My Bucket List

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

Last Updated: Dec-7-2009

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. Go out skating for a date
19. Build a piece of furniture out of wood
20. Knit a toque
21. Babysit my nephew
22. Get cited or quoted somewhere as an expert on something
23. Go rockclimbing again
24. See the Northern Lights
25. Take my parents on a vacation, my treat
26. Learn to play a new musical instrument
27. Watch the sunrise and sunset of a single day
28. Solve a Rubik’s Cube (without reverting to an answer key)
29. Finish a triathlon
30. Make it through the expert setting of Everlong on Rockband 2