[All completed items have been moved to the top. This list is up-to-date as of 04/14/2024]

1. ✓ ­Go skydiving (3/10/2014)
2. ✓ Plant a tree
3. ✓ Go para-sailing
4. ✓ Join a riot
5. ✓ Hitchhike (2008)
6. ✓ Learn how to play pool
7. ✓ Learn how to play poker
8. ✓ Pick my poison (gin)
9. ✓ Go commando
10. ✓ Get on a plane without knowing where it is going
11. ✓ See the Grand Canyon
12. ✓ Acquire an international pen pal
13. ✓ Dance on a stage in front of a large group of people
14. ✓ Run through a field of flowers in a dress
15. ✓ Go skinny dipping (7/2008)
16. ✓ Participate in a bar fight
17. ✓ Get a professional massage
18. ✓ Throw (clean) panties at a live band
19. ✓ Jump in a pool/fountain/lake with clothes on
20. ✓ Dance on a rooftop
21. ✓ Write inspirational messages in public bathrooms
22. ✓ Write threatening messages in public bathrooms
23. ✓ Go to New York
24. ✓ Go to Los Angeles
25. ✓ Join a parade
26. ✓ Create a personal travel map
27. ✓ Get trashed while wine tasting
28. ✓ Donate blood
29. ✓ Donate plasma
30. ✓ Donate hair
31. ✓ Have my portrait painted
32. ✓ Give myself a haircut
33. ✓ Read Moby Dick
34. ✓ Take a philosophy class
35. ✓ Write a rejection letter to Harvard
36. ✓ Sunbathe topless (Summer 2009)
37. ✓ Picket something
38. ✓ Fake being drunk at a party
39. ✓ Get grandparents to share detailed family tree information
40. ✓ Go to a Monster Truck Rally
41. ✓ Learn to change a tire
42. ✓ Meet and spend the entire night hanging out with complete strangers (many times over:)
43. ✓ Paint a house
44. ✓ Order pizza and answer the door in lingerie
45. ✓ See the circus
46. ✓ Invent a drink
47. ✓ Have something published
48. ✓ Shotgun a beer
49. ✓ Go whale watching by the San Juan Islands for Orcas
50. ✓ Go whale watching in Mexico for Hump Back Whales
51. ✓ Drink Absinthe
52. ✓ Visit Mt. St. Helens
53. ✓ Visit a gun range
54. ✓ Get acupuncture (8/20/2015)
55. ✓ Get or watch someone get a tattoo (2010, 2020)
56. ✓ Fly in a hot air balloon (3/14/2014)
57. ✓ Ask for a raise
58. ✓ Ride on a motorcycle (August 2012)
59. ✓ Get fired on purpose
60. ✓ Stay out dancing all night and go straight to work in the morning
61. ✓ Scuba dive in the Great Barrier Reef (3/11/2014)
62. ✓ Create a mission statement or manifesto
63. ✓ Celebrate at the Kanamara festival (penis festival) in Kawasaki, Japan
64. ✓ Ride a bullet train
65. ✓ Watch a live birth (11/15/2013)
66. ✓ Spend a day visiting expensive car dealerships test-driving cars that I will never be able to afford
67. ✓ Moonwalk out of a room
68. ✓ Take part in a dance off
69. ✓ Eat the Agave worm
70. ✓ Fly in a helicopter
71. ✓ Visit a huge gospel church
72. ✓ Make a quilt
73. ✓ See a show on Broadway
74. ✓ Scuba dive
75. ✓ Attend a Gallery Opening
76. ✓ Join a book club
77. ✓ Visit an underground cavern
78. ✓ Attend a masquerade
79. ✓ Go to the tracks (horse or dog)
80. ✓ Roll in a huge pile of leaves
81. ✓ Go dog sledding in Alaska (6/24/2015)
82. ✓ Get a professional makeover
83. ✓ Crash a ritzy party
84. ✓ Slide down a brass fire pole
85. ✓ Smoke a Cuban cigar
86. ✓ Get engaged
87. ✓ Put flowers on the untended grave of a stranger
88. ✓ Cook dinner in a fire
89. ✓ Learn the rules of football
90. ✓ Solve a mystery train ride
91. ✓ See Teatro Zinzanni
92. ✓ Hit golf balls into the sea
93. ✓ Brood on a motorcycle while listening to “Take My Breath Away” or “Highway to the Danger Zone”
94. ✓ Dumpster Dive
95. ✓ Correspond with someone in prison
96. ✓ Tightrope walk from a great height
97. ✓ Smuggle something illegal over the U.S. border
98. ✓ Smoke a cigarette out of a 1920s cigarette holder
99. ✓ Buy a new car
100. ✓ Karaoke in front of an entire bar
101. ✓ Watch AFI’s top 1oo films (track my progress here)
102. ✓ Create a family tree
103. ✓ Go to a Drive-in Movie
104. ✓ Take a DNA test
105. ✓ Sleep in a tree house
106. ✓ Go Blackwater rafting
107. ✓ Go spelunking
108. ✓ Swim with a shark (3/13/2014)
109. ✓ Take a food foraging class
110. ✓ Arrive by sea plane (June 2015)
111. ✓ Blow a lot of money gambling
112. ✓ Put $111 on black on a roulette table in Vegas (11/11/2011 at 11:11 pm– Yes I won!)
