Dispatches from the LP-OP: The start of the new year is a great time to write your own 'bucket list'

A little over four years ago, I kicked off a project that’s turned into one of the best and most fun things that I've ever done.

In December 2011, I drafted a 365-item “bucket list” and tried to accomplish as many of the items on the list as possible during the ensuing year. I got off to a slow start in early 2012, but in mid-May 2012 I began to make a conscious effort to scratch off at least one bucket list item a week. By the end of the 2012 calendar year, I’d managed to scratch 42 items off my list.

In January 2013, I expanded my “bucket list” from 365 items to 1,000 items, and between Jan. 1, 2013 and Dec. 31, 2013, I managed to scratch 66 items off my list, a little more than one item a week. In January 2014, I again expanded my list from 1,000 items to 1,111 items, and between Jan. 1, 2014 and Dec. 31, 2014, I managed to mark 83 items off my list. In January 2015, I once again expanded my list from 1,111 items to 1,500 items, and during the 2015 calendar year, I scratched off 62 of my bucket list items.

If you’re reading this and have never tried to write your own “bucket list” you might find that writing one is harder than you would think. As many of you will already likely know, a “bucket list” is a wish list of things you’d like to do before you “kick the bucket.” Many of you will be familiar with this idea thanks to the 2007 comedy, “The Bucket List,” which starred Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman.

I’ve always kind of walked around with one of these lists in my head, but I’d never taken the time to actually write down my list until December 2011. Something about the act of writing these goals down makes them seem more concrete and do-able. Setting a weekly deadline for myself in May 2012 also seemed to help me accomplish more of them and really ramped up the project.

Before I go any further, I want to say that this project is not about me, and I don’t do it to write about myself or to brag anything that I’ve done. One of my main goals is to show people in the reading audience that they can also do many of these same types of things, many of which don’t cost a dime. I hope that my “bucket list updates” have and will continue to encouraged others to get off the couch and do some things they’ve always wanted to do. With a little planning and a little effort, you can do a lot of cool, memorable stuff. I’m just a regular guy, so if I can do some of this stuff, so can you.

How many of you out there have bucket lists of your own? What sort of items do you have on your list? How many of your personal bucket list items have you already accomplished? Which were your most memorable? Which were the most difficult to accomplish? Let us know in the comments section below.

In the spirit of the start of another new year, what follows is my new and expanded bucket list. You’ll notice that it’s in alphabetical order, which I did on purpose to keep from duplicating entries. This year, I’ve also expanded the list once again, moving from 1,500 items to 2,000 items. Most of the items were on my list last year, but I also added a few more to replace those that I scratched off the list during the past 12 months. Please feel free to “borrow” any of them that you’d like to do.

