A few years ago, a friend and I made bucket lists with everything we could think of that we wanted to do in our life. That original piece of paper is now long gone, but I’ve kept track of my list with the things I’d someday like to do! ! Some items are big (and highly improbable) and others are more mundane, things that others do regularly.

As I’m thinking through my goals for 2016, I started looking over my bucket list again. It’s in no real order other than how I thought of them, but here it is (although I’m sure there are a ton of things I haven’t added yet):

• Visit every continent
  • North America — well..
  • South America — July 2008
  • Asia — June 2011
  • Africa — June 2007
  • Australia
  • Europe — Spring 2013
  • Antartica
• Visit Canada — August 9-11, 2012
• Visit India
• Return to Israel
• Backpack through Europe — April 12-25, 2013
• Visit all 50 states
• Find Centralia — August 8, 2012

• Study abroad — Spring 2013
• Explore a jungle
• See the Amazon River
• See the Aurora Borealis — March 2016
• Snowboard out west
• Visit the Mountain Dew factory
• Drive on Old Yungas Road (Bolivia)
• Spontaneous road trip to the beach — September 3-4, 2011
• Stay in a youth hostel — January 12-14, 2013
• Take a road trip — August 9-11, 2012
• Go camping — September 3-5, 2016
• Take a train anywhere with no plans
• Play keepaway in the Dead Sea
• Witness a volcanic eruption (or just hiking a volcano might do)
• Suba dive
• Learn a new language
• Learn to read lips
• Cliff jump — June 10, 2012

• Sky dive —  May 2014
• Chinese fire drill — June 4, 2011
• Snorkel — July 2, 2011
• Surf — August 3, 2015
• Dye my hair an obnoxious color — July 29, 2011
• Explore a cave — April 21, 2012
• Ride a motorcycle
• Give blood — July 25, 2013
• Learn to longboard
• Swim in a fountain — July 16, 2011
• Participate in a flash mob
• Dance in the rain — June 11, 2011
• Drive stick shift
• Fly first class — June 16, 2011
• Go white water rafting
• Chase a tornado
• Write a book
• Be quoted
• Drive-in movie — July 5, 2013
• Win a prank war
• Get a tattoo — February 11, 2016
• Have six pack abs
• Epic ultimate spoons game — April 8, 2011
• Make ‘the game’ shirts — September 16, 2011
• Learn to fight
• Make Mountain Dew Coolattas — September 17, 2011
• Picture per day [365] — 2013

• Send a message in a bottle
• Eat a worm
• Go to Student Life ‘Friday night’ — August 4, 2011
• Graffiti something
• Learn to pick a lock
• Find a scary movie — July 19, 2013 [The Conjuring]
• Play poker — August 6, 2012
• Run a 5k — November 23, 2013
• Spend a night on a trampoline
• Hike the Appalachians
• Go spelunking
• Play paint ball
• Hitch hike
• Fill up a passport
• Buy a ticket for the next leaving plane
• Sand board
• Run a Tough Mudder
• Couch surf
• Explore the Grand Canyon
• Eat a Belgian waffle in Belgium
• Hot air balloon ride at sunset
• Glacier hiking in New Zealand
• Hike the Inca trail
• Road trip Route 66
• Drink mint tea in Morocco
• Go paragliding
• Ride in a helicopter
• Ski the Alps
• Visit Marti Gras in New Orleans
• Worship with the underground church
• Live in a commune — November 2015-?
• Find the end of a rainbow
• Handstand in Iceland — March 2016
• Live debt free
• Learn to swing dance
• Have a pet otter
• Visit the Seven Wonders
  • Great Pyramid of Giza
  • Great Wall of China
  • Petra
  • The Colosseum
  • Chichen Itza – November 12, 2015
  • Machu Picchu
  • Taj Mahal
  • Christ the Redeemer
• Join a dragon boat team
• Play rugby
• Join a fantasy football league
• Learn to rock climb
• Attend a World Cup
• Solve Rubik cube — January 21, 2015
• Dive at Silfra, Iceland and touch Europe and North America at the same time

I could keep going on forever with things I want to do (some serious, some not so much). Are there any big ones I missed? Let me know in the comments!