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Have you seen the movie 'Bucket List'?
Well, I have had a list long before
Hollywood decided it would be a great idea for a movie.
Here is what my Bucket List contains and the status
-
White water rafting down the Colorado river -
Completed 1999
- Become a
private pilot - Completed
1977
- Pilot a
glider
- Completed Sept. 2007
- Pilot a
Jet Fighter
- Completed Feb. 16, 2008
-
Pilot an
Ultra-light
- Completed Sept. 2009
- Pilot an bi-plane through full
aerobatic maneuvers - scheduled for 2012,
my 70th birthday
- Fly
in a hang-glider -
Still a dream
- Go
Para-sailing -
Completed 2002
- Ride in a
hot-air balloon - Completed 1995
- Pilot a helicopter
- -
scheduled for 2012, my 70th birthday
- Pilot a Blimp
- Good luck with this one.
- Drive around
the Indy Racetrack -
Completed 1969 (gotta do this
one again, only faster)
-
Skydive
-
Completed Sept 2007
- SCUBA
Dive -
Certified May 1987
- Swim with great white sharks (shark cage) - Still a
dream
- Swim with
Dolphins
- Completed Dec 2007 in
Tortola
- Traverse the
Panama Canal
- Completed Dec. 2007
- Stand on the
North Pole - Still a
dream
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Travel to Antarctica and walk among the
penquins -
Still a dream
- Travel to South America
-
I have been to
Columbia
- Go to the top of the
Golden Gate Bridge south tower. -
Completed 1992
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Write a best selling novel -
I wrote
"Vigil"
in 2012. If it
becomes a bestseller remains to be seen
-
Bungee jump off of the
Stratosphere in Vegas - scheduled for 2012,
my 70th birthday
"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving
safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather skidding in
broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming…
'WOW…. What a Ride!'"
— Author Unknown
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