2016 BUCKET LIST:

Adopt a mile
Attain the 33rd Masonic degree
Attend a Birmingham Barons baseball game
Attend a Cape Cod League Game in Massachusetts
Attend a Catholic mass church service
Attend a championship boxing match in Las Vegas.
Attend a College World Series baseball game
Attend a comic book convention
Attend a fantasy baseball camp
Attend a high school reunion
Attend a graduation ceremony at West Point
Attend Alabama’s “A Day” spring football game
Attend a luau
Attend a Major League Baseball game on Opening Day
Attend a Major League Baseball spring training game
Attend a Mardi Gras ball
Attend a Native American sweat lodge ceremony
Attend a Navajo peyote ritual
Attend an NCAA Final Four basketball game
Attend an NFL game at the Superdome in New Orleans
Attend an opera performance
Attend a Pensacola Blue Wahoos baseball game
Attend a poetry reading
Attend a presidential inauguration
Attend a Renaissance Faire
Attend a Scottish Rite Maundy Thursday ceremony
Attend a session of the Alabama Grand Lodge
Attend a Star Trek convention
Attend a taping of Saturday Night Live
Attend a World Series baseball game
Attend BayFest in Mobile
Attend Comic-Con International in San Diego
Attend Flat Rock Day
Attend Lollapalooza
Attend Major League Baseball’s All-Star Home Run Derby
Attend MLB Fan Fest
Attend Oktoberfest at Redstone Arsenal
Attend Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany
Attend Pensacola ParaCon
Attend Stockton Sawmill Days
Attend the AHSAA North-South All-Star Football Game
Attend the Alabama Book Festival
Attend the Alabama “Mr. Football” Banquet
Attend the Alabama Renaissance Fair in Florence
Attend the Alabama Writers Symposium
Attend the Angola Prison Rodeo
Attend the Annual Poarch Creek Indians Thanksgiving Powwow
Attend the Army-Navy football game
Attend the “Battle of Newton”
Attend the Blessing of the Fleet in Bayou La Batre
Attend the Boston Marathon
Attend Burning Man
Attend the “Capital City Classic” baseball game in Montgomery
Attend the Cotton Patch Festival at Uriah
Attend the Dauphin Street Beer Festival
Attend the Daytona 500
Attend the Fiesta Bowl
Attend the GoDaddy Bowl in Mobile
Attend the Great American Beer Festival in Denver, Colo.
Attend the Great British Beer Festival in London
Attend the Greater Gulf State Fair
Attend the Hangout Music Festival in Gulf Shores
Attend the Harvard-Yale football game
Attend the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival and CthulhuCon
Attend the Indianapolis 500
Attend the June 24th Masonic Day celebration in Florala
Attend the Kentucky Derby, drink a mint julep and bet on a horse
Attend the Little League World Series
Attend the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
Attend the Major League Baseball All-Star Game
Attend the Masters Golf Tournament in Augusta, Ga.
Attend the Midnight Sun Baseball Classic in Alaska
Attend the National Finals Rodeo
Attend the NBA All-Star Game
Attend the NCAA National Championship Football Game
Attend the New Year’s Eve celebration in Time’s Square
Attend the New York Marathon
Attend the NFL Pro Bowl
Attend the NHL All-Star Game
Attend the Notre Dame-Michigan football game
Attend the opening of the Iditarod in Anchorage, Alaska
Attend the Orange Bowl
Attend the Preakness Stakes horse race in Baltimore, Md.
Attend the Republican National Convention
Attend the Rocket City Brewfest in Huntsville
Attend the Rose Bowl
Attend the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona, Spain
Attend the SEC Championship Football Game in Atlanta
Attend the Stanley Cup Finals
Attend the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Savannah, Ga.
Attend the Sugar Bowl
Attend the Super Bowl
Attend the Tennessee Williams-New Orleans Literary Festival
Attend the Tour de France
Attend the Triple A All-Star Game
Attend the UFO festival in Fyffe, Ala.
Attend the Wimbledon Tennis tournament in London
Attend the World Baseball Classic
Attend the “World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party”
Attend the X-Games
Attend Williams Station Day in Atmore
Bake a birthday cake for my wife
Bake a loaf of bread
Bake a rhubarb pie from scratch
Be a game show contestant
Be an extra in a movie
Be a vegetarian for one month
Become a bonded notary public
Become a certified beer judge
Become a certified electrician
Become a certified/licensed bartender
Become a certified lifeguard
Become a certified NWS Cooperative Weather Observer
Become a certified pilot
Become a certified plumber
Become a certified private investigator
Become a certified SCUBA diver
Become a certified UFO field investigator
Become a certified welder
Become a licensed barber
Become a licensed/certified ham radio operator
Become a lifetime member of the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society
Become a lifetime member of the National Geographic Society
Become a lifetime member of the Scottish Rite
Become a member of SABR, the Society for American Baseball Research
Become a member of the Royal Geographical Society
Become a member of the Smithsonian Institution
Become a Shriner
Be complaint-free for 30 days and earn a Complaint Free bracelet
Be inducted into a hall of fame
Be in the stands for a no-hitter (or perfect game)
Be knighted by the queen
Be present at the opening of a time capsule (or cornerstone)
Bike a “century”
Birdwatch
Bowl a 300
Break a Guinness World Record
Build a boat
Build a cabin
Build a house of cards
Build a model airplane
Build a model ship
Build and fly a kite with the kids
Build and launch a model rocket with the kids
Build a raft and float it down the river
Build the kids a tree house
Buy a good metal detector and use it
Buy a GPS device and learn to use it
Buy lemonade from kids at a stand
Buy stock
Cage dive amongst sharks
Camp out in the backyard with the kids
Carry the Olympic torch
Catch a fly ball at a Major League Baseball game
Catch a marlin
Catch a piranha and eat it
Catch a shark
Cave dive
Celebrate the Fourth of July in Washington, D.C.
Climb an active volcano
Climb Angels Landing in Zion National Park
Climb Mount Everest
Climb Mount Fuji, Japan
Climb Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania
Climb Mount McKinley (Denali)
Climb Mount Rainer in Washington
Climb the light beacon at Middleton Airfield
Climb to the top of a water tower
Compete in the World Championship Domino Tournament in Andalusia
Complete a food challenge at a restaurant
Complete an obstacle course adventure endurance race
Complete a semester at the National Outdoor Leadership School
Complete a sprint distance triathlon
Complete an Ironman distance triathlon
Complete an Olympic distance triathlon
Complete the Alabama Hunter Education Course
Complete the Scottish Rite Master Craftsman program
Cross the Artic Circle
Cross the equator
Cross the Rio Grande River
Cross the “Rooster Bridge” in Demopolis
Cut down my own Christmas tree
Dive the Great Barrier Reef in Queensland, Australia
Do 10 pull-ups
Do 30 burpees in a row
Do 100 consecutive push-ups
Do a 24-hour fast
Do a genealogy interview with my grandmother
Do genealogy interviews with my parents
Don’t speak a single word for an entire day
Do the 30-Day Push-Up Challenge (100 push-ups a day for 30 days)
Do The Art of Manliness’ “30 Days to a Better Man” Challenge
Do the Polar Bear Plunge at the Flora-Bama on New Years Day
Drink absinthe
Drink a key lime milkshake at Stacey Old Tyme Soda Fountain in Foley
Drink champagne from a slipper
Drink Kopi Luwak
Drive a ’57 Chevrolet
Drive a Corvette
Drive across country from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean
Drive a Ferrari
Drive a Jaguar
Drive a Mercedes
Drive an Aston Martin
Drive a Porsche
Drive a Saab
Drive a snowmobile
Drive a vehicle with a right-side steering wheel
Drive the 3,100 miles of Gulf shoreline between Florida and Mexico
Drive the entire length of the Natchez Trace Parkway
Drive the Lincoln Highway from New York to California
Drink a bottle of wine that’s older than I am
Drink a Guinness Beer in Dublin, Ireland on St. Patrick’s Day
Drink a pint in an English pub
Drink milk from a fresh coconut
Drive Alabama’s “Civil War Trail”
Drive from Austin, Texas to Great Falls, Montana
Drive I-95 from Florida to Maine
Drive on the German Autobahn
Drive Route 66 from Chicago to Los Angeles
Drive the entire length of the Alaska Highway
Drive the Explorers Highway across Australia
Drive the Great Ocean Road in southern Australia
Drive the Pacific Coast Highway in California
Drive U.S. Highway 31 from Spanish Fort to Mackinaw City, Mich.
Drive U.S. Highway 61 from New Orleans to Wyoming, Minn.
Earn a black belt in karate
Earn a Master’s Degree
Earn an honorary degree
Eat a cannoli
Eat a cheese steak sandwich in Philadelphia
Eat a ghost chili pepper
Eat a hot dog from a New Orleans street cart
Eat an entire Boston cream pie
Eat an insect
Eat at a Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse
Eat at Brenda’s Bar-B-Que Pit in Montgomery
Eat at Dick Russell’s Famous Bar-B in Mobile
Eat at Emeril’s Delmonico Restaurant in New Orleans
Eat at Emily’s Café in Greenville
Eat a tequila worm
Eat at every restaurant in Conecuh County at least once
Eat at every restaurant in Monroe County at least once
Eat at Ezell’s Fish Camp in Lavaca, Ala.
Eat at Honey’s Hot Dogs in Dothan
Eat at Huggin’ Molly’s restaurant in Abbeville
Eat at Mama Nem’s in Thomaston
Eat at Momma Goldberg’s in Auburn
Eat at Roscoe's House of Chicken 'n Waffles in Los Angeles.
Eat at Sisters restaurant in Troy
Eat at Tacky Jack’s in Gulf Shores
Eat at the Battle House Hotel in Mobile
Eat at the Compleat Angler Seafood Grille & Bar in Orange Beach
Eat at the Duchess Bakery in Cullman
Eat at The Grand Marlin restaurant in Pensacola Beach, Fla.
Eat at the Mountain Parkway Grill in Sand Rock
Eat at the Tally-Ho restaurant in Selma
Eat at The Tin Top Restaurant & Oyster Bar in Bon Secour
Eat at The Victoria in Anniston
Eat at the Wildflower Café in Mentone
Eat Baba Ghanoush
Eat caviar
Eat crawfish pie at Ca-John’s in Faunsdale
Eat Eggs Benedict
Eat Escargot
Eat Foie Gras
Eat haggis
Eat kangaroo
Eat kimchi
Eat “Oysters Rockefeller”
Eat penguin meat
Eat rabbit
Eat Rocky Mountain oysters
Eat sardines and crackers
Eat sautéed grouper at The Rawl’s in Enterprise
Eat seal meat
Eat shark
Eat steak tartare
Eat turtle soup
Escort my daughter down the aisle at her wedding
Examine a crop circle
Experience an earthquake
Experience a session in a sensory deprivation tank
Experience weightlessness
Explore a creepy tunnel
Explore the Forbidden City in Beijing
Fast for three days, drinking nothing but water
Feed a koala bear
Find 365 geocaches
Find 1,000 geocaches
Find a four-leaf clover
Find an arrowhead
Find the oldest geocache in Alabama
Find the “Original Stash” geocache in Oregon.
Finish a newspaper crossword puzzle
Float in the Dead Sea
Fly an airplane
Fly at the speed of sound
Fly first class
Fly in a glider
Fly in an open cockpit airplane
Fly with the Blue Angels
Geocache at night
Geocache for an entire day
Get 10,000 followers on Twitter
Get a Commercial Driver’s License (CDL)
Get a manicure
Get a passport
Get a pedicure
Get a tattoo
Go backpacking in Europe
Go barefoot for an entire week
Go clam digging
Golf 18 holes
Go on a “Bigfoot hunt” in the Pacific Northwest
Go on a dog-sledding trip
Go on a ghost tour in Savannah, Ga.
Go on a humanitarian trip to Africa
Go on a juice fast
Go on a mission trip
Go on an African safari
Go on an alligator hunt
Go on an urban exploration trip
Go on a police ride along
Go on a real duck hunt
Go on a volkswalk
Go on a walkabout in the Australian outback
Go through a farm-field maze.
Go to a “Black Friday” sale.
Go to a midnight showing at a theatre
Go to a shooting range
Go to a “turkey shoot”
Go whale watching.
Grow my hair out, shoulder-length
Hang glide
Have a Halloween bonfire with hot apple cider
Have washboard abs
Help build a church
Help build a Habitat for Humanity home
Help deliver a baby
Hike a glacier
