Va. to Burnt Corn
  1004. Walk from my house to my parents’ house
  1005. Walk on an iceberg
  1006. Walk on hot coals
  1007. Walk through “The Grove” at Ole Miss on a game day
  1008. Walk to the end of the Gulf State Park Pier
  1009. Watch a ballet performance
  1010. Watch a basketball game at Madison Square Garden
  1011. Watch a Braves Game at Turner Field
  1012. Watch a Broadway play or musical
  1013. Watch a Cubs game at Wrigley Field in Chicago
  1014. Watch a football game at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium in Gainesville, Fla.
  1015. Watch a football game at Commonwealth Stadium in Lexington, Ky.
  1016. Watch a football game at Kyle Field in College Station, Texas
  1017. Watch a football game at Razorback Stadium in Fayetteville, Ark.
  1018. Watch a football game at Sanford Stadium in Athens, Ga.
  1019. Watch a football game at Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge, La.
  1020. Watch a football game at Tuskegee University
  1021. Watch a football game at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium in Oxford, Miss.
  1022. Watch a football game at War Memorial Stadium in Little Rock, Ark.
  1023. Watch a football game at Williams-Brice Stadium in Columbia, S.C.
  1024. Watch a game of cricket in person
  1025. Watch a high school football game in Odessa, Texas
  1026. Watch Akira Kurosawa’s “Seven Samurai” (1954)
  1027. Watch a live rocket launch
  1028. Watch all of Alfred Hitchcock’s movies
  1029. Watch all of Ken Burns’ documentary films
  1030. Watch all of Sports Illustrated’s “Greatest Sports Movies”
  1031. Watch all of the “Hellraiser” movies
  1032. Watch all of the “James Bond” movies
  1033. Watch all the Academy Award Best Picture winners
  1034. Watch all the old episodes of “The Twilight Zone”
  1035. Watch all the old episodes of the “V” sci-fi series
  1036. Watch all the old Star Wars movies back to back
  1037. Watch a Monday Night Football Game in person
  1038. Watch an arena football game in person
  1039. Watch a NASCAR race in person
  1040. Watch an “Egg Bowl” in person
  1041. Watch a Packers game at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisc.
  1042. Watch a performance of Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker”
  1043. Watch a pro soccer game in the U.K. in person
  1044. Watch a Red Sox game at Fenway Park in Boston
  1045. Watch a solar eclipse
  1046. Watch a World Cup soccer game in person
  1047. Watch a Yankees game at Yankee Stadium
  1048. Watch “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” (1969)
  1049. Watch Cartoon Network for 24 hours
  1050. Watch “Doctor Zhivago” (1965)
  1051. Watch every episode of “24”
  1052. Watch every episode of “Amazing Stories”
  1053. Watch every episode of “American Horror Story”
  1054. Watch every episode of “Battlestar Galactica”
  1055. Watch every episode of “Breaking Bad”
  1056. Watch every episode of “Fringe”
  1057. Watch every episode of “Hill Street Blues”
  1058. Watch every episode of “MST3K”
  1059. Watch every episode of “The Outer Limits”
  1060. Watch every episode of “The Sopranos”
  1061. Watch every episode of “The X-Files”
  1062. Watch every episode of “Walking Dead”
  1063. Watch Fangoria’s “101 Best Horror Movies You’ve Never Seen”
  1064. Watch Fangoria’s 300 Best Horror Films
  1065. Watch “Fiddler on the Roof” (1971)
  1066. Watch “First Spaceship on Venus” (1960)
  1067. Watch “Hoosiers” (1986)
  1068. Watch “Invasion USA” (1952)
  1069. Watch “Jesus Christ Superstar” (1973)
  1070. Watch “Logan’s Run” (1976)
  1071. Watch “Lolita” (1962)
  1072. Watch my son kill his first deer
  1073. Watch “Once Upon a Time in the West” (1968)
  1074. Watch Outside Magazine’s Best Documentary Films
  1075. Watch “Raging Bull” (1980)
  1076. Watch “Steamboat Willie” (1928)
  1077. Watch Sumo wrestling live
  1078. Watch the American Film Institute’s 100 Funniest Movies
  1079. Watch the “Backyard Brawl” game between Thomasville and Clarke Co.
  1080. Watch “The Battle of Murder Creek” football rivalry game in person
  1081. Watch the “Battle of Prichard” football game between Vigor and Blount
  1082. Watch the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace
  1083. Watch the Decatur-Austin football game in person
  1084. Watch the documentary “Kon-Tiki” (1950)
  1085. Watch “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” (1966)
  1086. Watch the Huntsville Stars play at Joe Davis Stadium in Huntsville
  1087. Watch “The Incredible Shrinking Man” (1957)
  1088. Watch the Ken Burns “Baseball” documentary (1994)
  1089. Watch the Ken Burns “Civil War” documentary (1990)
  1090. Watch “Lonesome Dove” (1989)
  1091. Watch “Them!” (1954)
  1092. Watch “The Maltese Falcon” (1941)
  1093. Watch the Moon Pie Drop in Mobile on New Year’s Eve
  1094. Watch the Murphy – McGill-Toolen football game in person
  1095. Watch the Old Faithful geyser erupt
  1096. Watch the Opelika-Auburn football rivalry game
  1097. Watch the Pensacola Pelican Drop
  1098. Watch the sun set at Key West
  1099. Watch the Super Six football championships in Birmingham
  1100. Watch the Washington County-Millry football rivalry game
  1101. Watch “The Wizard of Oz” while listening to “Dark Side of the Moon”
  1102. Water ski
  1103. Wear a Rolex watch
  1104. Win a political office
  1105. Work in Antarctica
  1106. Work on a fishing boat
  1107. Write 100 poems
  1108. Write 100 short stories in my Eli McMorn series
  1109. Write a letter to someone famous
  1110. Write a novel
  1111. Write my memoirs

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