113. ✓ Zip line (November 2011 and several times since)
114. ✓ Fly first class (7/13/17 and more since)
115. ✓ See a full eclipse from the center of totality (in Lime, Oregon on 8/21/2017)
116. ✓ Get a dog (July 14, 2017)
117. ✓ Go to a Cirque du Soleil show (November 2011)
118. ✓ Try cupping therapy
119. ✓ Play the stock market
120. ✓ Eat roe right out of the fish (completed summer 2017)
121. ✓ Have a white Christmas
122. ✓ Learn to juggle
123. ✓ Take guitar lessons
124. ✓ Own an original piece of artwork
125. ✓ Send a message in a bottle
126. ✓ Write 50 journals
127. ✓ Complete a ropes course
128. ✓ Do a juice fast for a week
129. ✓ Fly a kite
130. ✓ Go Paintballing with friends
131. ✓ Climb a lighthouse
132. ✓ Hike on a glacier
133. ✓ Graduate from university
134. ✓ Drive the Pacific Coast Highway
135. ✓ Visit the Redwoods
136. ✓ Hike through Glacier National Park
137. ✓ Visit the Blue Grotto
138. ✓ Throw a coin in the Trevi Fountain
139. ✓ Stroll Through Sagano Bamboo Forest
140. ✓ See Gaudi’s La Sagrada Familia
141. ✓ Complete a triathlon
142. ✓ Visit a heavily guarded jeweler’s office in the diamond district in Manhattan
143. ✓ See Pompeii
144. ✓ Go curling
145. ✓ Buy a storage unit at auction
146. ✓ Go on a tequila tasting tour
147. ✓ Rent and use a metal detector
148. ✓ Read 500 books
149. ✓ Drink at a swim-up bar
150. ✓ Ride in an amphibious vehicle
151. ✓ Join a cult
152. ✓ Watch the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace
153. ✓ Have high tea in England
154. ✓ Hit a Clay Pigeon While Skeet Shooting
155. ✓ Give a cop the finger
156. ✓ Take a natural mud bath
157. ✓ Ride in a tuk tuk in Bangkok
158. ✓ Visit Wat Rong Khun aka White Temple in Thailand
159. ✓ Travel alone
160. ✓ Bathe with a baby elephant (4 Jan 2020)
161. ✓ Survive a global pandemic
162. ✓ Flash a stranger
163. ✓ See a meteor shower
164. ✓ Buy a house
165. ✓ Jump off a waterfall
166. ✓ Swim in a Cenote in Mexico (April 2024)
167. ✓ Drink at an ice bar (February 2022)
168. ✓ Smoke weed in Amsterdam
169. ✓ Visit the Eiffel tower
170. ✓ See the catacombs of Paris
171. ✓ Visit the Chateau de Versailles
172. ✓ See a corpse flower bloom (July 13, 2023)
173. ✓Gamble at the Monte Carlo Casino in Monaco
174. ✓See the Northern Lights/aurora borealis
175. Go snowshoeing
176. Go to the SuperBowl
177. Relax in a Sensory Deprivation Tank
178. Shear a sheep
179. Tour the Prado (Madrid, Spain), the Louvre (Paris, France), the Hermitage (Saint Petersburg, Russia), The National Gallery (London, England), the Metropolitan (New York, USA), and the Uffizi (Florence, Italy)
180. Try unusual foods: Beef tongue, Horse, Elk, Alligator, Eel, Escargot, Foie Gras, Cactus, Chicken feet, Umeboshi (pickled plums), Agave worm, Bear, Reindeer, chocolate covered ants, Whale, Guinea Pig (“Cuy” in Ecuador or Peru), Durian, Abalone, Prickly Pear, Head cheese, Haggis, Fugu, Stingray
181. Visit every major religion’s holiest cities (Rome, Vatican City, Kyoto, Lhasa, Mecca, Medina, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Kaba, Kylash, Varanasi, Pushkar, etc.)
