The List

DONE

• 1/1/13 - Polar Bear Challenge in Boise
• 1/2/13 - Boiling water in cold air experiment
• 1/8/13 - Found out Ellie's last chemo treatment date
• 1/23/13 - Watched Ellie play Ursula in performance
• 2/12/13 - Competed in Gumbo Cook-off on TV
• 3/13/13 - Took my sister zip-lining
• 4/9/13 - Went to Zappos University
• 4/10/13 - Got my picture taken with Elvis (at least he said he was Elvis)
• 4/27/13 - Ran 10-miles for first time in my life
• 5/4/13 - Took Ellie to the MSTI Prom
• 5/6/13 - Visited President Lincoln's grave
• 5/12/13 - Canoed to Shoshone Falls with Walter - 1st time
• 5/19/13 - Ran 13.1 miles for the first time
• 6/8/13 - Emceed a cancer fundraiser with Ellie
• 8/16/13 - Covered the Ketchum wildfire
• 9/7/13 - Did a 3-person triathlon by myself
• 9/14/13 - Completed the Rim 2 Rim with Kaleigh
• 10/1/13 - Drove the limo carrying Ellie to last Chemo treatment
• 10/24/13 - Ellie's Kicked Cancer Party. Dressed as Dorothy
• 10/25/13 - Won my flight President's Cup BLCC
• 10/1/13 - Twin Falls Sales Team delivered the annual budget
• 11/28/13 - Began Black Friday tradition with Ellie
• 12/3/13 - Took Walter to Megadeath Concert
• 1/11/14 – Took Walter to KISS Tribute Concert
• 1/26/14 – First time to visit Miami
• 1/27/14 – First time to eat Cuban food
• 1/28/14 – Ran 8-miles with Raven on South Beach
• 3/9/14 – First Father Daughter Ball with Ellie at BLCC
• 4/5/14 – Paddled to Shoshone Falls with Walter - 2nd time
• 4/27/14 – Took Joy to an 80’s party. She looked incredible
• 5/8/14 – Bought my first drone
• 5/13/14 – Took Ellie to New York City
• 5/14/14 – Took Ellie to First Broadway Show
• 6/3/14 – Painted my toes for first time
• 6/19/14 – Made honorary firefighter in Hailey (still dial 911 if you have a fire and I am there)
• 6/23/14 – Did the famous Cat Picture with Artemis
• 7/22/14 – Climbed Idaho’s tallest mountain, Borah, with Jason
• 8/9/14 – Competed in a cardboard boat race
• 8/15/14 - Competed in a rib eating contest
• 8/22/14 – Dressed as an indian at a dude ranch
• 8/23/14 – Completed the Hotter N Hell Hundred
• 9/5/14 – Completed another 3-person triathlon by myself
• 10/7/14 – Signed up for my first marathon
• 11/2/14 – Ran 20-miles
• 11/16/14 – Completed the Las Vegas Marathon
• 12/13/14 – First time to Nordic Ski
• 12/14/14 – Performed in my first ballet, Nut Cracker, Sun Valley
• 12/22/14 – First time to have a wreck with a cop car
• 12/23/14 – Reenacted Napoleon Dynamite with Joy & Ellie in Preston, ID
• 1/2/15 – Started using a stand-up desk
• 1/18/15 – Completed SCUBA Certification
• 2/6/15 – Got my KLR-650 Dual-Sport Motorcycle
• 2/7/15 – Completed my first Nordic ski race (despite the avalanche warning)
• 2/14/15 – Ran a 5K with Ellie and Joy
• 2/28/15 – Finally got my motorcycle license
• 3/14/15 – Walked in a parade wearing a kilt
• 3/21/15 – Visited the Farnsworth TV Museum in Rigby, ID
• 4/5/15 – Made my first Jello mold
• 4/11/15 – Slept in the Red Rock Desert
• 4/12/15 – Ran a half-marathon in Vegas
• 4/26/15 – Visited World’s Largest Rocking Chair
• 5/3/15 – Took my first real ADV motorcycle trip
• 5/5/15 – Took Ellie to Vegas
• 5/7/15 – Watched Jason graduate Marine boot camp
• 5/21/15 – Received Philanthropist of the Year Award St. Luke’s
• 6/6/15 – Completed Bruneau Beast Half Marathon, Bruneau Sand Dunes (walked 18-holes of golf later that day in a tournament)
