Before I Die | vanderark

A Bucket List is an inventory of your buckets, this is a work in progress list of the things I'd like to do before I lose my marbles..

Secure membership into the Explorers Club and attend their legendary annual New York dinner.

I'd like to see Lois and Harry complete their education and established in their careers and living in a home the like.

Launch a Kickstarter campaign, probably the publication of a hardcover of Descartes' Discourse of the Method.... I have produced a prototype.

Retire before I get my first hip replacement.

Have an awesome 60th Birthday Party with Billy Idol as the the live entertertainment !

Write a fiction novel about the smartest genius in the world and his journey into deep psychosis whilst having some fun adventures along the way.

Go back to Nepal and maybe even some climbing.

Have a library with a ladder, and a nice reading chair.

Meet an Astronaut. DONE, met Mike Mullane July 2016

Travel to the Antarctic.

Take Lois and Harry to New York City. DONE July 2016

Finish the management book I have started and outlined.

Buy 1000 new cardboard boxes and take them to the park and build an awseome fort!

Build either a submarine, hover flyer, or roller coaster.

Build a canal from the coast the Lake Eyre making it a permanent inland sea (okay - this one is a long shot!)

Be arrested for speeding on my push bike.

Be invited to write the foreword to a book.

Some cool stuff I'm pleased to have done already, and would like to do again:

Trekked and climbed in the Everest region. Rode my bike 500 km around the main island of Fiji. Been north of the Arctic Circle.

Ran 10 km in under 40 min. Completed in many Triathlons and fun runs. Drank 3 concrete mixers in Chicago and lived!

Scared myself rock climbing in the Blue Mountains. Waking up to a view of Lake Louise.

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