I am going to take a brief pause from the stories of my travel challenge to share with you all the latest challenge/bucket list/goal I’ve started working on. My friend Erin and I have a book club. I use that term loosely… really it consists of she and I alternating choosing a book that we both read around the same relative time and briefly discuss afterward. Still, it counts. A while ago, we were on a real self-help book kick. One of the books we read was called Tranquility by Tuesday. In the book, author Laura Vanderkam suggested writing out a list of 100 dreams, big or small. At the time, I had completed my travel challenge and was actively tagging along with Willie as he checked off items on his bucket list. The only other “bucket list” item I had in my head for myself was that I wanted to do one thing in each of the 50 states. So, I started my 100 dreams list by listing each state that I had not yet stepped foot in. Needless to say, the first 30ish items of my dream list came real easy. Piling on another 70 or so took some time though. I finished reading Tranquility by Tuesday on August 2nd, 2023. Nine months later, I finished writing my 100 dreams list (May 2024). By the time I had finished my list, I had checked off two of the items that I had written down early on. A) completing Willie’s bucket list and 2) seeing the Northern lights (pictured below, I’ve been blessed to see them twice now). One of the greatest joys in my life right now is working on the other 98 items. Now, the idea of a bucket list has been around for years. So the concept of a 100 dreams list isn’t really new. It’s just one of many variations floating around modern society. I chose not to put a timeframe on my 100 dreams because I really did not include anything that is part of my day-to-day life. I will have to work hard in one way or another to achieve each of my remaining dreams. I know at the end, just like my travel challenge and Willie’s bucket list, it’s going to feel so amazing. Cheers to the lessons I’ll learn along the way, and the people who will help me learn them! To seeking! To finding!
My 100 Dreams
- Zip all the MN lines
- Finish Willie’s bucket list
- Visit Czech
- See the Northern Lights
- Go on a medical mission trip
- Visit Washington
- Visit Oregon
- Visit Alaska
- Visit California
- Visit Wine Country
- Visit Idaho
- Visit Utah
- Visit Montana
- Visit Wyoming
- Visit New Mexico
- Visit Nebraska
- Visit Lousiana
- Visit Oklahoma
- Visit Kentucky
- Visit Alabama
- Visit North Carolina
- Visit South Carolina
- Visit West Virginia
- Visit Delaware
- Visit Pennsylvania
- Visit Maryland
- Visit New Jersey
- Visit New York
- Visit Rhode Island
- Visit Conneticut
- Visit Vermont
- Visit Hawaii
- See all the Great Lakes
- Sit in a natural hot spring
- Learn a language
- Meet Brantley Gilbert
- Learn Music Theory
- Write a song
- Visit New Zealand
- Ride in a hot air balloon
- Take a photography class
- Be 100% debt free
- Perform at open mic night
- Visit Norway
- Complete the MN Adventure Bucket List
- Take a hip hop dance class
- Finally reach that goal weight
- Spend a birthday in Chicago
- Swim in all four oceans
- Take a helicoptor ride
- Learn to meditate
- Go ice climbing
- Share my passion on YouTube
- Take a solo trip in the Caburban
- Learn to launch the boat solo
- Play a game of paintball
- Kite Surf on Mille Lacs
- Sleep in a yurt
- Forgive everyone
- Fly first-class
- Walk on the Viking’s field
- Take a makeup lesson
- Take a salsa dance class with Kate and Alex
- Pick a lock
- Help someone check an item off their bucket list
- Celebrate a holiday in a different country
- Wear a fresh lei
- Take a Pack Up & Go trip
- Run a Color Run in a different state
- Visit Austin, TX
- Ride a train with the KC group
- Spend a night in the Whistle Stop B&B
- Play a curling match
- Sit in an Ely Steam Sauna
- Visit Lake of the Woods
- Visit Lake Vermillion
- Kiss someone at the Eiffel Tower
- Take a sunrise hike
- Visit Door County
- Hike the Superior Hiking Trail
- Do a pull up
- Take a pole dance class
- Take a surfing lesson
- Visit the Redwood Forest
- Take Willie to a Saints Dog Days game
- Visit the 4 Corners Monument
- Host or attend a “Bachelor/Bachelorette” party
- See the “Friends” set
- Go Zorbing
- Stay in a crazy beautiful Air BnB or hotel
- Go to a drive-in movie
- Eat Nashville hot chicken at Hattie Bs
- Have a spa day
- Start a blog
- Learn 10 phrases in Czech
- Learn 10 phrases in ASL
- Visit a pink sand beach
- Visit Montreal
- See the sunrise in east FL and sunset in west FL
- Do a NYE hike at midnight