Things To Do By Age 30
Inspired by my wonderful friend Angela, I’m going to work up to a list of some things that I want to do by the day I turn 30. Some are stupid and trivial, some are impossible…
Legend: Completed, In-Progress
- Visit New York City (I’m not counting my 2-hour layover at JFK)
- Ride the World’s Fastest Zipline in South Africa.
- Smoke a hookah with my grandmother.
- Bike (pedal) to a destination at least 200 miles away.
- Row a 2k in under 6:25.
- Own at least one motorcycle.
- Graduate from the CMU MechE department.
- Go on a multi-day road trip somewhere out of the state.
- Finish my novel.
- Help get a lunar rover to the moon.
- Visit Mexico
- Bring a 6-foot sandwich to a party I wasn’t invited to.
- Obtain my private pilot’s license.
- Wake up in an unexpected place (field, mall, Tepper’s lobby, etc.)
- Ride the Dragon in Deal’s Gap.
- Be a smartass in person to a political official (celebrities will do).
- Separate an entire punch bowl of nothing but Lucky Charm’s Marshmallows. Eat vigorously.
- Punch Billy Mays in the face. Tell him to keep is stupid OxyClean to himself.
- Ride a segway.
- Take a trip to Europe (See Amsterdam, Rome, Paris, Venice)
- Enjoy a Cuban cigar.
- Earn a well-paying engineering job.
- Own a TV that is bigger across than I am tall (72″).
- Build a trebuchet, launch something on fire.
- Get lost on foot in a major city, preferably Boston, NYC or Dallas.
- Go fishing in Canada.
- Befriend a dwarf.
- Bungee jump/Skydive.
- Be a landscaping pro around my house, and have the greenest lawn in town.
- Scuba dive off Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.
- See a solar eclipse.
- Experience an earthquake.
- Visit Cedar Point.
- Spray paint an inside joke on a water tower/bridge/other apt graffiti surface.
- Take my motorcycle to a major bike rally.
- Pull off a prank that makes it into the newspaper.
- Drive/ride along the Amalfi Coast in Italy.
- Visit a winery.
- Wear a three piece suit to a sub-casual dress party.
- Write/receive a written letter from a different country.
- Drive a large SUV through San Fransisco, smoking a cigar and blaring Lynard Skynard.
- Own a golden retriever or other large dog.
- Experience weightlessness.
- Help someone deliver a baby, get baby named after me.
- Visit Spearfish Canyon on no more than two wheels.
- Have stupid accident that puts me in the hospital, have an awesome story.
- Walk the Great Wall of China.
- Attend a multi-day music festival.
- Go out for a beer with a former teacher/professor. (Rubright/Serrapere?)
- Get in an honorable fist fight, dominate.
- Tailgate at a ‘Big 10′ football game.
- Sneak on to a freight train and wind up somewhere else, call mom for ride home.
- Earn a patent.
- Take an unexpected vacation, turn off all communication devices, and tell no one.
- Host a potluck.
- Learn to speak another language fluently enough to hit on a waitress.
- Become somebody’s best man, and throw one kickass bachelor’s party.
- Drive the Ring Road in Iceland.
- Own a house and host Thanksgiving dinner for the family.
- Drink beer at Oktoberfest in Munich.
- Drive on the Autobahn in Europe.
- Learn to bartend.