Hike a section of the Appalachian Trail
Hike Hadrian’s Wall Across the UK
Hike in Alaska
Hike the Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge trails
Hike the Continental Divide Trail
Hike the entire length of the Eastern Shore Trail
Hike the Pacific Northwest Trail
Hike the trails at Chickasabogue Park
Hike the trails at DeSoto State Park in Fort Payne
Hike the trails at Gulf State Park
Hike the trails at Oak Mountain State Park in Pelham
Hike the trails at Village Point Park in Daphne
Hike the Walls of Jericho at Hytop
Hike the Weeks Bay Nature Trail near Fairhope
Hike to Everest Base Camp
Hike to the bottom of the Grand Canyon
Hike to the top of Mount Cheaha
Hold a bezoar
Hold a Bowie knife.
Hunt and find ancient shark teeth
Hunt and kill a bear
Hunt and kill a coyote
Hunt and kill a lion in Tanzania (legal there)
Hunt and kill an elephant in South Africa (legal there)
Hunt and kill a wild pig
Hunt and kill a wild turkey
Hunt for geese
Hunt pheasant.
Ice fish
Install a home weather station
Interview someone who claims to have been abducted by aliens
Invent something and patent it
Join a disaster relief effort
Join Masonic Lodge No. 3 in Monroeville, Ala.
Join the Alabama Archeological Society
Join the Alabama Bigfoot Society
Join the American Legion
Join the Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore
Join the Knights of St. Andrew
Join the Monroe County Rescue Squad
Join the National Rifle Association
Join the Peacock Family Association of the South
Join the Sons of the American Revolution
Join the Veterans of Foreign Wars
Join the York Rite of Freemasonry
Kayak the Sepulga River Canoe Trail
Kill a deer with a bow and arrow
Kill a deer with a traditional muzzle-loading rifle
Kiss the Blarney Stone in Ireland
Kite-surf
Launch a newspaper boat with the kids
Learn a magic trick
Learn archery
Learn Bartitsu
Learn Krav Maga
Learn tae kwon do
Learn to braze
Learn to cook
Learn to fly-fish
Learn to play cribbage
Learn to play croquet
Learn to play dominoes
Learn to play golf
Learn to kayak
Learn to play backgammon
Learn to play poker
Learn to play the piano
Learn to ride a motorcycle
Learn to sail
Learn to say the alphabet backwards
Learn to solder
Learn to speak Arabic
Learn to speak French
Learn to speak German
Learn to speak Russian
Learn to speak Spanish
Learn to surf
Lean to use a sextant
Learn to whistle with my fingers
Listen to Bob Dylan’s “Blonde On Blonde”
Listen to Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the U.S.A.”
Listen to Bruce Springsteen’s “Born to Run” from start to finish
Listen to Elvis Presley’s “The Sun Sessions”
Listen to George Handel’s “Messiah”
Listen to Guns N’ Roses’ “Appetite For Destruction”
Listen to Led Zeplin’s “Led Zeplin” album
Listen to Louis Armstrong’s “West End Blues.”
Listen to Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”
Listen to Mozart’s opera, “The Magic Flute”
Listen to Mozart’s opera, “The Marriage of Figaro.”
Listen to Robert Johnson’s “The Complete Recordings”
Listen to Rolling Stone’s ‘500 Greatest Albums of All Time”
Listen to The Beatles’ “Revolver” album
Listen to The Clash’s “London Calling”
Listen to the Jimi Hendrix Experience’s “Are You Experienced”
Listen to the opera “Carmen” from start to finish
Listen to the Rolling Stones’ “Exile on Main Street”
Listen to U2’s “Joshua Tree” album
Live to see my first grandchild
Live to see the return of Halley’s Comet in 2062
Log 1,000 total lifetime hiking miles
Look through an electron microscope.
Look through the telescope at a major observatory
Make a candle
Make a handmade bow and arrows set
Make a hollow book
Make an omelet
Make a shillelagh
Make homemade wine
Make soap
Meditate (for at least an hour)
Meet a Heisman Trophy winner
Meet A.J. McCarron
Meet a Medal of Honor recipient
Meet an astronaut
Meet a past President of the United States
Meet Bear Grylls
Meet Bill Belichick
Meet Cynthia Tucker
Meet David Duchovny
Meet Eli Gold
Meet George R.R. Martin
Meet Harper Lee
Meet Harrison Ford (Indiana Jones/Han Solo)
Meet Jason Hawes from “Ghost Hunters.”
Meet Joe Hill
Meet Jon Krakauer
Meet Kyle MacLachlan
Meet Lou Holtz
Meet Mike Mignola
Meet Neil Gaiman
Meet Neil Young
Meet Nick Saban
Meet someone else with my name
Meet the President of the United States
Meet Stephen King
Meet Warren St. John
Meet Will Clark
Meet William Shatner
Meet Zak Bagans of “Ghost Adventures”
Memorize Abraham Lincoln’s “Gettysburg Address”
Memorize all the Super Bowl winners
Memorize all the World Series winners
Memorize “Do It Now” by Berton Braley
Memorize Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven”
Memorize Hamlet’s soliloquy
Memorize the books of the Bible
Memorize the Greek alphabet
Memorize the Heisman Trophy winners
Memorize the world capitals
Milk a cow. Drink the milk.
Mule ride down the Grand Canyon
Noodle a catfish
Observe Andromeda, the most distant object visible to the naked eye
Order a Martini, “Shaken, not stirred”
Own a velvet Elvis
Own season tickets
Paddle the Coosa River in Ga. to where it joins the Tallapoosa in Ala.
Paddle the entire length of the Alabama Scenic River Trail
Paint a self-portrait
Pan for gold
Pan for gold in Sutter’s Creek
Paraglide
Parasail
Participate in an arm-wrestling competition
Participate in an expedition
Participate in a séance
Photograph 100 Masonic Lodges
Photograph 100 survey benchmarks
Photograph a ghost
Photograph a tornado from way too close
Pierce something on my body
Play a MMORPG
Play bridge
Play Quidditch
Play roulette in Las Vegas
Play rugby
Play the bagpipes
Pray at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem
Publish an article in “Alabama Heritage” magazine
Publish a novel
Publish a short story
Pull a ride-along shift with LifeFlight
Purchase a cemetery plot
Put together a “vampire hunting” kit
Raft the Grand Canyon
Read “7 Habits of Highly Effective People” by Stephen R. Covey
Read “1776” by David McCullough
Read a banned book
Read a book in another language
Read “Absalom, Absalom!” by William Faulkner
Read “A Canticle For Leibowitz” by Walter M. Miller Jr.
Read “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court” by Mark Twain (1889)
Read “Adam Bede” by George Eliot (1859)
Read “A Death in the Family” by James Agee
Read “A Fable” by William Faulkner
Read “A Fan's Notes” by Frederick Exley
Read “Age of Innocence” by Edith Wharton
Read “A History of the Civil War, 1861–1865” by James Ford Rhodes
Read “A is for Alibi” by Sue Grafton
Read “Alive” by Piers Paul Read
Read all five of the Douglas Adams “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” books.
Read “All for the Union: The Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes” (1985)
Read all seven of the Philip Marlowe novels written by Raymond Chandler
Read all 12 of the “Foxfire” books
Read all 26 issues of the original “Who's Who in the DC Universe” series
Read all 33 books in the “TIME-Life Mysteries of the Unknown” series
Read all 125 of Agee Films “Great Southern Books”
Read all of Agatha Christie’s books
Read all of Bear Grylls’ books
Read all of Carl Sagan’s books
Read all of Charles Dickens’ novels
Read all of Clive Cussler’s books
Read all of Cormac McCarthy’s books
Read all of George R.R. Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire” novels
Read all of Hunter S. Thompson’s books
Read all of Jean Shepherd’s books
Read all of John Grisham’s books
Read all of John Keel’s books
Read all of Louis L’Amour’s books
Read all of Michael Connelly’s books
Read all of Michael Crichton’s books
Read all of Neil Gaiman’s books
Read all of Peter Benchley’s books.
Read all of Raymond Chandler’s novels
Read all of Richard Dawkins’ books
Read all of Riley Kelly’s books
Read all of Robert Ludlum’s novels
Read all of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s “Sherlock Holmes” stories
Read all of Sports Illustrated’s “Top 100 Sports Books of All Time”
Read all of Stephen Ambrose’s books
Read all of Stephen King’s books
Read all of the “501 Baseball Books Fans Must Read Before They Die”
Read all of the adventure books recommended by “The Art of Manliness”
Read all of the books on the “101 Crackerjack Sea Books” list
Read all of the “Twilight” novels by Stephenie Meyer
Read all of Tom Clancy’s novels
Read all of Truman Capote’s books
Read all the Harry Potter books
Read “All the King’s Men” by Robert Penn Warren
Read all the National Book Award winners
Read “All the Pretty Horses” by Cormac McCarthy
Read “American Gods” by Neil Gaiman
Read “American Psycho” by Bret Easton Ellis
Read “An American Tragedy” by Theodore Dreiser
Read “An Authentic Life of Billy the Kid” by Sheriff Pat Garrett
Read “Andersonville” by Mackinlay Kantor
Read an Horatio Alger novel
Read “An Imaginary Speech” by Benjamin Franklin
Read “Anna Karenina” by Leo Tolstoy
Read “Another Roadside Attraction” by Tom Robbins
Read “A Passage to India” by H.M. Forster (1924)
Read “A Prayer for Owen Meany” by John Irving (1989)
Read “A Room with a View” by E.M. Forster (1908)
Read “Around the World by Bicycle” by Thomas Stevens
Read “A Sand County Almanac” by Aldo Leopold (1949)
Read “A Separate Peace” by John Knowles
Read “A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush” by Eric Newby (1958)
Read “A Stillness at Appomattox” by Bruce Catton
Read “A Streetcar Named Desire” by Tennessee Williams
Read “A Strenuous Life” by Theodore Roosevelt
Read “A Tale of Two Cities” by Charles Dickens
Read “A Time to Kill” by John Grisham (1989)
Read “Ayesha: The Return of She” by H. Rider Haggard
Read “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers” by Thoreau
Read “Babe: The Legend Comes to Life” by Robert Creamer
Read “Bang the Drum Slowly” by Mark Harris
Read “Bartram’s Travels”
Read “Baseball: A History of America’s Game” by Benjamin G. Rader
Read “Baseball: A Literary Anthology”
Read “Batman: The Long Halloween”
Read “Battle Cry of Freedom” by James M. McPherson
Read “Black Beauty” by Anna Sewell (1877)
Read “Black Boy” by Richard Wright (1945)
Read “The Black Stallion” by Walter Farley
Read “Blue Highways” by William Least Heat-Moon (1982)
Read “Boris Godunov” by Aleksandre Pushkin
Read “Bulfinch’s Mythology” by Thomas Bulfinch
Read “Cannery Row” by John Steinbeck
Read “Can’t Anybody Here Play This Game?” by Jimmy Breslin (baseball book)
Read “Casino Royale” by Ian Fleming (1953)
Read “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” by Tennessee Williams
Read “Charles Kuralt’s America” by Charles Kuralt
Read “Civil War Stories” by Ambrose Bierce
Read “Cloud Atlas” by David Mitchell
Read “Cold Mountain” by Charles Frazier
Read “Common Sense” by Thomas Paine
Read “Confederates in the Attic” by Tony Horwitz
Read “Confessions of an English Opium-Eater” by Thomas de Quincey (1822)
Read “Cup of Gold” by John Steinbeck (1929)
Read “David Copperfield” by Charles Dickens
Read “Death in the Long Grass” by Peter Hathaway Capstick
Read “Death of a Salesman” by Arthur Miller (1949)
Read “Deliverance” by James Dickey
Read “Destry Rides Again” by Max Brand (1930)
Read “Devil in a Blue Dress” by Walter Mosley (1990)
Read “Dianetics” by L. Ron Hubbard
Read Discover Magazine’s “25 Greatest Science Books of All Time”
Read “Dispatches” by Michael Herr (1977)
Read “Doctor Zhivago” by Boris Pasternak (1958)
Read “Dog Soldiers” by Robert Stone (1974)
Read “Dollar Sign on the Muscle: The World of Baseball Scouting” by Keving Kerrane
Read “Don Quixote” by Miguel de Cervantes
Read “Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance” by Barack Obama (1995)
Read “East of Eden” by John Steinbeck
Read Edmund Spenser’s epic poem, “The Faerie Queene”
Read Edward O. Wilson’s biography, “Naturalist”
Read “Emma” by Jane Austen
Read “Eminent Victorians” by Lytton Strachey
Read “A False Spring” by Pat Jordan
Read “A Farewell to Arms” by Ernest Hemingway (1929)
Read “Fatherland” by Robert Harris
Read “Fathers and Sons” by Ivan Turgenev
Read “Faust” by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Read “Fifty Shades of Grey” by E.L. James