182. Encounter animals: elephant, otter, toucan, camel, sloth,
183. Attend a service for every major religion (Catholicism, Judaism, Islam, Hindu, Taoism, Shinto, Buddhism)
184. Attend all the major lantern festivals
     1. Spring Lantern Festival in China (Nanjing, Shanghai, and Beijing are where the largest events are held)
     2. Hoi An Lantern Festival in Vietnam
     3. Diwali
     4. *Yi Peng Festival in Chiang Mai, Thailand (usually in November and coincides with Loi Krathong, another lantern festival held in Thailand with large events in Bangkok and Sukhothai)
     5. Pingxi Sky Lantern Festival in Taiwan (Shifen, Jington, and Pingxi all celebrate–the largest is in Shifen)
     6. Vesak Day at Borobudur temple in Java, Indonesia (usually in May)
     7. Toro Nagashi in Japan: paper lanterns are lit and floated on the Asano river in the city of Kanazawa. (Usually first Saturday in June)
     8. Thadingyut Festival of Lights in Myanmar
     9. Boun Lai Heua Fai in Laos
     10. Bon Om Touk or Water Festival in Cambodia (usually in November with large event held in Phnom Penh)
     11. Memorial Day Lantern Floating in Hawaii (Oahu’s south shore at Ala Moana Beach)
185. Send someone anonymous secret admirer flowers
186. Use a fake accent for an entire day
187. Have tasteful nude portraits taken
188. Give $5 to someone for a random act of kindness
189. Learn to whistle with two fingers
190. Moon someone
191. Send an anonymous drink to a lonely guy at a bar
192. Make a scene at a restaurant (preferably fling a drink in someone’s face)
193. Have a book published
194. Brew my own beer
195. Casually fling a lit cigarette at something flammable (preferably something expensive that I’ve just soaked in gasoline)