• 6/18/15 – Floated the Middle-Fork of the Salmon River, 5-days
• 7/1/15 – Had to quit a job I loved
• 7/4/15 – Went to a Burmese Water Festival
• 7/9/15 – Picked Raspberries with Ellie & Joy
• 7/10/15 – Videotaped my first tornado
• 7/22/15 – Ran 34-miles for my birthday
• 8/13/15 – Visited the grave of Billy the Kid
• 8/14/15 – Visited home of Dr. Pepper in Dublin, TX
• 8/22/15 – First time at Dixie Chicken in College Station
• 8/29/15 – Entered something in a fair for the first time
• 9/2/15 – Won first place for bread in the fair
• 9/13/15 – Repaired a piece of furniture, correctly
• 9/19/15 – Participated in a real protest, Austin, Vulcan Lives Matter
• 9/25/15 – Met Robbie Knieval
• 9/26/16 – Entered first car show with Ellie
• 9/29/15 – Rode Santa Monica Pier Ferris Wheel
• 10/15/15 – Met Yo-Yo Ma with Ellie
• 10/17/15 – Rode Segway for first time with Ellie, Austin
• 11/1/15 – Learned to play guitar and played first song with Walter
• 12/13/15 – Went to an official Bigfoot sitting spot
• 12/28/15 – Began a challenge to run 1,000 miles in a year
• 1/16/16 – Painted my first real picture
• 1/5/16 – Toured the Blue Bell Factory
• 1/7/16 – Rode in a helicopter for the first time
• 1/7/16 – Shot a machine gun for the first time
• 1/10/16 – Climbed Enchanted Rock
• 1/30/16 – Took my first cooking class
• 2/4/16 – Made my Will
• 2/6/16 – First visit to New Orleans for Mardis Gras
• 2/24/16 – Visited Washington DC for first time
• 3/7/16 – Completed walk from Montgomery to Selma
• 4/10/16 – Painted a picture of Joy’s car for her birthday
• 4/11/16 – Joined the NRA and ACLU (I figured one canceled out the other)
• 4/16/16 – Climbed Guadalupe Peak
• 4/17/16 – Saw 2 rock concerts on the same weekend
• 4/24/16 – Lived as a homeless person for 3-days
• 5/14/16 – Completed a Tough Mudder race
• 5/25/16 – Adopted a trail in Twin Falls
• 5/28/16 – Visited my parent’s grave for the first time
• 5/29/16 – Got a season pass to an amusement park
• 5/30/16 – Visited Magnolia Marketplace
• 6/4/16 – Played in an official Putt-Putt tournament. I won!
• 6/5/16 – Ate the hottest chicken wings in Texas
• 6/9/16 – Drove a General Lee replica car
• 6/9/16 – I got to pet a live 70-pound Bobcat
• 6/19/16 – Ran 81-miles in a week
• 6/26/16 – Finished 1,000 mile running challenge
• 7/22/16 – Skydive for the first time on birthday
• 7/30/16 – Sailed a boat for the first time
• 7/30/16 – Learned basic Beekeeping
• 8/27/16 – Finished another 100-mile bike race
• 8/28/16 – Ran a half-marathon the day after the 100-mile bike race
• 9/22/16 – Finished reading the Bible cover to cover
• 10/1/16 – Got a job delivering pizza at Dominos
• 10/6/16 – Took Ellie and family to Seattle
• 11/14/16 – Went to Austin City Limits concert
• 11/17/16 – Went to Africa
• 11/26/16 – Summited Mount Kilimanjaro
• 11/28/16 – Went on an African Safari
• 12/27/16 – Took final run of year. Ran 1,760-miles in 2016
• 1/1/17 - Started BMF Adventure Club Website; Grit, Courage, Confidence, Curiosity
• 1/3/17 - Made it a year without a political post on Facebook. Never again
• 1/15/17 - Experienced an LGBT event in Little Havana. Very interesting.
• 1/20/17 - Visited Duck Commander in Monroe, LA
• 2/19/17 - Played in my first disc golf tournament
• 3/4/17 - Slept in a Tipi & first international ADV ride, Big Bend
• 3/25/17 - Went to Snow's BBQ. Best BBQ in Texas
• 4/29/17 - Went skydiving with Tammy
• 5/3/17 - Gave first BMF speech to Waco Y.P.