Read “First Footsteps in East Africa” by Richard F. Burton
Read “Following the Equator” by Mark Twain
Read “Football Scouting Methods” by Steve Belichick
Read “Foreign Affairs” by Alison Lurie (1984)
Read “For Whom the Bell Tolls” by Ernest Hemingway
Read “Foucault’s Pendulum” by Umberto Eco (1990)
Read “Foundation” by Isaac Asimov
Read “Freakonomics” by Steven Levitt
Read “Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café” by Fannie Flagg
Read “From Here to Eternity” by James Jones
Read “Gilead” by Marilynne Robinson
Read “Gilgamesh”
Read “Go Down, Moses” by William Faulkner
Read “Gone With the Wind” by Margaret Mitchell
Read “Goodbye, Mr. Chips” by James Hilton (1934)
Read “Go Tell It on the Mountain” by James Baldwin
Read “Great Expectations” by Charles Dickens
Read “Grendel” by John Gardner (1971)
Read “Grizzly Years” by Doug Peacock (1990)
Read “Gulliver’s Travels” by Jonathan Swift
Read “The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood
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Read Henrik Ibsen’s play “A Doll’s House” (1879)
Read “High Adventure” by Edmund Hillary
Read “Hints to Travelers” by Francis Galton
Read “Holes” by Louis Sachar
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Read “Honor Thy Father” by Gay Talese
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Read “How Good Do You Want to Be” by Nick Saban
Read “How the Other Half Lives” (1890) by Jacob Riis
Read “I Am a Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story” by Jessica Lynch
Read “I Am Third: The Inspiration for Brian’s Song” by Gale Sayers and Al Silverman
Read “Idea of a Perfect Commonwealth” by David Hume
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Read “Independence Day” by Richard Ford
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Read “In Search of Light” by Riley Kelly (1969)
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Read “Intruder in the Dust” by William Faulkner
Read “I, Robot” by Isaac Asimov
Read “Ivanhoe” by Sir Walter Scott
Read “James and the Giant Peach” by Roald Dahl
Read James Fenimore Cooper’s “Leatherstocking Tales”
Read “Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Bronte
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Read Jim Butcher’s “The Dresden Files” series
Read “Joe DiMaggio: The Hero’s Life” by Richard Ben Cramer
Read John Dos Passos’s “U.S.A.” trilogy (“The 42nd Parallel,” “1919” and “The Big Money.”)
Read “Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile” by John Hanning Speke (1863).
Read “Jubilee” by Margaret Walker
Read “Jude the Obscure” by Thomas Hardy (1895)
Read “Juiced” by Jose Canseco
Read “Jurassic Park” by Michael Crichton
Read “Kidnapped” by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Read “Lady Chatterly’s Lover” by D.H. Lawrence
Read Lee Child’s “Jack Reacher” novels
Read “Left Behind” by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins
Read “Legend” by David Gemmell
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Read “Le Morte D’Arthur” by Sir Thomas Malory
Read “Les Miserables” by Victor Hugo
Read “Letter from Birmingham Jail” by Martin Luther King Jr.
Read “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men” by James Agee and Walker Evans
Read “Leviathan” by Thomas Hobbes
Read “Life of Johnson” by James Boswell
Read “Life on the Mississippi” by Mark Twain (1883)
Read “Light in August” by William Faulkner
Read “Little Women” by Louisa May Alcott (1868)
Read “Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans” by Plutarch
Read “Lolita” by Vladimir Nabokov
Read “Lord Jim” by Joseph Conrad
Read “Lords of the Realm: The Real History of Baseball” by John Helyar
Read “Lost Horizons” by James Hilton (1933)
Read “Lyrical Ballads” by Wordsworth and Coleridge
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Read “Main Street” by Sinclair Lewis
Read “Master and Commander” by Patrick O'Brian
Read “Maus: A Survivor’s Tale” by Art Spiegleman
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Read “Mein Kampf” by Adolph Hitler
Read “Mere Christianity” by C.S. Lewis (1952)
Read “Metamorphoses” by Ovid
Read “Middlemarch” by George Eliot (1871)
Read “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil” by John Berendt
Read “Moneyball” by Michael Lewis
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Read “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass” by Frederick Douglass (1845)
Read National Geographic’s 100 Best Adventure Books
Read “Native Son” by Richard Wright (1940)
Read “North West Passage” by Roald Amundsen (1908)
Read “Notes from the Underground” by Dostoevsky
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Read “One Hundred Years of Solitude” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Read Outside’s “25 Best Adventure Books of the Last 100 Years”
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Read “Perdido Street Station” by China Mieville
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Read Pickett’s “History of Alabama”
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Read Plutarch’s “Lives”
Read “Point Counter Point” by Aldous Huxley (1928)
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Read “Portnoy’s Complaint” by Philip Roth (1969)
Read “Postmortem” by Patricia Cornwell
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Read Stieg Larsson’s “Millennium” trilogy
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Read “The Audacity of Hope” by Barack Obama (2006)
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Read “The Beak of the Finch” by Jonathan Weiner
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Read “The Bonfire of the Vanities” by Tom Wolfe (1987)
Read the Book of Mormon
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Read “The Bridge of San Luis Rey” by Thornton Wilder
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Read "Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton: A Biography" by Edward Rice
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Read “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” by Mark Twain (1867)
Read “The Children of Levi Peacock” by John J. Pierce
Read “The Cider House Rules” by John Irving (1987)
Read “The Civil War” by Shelby Foote
Read “The Civil War: An Illustrated History” by Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns and Ric Burns (1991)
Read “The Collected Short Stories” by Eudora Welty
Read “The Complete Stories” by Flannery O’Connor
Read “The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter” (1965)
Read “The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care” by Dr. Benjamin Spock
Read “The Communist Manifesto” by Karl Marx
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Read the complete Bible – in Spanish
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Read “The Complete Grimm’s Fair Tales”
Read the complete “Locke & Key” graphic novel series
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Read “The Confessions” by St. Augustine
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Read “The Confessions of Zeno” by Italo Svevo (1923)
Read the Constitution of the Confederate States of America
Read “The Count of Monte Cristo” by Alexandre Dumas
Read “Cover Her Face” by P.D. James (1962)
Read “The Crossing” by Cormac McCarthy
Read “Dead Souls” by Nikolai Gogol
Read “Death Comes for the Archbishop” by Willa Cather (1927)
Read “The Decameron” by Giovanni Boccaccio
Read “The Decline of the West” by Oswald Spengler (1918)
Read “The Decline of the West” by Oswald Spengler
Read “The Devil’s Dictionary” by Ambrose Bierce (1906)
Read “The Dharma Bums” by Jack Kerouac
Read the “Diamond Sutra”
Read “The Diary of Anne Frank”
Read “The Discovery, Settlement and Present State of Kentucky to Which Is Added the Adventures of Daniel Boon” by John Filson (1784)
Read the “Discworld” series by Terry Pratchett
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Read “The Father of the Blues” by W.C. Handy (1941)
Read “The Federalist Papers” by Alexander Hamilton
Read “The Federal Road through Georgia, the Creek Nation and Alabama, 1806-1836” by Henry DeLeon Southerland Jr. and Jerry Elijah Brown
Read “The Frontier in American History” by Frederick Jackson Turner
Read “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” by Stieg Larsson
Read “The Giver” by Lois Lowry
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Read “The Glory of Their Times” by Lawrence S. Ritter
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Read “The Histories” by Herodotus
Read “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” by Edward Gibbon
Read “The Human Way” by Riley Kelly (1973)
Read the Ian Fleming “James Bond” novels
Read “The Illustrated Man” by Ray Bradbury
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Read “The Insect Societies” by Edward O. Wilson
Read “The Interpretation of Dreams” by Sigmund Freud (1899)
Read “The Interpreter of Maladies” by Jhumpa Lahiri
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Read “The Journalist and the Murderer” by Janet Malcolm (1990)
Read “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair
Read “The Keepers of the House” by Shirley Ann Grau
Read “The Kid Who Climbed Everest” by Bear Grylls
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Read “The King in Yellow” by Robert William Chambers
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Read “The Kolchak Papers” by Jeff Rice
Read the Koran
Read “The Lair of the White Worm” by Bram Stoker (1911)
Read “The Lands of Silence” by Clements R. Markham
Read “The Last Unicorn” by Peter S. Beagle (1968)
Read “The Laws of the Game”
Read “The Life and Times of Gen. Sam Dale” by F.M. Claiborne.
Read “The Life and Times of Robert G. Fowler” by Maria S. Burden
Read “The Life of Johnny Reb” by Bell Irvin Wiley (1943)
Read “The Life of John Wesley Hardin As Written by Himself”
Read “The Life of Pi” by Yann Martel
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Read “The Long Goodbye” by Raymond Chandler
Read “The Lost World” by Michael Crichton
Read “The Makers and Romance of Alabama History” by B.F. Riley
Read the major works of Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton
Read “The Man Eaters of Kumaon” by Jim Corbett
Read “The Man Eaters of Tsavo” by Colonel Henry Patterson
Read “The Man In The High Castle” by Philip K. Dick
Read “The Marble Faun” by William Faulkner
Read “The Marsh Arabs” by Wilfred Thesiger (1964)
Read “The Martian Chronicles” by Ray Bradbury
Read the “Mayflower Compact”
Read “The Monkey Wrench Gang” by Edward Abbey
Read “The Monuments Men” by Robert M. Edsel
Read “The Motorcycle Diaries” by Ernesto “Che” Guevara
Read “The Naked and the Dead” by Norman Mailer
Read “The Name of the Rose” by Umberto Eco
Read “Theodore Rex” by Edmund Morris
Read the “Official Rules of Major League Baseball”
Read the “Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All” by Allan Gurganus
Read “The Old Evergreen Historical Cemetery” by Elizabeth Riley (1970)
Read “The Once and Future King” by T.H. White
Read “The Origin of Species” by Charles Darwin
Read “The Outlaw Josey Wales” by Forrest Carter
Read “The Outsiders” by S.E. Hinton
Read the “Pentagon Papers”
Read “The People of the Mist” by H. Rider Haggard
Read “The Pickwick Papers” by Charles Dickens
Read “The Pilgrim at Tinker Creek” by Annie Dillard
Read “The Pilgrim’s Progress” by John Bunyan
Read “The Plague” by Albert Camus
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Read “The Postman Always Rings Twice” by James Mallahan Cain
Read “The Princess Bride” by William Goldman
Read “The Rape of the Lock” by Alexander Pope
Read “The Red Eagle” by Alexander Beaufort Meek
Read “The Right Stuff” by Tom Wolfe (1979)
Read “The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government” by Jefferson Davis
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Read “The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey” by Candice Millard

