About
My name is John. I live in a small town in NorCal. I am the proud husband and father of a wonderful family. I made up this list to motivate me to stop talking about the things I’d like to do in life and get out and do them. In addition to my family I also have a great little yellow lab named Daisey. I work for the local fire department as the Captain on B Shift. I am looking for help in accomplishing my goals, so if you can help in any way please let me know.
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The List
1. Game at Fenway
2. Game at Wrigley
3. Full Ironman
4. Climb Shasta
5. Game at Lambeau
6. Super Bowl
7. World Series-(10/28/2010) Giants take Game 2 of the World Series!!!
8. Write for 30 days straight – 30 min
9. Climb Half Dome
10. Get an article published
11. Game in McCovey Cove - (10/3/2010) Giants clinch the NL West Title!!!!
12. Play 10 songs on guitar
13. Team Mud Run
14. Marathon
15. Go to church for a month
16. Start a tradition -(Delivering Christmas packages through the Ukiah Christmas Effort – 12/24/09)
17. Own the perfect home
18. Take Dani to Cirque de Soleil “Love” in Vegas
19. Pay my respects at WTC
20. Eat a VooDoo donut
21. Seattle Seahawk game
22. Dine at The French Laundry
23. Swim with dolphins
24. Meet someone with my name (Screwed it up first time…stand by for updates.)
25. Attempt to set a Guiness record
26. Play in a poker tournament - (04/18/10)
27. See a shuttle launch
28. See an erupting volcano
29. Sky dive - (10/16/2011)
30. Meet one of my heroes
31. Go to film premeire
32. Eat at 25 Diners, Drive in’s and Dives – (In Progress 10/25 complete, See Fieri’s Footsteps)
33. Be part of a flashmob
34. Make one of Robbys dreams come true
35. Throw out a first pitch
36. Walk the train tracks to SR
37. Read 1000 books – 250 recommended from others – (In Progress – See Books for #37)
38. Meet a Pres of USA
39. Volunteer as support at a race
40. Ride a horse - (Got a good lead on this one…Thanks Charlie!)
41. Hike the Na Pali Coast Trail
42. Watch Ken Burns – Baseball (08/13/2011)
43. Watch Ken Burns – National Parks (03/24/2010)
44. Compete a City Chase (Urban Adventure)race - (06/19/10)
45. Interviewed on National TV
46. Perform a stand up routine
47. Visit Yellowstone and see Old Faithful
48. Complete the 100 push up program and do 100 consecutive push ups (In Progress…slow progress)
49. Get to an airport and get on a plane without knowing where beforehand
50. Give it another chance – 3 foods (Sushi, Tofu, Brussel Sprouts)(4/16/2010)
51. Get my weight to 185lbs (War has been declared!!!)
52. Learn Spanish well enough to earn bilingual stipend
53. Earn SCUBA certification
54. Go on a firewalk
55. Swim with shark
56. Swim in a shipwreck
57. Fly an aircraft - (02/14/2010)
58. Go white water rafting
59. Go zorbing
60. See Grand Canyon
61. See the Northern Lights
62. Mardi Gras in New Orleans
63. Christmas Tree at Rockefeller Center
64. Experience Weightlessness
65. See St Peters Basilica, The Vatican, Rome
66. See The Pyramids, Egypt
67. See Stonehenge, England
68. Sydney Opera house, Australia
69. Indoor Snowboarding, Dubai
70. Vegas Baby, Vegas (4/17/2010)
71. Climb Mount Olympus, Greece
72. El Prado in Madrid, Spain
73. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
74. The Louvre, Paris, France (Mona Lisa)
75. Visit the Colisseum, Rome
76. Christ the Redeemer, Brazil
77. Machu Picchu, Peru
78. Mexican Pyramids
79. See Mount Rushmore
80. Climb the Statue of Liberty
81. Buy an around the world airline ticket and use it
82. Go to top of Empire State Building
83. Enter a photo in a exhibit
84. Brew my own beer
85. Restore an old vehicle
86. Get my bachelor’s degree
87. Have a second career
88. Meet Willie Mays
89. Meet Stephen King
90. Meet Jimmy Buffett
91. Own a pair of Chuck Taylors – (12/29/09)
92. Meet Laird Hamilton
93. Work in a beachside bar
94. Photograph at least 50 different waterfalls -(In progress 2/50 photographed)
95. Rose Bowl Game
96. Make a loan to an entrepreneur through Kiva.com
97. Learn to handle a firearm - (9/25/2011)
98. Grow a successful garden - (8/21/10)
99. Eat a salad of self grown vegetable
100. Make a film and post online
101. Take Dani shopping on Rodeo Dr
102. Drive a car that costs more than my annual salary
103. Milk a cow
104. Watch turtles hatching and help them make it to ocean
105. Be vegetarian for 30 days -(01/31/2010)
106. Participate in a food fight - (07/07/2010)
107. Own the rookie baseball cards of my all time team
108. Write in a journal every day for a year
109. Visit Corippo, Switzerland
110. Send a message in a bottle with instructions to make contact when found
111. Touch the Stanley Cup
112. Sleep in a haunted house
113. Compete in a soap box derby
114. Have my picture taken with someone from Broken Lizard
115. Play my guitar in public and see how much money I can make
116. Write a Play that gets performed
