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Motorcycle Mishaps or Homecoming Hindrances

The long drive home is never as exciting as the initial drive to your destination, or at least I thought. Albeit a sleepy adventure from my various vodka induced Minneapolis musings, I was ready to take on the road and head out to visit Chicago. The road however had a different plan for me that lead me away from my initial destination only to return a day later on the back of a tow truck. As I ...

Twin City Travels

While exploring Iowa City was exciting in a drunken stupor kind of way that only a college town can provide, I wanted to continue my travels the problem was after Iowa my plans ran out. This was that wing it point where I figured I'd stumble upon or just ride out and find my way along somewhere. I found myself going back and forth from Denver to the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul but unsu...

Field of Opportunities?

I found my way up to Iowa City, well okay actually I was staying in Coralville but whenever we ventured out to enjoy the town Iowa City was where it happened. I got to explore the university, help a friend move through bribes of beer and wine and enjoy a few visits to the Ped Mall which is not your ordinary mall. Who knew that after traveling through miles of corn you could stumble onto something ...

No Monkeying Around

While road trips are not an uncommon experience few have the privilege to enjoy the journey atop a motorcycle. The differences are subtle yet vast greatly at the same time. Completely exposed to the elements with no distractions I kind of picture myself as a modern cowmonkey (Not sure if cowboy would apply and cowmonkey sounds like a weird genetics experiment gone wrong but you get the point)....

Jasper the Friendly City

After my exciting wet ride I finally made it to Jasper, Indiana. Now I know what you are thinking, why of all places did I pick this one? Well my fur less friend, I had the chance to visit a friend I haven't seen in years. And while the location was in the middle of nowhere, the chance to visit friends is always worth the trip. What is there to do in Jasper? You ask. Well, not too much to ...

Bucket List

Posted By: Cornelius Aesop on 2009/11/24 in - Comments: View Comments

Even a happy-go-lucky monkey such as myself must face the facts, one day my furry little butt will be no more. Instead of worrying about when that day comes I think it best to work towards completing some spectacular things in my life so when my final day comes and that big banana in the sky comes for me, I can say I’ve peeled the best of them.

I will be sure to insert a link to connect to a picture/blog post that I’ve written that correlates to each of these items on my bucket list. I can’t promise you I will complete them all in a timely manner but I will work on a way to complete them one way or the other.

1. Cross a country on a bicycle.

2. Climb one of the world’s Seven Summits. Climbing mountains is not for the faint-hearted, but everyone has had a dream of standing atop one.

3. Participate in a Carnival parade in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

4. Dance Tango in Argentina.

5. Learn to ballroom dance properly.

6. SCUBA in the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Australia.

7. Travel around the world in a round the world flight.

8. Photograph an endangered species.

9. Participate in Burning Man.

10. Go to Oktoberfest.

11. Drive on an autobahn in Germany.

12. Enjoy a freshly rolled cigar in Cuba.

13. Skydive/wing-suit and experience what it feels like to fly.

14. Attend at least one major sporting event: the Super Bowl, the Olympics, the U.S. Open.

15. ~~Brew your own beer.~~

16. Shower in a waterfall.

17. Raft/hike through the Grand Canyon.

18. Donate money and put your name on something: a college scholarship, a bench in the park.

19. Go up in a hot-air balloon.

20. Kiss the Blarney stone and develop the gift of gab.

21. Drink a perfectly poured Guinness in a pub in Ireland

22. Make yourself spend a half-day at a concentration camp and swear never to forget.

23. Learn to bar tend.

24. Run a marathon/Triathlon.

25. Visit the Great Wall of China

26. Spend a week at sea

27. Take a homeless person out to eat

28. Walk the Incan trail to Machu Picchu, Peru

29. Visit the Great Pyramid

30. Attend The Tonight Show or The Late Show as an audience member.

31. Scuba-dive to a large ship wreck

32. Jump off a cliff into a natural body of water in an exotic location.

33. Spend a night pub-hopping in London.

34. Write a book… even if it’s short and never gets published.

35. Go skinny dipping in a large body of water at midnight.

36. Spend New Years Eve in Times Square.

37. Hit up Mardi Gras in New Orleans.

38. Experience Spring Break in all its glory in Cancun, Mexico or Panama City Beach, Florida.

39. Spend a whole day making love without every leaving the house.

40. Go to Japan and view the cherry blossoms bloom

41. bungee jump

42. Visit the Taj Mahal

43. Visit Stonehenge

44. Read the Classics

45. Explore Teotihuacan

46. Participate in Dia De Lose Muertos, Mexico City

47. Go to an airport and take a cheap soon departing plane to a random destination and spend the weekend there.

48. Start a business

49. Running of the Bulls in Pamplona, Spain

50. a Tomatina: World’s biggest tomato fight staged annually on the streets of Bunol, Spain

51. Learn to fly a plane

52. Spend Christmas on the beach drinking tropical drinks.

53. Leave a dollar where a kid will find it.

54. Listen to the Dalai Lama Speak

55. Learn to ride a unicycle

56. Buy a round for a packed bar.

57. Kiss at the top of the Eiffel tower

58. BBQ my own dinner on a beach

59. Make my own art work and hang it on my wall

60. Send a message in a bottle

61. Ride a camel in a dessert

62. Be an extra in a film

63. Stay out all night partying and go to work without having gone home

64. Be a nude model for an art class

65. Eat a waffle in Belgium

66. Study Yoga at the place of its creation – in India.

What are some things on your list? Anything that I should add to mine?

Since you can’t share a drink with me, share this post with others!

Steve

Good list. It has some of the usual that you would find in many lists, but also some other things that I think would be uniquely your own. That makes for a good mix overall. I know I got some good ideas for my own.
Cornelius Aesop

Thanks, there's nothing wrong with stealing some other great ideas but you have to put your own twist on them as well. I see quite a few posts on Do Something Cool are things on my list while others should be on my list @(^_^)@
EagerExistence

Awesome bucket list. I've seen several of these list items reoccuring on other travel bloggers lists. I'm sure that I too will have some in common on my own list (unwritten).

Funny that I have so much in common with a traveling Monkey?
Cornelius Aesop

Thanks, I really need to get back to work on this so I can check some off, unfortunately many require travel that I haven't saved up for yet. Hehe and it's OK to have so much in common with this traveling monkey, because that just makes up both pretty awesome. :-)
Kham

Here is a great site to create and share your bucket list.

http://www.sharebuckets.com

check it out.
Farnoosh

Tango in Argentina! Yes, I just did that after 10 years of tango at home, in January of 2010 and it was fantastic. I did blog about it (of course I did! :)) but really, what a list! Way to go!
Cornelius Aesop

I really want to visit Argentina, I was so close to a trip when I was living in Rio but never made it. Although I've heard about a Tango class nearby so I can practice for when I do go.
flip

wow

that's a long list!!!

goodluck monkey brewster!!!

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