Bucket List

Broad Goals:
enable my children to achieve their dreams
enable my wife to acheive her dreams
enable my students to achieve their dreams
Specific Goals:
hike all of the trails in the Smokies
hike all of the Appalachian Trail in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
hike the length of the AT (all at once or in sections... I'm not too picky)
publish an article in a scholarly journal
publish a photograph in National Geographic Magazine
see the giant Redwoods (Summer 2010)
visit Denali (Summer 2010)
see Elk in the Cataloochee valley
visit the Galapagos Islands or Madagascar (Nov-Dec. 2008)
write a novel
write a book of poetry
write a book of non-fiction
write a respectable sonnet
display my photography/graphic arts in an art show
see synchronous fireflies
run in a 5k April 2010
run a 5k sub 25:00 April 2011

run in a 10k May 2010
run the Cades Cove loop May 2010
run in half-marathon Feb. 2011
run in marathon April 2011
compete in a triathlon
Ironman?
run over a moving car :) (Stationary car--May 2011... still training and looking for just the right Civic hatchback for the moving version)
place in the top 3 in my age group in a race
paddle the Little Tennessee system from top down
teach humanities at Maryville High School (if only for one project)
have a beer in Vestal with Cormac McCarthy
retrace the narrative of A Death in the Family from Lafollette to Market Square and Laurel Avenue
work for the National Park Service in some way
volunteer to build a trail or do trail maintenance
walk on or really close to a glacier Summer 2010
Take a road trip of epic proportions Summer 2010
to be continued...