My Bucket List

I was recently chatting with an old friend about this reunion camping trip we're planning. And as with old friends, you find yourselves going off on tangents and talking about unrelated topics with little transition between them.

I recently bought a map of California and have been looking at it all week. So, when we started chatting about camping, I had to tell him about my idea: to see all state parks in California and then all National Parks.

Turns out, that same idea is on his bucket list. And since we're friends, I don't think he'll mind if I copy the idea.

Now, my bucket list has never been precise or carved in stone, it's more vague and most often forgotten. When I think about it, there are so many things I have added to my bucket list, all in the form of a mental post-it note stored in a filing cabinet of my brain titled "Remember, you want to do this". Sounds like a terrible system, doesn't it? If that filing cabinet were to open, post-it notes would pop out like those fake snakes from a can.

High time for some spring cleaning.

Let's make piles for the different post-it notes. First let's see what I have already checked off:
-Live in another country (France, 2013-2014)
-learn three languages
-US festivals: Not So Silent Night (2007), CMJ (2011), Sasquatch (2012), Hardly Strictly Bluegrass (2014), Treasure Island (2014),
-International festivals: Dour (Belgium, 2014), Lyon Gypsy (France, 2013),
-Continents/Regions: North America (USA, Canada), Latin America (Mexico), Europe (Scotland, Germany, Norway, Spain, Switzerland, France),
-California State Parks: Big Sur,
-National Parks: Haleakala (Hawaii, 2000),

Next pile would have to be what I haven't checked off:
-Burning Man
-learn another three languages
-ComiCon
-Maintain a year-round garden
-See all California State and National parks
-See every continent and region
-US festivals: SXSW, Outside Lands, New Orleans Jazz, ...
International festivals: Boom, Tomorrowland, ...

The last pile is something of a back-burner collection, the most common items on a bucket list and the least likely to happen:
-skydive
-go to space
-drive a Tesla
- ...

This cleaned up bucket list will double as my New Year's Resolutions each year, an easy merger of the two.