• 5/16/17 - Went to the top of the Empire State Building
• 5/28/17 - Became a Bull Rider; for about 3-seconds
• 6/10/17 - Did a 500-foot rappel off of W Hotel in Austin with Ellie and Chava for Make A Wish. We raised over $7K!
• 7/22/17 - Went Paragliding with Ellie on my birthday
• 7/23/17 - Shot a Picture of the Milky Way Galaxy with Joy & Ellie. It was perfect
• 8-6-17 - Completed the Badass Texas Half-Marathon in Waco
• 8/14/17 - Went to Four Corners Monument with Ellie
• 8/19/17 - Took Ellie to her first Texas Rangers baseball game
• 8/27/17 - Completed the Hotter-N-Hell Triple Threat; MTB Race, 100-mile Bicycle Race, Half-Marathon
• 9/3/17 - Went cliff diving with Ellie at PK
• 10/1/17 - First Official Off-Road Motorcycle Rally
• 11/26/17 - Completed writing my first book
• 2/10/18 - Did the Cupid Run and ran a race in my underwear
• 3/20/18 - Official beginning of Flight School
• 3/31/18 - 100% free of debt
• 4/26/18 - Landed an airplane for the first time
• 5/19/18 - Floated a river on a tube with Ellie
• 6/23/18 - Went off of the BSR Slide Royal Flush with Jason
• 7/22/18 - Took Ellie and Hannah on an adventure. Climbed Half Dome in Yosemite
• 8/12/18 - Took a lesson from a new instructor and flew a new plane
• 9/7/18 - Met Mel Robbins
• 9/18/18 - Did my solo and became a Pilot
• 9/27/18 - Took Ellie on her 5-Year Last Chemo Anniversary trip to Colorado
• 9/28/18 - Climbed Colorado's tallest mountain with Ellie; Mt. Elbert 14,439 elev.
• 9/29/18 - Floated Glenwood Canyon with Ellie
• 9/30/18 - First time to Fly Fish with Ellie and rode Vail mountain coaster
• 10/13/18 - Was on a 17-mile training run when a tornado hit
• 11/7/18 - Went to Europe with Ellie; Greece
• 11/9/18 - Had my first adult drink with Ellie at Cafe Bistro 46 in Athens
• 11/11/18 - Ran "The Original Marathon" from Marathon to Athens, Greece.
• 12/15/18 - Taught Ellie how to "Sabre" a bottle of champagne
• 12/23/18 - Took Ellie on her first skydive
• 12/28/18 - Had my first wax job. eyebrows and ears only
• 12/31/18 - Went to the Idaho NYE Potato Drop. Thanks, Melissa
• 1/2/19 - Made my first online unassisted stock trade
• 2/24/19 - Became and Uber Driver. Made $8.15
• 3/26/19 - First cross-country piloting a plane
• 4/4/19 - My first grass landing. Wildcat Canyon 2,450' in 30-degree 20K crosswind
• 4/28/19 - Played golf at Willie Nelson’s golf course The Cut & Putt
• 5/4/19 - Ellie goes to her Senior Prom on the same day as her MSTI Prom 6 years earlier
• 5/8/19 - Applied for my Russian Visa
• 5/17/19 - Trained on Mount Rainier
• 5/29/19 - Ellie graduated from high school
• 6/14/19 - On 3-year anniv. of driving General Lee car, John Schneider visits our station
• 7/11/19 - Completed my 100th CycleBar Class in under 6-months
• 7/14/19 - Went to Russia. Mark Asia off the list. That's 4 of 7
• 7/21/19 - Summited Mt. Elbrus in Russia. Tallest peak in Europe
• 7/22/19 - Celebrated my 53rd birthday in Russia
• 8/4/19 - Rescued two people from an overturned car in the rain
• 8/24/19 - Rode the HHH 100 bike race in a new PR
• 8/30/19 - Was an Extra in the movie A Louisiana Christmas
• 10/20/19 - Attended Bigfoot Festival and met Bobo (Finding Bigfoot)
• 11/16/19 - Actually made it into the Lifetime Christmas Movie; A Louisianna Christmas
• 11/28/19 - Volunteered at Mission Waco on Thanksgiving
• 12/7/19 - I spent the day with Jason, Walter and Ellie on their birthday this year
• 1/16/20 - Completed a blacksmithing school with Jason that Joy got me for Christmas
• 1/24/20 - Had surgery to remove prostate. I'm now a cancer survivor