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Read “The Satanic Verses” by Salman Rushdie (1988)
Read “The Scarlet Letter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Read “The Screwtape Letters” by C.S. Lewis (1942)
Read “The Sea of Cortez” by John Steinbeck
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Read “The Sinking of the Merrimac” by Richmond Pearson Hobson
Read “The Snow Leopard” by Peter Matthiessen
Read the “Southern Victory” series by Harry Turtledove
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Read “The Spy Who Came in from the Cold” by John le Carre (1963)
Read “The Store” by T.S. Stribling
Read “The Stories of John Cheever” by John Chever (1978)
Read “The Stranger” by Albert Camus
Read “The Sum of All Fears” by Tom Clancy
Read “The Summer Game” by Roger Angell
Read “The Sword of Shannara” by Terry Brooks
Read “The Teammates” by David Halberstam
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Read “The Three Musketeers“ by Alexandre Dumas
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Read “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre” by B. Traven
Read “The Turner Diaries” by Andrew McDonald
Read “The Universal Baseball Association, J. Henry Waugh, Prop.” by Robert Coover
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Read the U.S. Air Force’s 1997 report on Roswell
Read “The Vampyre” by John William Polidori (1819)
Read “The Very Worst Road” by Jeffrey C. Benton
Read “The Virginian” by Owen Wister (1902)
Read “The Voyage of the Beagle” by Charles Darwin (1839)
Read “The Voyage Out” by Virginia Woolf
Read “The Walton Experience” by Travis Walton
Read “The Wealth of Nations” by Adam Smith
Read the “Wheel of Time” series
Read “This Side of Paradise” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Read “The Thomas Berryman Number” by James Patterson (His first novel)
Read “Three Cups of Tea” by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin (2007)
Read “Through the Brazilian Wilderness” by Theodore Roosevelt
Read “Thus Spake Zarathustra” by Friedrich Nietzsche
Read “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy” by John le Carre (1974)
Read “Tom Jones” by Henry Fielding
Read “Touching the Void” by Joe Simpson (1988)
Read “Treasure” by Clive Cussler
Read “Tropic of Cancer” by Henry Miller (1934)
Read “Two Years Before the Mast” by Richard Henry Dana (1840)
Read “Typee” by Herman Melville
Read “UFO Contact at Pascagoula” by Charles Hickson and William Mendez
Read “Ulysses” by James Joyce
Read “Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings” by Joel Chandler Harris (1880)
Read “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Read “Undaunted Courage” by Stephen Ambrose
Read “The Universal Baseball Association, Inc” by Robert Coover
Read “The World According to Garp” by John Irving (1978)
Read “Valley of the Dolls” by Jacqueline Susann
Read “Valhalla Rising” by Clive Cussler
Read “Vanity Fair” by William Thackeray
Read “Veeck as in Wreck” by Bill Veeck
Read “Waiting for Godot” by Samuel Beckett
Read “Walden” by Henry David Thoreau
Read “War and Peace” by Leo Tolstoy
Read “Watership Down” by Richard Adams
Read “Westward the Tide” by Louis L’Amour
Read “West With the Night” by Beryl Markham (1942)
Read “When Hell was in Session” by Jeremiah Denton
Read “Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman” by Jon Krakauer
Read “Where the Red Fern Grows” by Wilson Rawls
Read “White Fang” by Jack London
Read “With the Old Breed” by E.B. Sledge
Read “Worlds in Collision” by Immanuel Velikovsky (1950)
Read “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War” by Max Brooks
Read “Wuthering Heights” by Emily Bronte
Read “You Know Me Al” by Ring Lardner
Read “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” by Robert Pirsig
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Ride a bike across Alabama
Ride a double-decker bus in London
Ride a gondola in Venice
Ride a Greyhound bus from Portland, Oregon to Portland, Maine
Ride a Harley-Davidson
Ride a mechanical bull
Ride a plane or boat in the Bermuda Triangle
Ride a San Francisco trolley
Ride a steamboat on the Mississippi River.
Ride in a blimp
Ride in a helicopter
Ride in a horse and carriage
Ride in a hot air balloon
Ride on a private jet
Ride on the Orient Express
Ride on the top of a moving train
Ride the Chunnel
Ride the Davis Ferry from Haines Island to Packer’s Bend
Ride the Gee’s Bend Ferry
Ride the London Underground
Ride the New York City subway
Ride the Staten Island Ferry
Ring the opening (or closing) bell on Wall Street
Rock climb
Run a marathon… without stopping at least once
Run a Spartan Race
Run a Tough Mudder race
Run a Warrior Dash race
Run backwards for a mile
Run for a political office
Run in 100 official footraces
Run in a “Color Run”
Run in a foot race at night
Run in the EMC Health & Wellness 5K
Run the Chicago Marathon
Run the Fifth Avenue Mile in New York City
Run the Joe Cain Classic 5K in Mobile
Run in the McGuire’s St. Patrick’s Day Run in Pensacola
Run in the Opp Rattlesnake Rodeo 5K Run/Walk
Run the Pensacola Double Bridge Run
Run in the Waynesboro Whistle Stop 5K in Waynesboro, Miss.
Run in the Williams Station Day 5K in Atmore
Sail across an ocean
Sample mescal
Sample some Alaska Distillery vodka
SCUBA dive a ship wreck
See “Alabama’s Forest of Faces” at Orr Park in Montevallo
See a laser light show at a planetarium
See a “Live Nativity” scene
See a live performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony
See all of the Saturn Award winning movies
See a performance of Cirque du Soleil
See a performance of “Phantom of the Opera”
See a play performed at The Globe theatre in London
See a UFO
See comedian Daniel Tosh perform live
See Hitler’s typewriter at the Bessemer Hall of History
See “Little Nadine’s Playhouse” in Oakwood Cemetery in Lanett.
See Michelangelo’s “David”
See Mount Rushmore in Keystone, South Dakota
See one of the original copies of the Magna Carta
See the Acropolis in Greece
See the Amazon River in person
See the Anasazi cliff dwellings in Mesa Verde
See the Boll Weevil Monument in Enterprise
See the Bottle Creek Indian Mounds in the Mobile-Tensaw Delta
See the Cardinals play the Cubs
See the Congo River in person
See the Dropkick Murphys in concert
See the statue of Edgar Allan Poe in the Bronx, New York
See the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri
See the Giant Blue Paper Clip in Spanish Fort
See the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco
See the “Hope Diamond” at the Smithsonian
See the Ignatius J. Reilly statue on Canal Street in New Orleans
See the inside of the Old Civil Air Patrol Building in Evergreen
See the Joe Louis Statue in Lafayette
See the “Liberty Bell” in person
See the mysterious Marfa Lights in West Texas
See the Natural Bridge in Winston County
See the Nazca Lines in Peru
See the Nile River
See the Northern Lights (aurora borealis)
See the pyramids of Teotihuacan
See the Romulus and Remus wolf statue in Rome, Ga.
See the Rosetta Stone at the British Museum in London
See the Seven Wonders of the World
See the site of the ancient city of Troy
See the Southern Cross
See the Sphinx in Egypt
See the “Strider of Chernobyl” in Brundidge
See the Whiskey Bottle Tombstone in Clayton
See the White Cliffs of Epes, Ala.
See the World’s Smallest City Block in Dothan
Serve as a Salvation Army bell ringer
Serve as the Worshipful Master of a Masonic lodge
Serve a term on the Monroe County Heritage Museums’ board of directors
Set foot on all seven continents
Sew something you can wear
Shoot a Colt revolver
Shoot a Glock
Shoot a M1911 .45 ACP pistol.
Shoot an AK-47
Solve a Rubik’s Cube
Skydive
Sleep in a castle
Sleep in a hammock
Sleep in an igloo
Sleep in an overnight train
Sleep in a stable on a haystack
Sleep on a trampoline
Slide down a firehouse pole
Smoke a Cuban cigar… in Cuba
Smoke cheroot
Snowboard
Snow shoe
Snow ski
Spend an afternoon reading in the Rose Reading Room of the New York Public Library.
Spend “Fat Tuesday” in New Orleans during Mardi Gras
Spend the night aboard the USS Alabama
Spend the night at Old Fort Claiborne
Spend the night at the bottom of the Grand Canyon
Spend the night at the Hotel Provincial in New Orleans
Spend the night at the Myrtles Plantation in St. Francisville, La.
Spend the night at the Old Stoddard House in Evergreen
Spend the night at the Watergate Hotel.
Spend the night in a bed and breakfast
Spend the night in a cave
Spend the night in a submarine
Spend the night in the Asa Johnston Farmhouse
Spend the night in the Claiborne Masonic Lodge at Perdue Hill
Spend the night in the Hybart House in Monroeville
Spend the night in the Old Croom House in Evergreen
Spend the night in the Old Lowrey Trust Store in Burnt Corn
Spend the night in the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colo.
Spend the night on a beach
Spend the night on a houseboat
Spend the night on Bradley Ridge
Spend the night on Nancy Mountain
Spend the night on the sandbar at Bailey’s Creek
Spend the night on top of “Tater Hill”
Spend the night out in the yard on a night there will be a hard frost
Stand in a red British phone booth
Stand on an off-shore oil rig
Stand on the equator
Stand on the North Pole. Look for Santa.
Stand on the prime meridian in Greenwich, England
Stand on the Rock of Gibraltar
Stand on the South Pole
Stand on top of a mesa
Stand on top of the old Bank of Evergreen building
Start a business
Stay awake for 48 hours straight
Summit Ayers Rock in Australia
Summit Mount Katahdin in Maine
Swim across the Alabama River
Swim with dolphins
Take a Greek Isles cruise
Take an Alaskan cruise
Take an aerial photo
Take an Around-the-World cruise
Take an art class
Take an IQ test
Take a Trans-Atlantic cruise
Take a wine tasting class
Take flying lessons
Take my son to Las Vegas on his 21st birthday
Take part in a Civil War battle reenactment
Take part in an archeological dig or fossil hunt
Take pictures in a photo booth
