Bucket List

I’ve decided to write my own Bucket List after I’ve seen the movie for the second time yesterday. I’ve listed things I’ve done and things I still want to do.

To do:

- To write a book, write and direct a movie or film.

- To start a successful business that combines my love of family along with my love a travel, so we can have fun and work at the same time.

- Drive to Alaska from the West Coast, (also drive trough Rt 66).

- Take my son to a closed circuit racing driving course.

- Climb Mount Everest or K2.

- Rent a really fast car and drive on the Autobhann, or purchase a European drive program.

- Eat at Per Se with the whole family and meet Peter Keller himself.

- Scuba dive, see corals, and sharks underwater.

- Skydive.

- Tan in the beaches of Fiji Island, Palawan (Amanpulo), Phuket.

- Visit several countries south of the equator, as well as the Venice, Santorini, the Vatican, Bethlehem, Petra, and the Pyramids of Giza.

Done:

-  Rode the Chunnel Train/Eurostar from London to Paris and back, and rode the Bullet trains/Shinkansen of Japan

-  Took my 3 daughters to the Eiffel Tower and told them the reason I took them there is so that the 1st man to take them to Paris will love them forever.

-  Drove a closed circuit racing driving course with my 2 girls in the back!

- Drove from Miami to Maine, San Diego to Vancouver, West to East coast 2x’s south US through Texas and Central US through South Dakota .

- Surprised my wife to Paris like the Mastercard commercial, and took her to the Eiffel Tower and told her the 1st man to take her there will love her forever.

- Climbed Fushimi Inari Shrine, Bubble Rock and Cadillac Mountain.

- Ate at 21 Club, Petrossian, New York Grill a la ‘Lost in Translation’ at the Park Hyatt Tokyo, Kobe beef in Kobe, Hokkaido Crabs in Hokkaido Nijo FIsh market, Alice in Wonderland (Japan), Lockup (Japan), Kobe (Kobe), La Duree (Paris), La Maison du Chocolat, Chez Andres, Hotel Trianon, Sensi (Las Vegas), Paris Paris Buffet, Minado (NY-NJ), The Ninja, Mars 2112, Rainforest Cafe, Stone Crabs, Lobster shack (Maine), The Fairmont Hotel (Mont Tremblant), Antonio’s Garden (Tagaytay), Sonya’s Garden, etc.

- Skied down Mont Tremblant, Mt. Snow, Smuggler’s Notch, The Canyons, and Mt Alta.  Saw the Sapporo Ice Festival in Hokkaido.

- Touched baby sharks, Manta rays, dolphins, a blue starfish, a sea cucumber, corals, a tarsier, etc.

- Indoor skydiving – Pigeon Forge TN

- Tanned on the beaches of Destin, St. Augustine, Key West, Boracay, Chicago, Pier Village, Ocean City, Barcelo Pearl Farms, Bicol, Punta Fuego, Amarela Bohol, etc

- Visited Japan, US, Vietnam, Philippines, Iran, London, Athens, Amsterdam, Paris, etc.

-Snorkeled in a Marine Sanctuary in Bohol, surrounded by hundreds of different type of fish, with corals and starfish, and sea cucumbers underneath my feet.

Wisdom for Derlyne

“Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.”
Richard Bach

“What I do today is important because I am exchanging a day of my life for it.”
Author Unknown

“Do or do not, there is no try.”
Yoda

“Try to do unto others as you would have them do to you, and do not be discouraged if they fail sometimes. It is much better that they should fail than you should.”
Charles Dickens

“90% of what you worry about never happens, so why waste your time and energy on worrying.”
Catherine Pulsifer

“The most wasted of all days is one without laugher.”
e.e. cummings

“Cherish life’s simple pleasures.”
Author Unknown

“Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath.”
Author Unknown (My favorite)

“The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude…
I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it.”
Charles Swindoll

“I’d rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not done.”
Lucille Ball

“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.”
Thomas Jefferson

“Focused will is incredible. If you have a dream and you don’t give up no matter what obstacles come up, then life’s problems will fall away and you will get what you want. It happens. It works.”
Yanni

“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.”
Henry Ford

“Results! Why man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know of several thousand things that won’t work.”
Thomas Edison

“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.”
Albert Einstein

“You may not realize it when it happens,
but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.”
Walt Disney

“Nature gave man two ends, one to sit on, and one to think with. Ever since then man’s success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most.”

“Make yourself indispensable and you’ll be moved up. Act as if you’re indispensable and you’ll be moved out.”

“Recipe for success: Choose a career you love…Give it the best there is in you…Seize your opportunities…And be a member of the team.”

“The secret of success in life is for you to be ready for your opportunity when it comes.”

“Success comes in cans, not can’ts.”

“You can’t spell success without U.”

“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.”

“Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.”

“Self-trust is the first secret of success.”

“Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”

“We can succeed at almost anything for which we have unlimited enthusiasm.”

“Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re absolutely right.”

“Success comes before work only in the dictionary.”

“Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.”

“My success is measured by my willingness to keep trying.”

“There is only one success, to be able to spend your life in your own way.”

Something to remember me by.

Here is an attempt to leave a legacy, perchance a means of sharing my world.