Mr. Armstrong's Bucket List by Andrew Armstrong https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things #TheBuriedLife en-us 2018-10-09 00:19:01 UTC 2023-11-13 14:25:03 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Optimplaces.png Cross the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. armstrongCHS https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290521656 Ride a trolley car and tour Alcatraz Island too.]]> 2018-10-09 00:22:00 UTC https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290521656 Spend a summer vacation working at a movie theater. armstrongCHS https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290521845 Preferably the Alamo Drafthouse or the Moxie in Springfield.]]> 2018-10-09 00:23:12 UTC https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290521845 Attend the opening ceremonies of the Summer Olympics in 2028. armstrongCHS https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290522081 Decked out in super patriotic red, white, and blue clothing.]]> 2018-10-09 00:25:10 UTC https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290522081 Go to Cairo, Egypt. armstrongCHS https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290522312 See the Pyramid and the Sphinx. ]]> 2018-10-09 00:27:05 UTC https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290522312 Work at a bookstore or coffee shop after I retire. armstrongCHS https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290522433 Hopefully in London. Some old British lady will call me "Andy the American."]]> 2018-10-09 00:28:00 UTC https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290522433 See To Kill a Mockingbird performed live on stage in Monroeville, Alabama. armstrongCHS https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290522548 Sit in the balcony of the courthouse during the second act.]]> 2018-10-09 00:28:58 UTC https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290522548 Own a really expensive and enormous telescope. armstrongCHS https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290522643 Stargaze all summer long. I've never seen a meteor shower.]]> 2018-10-09 00:29:52 UTC https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290522643 Finish writing a book. armstrongCHS https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290522832 I don't care if it's published or if anyone ever reads it. I just want to actually do it!]]> 2018-10-09 00:31:13 UTC https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290522832 Fly to Reykjavik, Iceland and see the Northern Lights. armstrongCHS https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290522971 Also known as the Aurora Borealis. I will most definitely be freezing my butt off.]]> 2018-10-09 00:32:05 UTC https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290522971 Walk along the beach in Pensacola, Florida. armstrongCHS https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290524296 Recreate the ending of one of my favorite movies, Contact. #SmallMoves]]> 2018-10-09 00:39:39 UTC https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290524296 Pay my respects at the United 93 Memorial. armstrongCHS https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290524706 The fourth plane on 9/11 that crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.]]> 2018-10-09 00:42:27 UTC https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290524706 Take a tour through the ancient ruins of Latin America. armstrongCHS https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290524852 Climb the Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacan, outside of Mexico City, see giant Olmec heads, and explore Chitchen Itza. ]]> 2018-10-09 00:43:22 UTC https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290524852 Ride in a rainbow-colored hot air balloon. armstrongCHS https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290525216 Use the word "plummeting" just like Fozzie Bear does at the beginning of The Great Muppet Caper.]]> 2018-10-09 00:45:40 UTC https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290525216 Ride a segway. armstrongCHS https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290526378 Without a helmet. I like to live...dangerously. #rebel]]> 2018-10-09 00:53:04 UTC https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290526378 Attend a murder mystery dinner. armstrongCHS https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290526693 Just like Clue. Find out whodunnit. ]]> 2018-10-09 00:54:43 UTC https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290526693 Go to a chiropractor. armstrongCHS https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290526841 Get a spinal adjust and/or alignment. Probably scream in pain.]]> 2018-10-09 00:55:30 UTC https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290526841 Ride a horse. armstrongCHS https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290527096 For the very first time. Preferably a white stallion. Watch the end of Napoleon Dynamite to understand why.]]> 2018-10-09 00:57:00 UTC https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290527096 Milk a cow. armstrongCHS https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290527240 I'm from the Ozarks and I've never done this. Seriously. #moo]]> 2018-10-09 00:57:57 UTC https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290527240 Take an Amtrak train vacation along the California coast. armstrongCHS https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290527393 Stop along the way in San Diego, Los Angeles, Hollywood, and San Francisco. End up in Seattle, drink Starbucks, fly home.]]> 2018-10-09 00:58:56 UTC https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290527393 Own a tiny house. armstrongCHS https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290527543 With a huge wraparound porch covered in Christmas lights. Build a big fire pit for making delicious Reese's s'mores.]]> 2018-10-09 01:00:00 UTC https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290527543 Teach in an international school overseas. armstrongCHS https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290527720 For at least a year. I think I want to go somewhere new and challenging.]]> 2018-10-09 01:01:21 UTC https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290527720 Visit all 50 states before I turn 50. armstrongCHS https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290527934 I have to do something meaningful in each one. Just stepping foot there doesn't count!]]> 2018-10-09 01:02:38 UTC https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290527934 Go to Jerusalem and the Holy Land in the Middle East. armstrongCHS https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290528125 When I'm old enough to not care if I get kidnapped by terrorists.]]> 2018-10-09 01:03:52 UTC https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290528125 Go out on the Maid of the Mist boat tour into the heart of Niagara Falls armstrongCHS https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290528346 Get soaking wet even though I'm wearing a poncho. See the falls from the top of the Canada side.]]> 2018-10-09 01:05:04 UTC https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290528346 Attend the Montreal International Fireworks Festival in Quebec during the summer. armstrongCHS https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290528520 Approximately 6,000 fireworks are shot within 30 minutes.]]