Take the Bermuda Hundred Campaign tour
Take the “Damn the Torpedoes!” Civil War Trail
Take the Decatur Civil War Walking Tour
Take the Hank Williams Trail tour from Georgiana to Montgomery
Take the Huntsville Ghost Walk Tour
Take the Jack the Ripper tour in London
Take the kids on an overnight camping trip
Take the kids to a WWF wrestling event
Take the kids to DeSoto Caverns
Take the kids to Disney World in Orlando, Fla.
Take the kids to Fort Gaines
Take the kids to Fort Morgan
Take the kids to Horseshoe Bend
Take the kids on the Mobile Bay Ferry
Take the kids to the Moundville Archeological Park
Take the kids to the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville
Take the kids to Waterville
Take the self-guided Black Belt Ghost Trail
Taste a century-old wine
Taste blood pudding
Throw a coin into the Trevi Fountain and make a wish
Throw out the ceremonial first pitch at a baseball game
Thru-hike the Appalachian Trail
Toss a coin into the Storyteller Fountain in Birmingham
Touch a genuine crystal skull
Touch a live tiger
Touch a moon rock
Tour a beer brewery
Tour a book publishing facility
Tour a coal mine
Tour a Mayan ruin
Tour Prague in the Czech Republic
Tour a scotch distillery
Tour the Borden House in Fall River, Mass.
Tour the Catacombs of Paris
Tour the Catacombs of Rome
Tour the Gettysburg battlefield
Tour the Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory in Louisville, Ky.
Tour the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland
Tour the U.S. Military Academy at West Point
Tour the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md.
Tour the USS North Carolina in Wilmington, N.C.
Tour the Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Louisville, Ky.
Transcribe, edit and revise my journals from my time in Kuwait and Iraq
Travel across Canada by train from Toronto to Vancouver
Travel across the Manhattan Bridge
Travel across the Pearl Bridge in Japan
Travel across the Quebec Bridge over the St. Lawrence River
Travel across the United States by train from coast to coast
Travel over the George Washington Bridge in New York City
Travel over the Mariana Trench near Guam, the deepest point on Earth
Travel the Forrest-Streight Route
Travel the Monroeville Birdhouse Trail
Travel the Silk Route
Travel the Trans-Canadian Highway from coast to coast
Travel through the Holland Tunnel
Travel through the Lincoln Tunnel in New York City
Try acupuncture
Try a scary experiment I saw someone do on YouTube
Try deep-fried twinkies
Try Hakarl
Try spelunking
Try stand-up paddle boarding
Use a Ouija board
View the Perseid meteor shower in August
Visit 54 MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village
Visit 177A Bleecker Street in New York’s Greenwich Village
Visit Abraham Lincoln’s grave
Visit a “Forbidden Planet” bookstore
Visit Alaska
Visit Alcatraz prison
Visit all 50 of the United States (24 of 50 so far)
Visit Amityville, New York
Visit Angel Falls in Venezuela
Visit the Andersonville National Historic Site in Georgia
Visit the oldest Masonic lodge in Alabama
Visit Angkor Wat in Angkor, Cambodia
Visit a presidential library
Visit Area 51
Visit a synagogue
Visit Aurora, Texas
Visit Auschwitz
Visit Austin, Texas
Visit Bailey’s Well at Franklin
Visit Bald Hill
Visit Bangkok, Thailand
Visit Beale Street in Memphis, Tenn.
Visit Bear Bryant’s grave
Visit Bear Creek Swamp in Autaugaville
Visit Belcourt Castle in Newport, Rhode Island
Visit Berlin
Visit Bobby Mackey’s in Wilder, Ky.
Visit Boggs and Boulders
Visit Boston, Mass.
Visit Buenos Aires, Argentina
Visit California
Visit Cambridge University
Visit Canada
Visit Cape Cod, Mass.
Visit Capitol Reef National Park in Utah
Visit Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico
Visit Carlyle Hall in Perry County, Ala.
Visit Central Park in New York City
Visit Charleston, S.C.
Visit Chattahooche State Park in Gordon, Ala.
Visit Chernobyl in the Ukraine
Visit Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History
Visit Chile
Visit China
Visit Cleveland, Ohio
Visit Colombia
Visit Colonial Williamsburg
Visit Columbia, South Carolina
Visit Confederate Memorial Park in Marbury
Visit Connecticut
Visit Corpus Christi, Texas
Visit Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas
Visit Cuba
Visit Dalton, Georgia
Visit Death Valley, California
Visit Delaware
Visit Doubleday Field in Cooperstown, N.Y.
Visit Dracula’s Castle in Romania
Visit the EarlyWorks Museums
Visit Easter Island
Visit Edgar Allan Poe’s grave in Baltimore, Md.
Visit Edinburgh, Scotland
Visit Ernest Hemingway’s Birthplace and Museum in Oak Park, Ill.
Visit Everglades National Park
Visit every country in Europe
Visit Federal Hall in New York City
Visit Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco
Visit Ford Field in Detroit
Visit Fort Barrancas
Visit Fort Campbell, Kentucky
Visit Fort Clatsop near Astoria, Oregon
Visit Fort Donelson in Tennessee.
Visit Fort Drum, New York
Visit Fort Fisher in North Carolina
Visit Fort Henry in Tennessee
Visit Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Md.
Visit Fort Mifflin, Pa.
Visit Fort Sackville in Indiana
Visit Fort Sumter, where the first shot of the Civil War was fired.
Visit Four Corners (Utah, New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado)
Visit Frankenstein’s Castle in Darmstadt, Germany
Visit Franz Kafka’s grave in the New Jewish Cemetery in Prague
Visit the “Fred - The Town Dog” grave in Rockford.
Visit Freemason’s Hall in Edinburgh, Scotland
Visit Freemason’s Hall in Philadelphia
Visit Frog Eye in Tallapoosa County
Visit George Wallace’s grave in Greenwood Cemetery in Montgomery
Visit Ghana
Visit Glacier National Park in Montana
Visit Graceland
Visit Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming
Visit Grant’s Tomb in New York City.
Visit Greece in Memphis, Tenn.
Visit “Ground Zero” in New York
Visit Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia
Visit Harvard University’s campus
Visit Hawaii
Visit “Hell’s Half Acre” in Marengo County
Visit “Hell’s Half Acre” in Wyoming
Visit Helsinki, Finland
Visit Herman Melville’s Grave at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, N.Y.
Visit Hiroshima
Visit Holmestead Farm in Perry County
Visit Holy Ground Battlefield Park in Lowndes County, Ala.
Visit Hong Kong
Visit Hope Well Church at Furman in Wilcox County
Visit Hot Springs National Park.
Visit Howard’s Grove Hospital in Richmond, Va.
Visit H.P. Lovecraft’s grave in Providence, R.I.
Visit Idaho
Visit Independence Hall in Philadelphia
Visit India
Visit Indiana
Visit Iowa
Visit Ireland
Visit Irwinville, Ga.
Visit Istanbul, Turkey
Visit Japan
Visit Jay and Silent Bob’s Secret Stash comic book store in N.J.
Visit Jerusalem, Israel
Visit Jim Morrison’s grave in Paris, France
Visit Joshua Tree National Park in California
Visit Kansas
Visit Kenan’s Mill in Dallas County, Ala.
Visit Kenworthy Hall near Marion
Visit Labatt Park in Ontario, Canada
Visit Lake Powell in Utah
Visit Laos
Visit Lebanon
Visit Lexington, Mass.
Visit the Liberty Chapel Church near Greenville
Visit Liechtenstein, the only nation entirely in the Alps
Visit Lisbon, Portugal
Visit Loch Ness in Scotland
Visit Locke Hill
Visit London Bridge in Lake Havasu City, Arizona
Visit London, England
Visit Los Angeles, Calif.
Visit Machu Picchu in Peru
Visit Magee Farm in Kushla, Ala.
Visit Magnolia Grove in Greensboro, Ala.
Visit Maine
Visit Mammoth Cave in Kentucky
Visit Manhattan Island
Visit Mark Twain’s Boyhood Home and Museum in Hannibal, Mo.
Visit Martha’s Vineyard, Mass.
Visit Massachusetts
Visit Mechanicsville, Va.
Visit Melbourne, Australia
Visit Mexico City, Mexico
Visit Michigan
Visit Minnesota
Visit Missouri
Visit M.N. Lloyd’s Water Mill near Red Level
Visit Mobile Point
Visit Montana
Visit Moscow, Russia
Visit Moss Rock Preserve and Waterfalls in Hoover
Visit Mount Vernon in Virginia
Visit Mozambique
Visit my great-uncle’s WWI grave in France
Visit Namibia
Visit National Geographic’s Headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Visit Nebraska
Visit New Hampshire
Visit New Jersey
Visit New York City
Visit New Zealand
Visit Noccalula Falls in Gadsden
Visit North Dakota
Visit Norway
Visit Oak Island in Canada
Visit Oakleigh Mansion in Mobile
Visit Omaha Beach in Normandy
Visit Oregon
Visit Panama
Visit Paradise Falls
Visit Paris, France
Visit Patagonia, Argentina
Visit Peacock’s Bridge in Stantonsburg, N.C.
Visit Pearl Harbor
Visit Petra, Jordan
Visit Plymouth Rock in Plymouth, Mass.
Visit Point Mallard Park.
Visit Point Pleasant, West Virginia
Visit Possum Bend in Wilcox County
Visit Prairie Bluff in Wilcox County
Visit Promontory Summit, Utah
Visit Providence, Rhode Island
Visit Puerto Rico
Visit Quito, Ecuador, the world’s highest capital
Visit Radio City Music Hall in New York City
Visit Red Hook, New York
Visit Redwood National Park in California
Visit Remlap in Blount County
Visit Reykjavik, Iceland
Visit Rhode Island
Visit Rickwood Field in Birmingham
Visit Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Visit Roanoke Island
Visit Rocky Head in Dale County, Ala.
Visit Rome
Visit Rosslyn Chapel in Roslin, Scotland
Visit Roswell, New Mexico
Visit Rowan Oak in Oxford, Miss.
Visit Salem, Mass.
Visit Salinas, Calif.
Visit Sanders Cave at Brooklyn
Visit San Francisco, Calif.
Visit San Francisco’s Chinatown District
Visit San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury District
Visit Sequoia National Park in California.
Visit Ship Island, Miss.
Visit Shipps Pond
Visit Shorter Cemetery in Eufaula
Visit Singapore
Visit Sir Richard Francis Burton’s grave at Mortlake, Surrey
Visit Slap Out, Alabama
Visit South Dakota
Visit South Korea
Visit Spotsylvania Courthouse, Va.
Visit Square Books in Oxford, Miss.
Visit Sri Lanka
Visit St. Augustine, Fla. and the St. Augustine Lighthouse
Visit St. John’s Episcopal Church in Richmond, Va.
Visit St. Louis, Missouri
Visit St. Paul’s Cathedral in London
Visit Stonehenge
Visit Sturdivant Hall in Selma
Visit Sweetwater Mansion in Florence
Visit Switzerland

