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              My Goals

Here is my Bucket List. I am proud to say that I had a bucket list long before the movie came out. I put my first goals down on paper and have been working to achieve them since 2000. My plan has always been to acheive two a year, and to eventually have a list of 100 goals. Currently I only have 81. I used to have 89, but as I have aged and other circumstances have changed, my desire to achieve several goals have diminished. Having a wife who is not particularly interested in it had something to do with it as well.

To date I have achieved 43 of my goals. Those are listed as well.   When you look at my goals, I imagine the reactions will range from "Cool, me too!" to "Why bother' to "What, you've never done that?" But, these are what I want to achieve, not what I think someone else would want me to achieve. My thought behind this was to list things that would insure that I got something out of the limited time I have on this planet, to hopefully leave something behind that would cause me to be remembered, and to experience what I think are the things that make life fun. You will obviously will have a different set of priorities and desires.  

Do I expect to achieve all of these? The odds are against me. But, what I do have in my favor is that I know what stands in my way to achieving each one of them, and I actively work to remove those barriers. I have always lived by the axiom that "Where there's a will, there's a way". My own personal addendum to that is "But, first you have to have the will" I have the will and desire to achieve each one of these goals. If (when) my priorities and outlook changes, the goal will be removed or amended.  

​As the mood strikes me, I will likely add a page for some or all of these goals, explaining why they are important to me, and what I am doing to achieve them. I used to address each one of these in that manner, once per year. But, a hard drive crash erased 7 years worth of efforts to that end, and I am just now over coming that discouragement.   If anyone reading this has thoughts about a way in which I might not know about or is not obvious towards achieving one of these goals, I'm all ears.  

Working to acheive in 2023

#55--See Crystal Mill & visit Marble, CO

Achieved

 
#03 See a Cubs game at Wrigley Field
#04 See the Red Sox play at Fenway Park
#06 See the launch of a rocket
#09 Learn to play golf
#10 Go to New Orleans for Mardi Gras
#11 Buy a brand new car
#13 Drive to the top of Mt Evans
#14 Eat dinner at Morton's of Chicago
#15 Visit the 16th Street Mall
#17 Stay at the Standley Hotel, in Estes Park
#18 Reduce weight to 200 lbs
#19 Attend a performance of Symphony Orchestra
#21 Experience Thunder over Louisville
#22 Visit the Pro Fooball Hall of Fame, in Canton, OH
#24 Drive Trail Ridge Road, in Rocky Mountain National Park
#27 Visit the Mall of America
#28 See the Changing of the Aspens, in the Colorado Rockies
#29 Take a Caribbean cruise
#32 Take a Denver Downtown Tour-State Capital, Denver Mint & xxxxColorado History Museum
#33 Ride in a Hot Air Balloon
#34 See the Harlem Globetrotters play, in person
#35 Visit Las Vegas, NV
#38 Take a tour of an Aircraft Carrier
#39 See and Go up in the Statue of Liberty
#40 Fire a Tommy Gun
#41 See a NASCAR race, in person
#43 Get a professional massage 
#44 Take a tour of the Coors Brewery
#46 Attend the Renaissance Festival, in Larkspur, CO
#49 See a Broadway Show
​#51 Visit Mesa Verde
#52 Stay at the Delaware Hotel, in Leadville, CO 
#53 Stay at the Hotel Colorado, in Glenwood Springs, CO
​#58 Visit the Alamo
#59 See the Miracle Staircase, in the Loretto Chapel, in Santa Fe
#64 See Niagara Falls
​#66 See a reenactment of the Battle of Gettysburg 
#67 Eat a lobster, in Maine
#68 Stay at the Bullock Hotel, in Deadwood, SD
#70 Write a Book
#71 Stay at the Hotel Nicholas, in Cripple Creek, CO
#72 See the leaves change in New England
#78 Design and build a Hot Tub gazebo
#79 Visit Great Sand Dunes NM & Colorado Alligator Farm
#88 See a Total Solar Eclipse (Click here)

                The Bucket List


#02 Visit all 50 States
#16 Stay at the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs, CO
#20 Stay at the Brown Palace Hotel in Denver
#23 Visit London, England
#25 Attend a Notre Dame football game, in South Bend
#26 Take a Mexican vacation
#30 Visit Australia
#31 Take an Amtrak trip/vacation

#37 See a Redwood Tree
#42 Attend Cheyenne Frontier Days
#47 Vacation at a Dude Ranch
#50 Ride in a fighter aircraft

#55 See the Crystal Mill and visit Marble, CO 
#56 Visit Yosemite National Park
#57 Visit Bryce Canyon and Antelope Canyon
#60 Visit Tombstone, AZ
#61 Visit Italy and eat a pizza there
#62 See the Great Wall of China
#63 Visit and tour Alcatraz
#65 See an active volcano
#69 Meet the President of the United States
#73 Visit Germany
#74 Visit Rome, Italy
#77 Write a book about my 50 states travels
#80 Read a biography of every President of the US (click here)
#81 Complete/Visit my National Park List
#82 Visit Paris

#83 See a ball game at Dodger Stadium
#84 See a ball game at Yankee Stadium
#85 See a ball game at Busch Stadium 
#86 Visit the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY
#87 Attend a World Series game 
​#89 Go Parasailing

Canceled

#01 Retire at age 60 (click here)
#05 Watch the Super Bowl in person 
                          
#12 Learn to Country Swing
#36 Take a college course
#45 Walk the Platte River Greenway Trail, in 2 day 
#48 See a Bullfight
#54 Try Skiing or Snowboarding 
​#75 Take a Russian Vacation
#76 Send a Message in a Bottle and get a reply

Achieved by Year

2000--#4, #13, & #15
2001--#14, #28, #32, & #44
2002--#17 & #19
2003--#35, #41, & #9
2004--#18 & #59
2005--#38, #39, #49
2006--#3 & #22
2007--#29 & #70
2008--#34, #67, #71, & #72
2009--NONE
2010--#21, #52, #78, & #79
2011--#10
2012--#24
2013--#66
2014--#40 & #27
2015--#43 & #53
2016--NONE
2017--#46 & #88
2018--#33
​2019--#06 & #51
​2020--#58 & #68
​2021--#11 & #64
​2022--NONE