117. 100 visits in 1 day to the blog
118. Get a tattoo - (2/14/2012)
119. Something that someone else comes up with
120. Go without soda for 30 days - (1/31/11)
121. Stand at 4 corners USA
122. See Niagra Falls
123. Call an inning of a Giants game with Kruk and Kuip
124. Take Photos of all the items on my list – (In Progress, posted on blog)
125. Train trip to Chicago
126. Partake in Japanese Tea Ceremony
127. Take the stairs to the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa
128. Take part in a champagne shower celebration
129. Surf and Snowboard in one day
130. Go to a major fight
131. Ride a stage of the Tour de France
132. Play a round of golf on a famous course
133. Drive Route 66
134. Drive a dog sled
135. See the monuments of DC
136. Raise money for a cause that has an effect on my life
137. Snowboard in another country
138. Wake up and run 3 miles every morning for a month
139. Get my personal trainer certification- (5/4/2013)
140. Do half marathon
141. Do 5k
142. Alcatraz race
143. Nautica Malibu Triathlon
144. Meet Robin Williams
145. 24+ hour adventure race
146. Place in my age group at Ukiah Triathlon
147. See the Liberty Bell
148. Hike the John Muir Trail
149. Cross the equator on land, sea, and air
150. Create a way to publicly track my 200 things – (adventurewannabe.wordpress.com- 12/27/09)
151. Tour Ben and Jerry factory
152. Visit St. John
153. Take a Photography class with Dani
154. Own a Nikon DSLR - (2/2/2010)
155. Bike ride 200 miles/month for 3 months
156. Grow a full beard- (8/29/2011)
157. When Dani asks to purchase something big be able to say yes
158. Help 10 others “Do something before they die”
159. Costa Rica
160. Throw a crazy theme party
161. Kayak in Lake Tahoe
162. Hike Tahoe Rim Trail
163. Apply to an Ivy League School
164. Visit Baseball Hall of Fame
165. Own a Longboard (skate) and use it
166. Learn to score a baseball game- (08/07/11)
167. Crush grapes with my feet – (06/19/10)
168. Bike to work for a month
169. Fast for 3 days
170. Drive the Pacific Coast Highway from Leggett to Dana Point
171. Own an Axe
172. Go to Notre Dame football game
173. Zip line
174. Cook all recipes in a cookbook – (Working through Tyler Florence’s Dinner at my Place)
175. See a tornado
176. Try acupuncture
177. Master making 10 drinks -(In Progress 1/10, See The Bar page)
178. Learn to make great pizza crust
179. Save $5000 to use only in emergency
180. See major city parade - SF Giants World Series Victory Parade (11/03/2010)
181. Broadway show
182. Have a team in the 24 hour relay
183. Learn to ride a motorcycle
184. Run a 8 minute mile
185. Learn meditation - (01/20/10)
186. Own another Jeep – (Actually a FJ40) – (06/2/10)
187. Learn to weld
188. Have a pen pal (Postal Service mail)
189. Visit 10 grave sites of people I admire
190. Island Hop in the Caribbean (3 island minimum)
191. Self publish on Blurb or Lulu
192. Visit 10 famous movie locations
193. Start a club- (August 2014) Created the Squeal'n Pigskin Syndicate
194. Take a MIT online course
195. Sit down with a stranger at a restaurant and share a meal
196. Spend the night on the beach
197. NaNoWriMo
198. Snowmobile
199. Learn to write my name in another language – (Charlie found a website…just have to practice)
200. Make homemade cheese- (5/1/2010)
Blogroll
- 365 Days of Cartman
- 6 Feet Over
- A Life Without Excuses
- Alicia's World
- Brandy\’s thoughts.. and memory lane :)
- Cody Davis\’ Blog
- Dee's Bucket List
- Exploring NorCal
- http://jeanineview.wordpress.com
- Kimberly Mahr
- Learn something everyday
- Life List Foundation
- Listverse
- Location 180
- Missnicoleann\’s Blog
- My Bucket List Journey
- not so listless
- Peter Armstrong Photography
- Photofocus
- Project 183
- Raising Rosetti
- running, eating,
- Sand Dollar Adventures
- simplyshaylyn\’s Blog
- Still here, Still foreign
- Taking the Long Way Home
- To Do or Not To Do…
- Val City Gal
- WordPress.com
- WordPress.org
Adventure Wannabe 
Hey you have a great blog, and great list! Wondering if you can add my blog to your blogroll and i’ll do the same?
I”m just starting out
Thanks!
No problem. I’m always looking to help anyone that I can with their lists. Thanks for adding mine to your blogroll. Good Luck!!
-John
Hey John thanks!
Hey John, regarding #158 helping others with their list… check this facebook cause page.. http://www.causes.com/causes/454205/about
I don’t know what you could do for them…
Hey John! I’ve just started reading your blog, and I really like how you’ve personalized your list. Especially the one about visiting the Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream Factory.
I just started making a list of my own (I’m adding 1 thing every day), and you’ve got a lot of great ideas for things to do. I’m also impressed that you’ve done quite a few of them already!
Cheers,
Lee
http://www.leefollis.com