Visit Tahiti
Visit the 5,000-year-old Fortingall Yew tree in Scotland
Visit the Absalom Pratt House in Brierfield
Visit the Adams Grove Presbyterian Church near Sardis in Dallas County
Visit the Adventurers Club in Chicago
Visit the Alabama Governor’s Mansion in Montgomery.
Visit the Alabama Military Hall of Honor in Marion
Visit the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame Museum in Birmingham
Visit the Alamuchee-Bellamy Covered Bridge in Livingston
Visit the Amazon Rain Forest
Visit the American UFO Sci-Fi Museum in Wisconsin
Visit the American Writers Museum in Washington, D.C.
Visit the Apalachicola National Forest
Visit the Armed Forces Medical Museum in Washington, D.C.
Visit the Atlantic City Boardwalk in Atlantic City, NJ
Visit the Ave Maria Grotto in Cullman
Visit the Azores islands
Visit the Babe Ruth Birthplace & Museum in Baltimore, Md.
Visit the Baja Peninsula
Visit the Baker House in Selma
Visit the Barnes Cemetery in Butler County
Visit the Barnstable Bat Company in Cape Cod, Mass.
Visit the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y.
Visit the Battlefield Sycamore near the front steps of the Alabama Capitol
Visit the Bay Minette Public Library
Visit the Beauvior House in Biloxi
Visit the Berman Museum of World History in Anniston
Visit the “Betty and Barney Hill Incident” site in New Hampshire
Visit the Big Oak in Geneva, Ala.
Visit the Birmingham Botanical Gardens
Visit the Birmingham Zoo
Visit the birthplace of Edgar Allan Poe in Boston, Mass.
Visit the Blue & Gray Museum of North Alabama in Decatur
Visit the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah
Visit the Boyington Oak in Mobile
Visit the Brierfield Ironworks
Visit the British Museum in London
Visit the Bunker Hill Monument in Charlestown, Mass.
Visit the Burford House in Wilcox County
Visit the Capital Willow Oak in Tuscaloosa
Visit the Central of Georgia Depot in Andalusia
Visit the Chickamauga National Military Park
Visit the Choctaw County Historical Museum in Gilbertown
Visit the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame & Museum in Cincinnati, Ohio
Visit the City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco
Visit the city of Montreal in Canada
Visit the CN Tower in Toronto, Canada
Visit the Coliseum in Rome
Visit the Coney Island Boardwalk
Visit the Confederate Cemetery at Gainesville, Ala.
Visit the “Coon Dog Cemetery” in Colbert County
Visit the crash site of the “Little Eva” in Australia
Visit “The Crater” in Petersburg, Va.
Visit the Crow’s Nest in Gloucester, Mass.
Visit the Dauphin Island Indian Shell Mound Park
Visit the Devil’s Tower National Monument in Wyoming
Visit the Drish House in Tuscaloosa
Visit the Eastern State Penitentiary in Pa.
Visit the Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond, Va.
Visit the Edmund King House in Shelby County
Visit the Egyptian Museum in Cairo
Visit the Elite Café in Phenix City
Visit Elysian Fields in Hoboken, NJ
Visit the Emma Sansom Monument in Gadsden
Visit the Empire State Building
Visit the Eocene Lisbon Formation at Claiborne
Visit “The Exorcist” steps in Georgetown, Va.
Visit the Explorers Club in New York City
Visit the Fairhope Museum of History
Visit the Field of Dreams movie site in Dyersville, Iowa
Visit the Flannan Isles lighthouse in Scotland
Visit the Florida Everglades
Visit the Fort Cusseta Historic Site in Chambers County
Visit the Fort Mitchell Historic Site on the Chattahoochee River
Visit the Galapagos Islands
Visit the General Joe Wheeler Home in Hillsboro, Ala.
Visit the General Richard Montgomery Memorial in New York City
Visit the General Timothy Bigelow Monument at Worcester Common in Worcester, Mass.
Visit the Geocaching Headquarters in Seattle
Visit the geographic center of Alabama in Montevallo
Visit the geographic terminus of the Appalachian Mountains in McCalla, Ala.
Visit the George Washington Masonic Memorial in Wash., D.C.
Visit the George Washington Masonic National Memorial in Alexandria, Va.
Visit the Georgia Dome
Visit the Governor’s Mansion in Montgomery
Visit the Grand Lodge of England
Visit the grave of Charles “Ches” McCartney in Jeffersonville, Ga.
Visit the grave of Elizabeth Dixon Smith in Wilcox County
Visit the grave of Emma Sansom in Upshur County, Texas.
Visit the grave of Ernest Hemingway in Ketchum, Idaho
Visit the grave of General William J. Hardee in Selma
Visit the grave of Grancer Harrison
Visit the grave of Hinchey W. Warren
Visit the grave of James Monroe at Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Va.
Visit the grave of John Adams at United First Parish Church in Quincy, Mass.
Visit the grave of John Murphy in Gosport
Visit the grave of John Wilkes Booth in Baltimore, Md.
Visit the grave of Kathryn Tucker Windham
Visit the grave of Noah Dallas Peacock
Visit the grave of “Railroad Bill” in Pensacola, Fla.
Visit the grave of Robert E. Howard in Brownwood, Texas
Visit the grave of Rube Burrow in Friendship Cemetery in Lamar County
Visit the grave of Sam Dale in Daleville, Miss.
Visit the grave of Susan Henderson
Visit the grave of T.H. Ball in the Creighton Cemetery in Clarke County.
Visit the grave of Thomas Jefferson at Monticello, Va.
Visit the grave of William Coombs (aka “The Brokenhearted Stranger”)
Visit the Great Falls of the Missouri River
Visit the Great Serpent Mound in Ohio
Visit the Great Wall of China
Visit the Guggenheim Museum in New York City
Visit the Hank Aaron Childhood Home & Museum in Mobile
Visit the Hank Williams Museum in Montgomery
Visit the Hank William star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Visit the “Harry” monument in the Marion City Cemetery
Visit the headwaters of Murder Creek
Visit the Heart of Dixie Railroad Museum in Calera
Visit the “Heaviest Corner on Earth” in Birmingham
Visit the Hermitage, the home of Andrew Jackson, in Nashville, Tenn.
Visit the Heron Hill Cemetery in Clarke County
Visit the highest point in Georgia
Visit the highest point in Mississippi
Visit the highest point in Tennessee
Visit the Hinkle Fieldhouse at Butler University in Indianapolis
Visit the Hodges Meteor site in Oak Grove
Visit the House of the Temple in Washington, D.C.
Visit the Huntsville Botanical Garden.
Visit the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C.
Visit the intersection of Wilcox County Roads 59 and 24
Visit the Itaipu Dam on the border of Brazil and Paraguay
Visit the Ivan Allen Jr. Braves Museum & Hall of Fame in Atlanta, Ga.
Visit the Jackson Live Oak in Baldwin County
Visit the James Landing Cemetery in Clarke County
Visit the Jay Villa Plantation
Visit the Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park
Visit the Jemison-Van de Graaf Mansion in Tuscaloosa
Visit the John F. Kennedy assassination site
Visit the John Wilkes Booth Monument in Troy
Visit the Kathryn Tucker Windham House in Selma
Visit the Kathryn Tucker Windham Museum in Thomasville
Visit the Kring Coffin Shop in Gainesville
Visit the Leaning Tower of Pisa
Visit the Legends of the Game Museum in Arlington, Texas
Visit Little River Canyon National Preserve in Fort Payne
Visit the London Zoo, oldest in existence
Visit The Louvre in Paris, France
Visit the Maple Hill Cemetery in Huntsville
Visit the Margaret Mitchell House and Museum in Atlanta
Visit the Mariners’ Museum in Newport News, Va.
Visit the Marion Female Seminary in Marion
Visit the Mark Twain House in Hartford, Conn.
Visit the Marquis de Lafayette’s grave at the Cimetière de Picpus in Paris
Visit the “Martian Landing Site” monument in Grover’s Mills, N.J.
Visit the Mary Daniel Bridge in Crenshaw County
Visit the Masonic lodge in Uriah, Ala.
Visit the Metropolitan Opera House in New York
Visit the Midway Cave
Visit the Mount of the Holy Cross in Colorado
Visit the Mount Rainier National Park in Washington
Visit the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond, Va.
Visit the Nathan Bedford Forrest Monument in Cedar Bluff, Ala.
Visit the Nathan Bedford Forrest Monument in Selma
Visit the National Civil War Naval Museum in Columbus, Ga.
Visit the National Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola
Visit the National Peanut Festival in Dothan
Visit the National September 11 Museum
Visit the National Shrimp Festival in Gulf Shores
Visit the Natural Bridges National Monument in Utah.
Visit the Nautilus, the world’s first nuclear submarine, at Groton, Conn.
Visit the North Rim of the Grand Canyon
Visit the Obscura Antiques & Oddities store in Manhattan
Visit the Octagon House in Clayton, Ala.
Visit Theodore Roosevelt’s Gravesite in Oyster Bay, N.Y.
Visit the Oklahoma City Bombing site.
Visit the Old Appomattox Courthouse-McLean House in Appomattox, Va.
Visit the Old Depot Museum in Selma
Visit the Old Jewish Cemetery at Claiborne
Visit the Old Naheola Bridge at Pennington
Visit the Orkney Islands
Visit the original Ground Zero in New Mexico
Visit the Panama Canal
Visit the “Pascagoula Abduction” site
Visit the Pensacola Historical Museum
Visit the Perdue Hill Indian Mound
Visit the Philippines
Visit the Pine Hill Depot Museum in Wilcox County
Visit the Playboy Mansion
Visit the Port Hudson State Historic Site in Louisiana.
Visit the “Prayer Log”
Visit the Pro Football Hall of Fame
Visit the Purefoy House at Furman
Visit the Pyramids at Giza in Egypt
Visit the Queen Mary in Long Beach, Calif.
Visit the Raphael Semmes House in Mobile
Visit the Rawls Hotel in Enterprise
Visit the Richards DAR House in Mobile
Visit Thermopylae in Greece
Visit the Robert E. Howard Museum in Cross Plains, Texas
Visit the Roman Coliseum
Visit the ruins at Pompeii
Visit the Russell Cave National Monument in Bridgeport
Visit the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Cullman
Visit the Sadler Plantation House in McCalla, Ala.
Visit the Sam Dale Monument in Daleville, Miss.
Visit the San Diego Zoo
Visit the Sandy Hook Lighthouse in New Jersey
Visit the Shakespeare & Co. bookstore in Paris
Visit the “Shaw” steamboat wreck site
Visit the Sistine Chapel
Visit the site of Custer’s Last Stand at the Little Bighorn in Montana
Visit the site of Fort Crawford in East Brewton
Visit the site of the Battle of Antietam in Maryland
Visit the site of the Battle of Columbus
Visit the site of the Battle of Ebenezer Church in Stanton, Ala.
Visit the site of the Battle of Fairview in Coffee County, Ala.
Visit the site of the Battle of Hobdy’s Bridge
Visit the site of the Battle of Moore’s Creek in North Carolina
Visit the site of the Battle of Seven Pines near Richmond, Va.
Visit the site of the Battle of Stones River
Visit the site of the Battle of Waynesboro, Va.
Visit the site of the first Alabama-Auburn football game
