My Bucket List

Inspired by Dustin Curtis, I've started writing out a bucket list. Some of the items are ones that I already completed, but would have been on the list, had I made it earlier.


  1. Visit every continent
    • North America 1991
    • South America
    • Europe 1993
    • Asia
    • Africa 2014
    • Antartica
    • Oceania
  2. Fly an airplane 2003
  3. Spend 24 hours without setting foot on solid ground 2006
  4. Become proficient in at least one instrument 2007, again
  5. Be a shareholder of a company 2013
  6. Have something about me individually in a form of mass media 2013
  7. Skydive 2013
  8. Own gold 2014
  9. Achieve something that allows me to be remembered more than 5 generations and 100 years past my death
  10. Write both the music and the lyrics to a song
  11. Go to space
  12. Create something that's seen/touched/interacted with by a million people
  13. Buy a round of drinks for an entire bar
  14. Take a year off to spend with family
  15. Fly in a lighter-than-air craft
  16. Brew my own beer 2021
  17. Brew my own wine
  18. Donate the majority of a year's resources to charity
  19. Swim in the major oceans
- ~~Pacific~~
- ~~Atlantic~~
- ~~Indian~~ _2014_
- Arctic
  1. Climb a "real" mountain
  2. Witness something that is a myth or unprovable by science
  3. Live to an above-average (based on life expectancy at birth) age
  4. Successfully win a lawsuit
  5. Own property
  6. Be a majority shareholder of a profitable company
  7. Own a functioning firearm
  8. Travel across the Pacific or Atlantic ocean by boat
  9. Travel faster than 200 km/h in a land-based vehicle
  10. Live off the grid for an extended period of time
  11. Eat a well-balanced diet of food solely produced by myself or people I am on a first-name basis with for an extended period of time
  12. Design my own home
  13. Live to see my grandchildren
  14. Spend 24 hours above the surface of the earth
  15. Meet a head of state
  16. Own something worth 100 times it's purchase price or original value
  17. Observe a day with no sunset
  18. Observe a day with no sunrise
  19. Run in an official government election
  20. Become a licensed ham radio operator
  21. Make my own cheese