196. Pick up a hitchhiker and make them tell me their life story
197. Bungee jump
198. Do a keg stand
199. Go on a coast-to-coast All-American road trip in a red Ford Mustang convertible
200. Attend the summer Olympics
201. Go to confession in a Catholic church with a list of a lifetime of sins
202. Write a comedy act and perform it at an open mic night
203. Start a club
204. Be an extra in a movie
205. Learn to drive stick shift
206. Visit a psychic, tarot card reader, medium, or fortune teller (preferably all four)
207. Read the complete works of Shakespeare
208. Crowd surf at a concert
209. Write a screenplay
210. Walk ten dogs down the street in a big city
211. Visit the White cliffs of Dover
212. Go to Wimbledon (usually June to July)
213. Visit Stonehenge
214. Sleep in a haunted castle (perhaps Comlongon castle in Scotland)
215. Visit Evil Eye in York: it has 1026 types of gin
216. Drink at the Guinness Brewery
217. Kiss the Blarney Stone
218. Cross Ireland by bicycle
219. Ride a horse through the British countryside (bonus points if wearing early 19th century garb)
220. Take acid while visiting Uluru in Australia
221. Invent something useful and patent it
222. Go to the top of the Sears Tower and lean against the window
223. Read War and Peace
224. Learn to tap dance
225. Ride in a blimp
226. Have my artwork displayed in a gallery
227. See an active volcano (preferably on the Big Island of Hawaii)
228. Just pack and get on a bus without knowing where it’s going
229. Backpack through Europe
230. Host a formal cocktail party for 25+ people
231. Have flattering black and white head shots taken
232. Shower under a waterfall
233. Create my own holiday
234. Send a postcard from every continent
235. Throw a dart at  a map and go there
236. Go to the original Disneyland
237. Play strip poker
238. Surprise someone wearing nothing but a trench coat and heels
239. Visit every country in Europe
240. Be in the audience of a TV show
241. Ride the Trans-Siberian Express through Asia
242. Drink beer at Oktoberfest in Munich
243. Visit Neuschwanstein castle
244. Catch a fly ball in the stand of a Major League Baseball game
245. Climb Mt. Fuji
246. Eat Fugu
247. Watch live Sumo wrestling championships and yell “Hakkeyoi!”
248. Drink tea in a traditional Japanese tea garden
249. Visit Africa’s Serengeti Plain and watch the wildebeest migration from a hot air balloon
250. Learn Italian or French to the point where you can go on a sexy rant
251. Run with the bulls in Pamplona (July 6-14)
252. Go to a writer’s retreat
253. Spend a week at Burning Man
254. Visit a nudist colony, aka take a “nakation”
255. Go shopping in Milan
256. Go to the opera in Milan
257. Visit Villa del Balbianello on Lake Como in Italy
258. Ride in a Gondola in Venice
259. Stomp grapes in Tuscany
260. Hike Cinque Terre (preferably during the off-season)
261. Dance a Waltz at the Vienna Opera Ball
262. Skate through the streets of Paris
263. Ride a bicycle through the Loire Valley in September
264. Sunbathe at the nude beaches of the Cote D’Azur
265. Attend a couture show in Paris
266. Walk/run/motorcycle the Great Wall of China
267. Visit the Forbidden City
268. Take an ink/calligraphy/painting class with an expert in China
269. Visit the Tianjin Binhai Library
270. Celebrate Dia de los Muertos in Mexico City
271. Soak in the mud and waters of the Dead Sea
272. Go to Cairo and Luxor and see the pyramids and float down the Nile
273. See the Sri Meenakshi temple in India
274. Visit the Taj Mahal
275. Shop for gold in India during wedding season (October-December)
276. Navigate the backwaters of Kerala, India, on a houseboat
277. Learn to play the ukulele
278. Learn to play the harp
279. Bathe in the Blue Lagoon in Iceland
280. Go to Argentina to look for Dinosaur bones
281. Join a group of storm-chasers
282. Visit the Amazon rain forest
283. Drink a mint julep at the Kentucky Derby while wearing an elaborate hat (usually in early May)
284. Visit the Indy 500, the Monaco Grand Prix, or 24 Hours of Le Mans
285. Climb Mount Olympus
286. Ride a Harley on Route 66 (check out the rumble strips that play America The Beautiful)
287. Take a train ride on the Orient Express from Paris to Istanbul
288. Steamboat cruise down the Mississippi (preferably with a man named Jim)
289. Raft down the Nahanni in Canada
290. Witness the Thaipusam festival in Singapore (January/February)
291. Stay in the Presidential suite of a hotel
292. See the sunrise from Maui’s Mt. Haleakala
293. Obtain a black belt in a martial art
294. Try every alcoholic spirit in the world
295. Take piano lessons
296. Milk a cow
297. Host a kick-ass family reunion
298. Hop the border to and from Mexico
299. Attend Comic-Con
300. Try archery again
301. Live abroad
302. Celebrate New Years in Times Square
303. Go full throttle on the open road
304. Make out at Niagara Falls
305. Pee off a really tall building
306. Travel the Norwegian Fjords
307. Visit Trolltunga in Norway
308. Hike to Preikestolen in Norway (also called Pulpit Rock)
309. See the hometowns of ancestors
310. Go Skijoring with dogs
311. Attend the St. Lucia festival in Stockholm, Sweden
312. Visit Tjolöholm Castle in Sweden
313. Stay at The Ice Hotel in Jukkasjarvi, Norrland, Sweden
314. Go on safari through the Laplands
315. Throw a pie in someone’s face
316. Rescue someone from mortal peril
317. Witness a Civil War reenactment battle
318. Attempt to kiss the Pope
319. Start/participate in a major food fight
320. Ride a horse bareback, in a red dress, on the beach
321. Become an ordained minister
322. Learn the metric system by heart
323. Mardi Gras in New Orleans (mid-February to early March)
324. Second line a jazz funeral in New Orleans
325. Eat breakfast at Tiffany’s
326. Learn to fly a plane
327. Wakeboard
328. Ding-dong-ditch someone’s house with a flaming bag of dog poop