Visit the site of the former Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, NY
Visit the site of the former Polo Grounds in New York, NY
Visit the site of the Mobile magazine explosion
Visit the site of the “Surrender at Citronelle”
Visit the Sloss Furnaces in Birmingham
Visit the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
Visit the source of the Nile
Visit the Southern Museum of Flight in Birmingham
Visit the St. James Hotel in Selma
Visit the Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Australia
Visit the Taj Mahal in Agra, India
Visit the Talladega Superspeedway
Visit the Tannehill Ironworks (Ala. Iron and Steel Museum)
Visit the Templar Church in London
Visit the Temple of Karnak in Egypt
Visit the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
Visit the top of the Empire State Building
Visit the top of the Statue of Liberty in New York City
Visit the tower at the University of Texas
Visit the Tower of London
Visit the Ty Cobb Museum in Royston, Ga.
Visit the University of Notre Dame’s campus
Visit the U.S. Army Aviation Museum at Fort Rucker
Visit the U.S. Snagboat Montgomery in Pickensville, Ala.
Visit the U.S. Virgin Islands
Visit the Vatican
Visit the Vaughn Smitherman Museum in Selma
Visit the Very Large Array (VLA) in New Mexico
Visit the Vulcan statue in Birmingham
Visit the Wall Street Financial District in New York City
Visit the Washington County Museum in Chatom
Visit the Washington Monument
Visit the Wetumpka Impact Crater site
Visit the Wilmer Mizel monument at Vinegar Bend, Ala.
Visit the Winchester Mansion in California
Visit the Witherington Home at Lyeffion
Visit the W.O. Carter Log House near Andalusia
Visit Thomas Jefferson’s home at Monticello
Visit Tibet
Visit Tijuana, Mexico
Visit Tokyo, Japan
Visit Tombstone, Arizona
Visit Truman Capote’s old apartment in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Visit Tuscany, Italy
Visit Uruguay
Visit Utah
Visit Valley Forge, Pa.
Visit Vancouver, Canada
Visit Vermont
Visit Vicksburg, Mississippi
Visit Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe
Visit Vienna, Austria
Visit Vietnam
Visit Waco, Texas
Visit Walden Pond in Concord, Mass.
Visit Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va.
Visit Washington Irving’s grave in Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.
Visit Westminster Abbey in London
Visit William Faulkner’s grave in Oxford, Miss.
Visit Wilson Dam in Florence, Ala.
Visit Wisconsin
Visit Woodbury, Georgia
Visit Wyoming
Visit Yellowstone National Forest
Visit York, Maine
Visit Yorktown, Va.
Visit Yosemite National Park in California
Volunteer at a homeless shelter
Walk across Abbey Road in London, England
Walk across the Brooklyn Bridge
Walk from Appomattox, Va. to Burnt Corn
Walk Montgomery’s Civil Heritage Trail
Walk on an iceberg
Walk on hot coals
Walk somewhere at least 50 miles away
Walk through “The Grove” at Ole Miss on game day
“Walk to Mordor”
Watch a ballet performance
Watch a basketball game at Madison Square Garden
Watch a Braves Game at Turner Field
Watch a Broadway play or musical
Watch a Cubs game at Wrigley Field in Chicago
Watch a Durham Bulls baseball game
Watch a football game at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium in Gainesville, Fla.
Watch a football game at Commonwealth Stadium in Lexington, Ky.
Watch a football game at Kyle Field in College Station, Texas
Watch a football game at Razorback Stadium in Fayetteville, Ark.
Watch a football game at Sanford Stadium in Athens, Ga.
Watch a football game at Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge, La.
Watch a football game at Tuskegee University
Watch a football game at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium in Oxford, Miss.
Watch a football game at War Memorial Stadium in Little Rock, Ark.
Watch a football game at Williams-Brice Stadium in Columbia, S.C.
Watch a game of cricket
Watch a Cactus League Spring Training baseball game
Watch a Grapefruit League Spring Training baseball game
Watch a high school football game in Odessa, Texas
Watch a live performance of “Our Town”
Watch a live rocket launch
Watch all 12 of the “Friday the 13th” movies
Watch all of Alfred Hitchcock’s movies
Watch all of Ken Burns’ documentary films
Watch all of Sports Illustrated’s “Greatest Sports Movies”
Watch all of The Art of Manliness’ “17 Best Western Movies”
Watch all of the “Hellraiser” movies
Watch all of the “James Bond” movies
Watch all of the “Star Trek” movies
Watch all the Academy Award Best Picture winners
Watch all the old episodes of “The Twilight Zone”
Watch all the old episodes of the “V” sci-fi series
Watch “All the President’s Men”
Watch a Monday Night Football Game in person
Watch a movie at a drive-in theater
Watch an arena football game in person
Watch an Arizona Fall League baseball game
Watch a NASCAR race in person
Watch an “Egg Bowl” in person
Watch an Elvis movie
Watch an entire soap opera episode
Watch “A Night in the Tropics”
Watch an Independent League baseball game
Watch an interleague Major League Baseball game
Watch a Packers game at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisc.
Watch a pay per view boxing match.
Watch a performance of Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker”
Watch a pro soccer game in the U.K. in person
Watch a Red Sox game at Fenway Park in Boston
Watch a solar eclipse
Watch a stage production of “A Streetcar Named Desire.”
Watch a Triple A International League game
Watch a Triple A Pacific Coast League game
Watch a World Cup soccer game in person
Watch a Yankees game at Yankee Stadium in New York
Watch “Beat the Devil”
Watch “Born on the Fourth of July”
Watch Cartoon Network for 24 hours
Watch “Das Boot”
Watch Don Siegel’s “Dirty Harry” (1971)
Watch “Dr. No” (1962, first James Bond movie)
Watch “Encounters at the End of the World” (2008)
Watch “Enter the Dragon”
Watch every episode of “24”
Watch every episode of “American Horror Story”
Watch every episode of “Battlestar Galactica”
Watch every episode of “Breaking Bad”
Watch every episode of “Dark Shadows”
Watch every episode of “Fringe”
Watch every episode of “Game of Thrones”
Watch every episode of “Ghost Adventures”
Watch every episode of “Ghost Hunters”
Watch every episode of “Hill Street Blues”
Watch every episode of “MST3K”
Watch every episode of “The Outer Limits”
Watch every episode of “The Sopranos”
Watch every episode of “The X-Files”
Watch every episode of “Walking Dead”
Watch Fangoria’s “101 Best Horror Movies You’ve Never Seen”
Watch Fangoria’s 300 Best Horror Films
Watch “First Spaceship on Venus” (1960)
Watch “For Love of the Game” (1999)
Watch “Glory”
Watch “Heavens Fall” (2006)
Watch “High Noon” (1952)
Watch “It Happens Every Spring” (1949)
Watch “La Dolce Vita” (1960)
Watch “Little Big Man” (1970)
Watch “McCabe and Mrs. Miller” (1971)
Watch my son kill his first deer
Watch “October Sky”
Watch Outside Magazine’s Best Documentary Films
Watch “Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid” (1973)
Watch “Reach for the Sky” (1956)
Watch “Silverado” (1985)
Watch “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” (1937)
Watch “Soylent Green”
Watch Sumo wrestling live
Watch “Sweet Home Alabama”
Watch “Tales from the Darkside: The Movie”
Watch the American Film Institute’s 100 Funniest Movies
Watch the Angels play at Angel Stadium in Anaheim
Watch the Arizona Diamondbacks play at Chase Field
Watch “The Babe Ruth Story” (1948)
Watch the “Backyard Brawl” game between Thomasville and Clarke Co.
Watch the “Battle for the Armory” in Tallassee
Watch “The Battle of Murder Creek” football rivalry game in person
Watch the “Battle of Prichard” football game between Vigor and Blount
Watch the Biloxi Shuckers minor league baseball team
Watch “The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings” (1976)
Watch “The Blue Devil” (1930)
Watch the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace
Watch the Chicago White Sox play at US Cellular Field
Watch the Cincinnati Reds play at Great American Ballpark
Watch the Cleveland Indians play at Progressive Field
Watch the Colorado Rockies play at Coors Field
Watch the Decatur-Austin football game in person
Watch the Detroit Tigers play at Comerica Park
Watch the documentary “Kon-Tiki” (1950)
Watch the Dodgers play at Dodger Stadium
Watch the Dodgers play the Giants
Watch the Florida Marlins at Marlins Park
Watch “The Glass Menagerie” (1950)
Watch “The Gunfighter” (1950)
Watch the HBO mini-series “The Pacific”
Watch the Kansas City Royals play at Kauffman Stadium
Watch the Ken Burns WWII documentary “The War”
Watch “Them!” (1954)
Watch “The Magnificent Seven” (1960)
Watch “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance” (1962)
Watch the Milwaukee Brewers play at Miller Park
Watch the Minnesota Twins play at Target Field
Watch the Moon Pie Drop in Mobile on New Year’s Eve
Watch the Murphy – McGill-Toolen football game in person
Watch the musical “Hello, Dolly!”
Watch “The Naked Spur” (1953)
Watch the New York Mets play at Citi Field
Watch “The Nightmare Before Christmas”
Watch the Oakland A’s play at Oakland Alameda County Coliseum
Watch the Old Faithful geyser erupt
Watch the Opelika-Auburn football rivalry game
Watch the original “Godzilla” movie (1954)
Watch the Pensacola Pelican Drop
Watch the Rays play at Tropicana Field
Watch “The Right Stuff”
Watch the San Diego Padres play at Petco Park
Watch the San Francisco Giants play at AT&T Park
Watch the Seattle Mariners play at Safeco Field
Watch the St. Louis Cardinals play at Busch Stadium
Watch the sun set at Key West
Watch the Super Six football championships in Birmingham
Watch the Texas Rangers play at the Rangers Ballpark at Arlington
Watch the Toronto Blue Jays play at the Rogers Centre
Watch “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre” (1948)
Watch the Washington County-Millry football rivalry game
Watch the Washington Nationals play at Nationals Park
Watch the Yankees play the Red Sox
Watch “Touching the Void” (2003)
Watch “True Grit” (1969)
Watch “Vertigo”
Watch “Will Penny” (1968)
Watch “Young Guns” (1988)
Watch “Your Cheatin’ Heart” (1964)
Watch “Zulu” (1964)
Water ski
Wear a 10-gallon hat
Wear a Rolex watch
Win a political office
Win my fantasy baseball league
Win my fantasy football league
Work in Antarctica
Work on a fishing boat
Write 100 poems
Write 100 short stories in my Eli McMorn series
Write a letter to my descendants
Write a letter to someone famous
Write a novel
Write a sonnet
Write my memoirS

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Sunday, January 3, 2016

The start of the new year is a great time to write your own 'bucket list'

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