Your "Things-to-do-Before-I-Die" List

Damn it, birthday boy, you beat me to it.

 

I can't believe it took TWO hours for someone to make that joke ... albeit a bad one.

 

Good job on getting halfway to #3, SC.

 

Spend at least two weeks driving across the country.
Do stand up at an open mic night
Get my screenplay optioned
Write a book
Sky dive again
ride in a hot air balloon
Visit Ireland
Brew my own beer
BASW
Own a home with a man cave in the basement

 

Attend a game at Wembley Stadium.

Tour the ancient Egypt pyramids.

Drive across America and stop for a game at every major league ballpark.

Play Pebble Beach.

Take my dad and son to the Field of Dreams in Dyersville, Iowa.

Visit Alaska.

Get stinkin' drunk with my brother one time.

Watch Tiger Woods play.

Watch Roger Federer play.

Take my wife to Paris or Hawaii.

Tour Steve Irwin's zoo in Australia with my kids.

Get in full Elvis Presley Vegas-style costume and belt out "Suspcious Minds".

Find the Ark of the Covenant or the Holy Grail, assuming the Indiana Jones movies were fiction.

 

Oh, you can also put these on my list:

• Open up and run a successful sports bar
• Go sport-fishing and land a marlin
• Learn Spanish well enough to, at least, almost be fluent
• Build a man-cave in the basement of my home

 

See an NHL game in every Canadian city with a franchise (right now I'm at zero)
Write a song and record it
Take a year off -- while I'm still young -- and see every state in the U.S. by car (except Hawaii, I'll gladly fly)
Wind up in a city I'd really like to NEVER move from after I get there
Dance with my goddaughter at her wedding. She was born in January.
Meet a woman who understands me and vice versa and wants to grow old together -- minus kids.

 

I imagine the list would be huge if I really tried to think about it, so I'll just go with the obvious

1. Bike from Vancouver to Tijuana
2. Bike from the Pacific to the Atlantic
3. Bike Italy with my son

 

write a book
drive cross country
cross those final few baseball stadiums off my must see list
raise my soon to be born child
live in a fortified compound in a remote area and live out my final years in hermitage

 

Catch a wild trout from a mountain stream with a fly I've tied myowndamnself.
Finish a 24-hour adventure race.
Start playing tennis again.
Average at least two weeks per year sleeping under the stars.
Learn Spanish and Thai or Vietnamese.
Own an Irish pub with an extensive beer menu.
Attend an EPL match in England.
Figure out how to get some grass to grow under the big oak tree in my front yard.
Be the best husband, son, brother, uncle, friend, boss, employee and, eventually, dad I can be.

 

Man, all I want to do is make a positive difference in one person's life. That's my list.

 

Well Dan, my best friend is a weekend sports anchor at a station in Oregon. He's actually from out here in Massachusetts and flies back this way a few times a year. Maybe he can get a discount on multiple tickets and you'll be able to scratch that New England trip off your list.