You should always have something that drives you. Here are a few of the things I hope to do in my lifetime. I also keep a book of places I want to go, broken down by state or country.
Build a house by hand- Go to New Zealand
- Ride in a hot air balloon (ideally at the Albuquerque Balloon Festival)
- Visit every National Park & Forest
- Do some hiking
- Go bungee jumping
Go to the circus (it’s almost ironic I haven’t done this yet)- Go on a treasure hunt
Go to Vegas- Experience weightlessness
Take a road trip with a stranger- Hike Colorado’s 14ers:
These are ordered by difficulty according to 14ers.com- Handies Peak
- Grays Peak
- Quandary Peak
- Mt. Elbert
- San Luis Peak
- Pikes Peak
- Mt. Sherman
- Mt. Bross
- Mt. Cameron
- Mt. Lincoln
- Mt. Bierstadt
- Mt. Democrat
- Torreys Peak
- Huron Peak
- Culebra Peak
- Mt. Princeton
- Redcloud Peak
- Mt. Evans
- Mt. Belford
- Uncompahgre Peak
- Mt. Shavano
- Humboldt Peak
- Mt. Columbia
- Mt. Yale
- La Plata Peak
- Sunshine Peak
- Missouri Mountain
- Mt. Massive
- Mt. Oxford
- Tabeguache Peak
- Mt. Antero
- Mt. Harvard
- Mt. of the Holy Cross
- Conundrum Peak
- Castle Peak
- Challenger Point
- Windom Peak
- Ellingwood Point
- Blanca Peak
- Mt. Sneffels
- Mt. Lindsey
- Kit Carson Peak
- Wetterhorn Peak
- Longs Peak
- Wilson Peak
- North Eolus
- Mt. Eolus
- El Diente Peak
- Crestone Peak
- Maroon Peak
- Crestone Needle
- Snowmass Mountain
- North Maroon Peak
- Pyramid Peak
- Mt. Wilson
- Sunlight Peak
- Little Bear Peak
- Capitol Peak
- Make a snow angel in Antarctica
- Write a book
Jump out of an airplane- Learn to fly a plane
Learn to ride a motorcycleRide in a helicopterGet a tattoo- Backpack Europe
- Build a genuine log cabin by hand using only hand tools
Ideally, like this guy’s - Ride a moose
See the Golden Gate Bridge- Learn to play guitar — working on it (at the pace of a half-dead sloth)
- Learn to play piano
- Learn to Ballroom dance
- Learn to Salsa dance
- Learn American Sign Language
- Learn another language:
- Spanish — working on it
- German
- French
- Portuguese
- Italian
- See the Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights)
- See the sun rise on the Atlantic and set on the Pacific in the same day
Drive the classic Route 66 (or what’s left of it)- Drive it again, but in the right direction (Westbound; Chicago to Santa Monica)
- Travel the “scariest roads in America”:
These are from an article I had read. They sounded appealing.Big Sur (Hwy 1, between Monterey, CA and Morro Bay, CA)- The Saddle Road (Route 200, between Hilo, HI and Waimea, HI)
- Independence Pass (Hwy 82, between Aspen, CO and Leadville, CO)
- Dalton Highway, Alaska
The Loneliest Road in America (Hwy 50, between Hinckley, UT and Carson City, NV)- Tail of the Dragon (Hwy 129, between Tabcat Bridge, TN and Deals Gap, NC)
- Highway 170 (between Lajitas, TX and Candelaria, TX)
- Route 16 (between Middlebourne, WV and Grundy, WV)
- Beartooth Highway (Wyoming/Montana)
Moki Dugway (Hwy 261, south-east Utah)
- Take a cruise to Alaska
- Visit all 50 states
Alabama- Alaska
ArizonaArkansasCaliforniaColoradoConnecticutDelawareFloridaGeorgiaHawaiiIdahoIllinoisIndianaIowaKansasKentuckyLouisianaMaineMarylandMassachusettsMichiganMinnesotaMississippiMissouriMontanaNebraskaNevadaNew HampshireNew JerseyNew MexicoNew YorkNorth CarolinaNorth DakotaOhioOklahomaOregonPennsylvaniaRhode IslandSouth CarolinaSouth DakotaTennesseeTexasUtahVermontVirginiaWashingtonWest VirginiaWisconsinWyoming
- Visit all 50 states within the same year
- Visit all seven continents
- Africa
Asia- Antarctica
- Australia
EuropeNorth America- South America
Stand on Times Square for the New Years celebration- Walk on the Great Wall of China
- Bike across the US
- Go to Hell (Michigan) when it’s frozen over
- Spend a day at an oasis in the middle of the desert
- Visit Stonehenge
- Mt. Saint Helens, Washington
- Big Ben, London, England
- Eiffel Tower, Paris, France
- Pyramids, Egypt
- Pyramids, Mayan/Aztec Empires
- Easter Island
- See lots and lots of weird roadside attractions
- Build a wooden row boat by hand