Well folks, it's that time again. Another birthday has passed, and like always, I reflected back on my life and all that I've done with my short time on this planet. And like many previous years, I've once again made it my goal to do something extraordinary this year. While I love to start projects and challenges, my track record hasn't been stellar (Project 24, NaNoFAILMo).
However, I've had one blog challenge success so far, and have had better luck with my projects over on tumblr. So with those wins in mind, I've decided to embark on a new journey to celebrate the last year of my 20s. This year I will do (at least) 30 New Things Before I Turn 30. While the task at hand doesn't seem that daunting given that I have a year to complete it, I want my 30 new things to be a bit more challenging and, for a lack of a better word, more epic than my previous adventures. I've accepted the fact that more epic probably means more expensive, but you know what the kids are saying these days - YOLO!
The following is a tentative list of adventures that I came up with as well as ideas from friends and family. The list is not set in stone and I know that I will probably add things along the way, but for right now, it's a nice guideline.
Here's to new adventures! Cheers!
Things to do before I’m 30 (July 6, 2014 - July 5, 2015)
Blue = Completed adventures
Red = Highly unlikely adventures
Green = Stretch adventures
Black = Probable adventures
- Watch the sunrise from the top of Mission Peak (Completed July 19, 2014)
- Run a 10K (Star Wars race)
- Make pasta from scratch
- Test drive/rent an exotic car (or convertible?)
- Taking a flying lesson
- Dark dining
- Ride in a helicopter
- Ride a jet ski
- Ride on an ATV on sand dunes
- Go hang-gliding
- Go to a drive-in movie
- Learn to play the guitar
- Learn to SCUBA dive (open water certification)
- Eat balut
- Get LASIK
- Niagara falls in a barrel
- Quit my job and look for a job in a field I know nothing about (and quit in style)
- Go sandboarding
- Ziplining (near Santa Cruz)
- Rope swinging
- Hot springing
- Take a truly memorable, crazy, exotic vacation like Africa, camp in the Yukon, hike the Grand Canyon, bungee jump in New Zealand, scuba dive the Great Barrier Reef.
- Learn golf, tennis, fly fishing, surfing, dancing
- Learn how to drive a manual transmission
- Get a full barber shave
- Brew your own beer
- Skip Barber racing school (must know manual transmission)
- Bid on something at a live auction
- Learn how to make the perfect steak
- Find my signature cocktail
- Bartending school
- Volunteer for Big Brother/Big Sister and take the kid to some place exciting and memorable like an NFL game
- Wash people’s feet.
- Hang out with the outcast of society and show them love and compassion, not pity.
- Bring a video camera and interview strangers on a crowded street.
- Go on all the roller coaster rides at a theme park (Great America, Six Flags in Valencia)
- Go to a World Series Game (hopefully the A’s)
- Complete NaNoWriMo (!?!)
- Do a month of ?? (yoga, hot yoga, eating vegetarian, eating paleo)
- Hike Half Dome
- Go to a Convention (SDCC, PAX)
- Buy a new car
- Fold one thousand paper cranes
- Swim with sharks and/or dolphins
- Learn to surf/ride the perfect wave
- Visit all 50 states
- Visit all the continents
- Find the perfect beach
- Pick up a total stranger that catches my eye
- Enter an eating contest
- Have something published or produced or shown (photo, writing, film, art)
- Design a garden or structure, create it
- Invent something useful, invent something useless but cool
- Speak/perform in front of hundreds of people
- Learn the Thriller dance
- Go to a fortune teller
- Write a letter to myself and read it a year later
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