A look into the Bucket List

Now that I'm graduated (well minus two exams), I can cross off another item on my bucket list. However that's not the only item left on my bucket list. I've decided to post a few of the other items that I have on my list (well there's not a real list, call it a mental list).

1. Attend a baseball game in each MLB stadium: Currently, I've traveled to five different MLB stadiums and each have been pretty awesome. Being a member of the every stadium club would really be a joy. Definitely Fenway Park, and Wrigley Field are the main priorities. If the old Yankee Stadium was still being used that would be a high priority as well.

2. Visit Washington D.C. and visit each Smithsonian Museum: In a middle school band trip I was fortunate enough to see many Washington attractions including the White House, the House of Archives, and numerous memorials. However, we only spent a half day exploring all things Smithsonian, and that was limited to the Air and Space Museum. That certainly doesn't do justice to all of the awesome stuff they have in that and all of the other museums in the "Mall."

3. Go Ice Skating at Rockefeller Center: This would probably be the biggest "letdown" on the entire list. It certainly wouldn't be like in the movies when the place is basically a ghost town. In reality there probably wouldn't be enough room to move, but I guess it's the "idea" that's presented in cinema that makes it appealing.

4. Baseball HoF visit in Cooperstown: This probably could be combined with my other baseball goal. I could probably spend like a week at that place. While I'm thinking about it I might as well thrown in, "attend college world series, attend little league world series game, and attend spring training."

5. See a tornado in real life and/or ride out a hurricane: When I was kid I was a weather nut. I watched the weather channel for hours sometimes... seriously. During hurricane season I could pop off all of the major stats for each tropical disturbance... wind speed, direction and speed it's traveling, barometric pressure, etc. I also owned a couple of videos on tornado chasers and was extremely interested in what they did. For quite a while I wanted to be a meteorologist when I grew up. I guess some of that never left me. I always thought it would be such an exciting experience chasing a tornado. Also, this video gave me the idea of riding out a hurricane in a parking garage. Yeah, it sounds nuts, but I think it would be an unforgettable experience.

6. Attend an SEC football game (preferably the Iron Bowl Alabama vs. Auburn): SEC football is my favorite football to watch. Period. Forget about the NFL. Forget about any other college conference. I want to be in a stadium that seats 100,000 screaming die-hard fans that live and die by their team's performance. I'll also throw in attend a final-four basketball game here.

7. Visit a Civil War battleground (Preferably Gettysburg or Antietam): These two battlegrounds were the most intriguing to me because they were where the most was on the line. These were the only two battles fought on union soil. In addition, both of these locations were north of Washington D.C. in which a Confederate victory could have had a substantial impact on the war.

8. Visit Normandy: This is where the march to Germany began. The idea of storming a heavily fortified beach is beyond me. How these guys were able to do it amazes me.

There are a ton of other things that I've missed, but these are the ones that come to mind currently. We'll see how it unfolds. It's certainly not something to do on a light budget, but who knows... maybe one day I'll be able to afford it all!