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The 30 List

First things first, an explanation of the list and its purpose. This is not one of those "Things I Need to do Before I Turn 30" lists. If it were, I'd be screwed because I turned 30 on January 12, 2009. This is a different kind of list, consisting of various ideas provided to me by various people. Each item made the list because it consisted of something I've never done or someplace I've never been. The goal is to check 30 items off of the list during calendar year 2009. It promises to be a lot of fun, and I hope you will join me on the adventure.

Send me an email if you have an idea you think I should add to the list, want to participate in a specific activity, or just want me to keep you informed of things.

To see my Google calendar showing the items below that have been calendarized,
go here.

Please note that items I have completed (or in some cases partially completed) are highlighted below as a hyperlink to a page describing the event.

	Description	Whose Idea?	Notes/Info	Links
1	Go to Grand Canyon	Jimmy Cook	Side trip from Vegas in March? Also see #106.	1	2	3
2	Visit a new foreign country	Jimmy Cook
3	Go bungee jumping	Jimmy Cook
4	Go for a ride in a glider	Jimmy Cook
5	Visit a national park (other than G.C.N.P.)	Jimmy Cook	Glacier - before they're all gone?	1
6	Attend Groundhog Day Festivities in Paxsutawney, PA	Jimmy Cook	Side mission: capture the groundhog
7	Plant a garden	Brian Moore
8	Have your picture taken with "Elvis"	Brian Moore	He lives in Las Vegas, right?
9	Score better than 90% in expert level - Guitar Hero	Brian Moore
10	Bake something you’ve never baked (and bring to work)	Brian Moore	Combine with #27?
11	Ride in a hot air balloon	Brian Moore
12	See an Aurora	Brian Moore
13	Swim in an unswum ocean/sea	Brian Moore
14	Take an overnight trip by rail	Brian Moore
15	Visit a new zoo/museum	Brian Moore
16	Get a skybox for your friends	Brian Moore
17	Write a Letter to the Editor that gets published	Brian Moore
18	Ride a new animal	Brian Moore	Camel? Elephant? Ostrich?
19	Climb the highest peak of a new state	Brian Moore
20	Take in a game at a new stadium	Brian Moore
21	Drink 6 new beers	Brian Moore
22	Take a ride in a helicopter	Brian Moore
23	Go out for breakfast in pajamas	Brian Moore
24	Put yourself on You-Tube	Brian Moore
25	Ride a new roller coaster	Brian Moore	See #40. Cedar Point? Vegas?
26	Read 6 new books	Brian Moore
27	Make a huge cookie	Brian Moore	Combine with #10?
28	Organize a scavenger hunt	Brian Moore
29	Keep a log/photo journal of the 30 new things you did	Brian Moore
30	View a space shuttle launch	Jimmy Cook
31	Attend Crazy Horse Volksmarch	Brian Moore	Crazy Horse Memorial, first full weekend in June	1	2
32	Walk across the Brooklyn Bridge	Anna Bass
33	Go skinny dipping in CT	Anna Bass
34	Sing karaoke with a live band	Anna Bass	NYC? Hard Rock at Foxwoods?
35	Write a poem and mail it to someone as a surprise	Anna Bass
36	Get a hot stone massage	Anna Bass	Day after the marathon would be good.
37	Go to the opera	Anna Bass
38	Eat a piece of strawberry cheesecake at the Carnegie Deli in NYC	Anna Bass	“You will not regret this.”
39	Take your friends rollerskating	Anna Bass
40	Ride the Cyclone at Coney Island	Anna Bass	See #25
41	Drink champagne on a random Tuesday night	Anna Bass
42	Go to Napa Valley	Anna Bass
43	Get front row tickets to the circus	Anna Bass
44	Hike Mt. Charleston	Anna Bass	Northwest of Las Vegas.
45	Go on a super-spur-of-the-moment roadtrip	Anna Bass
46	Try Ethiopian Food	Anna Bass
47	Eat at a new restaurant once a month	Anna Bass
48	Buy a fancy new suit and tie (and wear to some of these events)	Anna Bass
49	Ride a zipline	Anna Bass
50	Go to the Big E Fair	Anna Bass
51	Camp at Joshua Tree National Park	Dave Bass
52	Go to a NASCAR race	Dave Bass
53	See an air show	Dave Bass
