Originally written 1992

About a year and a half ago I was driving back from some races at Limerock park, and had just recently gone sky diving, and I started to think... I thought about some of the cool adventures that I've had in the recent past couple of years since I got myself in gear. Some in the name of adventure, some in the name of fun, some in the name of insanity, and others, just because they were there. Well, I thought it might be cool to write some down so I did that as soon as I could. It wasn't a long enough list. So I added some of what I wanted to do, but had not yet done. Pretty long now, but not long enough. So, I added things I thought would be cool adventures but I would probably never do. And then I started to share this with some people. It really proved thought provoking. Since I started this list, a number of people have added things to it, so it is no longer original, sorted, nor even rational. It is, however, my list of:

...CRAZY ADVENTURES, THINGS TO DO, DREAMS TO ACHIEVE, BALLZY STUFF...

4-wheel / off road / dune buggy
AMC 4000' club
ATVs
backpack/camp/hike
balloon ride
base jump off a cliff
be a parent
be arrested
be in a band
be in a big earthquake
be in a movie
big game fishing
bike riding a really long distance
black out
bobsled / luge
body surf the banzai pipeline
break a cement block with the head
break the sound barrier
bronco busting / bull fighting
build the largest bonfire you've ever seen
bungee jump
be a spy
capture a criminal
car bashing
catch a shark
cause an avalanche
caving/spelunking
chase a tornado, put something in its path.
chop down a 3 foot diameter tree w/ an axe
cliff dive
climb a tree over 100 feet high
climbing - Tyrolean traverse
climbing - big mountain
climbing - big wall
climbing - ice
climbing - lead
climbing - repelling
climbing - rock
climbing - solo
climbing - zip line
deal drugs
deep sea fishing
defuse a live bomb
demolish a house
desert / ice sailing
do 1000 pushups in a day
do a dog fight
dog sled
drag race
drive a car on 2 wheels
drive a race car
drive and fire a tank
drive in a demolition derby
drive on a frozen lake
drive on the autobahn
drive over 200mph
drive over 6 times the speed limit
drive something over a jump
drive through every continental US state, in < 7 days
drive to Tierra del Fuego
eat blowfish sushi
eat some odd part on an animal
eat the hottest possible pepper
engage in a high speed automobile chase on public streets
engage in a world championship in something
engage in, and survive a knife fight
fence
find out how many licks to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop
fire a cast iron cannon
fire a mortar
fire a potato cannon
fire walk
fly a helicopter
fly a plane
fly a plane under a bridge
fly an ultra light plane
fly supersonic
fly/drive w/ a Hovercraft / air/fan boat
get hit by lightning
go on an active Naval vessel
go in a submarine
go on a cruise
go on a safari
go through military training
go to a rain forest
go to amusement parks/ roller coasters
hang glide
have a one-on-one with the President
have bionics implanted
helicopter drop in skiing
high dives
hike the AT
hiking
hitchhike (to Alaska)
hold a 10' boa
hold a world record in something
hunting
ice climbing
jet ski
kill something with a wrist rocket
kill something with my bare hands and eat it
kiss the south pole
laser tag
learn magic tricks
live on a houseboat
look over a 1000 foot cliff
make a gun
make a mortar
make a mushroom cloud
make a potato cannon
make a sweat lodge
make a tee-pee
make and shoot a catapult
make and shoot w/ a ballista
make and use a sledge-o-matic
make beer
make napalm
make rockets/bombs
make/build a car
make/build a house
make/detonate explosives
meet Clint Eastwood
mile high club
mine / pan for gold
mini-Indy car race at park
mix hallucinogenic drugs
motorcycle ice racing
operate a car crusher/shredder
operate heavy machinery
orgy
paint ball
Para plane
Para sailing
parachute / freefall
play w/ motorcycles
play with a SPEED boat
pull off a con worth over $10K
push the Twinkie envelope
put out a car fire
put out a forest fire
return from being clinically dead
ride an elephant
ride in a helicopter
ride in a jet fighter
ride in a space shuttle
ride in a stunt plane
ride on the vomit comet
roll a car
run a marathon
run the Iditarod
run with the bulls
cow tipping
licking frog skin
sail across an ocean
sail plane
sail the coast
sample wild game as food
save a life
scuba dive
scuba dive deep enough to breath liquid air
scuba dive with sharks
scull/row
see Everest, or Annapurna or Nanda Devi or K2 or ...
see a building imploded
see a live sex show
see a nuclear explosion
see a tornado
see an eclipse
see lions in the wild
see someone be killed
spear fishing
set foot in every US state
shoot a TV
shoot a bazooka
shoot a fireworks show
shoot a flame thrower
shoot a machine gun
shoot a pistol
shoot a spear gun
shoot a shotgun
shoot a rim fire weapon
shoot a propane tank
shoot a really high powered rifle
shoot a sling
shoot a submachine gun
shoot a bear
shoot military toys
use a pneumatic tool
shoot a nail driver (the kind with the cartridge)
shoot w/ a crossbow
skeet /trap
ski jump
skinny dip in public
sky surf
snow shoe
snowmobile
solo II race
spend a night in intensive care
spinnaker flying
stand on a glacier
start a company
start a professional car race
stop a bank robbery
streak
surfing
sword fight
take a tiger for a walk
test drive expensive (> $100,000.00) sports cars
thrash in the mosh pit
throw a real hand grenade
travel to strange and exotic places
trek through Nepal
turn on a fire hydrant
use a sweat lodge
virtual reality
visit the pentagon
watch a live monster truck race or truck/tractor pull
watch a volcano erupt
watch an ox pull
watch an unlimited motorcycle race
watch pro wrestling live
watch shuttle launch close up
water ski
white-water canoeing
white-water kayaking
white-water rafting
write a song
win megabucks
wind surf
be on TV