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Updated Bucket List 06/06

From the Desk of J.P.R on

It's been a while since I last updated my bucket list.....Considering I made good progress on the last one. Here is the new updated one!
  • Hike some 14ers in Colorado
  • Try Para gliding
  • Track day with motorcycle (try racing?)
  • Sky diving
  • Scuba Diving
  • Buy Life Insurance
  • Finish my Will and Testament
  • Gambler 500 (Missourah Endurah) 
  • Smoke a FAT stogie after bossing a bike race 
  • Perfect Spiking a volleyball in sand
  • Learn to serve Spikeball ambidextrously 
  • Try riding a dirt bike
  • Sport rock climbing - DONE
  • Learn to belay and lead climb - DONEish
  • Recite poetry I've written from the tops of Mani Sauk falls to a beautiful woman at sunset
  • Go busking with Joe Meyers and also not go to jail that night
  • Convince Father Anonymous that we need to take out the rogue bunnies in my yard and enlist his help killing them with his pellet gun
  • Improve my salsa and swing dancing
  • Make sourdough bread pizza
  • Show 10 more people Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1 down)
  • Go to a shakespear play
  • Convince an Italian that Topo Chico is better than San Pellegrino
  • Hike the Camino
  • Hike the whole AT
  • Hike the whole PCT
  • Visit all the National Parks
  • Race in a Category 1 bike race
  • Learn to sail a boat
  • Hug a woman that is taller than me (not weird, I've just already hugged guys taller than me and I feel like I need to experience this)
  • Meet someone with different colored eyes
  • Go to the Vatican
  • Explore the world
  • Sing Irish music in an Irish bar - DONE
  • Learn to play the Banjo - TRIED AND FAILED
  • Visit a monastery and hangout with some monks
  • Write a book
  • Learn to make Kombucha - DONE
  • Write and sing a song - KINDA DONE
  • Go on an extended floating trip (portaging or source to sea kinda dealio) _-DONE 
  • Build a full on car camping rig - DONE
  • Forge my own knife or axe
  • Read the bible in a year (I've had one attempt but didn't survive May) 
  • Pray the Rosary every day for a year
  • Compete in a pickleball tournament - KINDA SORTA DONE
  • Build a bicycle frame (I actually have one mostly designed) 
  • Read LOTR - ALMOST DONE
  • Learn to Ski - DONE
  • Recite poetry from memory in front of real people - DONE
  • Learn a card trick
  • Flagpole
  • Grow my own food for an entire year (Devin has agreed to tentatively join me in this challenge)
  • Learn Calligraph- KINDA SORTA DONE
  • Take BJJ classes - DONE
  • Drive a manual
  • Ty a bowtie
  • Make pasta from scratch
  • Get a motorcycle (Pop actually told me I should do this, but not tell my mom for atleast 6 months) - DONE
  • Live in another country for a bit
  • Grow a Mountain Man beard - DONE
  • Build/Rebuild a Car
  • Build custom aero bike parts
  • Juggle - KINDA SORTA DONE
  • Train myself to be fully ambidextrous (really close. Can shave, play ping pong, and brush my teeth) 
  • Patent something - ON THE WAY
  • Learn to shoot archery and firearms - DONE
  • Drink rum out of a coconut on a beach
  • Learn to surf - DONE


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