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1 Change my own oil - using
the LIFT I just installed
in my own dedicated automotive workshop
2 Drive as
much of the original Route 66 as possible
3 Attend the Bondurant or Skip Barber school
4 Drive in the SCCA Solo National Championship
– Completed (Sept.
1997, Sept. 2005)
5 Drive the Autobahn in a Porsche
6 Build a kit car
7 Party on a yacht after a Formula 1 race at
Monaco
8 Watch a land speed record run at Bonneville
or Black Rock
9 Spend a day working in a professional race
shop – Completed (Dec. 2006)
10 Stand at the starting line when a Top Fuel Dragster
or Funny Car launches at an NHRA National event
11 Drive a lap of the old street course at Watkins
Glen
12 Drive a Ferrari
13 Drive a shifter cart
14 Walk the Concours at
Pebble Beach
15 Drive the Woodward Dream Cruise in a real muscle
car - Completed
(Aug. 2004), see link below
16 Sleep in a racetrack paddock and awaken to the
sound of engines revving at 7:00 am - Completed
17 Drive the Mulsanne
Straight just before or just after the 24 Hours of Le Mans – (almost made it June 2006)
18 Drive the original beach circuit at Daytona
19 Visit the National Corvette Museum - Completed (Oct. 2001, 2002)
20
Visit the Peterson Museum
21 Attend a SEMA show
22 Stand roadside at a European rally (car guy
equivalent of running with the bulls in Pamplona)
23 Eat fried squid and drink beer for breakfast before
a race at Laguna Seca
24 Coast to coast: Drive from the Atlantic to
the Pacific stopping only to change drivers – Completed (circa 1980)
25 Border to border: Drive from Canada to the Gulf of
Mexico without using any road that begins with "I-"
26 Walk the battlefields and honor the fallen warriors
at:
a. Gettysburg
b. Shiloh
c. Antietam
d. Little Big Horn
e. Wounded Knee
f. Normandy
27
Gaze in wonder at the Northern Lights
28 Walk on the Great Wall of China
29 Watch the wild horses run in the Great Divide Basin
30 Camp in Glacier National Park
31 Read one book each month for a year
32 Be a grandfather - Completed (March 11, 2004; Jan. 17, 2007)
33 Stay married to the same woman until I die - (working hard at it every day!)
34 Camp in Yosemite National Park – Completed (circa 1980)
35 Drink beer with the locals in a London pub – Completed (June, 2006)
36 Drink beer with the locals in a German beergarten
37 Take a balloon ride over the vineyards of
Bordeaux – Completed (June, 2006)
38 Sing "The Sound of Music" high on the
Swiss Alps
39 Eat local food sitting in a restaurant overlooking
the Greek coast of the Mediterranean
40 Feel the sun on my face as I cheer at a bull fight
in Spain
41 Fall in love all over again in Rome
42 Touch the Pyramids in Egypt
43 Build a sand castle on an Australian beach
44 Smell the ocean on a cruise to Alaska
45 Party at Carnival in Rio de Janeiro
46 Stand with one foot on each side of the equator
47 Hike at least 20 miles thru the Colorado wilderness
- Complete,
see Colorado link(s)
48 Dip my toes in the Pacific Ocean at Big Sur - Completed (July 2002)
49 Gaze out on the ocean and see the breaching of a
whale
50 Spend a weekend shopping, dining, and attending
theater in New York City
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