Bucket List

Before my life change #15 i made a list of things to do before i was wacked (1964 held great potental for this happening by people in sandals) I made out what is now called a bucket list. Something Jimmy Dyrante did in it's a Mad Mad Mad World --That would be he kicked the bucket.

Of the 75 things to do before i did that proverbial reflex. These are some thats left or what i can remember (some added, times change i'll never get to meet Malcom X and Annnette got old for example). And many things that were on the original list i have done, and added new ones.

This is my list WHATS yours
1. A HALO sky dive
2. Taj Mahal
3. Race on Bonneville Salt Flats
4. Have two wives who lived in the same house
5. Drive a Jet Powered dragster
6 Have supper with Jesus, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Arafat and Hemmingway in Jeruselum
7. See the Great Wall of China
8. See the LaBrea tar pits
9. Spend a week at Waldons pond
10. Own a totaly restored 353 Packard powered supercharged Golden Hawk
11. Spend at least two weeks in every State in the Union
12. Meet the Dali Lama
13. Drive from the U.S. border to and visit every country in Central and South America including the most southern tip of Colombia. Then back to pannama to ride the train to it' seastern coast and catch a boat back to the US.
14. Make love to a woman of every known ethnic race
15. See the changing of the gaurd at Buckingham palace
16. Find Monica (aka Jackie) Yokel and tell her i'm sorry
17. Spend a month in Cuba and smoke a cigar with Fidel Castro
18. See the Mona Lisa
19. Find Claudia Harshbarger and ask her if she ever forgot me.
20. Kill an Eagle and eat it's heart and brains to see if Indian lore was true
21 Meet Bette Midler
22. Play an electric guitar and sing with Kid Rock
23. Play a Saxaphone and a Violin
24. Have a hot dog lunch with Jack Welsh my treat
25. Crossing the nation from Salinas Ca. to Philadelphia in my Studebaker staying where ever and how long i wanted and working only when i needed gas to move on.
26. Writing the story of my life
27. Drive in the Indy 500

Siapan Holiday

I went on a sudden out the back jack holiday to Siapan this weekend. and the last thing i went to see was the top of this mountain. It took thirty minutes of driving on a rock and coral road that wound to the top. It is just under 1,600 feet high, but i cannot imagine the hell that the soldiers went through during the battle for it. The last hundred feet was by stairs and rocky pathway that just about ruined this old goat.

There is not a lot left of the historic battles, a few artillery peices, the last command post, and some bunkers. But many of the caves still exist, and you can see the pock marks from the ships guns as they tried to elimante as many as possable before the troops went ashore. Still 2,000 Americans died during that landing. And the worst was yet to come. I have been to Pelilu, Kwajalien, Roi Namur, and many more of these pacific battle grounds and many in Europe, the middle east and Asia. One can only admire the bravery that goes with that first step into harms way