The top 100 things to do before I die:

1. Go bungee jumping

2. Run a marathon - COMPLETE

3. Run the NYC Marathon

4. Get a pilot’s license

5. Visit Italy - COMPLETE

6. Visit Australia

7. Visit Japan during the Cherry Blossom Festival

8. Get a bartending certificate

9. Go to culinary school

10. Start a family - COMPLETE

11. Give away a child on his/her wedding day

12. Get elected a Regional Director in NASPA

13. Complete a PH.D

14. Travel to all 50 states in the U.S

15. Eat at The French Laundry

16. Attend the Best of the West BBQ Competition

17. Snowboard in the Swiss Alps

18. Snowboard a double black diamond without falling or stopping

19. See the Northern Lights

20. See the Sistine Chapel - COMPLETE

21. See the Leaning Tower of Pisa - COMPLETE

22. See the Venice Grand Canal - COMPLETE

23. Complete a real food challenge - COMPLETE

24. Participate in a Ragnar race

25. Complete the Hood to Coast race

26. Attend the Olympics

27. Attend the World Cup

28. Write a book

29. Go skydiving - COMPLETE

30. Be a keynote speaker - COMPLETE

31. Get hired as a food writer

32. Go hunting

33. Go on an African safari

34. Swim with dolphins

35. Have a bonfire on a beach

36. Shoot a gun - COMPLETE

37. Try Beluga caviar

38. Eat a fugu fish

39. Try the ghost chili

40. Visit Greece - COMPLETE

41. Own a home

42. Meet a President of the United States

43. Make my own wine

44. Dine in the dark

45. See the Grand Canyon

46. Go white water rafting on the Colorado river

47. Help someone get their life in order

48. See the pyramids

49. Walk next to an active volcano

50. Drive a Lamborghini or Ferrari

51. Go camping by myself

52. Learn to ride a motorcycle

53. See Stone Henge

54. Walk the Great Wall of China

55. See the Eiffel Tower

56. Experience Mardi Gras

57. Make $1,000,000

58. See the Angel Falls in Venezuela

59. Learn to ballroom dance

60. Eat at 1000 places on my restaurant list

61. Go deep sea fishing and eat my catch

62. Travel to outer space

63. See live polar bears in the wild

64. Complete a triathlon

65. Be a member in the audience of a show

66. Drink beer at Oktoberfest in Munich

67. Teach someone to read

68. Fly mach 1 in an airplane

69. Endow a scholarship

70. Spend a wild weekend in Las Vegas

71. Find a job in which I am content

72. Make a complete and utter fool of myself

73. Own one very expensive but absolutely wonderful business suit

74. Read War and Peace

75. Fly first class on an international trip

76. Learn to sail

77. Ride in a hot air balloon

78. Go on a Habitat for Humanity trip

79. Learn sign language

80. Fail gloriously at something

81. Go in an open sea shark cage

82. Ride in a submarine

83. Go to Amsterdam - COMPLETE

84. Take a year off

85. Attend a BCS national championship game

86. Attend the Rose Bowl

87. Learn to surf

88. Go horseback riding on the beach with my wife

89. See Big Ben in London

90. Bare all on a nude beach

91. Complete the Ironman Triathlon

92. Take a canopy tour on a zipline

93. See Mount Rushmore

94. Visit Jerusalem

95. Read every novel that has won a Pulitzer Prize in the Fiction Category

96. Watch every movie that has won an Academy Award for Best Picture

97. Be a good father

98. Own a restaurant

99. Reach 1 million hits on my website

100. Allow my children to graduate from college debt free