My Bucket List

I decided to compile a new list of things I'd like to do in my lifetime. I haven't really considered a "bucket list" in a while. I have also listed some things that were previously on the list, but now completed.

Climb Mt. Everest: this will be doable as soon as I have $60,000 to do it.
...or Visit Napal and at least see Everest from a distance
Go to Hawaii: complete
See the northern lights
Complete and Ironman
Run a marathon: complete
Have a role in a major Hollywood film
Learn to do the windmill( a breakdance move)
See the Great Wall of China
Paddle the Yangtze River
Dunk a basketball
Run with the bulls
Run the Grand Canyon rim to rim to rim
Sit in the Devils Pool at Victoria Falls
Go to: Alaska, Korea, New Zealand, Ireland,
Run 100 miles in a single day: complete
Skydive
See the Great Pyramids
See Niagara Falls: complete
Storm Chase/see an F5 tornado
Feel an earthquake: complete (believe it or not in Richmond, VA 12/04)
Own a black Harley Davidson Nightster
Highpoint every state with summits over a mile high: 5 so far (CO, HI, TN, NC, VA)

Part 1: The Fall

In the beginning a garden, a betrayal naive
In the beginning, one choice, so easily deceived.
A love story so perfect, but we chose to hide
No longer our eternity, haunting whispering lies.

We fall through history and time, we make our mark
We keep falling forever, deeper into the dark.
A great flood, the great plagues, world wars one and two
A civil war took thousands, a global war 6 million Jews.
Made equal by God, but enslaved, bound by our hands
If your skin is dark, you're only three fifths on a man

Persecution, control, man's lust for power.
A doomsday clock, in the eleventh hour.
Oppenheimer, and armies, a mighty weapon of fear.
Hiroshima, Nagasaki in ashes, creation disappears.
The atomic age yields to another, a hydrogen beast
Tsar Bomba quakes the heavens, a 50 kiloton feast.
Falling forever again, what is it worth?
When choas rules, how can the meek inherit this earth?

Cambodia, Vietnam, Kmer Rouge, the scene at Tiananmen Square
Another trail of tears, napalm scorches the air.
Generations of man, one after the other
Keep falling forever, waiting to discover
Why can't our hearts change, why can't we believe
Oklahoma City in terror, quiet Waco under seige.
So many chances to turn it back, to simply be found
April 20,1999. 14 taken in a small Colorado town.

Madrid's 191, 56 in a London rush hour blast,
American 11, 77, United 93 happened so fast
We are the villain's of the story, where are the heroes?
2,752 more when the mighty twins fell, this is ground zero.
These are the headlines, the news flashes of our time
Darfur, Virginia Tech, Rwanda genocide

The world says it's ok, we're doing fine
Then why do we fall, time after time?
They say we don't need a savior, there's nothing to save
Then why are billions on bended knee every single day?
We fall forever and ever with this empty cup,
We must fall....so we can be lifted up.

...part II coming