Bucket List

Travel:

Step foot on every continent: [5/7]

  • Oceania [x] – September 22, 2005
  • South America [x] - December 21, 2009
  • Asia [x] - June 28, 2010
  • Africa [x] – September 7, 2011
  • Europe [ ]
  • Antarctica [ ]

Visit each of the 50 States [12/50]

Ride an elephant in Thailand [ ]

Tour the Viet Cong tunnels [ ]

Backpack through Europe [ ]

See the Great Pyramids [ ]

Physical:

Run a:
  • 5k [x] - September 1, 2011
  • 10k [ ]
  • Half Marathon [ ]
  • Marathon [ ]

Hike (at least part of) the Appalachian Trail [ ]

Swim with dolphins [ ]

Become a certified scuba diver [ ]

Learn how to ballroom dance [ ]

Ride an ostrich [  ]

Sports:

Attend soccer matches: [1/5]

Zipline through Goodison Park [ ]

Coach a kids’ soccer team [ ]

Watch an American football game [ ]

Attend an Olympic curling match [ ]

Food:

Dine at Chez Panisse [ ]

Eat a ‘lights out dinner’ [ ]

Taste ‘Rocky Mountain oysters’ [ ]

Attend cooking school in Thailand [ ]

Volunteer serving food during Thanksgiving [ ]

Eat a baguette with my close friend Balthazar in France [ ]

People:

Meet Abby Wambach [ ]

Eat dessert with David Lebovitz [ ]

Interview a North Korean defector [ ]

Random:

Ride a mechanical bull [x] - May 16, 2011

See snow [x] - December 1, 2012

Solve more than one side of a rubik’s cube [ ]

Watch baby sea turtles hatch and run to the ocean [ ]

Get published [ ]

Become fluent in a non-Romance language [ ]

Be on the Travel Channel [x]  January 2, 2013 and February 13, 2013

Be on the Food Network [  ]