This list is from MSN.com's Men's Lifestyle Column, the ones in green are the ones I plan to or have accomplish this summer, orange are maybes and the ones in red are ones that there is no chance that would happen this summer....or ever. And to make up for the ones I don't accomplish...I've come up with my own list to replace those.
1. Walk a path in the woods that has no other footprints.
2. Go bodysurfing in cold water. (we'll see about that one)
3. See a drive-in movie.
4. Visit a completely useless roadside museum.
5. Visit Solly's Grille in Glendale, Wisconsin (4629 North Port Washington Street; 414-332-8808), home of the "butter burger," a patty served with a big slab of butter on top of it. Not to be outdone in the effort to render America's arteries the consistency of PVC pipe, there's the "guber burger," the specialty of the house at the Wheel Inn Drive In in Sedalia, Missouri (1800 West Broadway; 660-826-5177), a thin burger served with a tasty peanut-butter glaze on top.
6. Save room for dessert.
7. Join your fellow gluttons at a food festival. (Minnesota State Fair!!)
8. If you have a beard, eat cotton candy in a strong breeze.
9. Launch your career in competitive eating. The folks at the International Federation of Competitive Eating (ifoce.com) will help you. (uhh....no thanks!)
10. Drink a cold beer.
11. On the Fourth of July, see the fireworks, and drink a cold beer.
12. Cycle naked in Austin, Texas, and, for God's sake, don't slip off the seat. Then wander on up just north of Austin and swim nekkid at Hippie Hollow on Lake Travis. Grab a plane and fly to Maui, where, on Little Beach at Makena, you can dance naked around a fire (littlebeachmaui.com). Please try to stay on your feet....Maui sounds nice, but cycle naked in Austin? No thanks.
13. Avoid the crowds at the residences of more famous -- and vastly more competent -- presidents of the United States. Drop in at Wheatland in Lancaster, Pennsylvania (wheatland.org), the home of James Buchanan, who has become oddly more relevant over the past five years. (this one could be interesting, but don't have the time or resource to acomplish)
14. Catch and release. (Catch and release what?)
15. Catch and serve with lemon.
16. Spend more than two hours of a single day in a hammock.
To replace 4.
I will go watch a Twins game this summer, and drink a beer during the game. haha
To replace 5.
Go to Culvers and eat their biggest, tastiest butter burger. And go to White Castle at 3 in the morning.
Others on the to-do list for the Summer:
1. Watch my second Rob Thomas concert, and Jewel.
2. Go play outside in the rain during a storm.
3. Reread Ishmael.
4. Travel out of the country.
5. Read the Bible, in part if not the whole.
6. Be honestly free of drama and emotional burden.
7. At the end of the Summer, be able to honestly say, " This was a Summer not wasted and it was the best Summer of my life." |