329. Have a ridiculous temper tantrum and throw destructible objects off a balcony
330. Jump out of a cake
331. Yell at an authority figure in front of a large group
332. Be serenaded on a balcony (preferably in Spanish)
333. Attend a film festival (preferably Cannes)
334. Go fly fishing
335. Have a barbershop quartet sing for me or someone else
336. Send a message via airplane
337. Tuen Ng (Dragon boat festival in Hong Kong usually in June)
338. Attend or host a Ho Down (must have jug player, banjo, washboard, and spoons)
339. Get a real estate license
340. Get hypnotized by a professional
341. Be a truck driver
342. Learn to sail and then sail around the world (or at least to the South Pacific)
343. Get arrested at age 80 or older
344. Fly to the moon
345. Go on a pilgrimage to the holy land
346. Hang glide in Vermont in autumn when the leaves are vivid
347. Learn basic engine checking/fixing
348. Read the entire Bible, preferably with historical annotations
349. Visit Yunnan with a really good camera
350. Build a tree house (preferably with a child)
351. Swim in each of the seven seas
352. Watch the sunset on Santorini
353. Harmonize on a street corner
354. Wear a disguise
355. Travel Magellan’s exact route
356. Go on an African Safari
357. Take group therapy and don’t hold back
358. Thwart a mugger and/or prevent a crime
359. Bowl a perfect 300
360. Perform a to-the-books exorcism
361. Pan for gold like an old prospector
362. Make moonshine in a bathtub
363. Learn morse code
364. Visit Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood
365. Try fencing
366. Go down in a submarine
367. Learn braille
368. Dive for jewelry in a public lake
369. Volunteer overseas
370. Take dance lessons
371. Give birth
372. Attend a space shuttle launch
373. Spend one Christmas on the beach drinking Piña Coladas
374. Visit the Galapagos
375. Take the SATs years after college
376. Deactivate a live bomb
377. Attend a midnight mass
378. Learn to read lips
379. Hire a private detective
380. Experience Brazilian Carnival
381. See/compete in the Elephant Polo tournament in Nepal
382. Put a scavenger hunt in my will
383. Ride a camel through the desert
384. Have a star named
385. Walk over hot coals
386. Win with a royal flush
387. Start at Lake Tear of the Clouds and go by canoe down the Hudson to the Statue of Liberty
388. Host a Thanksgiving where you serve everyone’s favorite food (pizza, cheesecake, etc.)
389. Ballroom dance at the Rainbow Room
390. Join a manhunt, search party, or posse
391. Ride in a side car
392. Give everyone you love a note outlining how they’ve enriched your life
393. See a live polar bear in its natural environment
394. Loot
395. Visit Easter Island
396. Get married
397. Go HALO diving (preferably over the Alps)
398. Hunt something with a spear
399. Go hunting for big game
400. Bicycle across America (or across the state of Washington, or along Highway 101)
401. Go to Busch Gardens in Virginia and go on all the roller coasters I was too afraid to as a child
402. Take ferries all the way up to Alaska
403. Sponsor a girl’s education
404. Hunt for pirates
405. Have a pet fox
406. Get baptized in the Mississippi
407. Shoot swamp rats in the Everglades and use the profits to buy beer
408. Drive the Overseas Highway, Miami to Key West, Florida
409. Ride naked in the Fremont Solstice parade
410. Make an entire meal out of foraged food
411. Climb Mount Rainier
412. Visit Dubai
413. See Nasir al Molk Mosque in Shiraz, Iran
414. See the Parliament Building in Budapest, Hungary
415. See the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi, UAE
416. Go to a floating lantern festival
417. Learn how to blow glass
418. Go to an oxygen bar
419. Have a fish pedicure
420. Go on a river cruise along the Volga river
421. Cook live lobster
422. Kill, cook, and eat a rattlesnake
423. Live in a boat house on Lake Washington
424. Visit Mexico when all the monarch butterflies swarm there
425. Visit Sveti Stefan in Montenegro (“Lux Apartments” nearby)
426. Win the lottery
427. Stay in a hut over the waters of the Maldives
428. Dive for pearls
429. Watch the North American Caribou migration
430. See a live marching band show at an HBCU (Southern University, NCAT, Brown, etc.)
431. Drive an ATV
432. Go snorkeling in St. Johns
433. Visit Argentina’s Iguazu Falls
434. Build an epic gingerbread house from scratch
435. Go clamming and immediately make clam chowder afterwards
436. Sleep in an igloo
437. Be a street performer
438. Go to a Renaissance Festival
439. Take singing lessons/learn to sing within my octave
440. Become a self-made millionaire
441. Charter a yacht
442. Stay in a 5-star resort
443. Attend a pig roast in South Pacific
444. Eat in a pitch black restaurant
445. Enter something in a food competition
446. Do a polar bear plunge
447. Find treasure with a metal detector
448. Meet the Dalai Lama
449. Go ice fishing
450. Ride in a snowmobile
451. Climb the Haʻikū Stairs on O’ahu
452. Tour the Biltmore Estates in NC
453. Visit the world’s largest salt flat Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia
454. Swim in the World’s largest swimming pool: San Alfonso Del Mar in Chile
455. Visit Patagonia in Chile/Argentina
456. Hike through the Crooked Forest in Poland
457. Make edgy street art in a prominent location under the cover of darkness
458. Swim next to a Blue Whale
459. Waterfall ice climb at Banff, Canada
460. Walk the 1,200 km Shikoku Pilgrimage
461. Start in Miami and travel down through the Caribbean islands to Venezuela
462. Write 100 journals (currently on 73)
463. Visit the Winchester Mansion
464. Con someone (a bad person obviously)
465. Go to rehab in Hollywood
466. See a UFO (or UAP or whatever they’re calling it now)
467. Eat Iboga with elephants in Africa
468. Use dynamite
469. Catch a crab with tongs while diving
470. Visit the Raja Ampat Archipelago in the Coral Triangle of Southeast Asia