> 2018-10-09 01:06:07 UTC https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290528520 Finally get 100% debt free by paying off my credit card and car loan. armstrongCHS https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290528849 At least my student loans are gone! #HardPartIsOver]]> 2018-10-09 01:07:55 UTC https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290528849 Spend the week of vacation between Christmas and New Year's Day in New York City. armstrongCHS https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290529061 Take in the sites before watching the ball drop in Times Square.]]> 2018-10-09 01:08:59 UTC https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290529061 Watch a Hawaiian sunrise and sunset on the same day in Waikiki, Oahu. armstrongCHS https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290529277 Skype with Mrs. Maberry from the Big Island. (Unless she's living there!)]]> 2018-10-09 01:10:16 UTC https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290529277 Eat a 100% authentic Maine lobster roll. armstrongCHS https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290529628 With the buttered split-top bun and that juicy, succulent, freshly caught sea bug meat. Yummy.]]> 2018-10-09 01:11:31 UTC https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290529628 Have a drink at the Green Dragon Tavern in Hobbiton. armstrongCHS https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290529816 The Lord of the Rings set in Matamata, New Zealand is now a tourist attraction.]]> 2018-10-09 01:12:46 UTC https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290529816 Return to the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, Spain once it's finished. armstrongCHS https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290529949 Supposed to be done by 2026. I'm going again this summer so I will be able to see the progress they've made in the past nine years.]]> 2018-10-09 01:13:36 UTC https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290529949 Learn every single word of Blackalicious' "Alphabet Aerobics" rap. armstrongCHS https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290530251 Perform it on stage. Have many people avoid eye contact with me forever after.]]> 2018-10-09 01:15:20 UTC https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290530251 Explore the Scottish Highlands. armstrongCHS https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290530451 Especially Glen Coe and Ben Nevis. See Loch Ness and Armstrong Castle.]]> 2018-10-09 01:16:34 UTC https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290530451 Be on the jumbotron. armstrongCHS https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290530614 Will I be doing something humiliating? Just wait and see.]]> 2018-10-09 01:17:38 UTC https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290530614 Drive the east coast. armstrongCHS https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290530777 Start in Charleston and move south with stops in Boston, Baltimore, Gettysburg, Philadelphia, Hershey (CHOCOLATE!), Williamsburg, and Savannah.]]> 2018-10-09 01:18:31 UTC https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290530777 Audition for something. armstrongCHS https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290531023 I don't care if I get it. I just want to be able to say I tried at least one time.]]> 2018-10-09 01:20:03 UTC https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290531023 Spend the extra money and fly first class. armstrongCHS https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290531124 I want to sit in those big comfy recliners with the personal screens and not be crammed in next to old people and weird babies. Just once.]]> 2018-10-09 01:20:47 UTC https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290531124 See Coldplay in concert. armstrongCHS https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290531627 Sing along with Chris Martin when he sings "Fix You."]]> 2018-10-09 01:23:58 UTC https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290531627 Go to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter. armstrongCHS https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290531782 Have butterbeer: hot, frozen, iced, and ice cream versions.  Get a wand at Ollivander's. ]]> 2018-10-09 01:24:40 UTC https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290531782 Arrange to have a natural funeral. armstrongCHS https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290532032 I want my body to decompose and become a tree. I hate graves and headstones, and cremation kind of creeps me out.]]> 2018-10-09 01:25:47 UTC https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/290532032 Find buried treasure. armstrongCHS https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/295902868 X Marks the Spot! It doesn't have to be pirate gold or anything, just something cool that I can keep forever.]]> 2018-10-23 12:48:09 UTC https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/295902868 Waste a ton of money to put together the $800 Lego Millennium Falcon. armstrongCHS https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/298503610 7,541 pieces.  The odds of me losing or accidentally swallowing one...are high. But what would I do with it once it was done?]]> 2018-10-30 13:57:36 UTC https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/298503610 Float in the Dead Sea. armstrongCHS https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/298506410 Because of natural buoyancy from the high amount of salt in the water, EVEN I can float in the water on the surface. #Miracle]]> 2018-10-30 14:01:43 UTC https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/298506410 Conquer the Wendigo. armstrongCHS https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/298508728 Make and eat a wendigo sandwich: pickles, peanut butter, mayo, and bacon.

Soooooooo gross.  But I must.

For science.]]> 2018-10-30 14:04:43 UTC https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/298508728 Hug a 3,000 year old giant Sequoia in Yosemite National Park. armstrongCHS https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/298510327 I've always wanted to go camping in Yosemite. I don't think I'm physically capable of climbing Half Dome, though.]]> 2018-10-30 14:07:03 UTC https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/298510327 Get hit with a paintball. armstrongCHS https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/298705775 Preferably not in the face. We always did laser tag when I was growing up and I couldn't afford any of the gear that some of my friends had.]]> 2018-10-30 19:00:09 UTC https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/298705775 Build something out of wood. armstrongCHS https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/298706611 Furniture, a shelf, birdhouse, doghouse, something. Use the tools in Grandpa's work shed. Actually, making a chess set would be the coolest option.]]> 2018-10-30 19:01:36 UTC https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/298706611 Do a fire walk. armstrongCHS https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/394459155 I've always wanted to put my feet through horrible pain, and this seems like the best way to do it. Mrs. Boyer thinks I'm crazy, but we'll see who's laughing when I come to school limping and heavily medicated from the blinders and calluses on my toesies. ]]> 2019-10-07 14:05:34 UTC https://padlet.com/armstrongCHS/43things/wish/394459155