50 Uncommon Things I have Done in My Life:
1. Been on a hijacked airplane.
2. Stared down a wild bear about 5 feet away from me.
3. Been in three major deadly earthquakes.
4. Been chased by three tornados at the same time.
5. Been chased by three different lightning bolts within 5 minutes.
6. Dug up and reburied a human body.
7. Met a US President, the world’s richest man, and Walt Disney.
8. Climbed to the top of Huayna Picchu above Machu Picchu in Peru.
9. Climbed to the top of the pyramids of the sun and the moon at Teotihuacan in Mexico.
10. Seen Michelangelo’s David up close and, ah, personal. And a bunch more Michelangelo works.
11. Had dinner across the street from the church where Michelangelo practiced human dissection.
12. Been thrown in a South American jail.
13. And escaped from same.
14. Played at Carnegie hall – figure that one out.
15. Stood in 4 states at the same time.
16. Stood in the eastern and western hemisphere at the same time.
17. Crossed the equator man times.
18. Been skinny-dipping in the Pacific ocean. We will just leave that one alone.
19. Been on the field and in the locker room of the Rose Bowl during a football game.
20. Made nitroglycerin.
21. Been on ground zero at the World Trade Center
22. Walked DOWN the 687 steps in the Washington Monument.
23. Crossed the Rio de la Plata From Argentina to Uruguay.
24. Stalled an RV on a ferry and couldn’t get it started – kept all cars waiting for 20 minutes until they could get a tow truck down the ramp.
25. Worked as a chef in a restaurant on Hollywood Blvd in Hollywood, California.
26. Seen Howard Hughes’ Spruce Goose before it went on public display
27. Kept a boat about 50 feet away from where PT 73 from the TV show McHale’s Navy was kept.
28. Fired a machine gun.
29. Flown (piloted) an airplane (I was in it, it was not on the end of a string).
30. Been nearly blown out of the water whilst trying to see the battleship New Jersey from the sea. (They were giving public tours from the dock inside the ship. We figured it was OK.)
31. Been quoted and pictured on the front page of a newspaper.
32. Kissed my wife under the Eiffel Tower.
33. Been a TV cameraman with my work on the air.
34. Held a real Oscar statuette.
35. Been an actor in 19 plays.
36. Have a full scale guillotine in my back yard that I built myself.
37. Sat in the US House of Representatives and Senate Chambers in Washington DC.
38. Seen the Space Shuttle land and take off on the back of its 747 whilst being transported from Edwards Air Force base in California. (Awesome).
39. Seen numerous missiles from Vandenberg Air Force base in California deliberately blown up in flight to prevent the errant missiles from landing on a populated area (Also awesome).
40. Touched a piece of the moon.
41. Saved a friend from drowning (After I convinced him he could dive into 15 feet of water).
42. Directed an archeological dig.
43. Know what the phrase “raising the level of the Thames” means.
44. Seen a ballet performance in the old Paris Opera House (Cinderella)
45. Saw Les Mis from the center seat in the 4th row two weeks before it closed on Broadway
46. Watched the filming of an episode of the original Starskey and Hutch TV series.
47. Been to 49 of the 50 US States (missing Hawaii).
48. Been inside Hoover Dam on Lake Mead.
49. Seen the Rosetta Stone
50. Watched Sandy Koufax pitch a no-hitter baseball game in Dodger Stadium.
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8 comments:
You are an amazing amazing man. :) Keep posting stuff like this- I love finding out those little things about you. :)
See - I knew most of that stuff would be new for y'all. It is amazing that remembered all that stuff.
very impressive. i dont know that i dare ask about some of them. definitelt a lot of things no one has ever done!!!
Well I am glad to see that you are so adventures. I would like to join in on some of those adventures with you. I would love to kiss my spouse under the Eiffel Tower. And I would be happy to help you tour Hawaii :).
You have done quite a few things. And I haven't even heard you talk about half of them. It's no wonder you are so smart. Well done Father.
that is absolutely amazing!
and i'm dutifully impressed that i recognized the amazingness of most of those places!
you are still young! i bet you can add another 50!
I don't remember all of these stories--and after 32 years that is rather surprising. I do know most of them, though. And I am glad I was there to experience the things that occured in France. :)
To MMC's last comment - particularly the part about kissing my wife under the Eiffel Tower.
Add to the list after my last trip:
51 Went to the EAA Flight Museum in Oshkosh WI with Christopher. Awesome! Particularly the combat flight simulator.
52. Walked across the Brooklyn Bridge with Nate and Ashley. The pedestrian walkway is wooden slats and is above the vehicle trafic. Nate said in some places you can look down through the slats and see the East River. I told him I would not be looking down, thankyou very much.
53. Attended a friend's Chinese wedding in New York. They served a 13-course meal that included, among many other very tasty things, shark fin soup and jellyfish.
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