My Bucket List

This page serves as my bucket list for lack of a better idea or way to present the information.

What are Goals?

It’s so hard to have goals if you never write them down, and for some reason I really love reading other people’s bucket lists. When we give up on all dreams it seems we tend to give up on hope, living in fear of getting away from what is comfortable. I am trying to get down a long list, seems the older you are the longer your list should be, so mine will just run and run.

This is an ongoing and active list, I generally have these lists all over the place so I am trying to get all my ideas on one page, this one. This isn’t really a “bucket list” per-sa but more of a mix of goals, things I want to do, things I strive to achieve, some of which are unobtainable, those are my dreams. What’s on your list? I would love to read it, post some in the comments below or give us a link to your bucket list!

It’s a Work in Progress

Update: what I have found over the years is that this list changes, a lot. There are thing I no longer want to do in my “older” age, things I thought I wanted to do but have grown out of, or things that aren’t actually achievable. So this list is a huge work in progress list.

My Bucket List

1. Take a ship across the Atlantic
2. Get my pilot’s license / fly solo
3. Circumnavigate the world in under a year
4. Take a camping / kayak / retreat trip for at least two weeks
5. Watch Auburn and go to a BCS one time in my lifetime
6. Go on a long trip (1 month, 3 months, 6 months, 1 year)
7. Visit Niagara Falls
8. Work, or volunteer, at a cutting edge tech org (YouVersion.com)
9. Complete Project 365, taking a photo-a-day for a year
10. Study the spiritual disciplines and put into practice (study, worship, service, prayer, fasting, solitude, meditation, confession, fellowship)
11. Go to the new Ground Zero Memorial
12. Pray continually throughout an entire year
13. Complete an Bachelor’s of Arts Degree ( UAB 1996)
14. Complete a Masters Degree (Liberty)
15. Complete the Masters Degree in Seminary (MA Theology, 2012)
16. Complete an advanced or secondary Masters
17. Watch the Yankees play the Dodgers in the World Series
18. Read 50 books in one year
19. Publish a photography book (Views of a Stadium!)
20. Publish a written book
21. Have an image of mine on an album cover
22. Have an image of mine on a book cover
23. Setup an observatory in my back yard
24. Completely clean out the attic in the house (June 2012)
25. Live in another country
26. Work in or for a ministry
27. Visit Rome / Greece
28. See the Boston Pops live at either 4th of July or New Years
29. Photograph at least five planets in our solar system (Saturn, Jupiter, Venus, Mars, Uranus)
30. Produce (and publish online) an image of a nebula or galaxy
31. Visit the Holy Land
32. Kayak in the Great Lakes
33. Be instrumental in bringing someone to Christ
34. Memorize a book of the Bible
35. Ride / Cycle more than 500 miles
36. Own a sailboat.
37. Learn the “great” classical music composers (Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Mozart, Tchaikovsky)
38. Read all 25 books described in the book by Renovare
39. Be a live-aboard on a sailboat for any length of time
40. Live on a sailboat short-term (a week)
41. Live on a sailboat long-term (a month, 6 months, a year)
42. Take one photo a day for a year
43. Live full-time in a motor home (bus)
44. Learn to snowboard and/or ski
45. Touch the Alaska Pipeline
46. Read the entire Bible
47. Visit the Pentagon Memorial
48. Work in ministry for a year, 5 years, 10 years, 15 years
49. Be the wedding Photographer, once
50. Live in Las Vegas
51. Take a character to the highest level of WoW. (Ischuros) 2012]
52. Deleted
53. Make goals each year, and review them
54. Read 52 books in one year (2009)
55. Deleted
56. Reach 1 million emails sent/received, (600,000 June 2012)
57. Take 1 million photos (800,000 as of August 2025)
58. Write 1 million words in my journal
59. Live in the Colorado Mountains
60. Work full-time at something I really love (my own business, seminary) 
61. Work with an organization that is changing the world
62. Drive a Greyhound bus across the country
63. Visit every state in the U.S.
64. Sail across a large body of water
65. Give away a year’s salary
66. Complete a Life Plan as Outlined by Hyatt’s book (Jan 2012)
67. Build a Spa, modify the spa in the bathroom
68. Ride a motorcycle (at 100mph)
69. Write 1,000 articles on my blog (March 28th, 2012)
70. Go on a long fast
71. Invest in other people’s lives through a small group
72. Lead a small group
73. Make the Dean’s List in Seminary
74. Deleted
75. Have an image of mine published
76. Take 500,000 photos (350,000 as of 2012)
77. Take 1,000,000 photos (800,000 as of 2025)
78. Read all of C.S. Lewis’ “Signature Classic” non-fiction books
79. Read all of C.S. Lewis’ “Harvest” non-fiction books
80. Ride a train across the country
81. Forgive fully and completely for a wrong against me
82. Work for God’s body of Believer’s, the Church (2008)
83. Get Married and stay married (30 years with Deborah)
84. Deleted
85. Travel to all 50 states in the United States
86. Make the garage into an interior useable room
87. Take an actual vacation (2 Days, 1 Week, 2 Weeks, 1 Month)
88. Build a pond in our back yard
89. Read the whole Bible every other year for 10 years
90. Read the Bible cover to cover in one year.
91. Read the New Testament in 30 days
92. Learn the very basics of a foreign language (Hebrew)
93. Visit every continent (North America, South America, Asia, Australia, Europe, Africa, Antarctica)
94. Live in Auburn Alabama
95. Fill 10 Moleskine journals with daily entries (5-7 Summer 2012)
96. Get a bike (and ride at least 5 miles a day or 25 miles a week)
97. Get publicly baptized as an adult (Birmingham 1996)
98. Go to the NCAA Final Four
99. See Auburn playing in the Final Four
100. Write in a journal every day for 1 year, 2 years, 5 years, 10 years
101. Go on a mission trip to serve people in another country (Uganda)
102. Backpack the Appalachian Trail for 2 weeks
103. Go on a Biblical Archeology Dig (changed mind)
104. Fly to a foreign country with no plans (Hong Kong / Bangkok)
105. Fly an RC helicopter or plane (drone)
106. Create a bird sanctuary around our house
107. Deleted
108. Make a Bluebird trail of boxes
109. Read and log 100 books in a book journal
110. Write in my journal every day for a month, a quarter, six months, and a year (July 2012), 5 years
111. Go to a soccer match from English Premiere League in England
112. Operate a motorcycle, car, tractor, motor home, bus, train, plane
113. Deleted
114. Serve God’s church as a staff leader
115. Write a poem, print a poem, gift a poem
116. Go to a World Series
117. See the Yankees vs the Dodgers in the World Series (2024)
118. Learn how to write/understand a web programming language
119. Transferred to #61 on Rules Page
120. Transferred to #62 on Rules Page
121. Get Freshly Pressed on the WordPress Front Page (2012 with this post)
122. Write a single note for every book, chapter, and verse in the Bible
123. Create the Daily Note for my study for all 365 days
124. Start multiple blogs and keep them running more than 10 years
125. Drive my camper van across the country