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My Bucket List

This page serves as my bucket list for lack of a better way to present the information.

Pouring water in a bucket in Uganda
Pouring water in a bucket in Uganda (view full res)

I created this list a long time ago, maybe 25 years or more at this point, but somehow this page still serves as my bucket list for lack of a better idea or way to present the information.

What are Goals?

It’s so hard to have goals if you never write them down, and for some reason I really love reading other people’s bucket lists. When we give up on all dreams it seems we tend to give up on hope, living in fear of getting away from what is comfortable. I am trying to get down a long list, seems the older you are the longer your list should be, so mine will just run and run.

This is an ongoing and active list, I generally have these lists all over the place so I am trying to get all my ideas on one page, this one. This isn’t really a “bucket list” per-sa but more of a mix of goals, things I want to do, things I strive to achieve, some of which are unobtainable, those are my dreams. What’s on your list? I would love to read it, post some in the comments below or give us a link to your bucket list!

It's a Work in Progress

Update: what I have found over the years is that this list changes, a lot. There are thing I no longer want to do in my "older" age, things I thought I wanted to do but have grown out of, or things that aren't actually achievable. So this list is a huge work in progress list.

My Bucket List

  1. Take a ship across the Atlantic
  2. Get my pilot’s license / fly solo
  3. Circumnavigate the world (in a boat) or (a plane)
  4. Take a camping / kayak / retreat trip for at least two weeks
  5. Watch Auburn and go to the National Championship Game (football)
  6. Go on a long trip (1 month, 3 months, 6 months, 1 year)
  7. Visit Niagara Falls
  8. Work, or volunteer, to fulfill the mission, at a cutting edge tech org making a difference for the Kingdom (YouVersion.com)
  9. Complete Project 365, taking a photo-a-day for a year
  10. Study the spiritual disciplines
  11. Go to the new Ground Zero Memorial
  12. Pray continually throughout an entire year
  13. Complete an Bachelor’s of Arts Degree in Accounting ( UAB 1996)
  14. Complete a Masters Degree
  15. Complete the Masters Degree in Seminary (MA Theology, 2012)
  16. Complete an advanced or secondary Masters
  17. Watch the Yankees play the Dodgers in the World Series
  18. Read 50 books in one year
  19. Publish a photography book (Views of a Stadium!)
  20. Publish a written book
  21. Have an image of mine on an album cover
  22. Setup an observatory in my back yard
  23. Completely clean out the attic in the house (June 2012)
  24. Live in another country
  25. Work in or for a ministry
  26. Visit Rome / Greece
  27. See the Boston Pops live at either 4th of July or New Years
  28. Photograph at least five planets in our solar system (Saturn, Jupiter, Venus, Mars, Uranus)
  29. Produce (and publish online) an image of a nebula or galaxy
  30. Visit the Holy Land
  31. Kayak in the Great Lakes
  32. Be instrumental in bringing someone to Christ
  33. Memorize a book of the Bible
  34. Ride / Cycle more than 500 miles
  35. Own a sailboat
  36. Learn classical music composers (Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Mozart, Tchaikovsky)
  37. Read all 25 books described in the book by Renovare Renovare
  38. Be a live-aboard on a sailboat for any length of time
  39. Live on a sailboat short-term (a week)
  40. Live on a sailboat long-term (a month, 6 months, a year)
  41. Take one photo a day for a year (2012 and on)
  42. Live full-time in a motor home (bus)
  43. Learn to snowboard and/or ski
  44. Touch the Alaska Pipeline
  45. Read the entire Bible
  46. Visit the Pentagon Memorial
  47. Work in ministry for 1 year, 5 years, 10 years
  48. Be the wedding Photographer, once
  49. Live in Las Vegas
  50. Take a character to the highest level of WoW WoW and Ischuros (Completed June 2, 2012, Mists November 30, 2012)
  51. Deleted
  52. Make goals each year, and review them
  53. Read 52 books in one year (2009)
  54. Deleted
  55. Reach 1 million emails sent/received, (550,000 June 2025)
  56. Take 1 million photos (809,000 as of January 2026)
  57. Write 1 million words in my journal
  58. Live in the Colorado Mountains
  59. Work full-time at something I really love (my own business, seminary) 
  60. Work with an organization that is changing the world
  61. Drive a Greyhound bus across the country
  62. Visit every state in the U.S.
  63. Sail across a large body of water
  64. Give away a year’s salary
  65. Complete a Life Plan as Outlined by Hyatt Outlined by Hyatt’s book
  66. Build a Spa, modify the spa in the bathroom
  67. Ride a motorcycle (at 100mph)
  68. Write 1,000 articles on my blog (March 28th, 2012)
  69. Go on a long fast
  70. Invest in other people’s lives through a small group
  71. Lead a small group
  72. Make the in Seminary
  73. Deleted
  74. Have an image of mine published
  75. Take 500,000 photos (350,000 as of 2012)
  76. Read all of C.S. Lewis’ “Signature Classic” non-fiction books
  77. Read all of C.S. Lewis’ “Harvest” non-fiction books
  78. Read all of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings books
  79. Ride a train across the country
  80. Forgive fully and completely for a wrong against me
  81. Work for God’s body of Believer’s in the Church
  82. Get Married and stay married
  83. Deleted
  84. Travel to all 50 states in the United States
  85. Make the garage into an interior useable room
  86. Take an actual vacation for 1 Week, 2 Weeks, 1 Month
  87. Build a pond in our back yard
  88. Read the whole Bible every other year for 10 years
  89. Read the Bible cover to cover in one year.
  90. Read the New Testament in 30 days
  91. Learn the very basics of a foreign language (Hebrew)
  92. Visit every continent (North America, South America, Asia, Australia, Europe, Africa, Antarctica)
  93. Live in Auburn Alabama
  94. Fill 10 Moleskine journals with daily entries (5-7 Summer 2012)
  95. Get a bike (and ride at least 5 miles a day or 25 miles a week)
  96. Get publicly baptized as an adult (Birmingham 1996)
  97. Go to the NCAA Final Four
  98. See Auburn playing in the Final Four
  99. Write in a journal every day for a year
  100. Go on a mission trip to serve people in another country (Uganda)
  101. Backpack the Appalachian Trail for 2 weeks
  102. Go on a Biblical Archeology Dig (changed mind)
  103. Fly to a foreign country with no plans (Hong Kong / Bangkok)
  104. Fly an RC helicopter or plane (drone)
  105. Create a Bird Sanctuary around our house
  106. Deleted
  107. Make a Bluebird trail of boxes/houses around the house
  108. Read and log 100 books in a book journal
  109. Write in my journal every day for 5 years
  110. Watch a soccer match from the English Premiere League in England
  111. Operate a motorcycle, car, tractor, motor home, bus, train, plane
  112. Deleted
  113. Serve God’s church as a staff leader
  114. Write a poem, print a poem, gift a poem
  115. Go to a World Series
  116. See the Yankees vs the Dodgers in the World Series
  117. Learn how to write/understand a web programming language like html, php, css, javascript, React
  118. Transferred to #61 on Resolutions Page
  119. Transferred to #62 on Resolutions Page)
  120. Get Freshly Pressed on the WordPress Front Page (October 2012)
  121. Write a single note for every book, chapter, and verse in the Bible !README Scripture
  122. Create the Daily Note for my study for all 365 days at README Devo.
  123. Travel in the van down the PCH from top to bottom.