Bucket Lists.
Everyone has their arbitrary checklist sitting in the back of their mind, right between their ‘ideal weight’ and their celebrity crush.
I said arbitrary, not impossible.
I’ve been slowly checking items off my list for years, and adding things to it as well. Without any timeline due to not knowing when I’ll kick the bucket, I’m sure I’ll accomplish most of them if I lead a long and healthy life.
Sometimes a sloth, sometimes a cheetah
Last year I experienced over a dozen new countries whereas this year I’ll experience probably one. I also checked getting a degree and cliff diving off my list, and added a couple more states visited to the end goal of 50.
At the end of the week, I’m heading out to Colorado to experience life further West and enjoy being an unemployed twenty-something. I’m finding so much beauty in planning to be unplanned for close to a month. I don’t know when I’m coming back to Iowa other than that It’ll be before March 23, when we leave for Brasil. I don’t know what I’ll do or when, or who will be able to make time to host me. It’s all wonderfully up in the air!
So, here’s what I want to accomplish during my 3+ weeks in the mile high area:
- Reuniting with the Harem, three of my closest friends from my semester in Europe
- A day of skiing. Sunup to sundown, uninhibited love with the mountains
- Climb a mountain
- Tour Denver University
- Workaway (explore by clicking here)
- Finish at least one book, starting with Shantaram, then Comfortable With Uncertainty
- Tour the Denver Mint
- Visit the Tattered Cover Bookstore
- Tour the Coors Brewery
Any goal enthusiast will tell you that the only way to define a goal is to give it a time limit. Hopefully by this time next week, I’ll have accomplished at least one of the things on this list, and by this time next month, all of them will be complete!