This list was first created as a regular blog post – read more about the background of this list here.

Last Updated: Aug-7-2010

1. Start a conversation with a total stranger
2. Live and study or work in another country
3. Visit the countries on my “places to see list” (Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Japan, China, Sweden)
4. Spend a day/night where it’s light out 24 hours a day
5. Go on a solo kayaking or hiking trip
6. Go heli-tele-ing (heli telemark skiing)
7. Fly in a helicopter
8. Write a song
9. Write a kids’ book Write a kid’s book and try to get it published
10. Donate to multiple causes close to my heart
11. Get a dog (preferably a wheaton terrier)
12. Play a season of ice hockey
13. Go cross-country skiing again
14. Go surfing in a tropical climate other than Hawaii
15. Travel across Canada
16. Run a marathon
17. Learn a martial art
18. Build a piece of furniture out of wood
19. Knit a toque
20. Babysit my nephew
21. Get cited or quoted somewhere as an expert on something
22. Go rockclimbing again
23. See the Northern Lights
24. Take my parents on a vacation, my treat
25. Learn to play a new musical instrument
26. Watch the sunrise and sunset of a single day
27. Solve a Rubik’s Cube (without reverting to an answer key)
28. Finish a triathlon
29. Make it through the expert setting of Everlong on Rockband 2
30. Climb 5.9, 5.10a, 5.10b, 5.10c, 5.10d, do a lead climb