54	Smoke a Brisket	Brett Bickel
55	Enter a Chili Cook-off	Brett Bickel
56	Finish a Triathlon	Brett Bickel
57	Fly in a simulated Dogfight	Brett Bickel
58	Learn to Sail	Brett Bickel
59	Go Scuba diving	Brett Bickel
60	Swim with dolphins	Brett Bickel
61	Go fly fishing	Brett Bickel
62	Drink a beer standing on a picnic table in a beer tent at Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany	Steve Schmitt
63	Hike the Cinque Terre in one day	Steve Schmitt
64	View the last Supper in Milan, Italy to determine yourself if John is a boy or a girl	Steve Schmitt
65	Eat snails in Paris	Steve Schmitt
66	Ride a gondola in Venice	Steve Schmitt
67	Watch a lava flow at night in Hawaii	Steve Schmitt
68	Snorkel at a Barrier Reef	Steve Schmitt
69	Have your picture taken with a former president of Russia in front of the Kremlin	Steve Schmitt
70	Have lunch with the First Lady	Steve Schmitt
71	Watch an F-16 do a Mach-1 fly-by on an aircraft carrier flight deck at sea	Steve Schmitt
72	Go to test depth on a submarine during sea trials and not throw up	Steve Schmitt
73	Win an award from the CEO or president of your company	Steve Schmitt
74	Attend a Bowl Game or conference championship game	Steve Schmitt
75	Spend the night in a castle in Europe during a thunderstorm	Steve Schmitt	Could happen in France in September.	1	2
76	Kiss the Blarney stone and then immediately drink a Guinness or shot of Jameson (or both) to get the taste out of your mouth	Steve Schmitt
77	Climb the stairs of the Empire State Building/Eiffel Tower	Kevin Hawk
78	Swim with sharks	Kevin Hawk
79	Try out for a game show	Kevin Hawk
80	Submit a video to AFV	Kevin Hawk
81	Charter a deep sea fishing trip	Kevin Hawk
82	Buy a house	Kevin Hawk
83	Visit the Old Faithful geyser	Kevin Hawk
84	Hug a redwood	Kevin Hawk
85	Go to Oktoberfest in Munich	Kevin Hawk
86	Run a marathon	Kevin Hawk	Rock n Roll Marathon in San Antonio, TX November 15, 2009.	1	2
87	Run with the bulls	Kevin Hawk
88	Learn another language	Kevin Hawk	Going to work on French for the castle trip (see #75).
89	Go white water rafting through class V rapids	Kevin Hawk
90	Go on an African safari	Kevin Hawk	Probably won't happen until 2010.
91	Scuba dive the Great Barrier reef	Kevin Hawk
92	Make a dinner reservation for 1	Kevin Hawk
93	Leave a casino “up”	Kevin Hawk
94	Make a toast	Kevin Hawk
95	Run a 5k	Jess Bickel
96	See a Cape Cod Baseball League game	Jess Bickel
97	Work a soup kitchen on Thanksgiving or Christmas	Erin Moslener
98	Join the Mile High Club	Hump Day Group
99	Visit Santiago de Compostela, Spain	Dwija Borobia	Annual feast day/bishop's visit.
100	Visit Guell Park in Barcelona, Spain	Dwija Borobia	Another possibility on the French castle trip (#75).
101	Visit Augustiner Braustubl in Salzburg, Austria	Dwija Borobia
102	Eat at Danal's Mexican Restaurant in Irving, TX	Dwija Borobia
103	Go to Disneyland	Dwija Borobia
104	Visit L'Intendant wine shop in Bordeaux, France	Dwija Borobia	Yet another possibility for the French castle trip (#75).	1
105	Go cliff diving	Marta Lukomska
106	Jump up and down on the skywalk at GCNP	Steve Schmitt	Costs ~$70 per person.	1
107	Go to The Trampoline Place	Marta Lukomska		1
108	Go to Luray Caverns, home of the Great Stalacpipe Organ	Lisa Albert		1
109	Grow a moustache	Jimmy Cook	January moustache contest	1
110	Take a Yoga Class	Anna Bass		1
111	Go ice fishing	Keith Smith	Limerick, ME	1
112	Eat an Anchovy	Morgan Galante
113	Attend a talk by an eminent political and/or religious world leader	Jimmy Cook	Dalai Lama at Gillette Stadium	1	2	3
114	Go to a Demolition Derby	Brad Goodman
115	Attend a multi-day music festival	Sarah Donn Weston
116	Get a tattoo	Cathy Johnson
117	Eat a new animal	Jimmy Cook
118	Participate in the Breaking of a Guinness World Record	Julie Walker	Most people dancing to Thriller at once. Thrill the World is October 24th.	1