My Bucket List

Last night, I was eating supper with friends and the topic of a "bucket list" came up.  I was asked about mine.  My friend Jim joked "buy a bucket and make a list".  That would be a pretty easy bucket list.  :o)

Prior to this year, I never really gave much thought to a bucket list.  But in February, I was really driven to make one.  To be honest, I haven't really looked at my list in months.  But after last night's conversation, I decided to pull it out.  

At this stage, it's still not complete, but it's a really good start.  Here's the list, in no particular order:

*go white water rafting down the Zambezi River (in Zambia, Africa)

*go parasailing

*visit the Holy Land

*float in the Dead Sea

*put my feet in every ocean

*zip line in Costa Rica 

*visit the village in Ecuador where Jim Elliot and Nate Saint were murdered

*learn how to cook authentic Mexican food

*run a 1/2 marathon and finish

*eat flying ants in Zambia  

*swim with dolphins

*Dig and/or fund a well in Africa

*Visit the Great Wall of China

*Publish some of the things I've written

*Write a book & get it published

*learn how to play the guitar and piano

*ride an elephant

*feed a giraffe 

*visit the Grand Canyon

*hug a koala bear

*sing in the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir for one of their prayer meetings

*pet a manatee 

*float in skydiving air tunnel

*see an active volcano

*snorkel in a corral reef area

*ride in a helicopter 

*hike the Appalachian Trail

*Travel to orphanages in Latin America, build relationships with the children, teach them how to tell stories, use their ideas to write a book(s), get it published and use the proceeds to help the orphanages financially.

I realize that some of the ideas are kind of silly, while others may seem crazy or impossible.  Maybe so, but God made me a dreamer.  You know what they say "dream BIG or go home".  I choose to dream Big.  I do believe all these things are possible and it'll be fun checking them off my list.