38 things to do while 38

Upon turning 38 I decided I would set out to do 38 things I had either never done before or had not done in a very long time. This little exercise is intended to both challenge myself to step out of my comfort zone a bit and to actually do some things I have always wanted to do but havent got around to yet. In no particular order here are the 38 things I want to do while I am 38 years old:

1. Summit Mt. Hood

2. Try eating grasshoppers

3. Read 12 books

4. Go skinny dipping

5. Run a marathon

6. Meditate twice a week

7. See Crater Lake

8. Get 4 bers and 3 friends and ride one of those silly 4 person bikes
   on the waterfront.

9. Average 8 hours of sleep per night

10. Do 100 pushups in 5 min

11. Have sex in a public bathroom

12. Visit Barcelona

13. Learn Spanish

14. Eat nothing but homemade food for 7 days straight

15. Go to the Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, OR

16. Run 500 miles

17. Have 52 zero dollar days

18. Get promoted (or get a new job)

19. Kayak 250 miles

20. Go to a nude beach

21. See a Broadway musical that I have never seen before

22. Get season tickets for the Portland Timbers

23. Kayak from John's Landing to St. John's

24. Write 10 poems

25. Go to the horse races

26. Do shrooms

27. Visit St. Louis

28. Try Windsurfing in Hood River

29. Take a river tour on the Portland Spirit

30. See Pearl Jam in concert

31. Learn to brew beer

32. Visit Coos Bay

33. Try cross-country skiing

34. Try 100 different beers

35. Visit a city that I have never even heard of

36. Do an unassisted handstand

37. Learn to surf

38. Get a tattoo