Bucket List

Each year I try to cross one item off my bucket list.

• Race the Gumball Rally or something similar
• Milk a cow
• Save a life
• Be a spectator at a TED talk
• Master a musical instrument
• Learning the ukulele
• Sell a piece of my photography ✔
• Someone paid me $1 for the right to use this photo on a flier for a local Oktoberfest celebration in New Ulm, MN.
• Reddit used this photo of a carnival ride and this photo of a cat in ad space.
• Receive a standing ovation
• Be eaten on stage by the Gwar monster
• I first got this idea when watching the scene in Empire Records where Mark was eaten on-stage. I also loved watching the commentary of Beavis and Butthead on the subject.
• See the Northern Lights
• I tried to view this when the Northern Lights were visible in May of 2024 but was unable to see them from where I live.
• Go to Burning Man
• Participate in La Tomatina
• Get my PhD
• Crowd surf
• Fly a kite from a convertible
• Grow my own salad
• Live and work in Washington, D.C. ✔
• Be in a flash mob
• Hike the Appalachian Trail
• Go to Oktoberfest in Munich ✔
• I went here in 2011. Flickr Album
• Get a book or article published
• Bathe in the hot springs at Blue Lagoon in Reykjavik
• Sky dive
• Watch the ball drop in NYC on New Year's Eve ✔
• I went here the eve of 2010/2011.
• Master a foreign language
• Get my CPRS certification ✔
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• Join a pool league ✔
• Won MVP for my skill handicap in the Fall of 2023 season:
  
• Buy my dream motorcycle ✔
• My 2015 Ducati Scrambler Urban Enduro
• (current setup)
• (how the bike looked when I bought it)