Jordan’s Bucket List
This list began in 2010 while in Rwanda to motivate and ensure that I continue to LIVE. While this is not a comprehensive list of things I’ve done or have yet to do, it is a motivator to keep on living and pursuing life in abundance while here on earth.
*Bold = Accomplished
1. Visit every continent (6)
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, South America
2. Get a tattoo
3. Learn another language fluently
4. Go to a World Series game
2016 Game 1 Cubs vs. Indians in Cleveland (SRO)
5. Witness the birth of my own child
6. Read the Bible all the way through
7. Take a homeless person out to eat
8. Visit every baseball park (whatever parks are current)
Wrigley (Cubs), U.S. Cellular (Sox), Miller Park (Brewers), Great American Ballpark (Reds), Chase Field (Diamondbacks), Progressive Field (Indians), Fenway Park (Red Sox), Citizen’s Bank Ballpark (Phillies), Yankee Stadium (Yankees), Target Field (Twins), AT&T Park (Giants), Dodger Stadium (Dodgers), Rogers Centre (Blue Jays)
9. Pay for somebody’s meal in a drive through
10. Grow hair long enough to put into a pony tail, cornrows, or get dreadlocks, whichever comes first
Cornrows
11. Go skydiving
12. Witness an Olympic event
13. Witness a solar eclipse
August 21, 2017 in Nashville, TN
14. View a lunar eclipse
At Indiana Wesleyan University in 2015
15. Step foot in at least 150 countries (32)
Listed Alphabetically
Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, France, Germany, Honduras, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Rwanda, Singapore, South Africa, Switzerland, Tanzania, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City, Zambia, Zimbabwe
16. Spend at least one week in 50 different countries (18)
Listed Alphabetically
Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Italy, Kenya, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Rwanda, Singapore, Switzerland, Tanzania, United States
17. Climb Mt. Kilimanjaro
18. Visit the best waterfall on every continent (Minus Antarctica): Jim Jim Falls (Australia), Niagara Falls (North America), Iguazu Falls (South America), Plitvice Waterfalls (Europe), Thi Lo Su Waterfalls (Asia), Victoria Falls (Africa)
Niagara Falls - 2019
Victoria Falls - 2019
19. See the new 7 wonders of the world: Taj Mahal (India), Machu Picchu (Peru), Colosseum (Rome), Christ Redeemer (Brazil), The Great Wall (China), Chichén Itzá (Mexico), Petra (Jordan)
Chichén Itzá - 2017
Colosseum - 2019
20. Ride in a hot-air-balloon
21. Visit the Grand Canyon
Vegas Trip 2016
22. Visit Rainbow Mountain in Peru
23. See the Matterhorn in Switzerland
August 6, 2019
24. Storm chase a tornado
25. Fill up an entire passport
26. Bet $100 on a Game 7 of a professional sporting event and win (any round of playoffs)
27. Visit Angel Falls (Venezuela)
28. Go to the World Baseball Classic
29. Go to the Pyramids of Giza
30. Make a Youtube video that gets 10,000 hits
TU Silent Night 2012 video
31. Learn how to drive a car with stick shift
32. Own an exotic animal
Corn Snake
33. Visit the Jordan River
34. Bungee Jump
Bungeed over Victoria Falls - 2019
35. See the Northern Lights (aurora borealis)
36. Catch a fish weighing 10 or more lbs.
Mutton Snapper in Mexico
37. Crash a wedding
38. Sleep in a haunted hotel
39. Talk on the radio
40. Get tweeted or retweeted by someone famous
Tweeted at by Buster Olney: “@JCoff10 Agree with you. The stats show that… The teams that have gone ahead 2-0 in the best-of-7 series has won 59 of the 72 series.”
41. Ride the biggest roller coaster at Cedar Point
42. Pet a lion
43. Hold a monkey
44. Create fire!
45. Go to insane water-park BSR Cable Park in Waco, TX
46. Go on a cruise
47. Marry the girl of my dreams and write my own vows
January 23, 2021 - Arches National Park
48. Hike to these waterfalls: Lower Yellowstone Falls (WY), Havasu Falls (AZ), Yosemite Falls (CA), Bridal Veil Falls (CA), Vernal Falls (CA), Nevada Falls (CA), Taughannock Falls (NY), Multnomah Falls (OR), Latourell Falls (OR), Palouse Falls (WA), Fall Creek Falls (TN), Ruby Falls (TN), Mooney Falls (AZ), Feather Falls (CA), Waimoku Falls (HI)
Multnomah Falls - With mom and dad during Micah’s Super Regional (2018)
Yosemite Falls - California Road Trip 2019
Bridal Veil Falls - California Road Trip 2019
Vernal Falls - California Road Trip 2019
49. Visit the Glowworm Caves of the North Island, New Zealand
Waitomo Glowworm Caves - 2019
50. See a rugby match in New Zealand
51. See a Wimbledon match in England
52. See a Cricket match in Australia
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