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Start my own blog

Learn how to make my own candy

Eat sushi from a vending machine

Ride in a hot air balloon

Visit a nudist colony

Walk up an escalator going down

Run through sprinklers like I did when I was a kid

Swim in a pool on private property

Go to a masquerade ball

Skydive

Leave heads up pennies for the finding

Ride a mechanical bull

Try ice skating

Drink snake blood

Make a cake from scratch

Drink expensive liquor

Wear an amazing pair of kitten heels

Play laser tag

Play paintball

Go on a safari

Meet a porn star

Bust open a pinata

Learn to hula hoop again

Make a chair out of books

Go zorbing

Go on a ghost tour

Eat Spam Musubi and Spam Sushi, compare and see which is better

Ride on a donkey

Get that tattoo I've always wanted

Wear kanzashi in my hair

Ride a dragon

Learn to apply makeup like a Geisha

Try spearfishing

Get nude photographs taken of myself

Go parasailing

Get a passport, even if I don't ever get to use it

Wear a beret for a day

Get the marble out of a Ramune bottle

Spray a fire extinguisher

Go to Disney World

Ride an elephant

Come home with a "Daiso Haul"

Go go-kart racing

Get blue, purple, or pink streaks in my hair

Try Jello Shots

Take photos from regular objects point of view fridge, microwave, tv, mirror etc.

Make out in the car at a drive in movie theater

Learn to make tiramisu

Ride a gondola

Plant an herb garden

Take photos that convey dictonomy

Make my own mini top hat

Be in a parade

Find my way through a corn maze

Read an entire encyclopedia

Attend an opera

Make a photography compilation of a range of emotions

Go to the top level of the tallest building in any state

Jump in a big pile of fallen leaves

Video game portrait photography

Make potato skins from scratch

Catch fireflies

Grow my hair long

Scream at the top of my lungs

Jump off a waterfall and/or shower under a waterfall

Try at being a foster parent

Overcome a negative fear/addiction/habit

Learn a belly dance

Visit an observatory

Talk in an English accent while eating crumpets

Touch the top of a rock climbing wall

Try a martini

Make a Japanese Bento

Hold a tarantula

Live in an actual house not attached to any other peoples homes

Ride in a horse drawn carriage

Wear toe socks

Go ice blocking

Have a tea party

Eat ice cream outside while it's snowing

Witness a gay pride parade

Push all the buttons on an elevator

Go to a convention dressed up as something/someone

Order the grossest sounding thing on the menu and try my hardest to finish it

Try acupuncture

Eat something from a sidewalk vendor from downtown

Go Goofy Bowling

Play a movie drinking game

Eat food on a dinner train

Ride a boat through a bayou

Watch a silent film

Slide down a fire pole

Jump on a bed in a hotel room

Eat at a Chinese restaurant in a china town

Visit the largest mall in North America (West Edmonton Mall)

Go to an open house in a fancy neighborhood

Make creme brulee at home

Eat at a fast food joint dressed in formalwear

Watch the sunrise and sunset in the same day

Make a recipe box/book

Order the most expensive thing on a restaurant menu

Peel a banana with my feet

Have a pizza picnic at a park

Try different types of cheese

Ride in a dune buggy

Make homemade flan

Hollow out a book and hide something in it

Do a film noir self portrait photo shoot

Learn to make fondant

Ride a tandem bike

Have an out of the ordinary wedding

Buy cookies from girl or boy scouts

Go on a tunnel of love ride

Attempt to toss pizza dough

Run through a field of flowers

Go to the Yellow Pages and pick the third restaurant - eat the third entree and order the third dessert

Attend a costume party

Take a pie to the face

Participate in a fair contest

Hit someone in the face with a pie

Get away with wearing a wig in public

Journey through a hedge maze

Go to a Rocky Horror participating show event

Try caviar and see if it's any different from the fish eggs on sushi

Own a crystal ball

Own a wooden ouija board

Own a bamboo plant

See how long I can hold a note

Try something I am afraid to try

Go on a hayride

See a Christmas light tour

Kiss under mistletoe

Bake gingerbread men

Eat spaghetti with my fingers only

Send and receive a postcard from postcrossing

Pick my own berries from a berry farm

Pick my own fruit from a fruit farm

Make homemade lasagna from scratch

Do a karate move in a bamboo forest

Attend a hoedown

Bob for apples

Memorize a map of Oregon so that I know how close or far a place is without having to ask

See a ghost town

Get pet fish

Ride a camel

Buy something just to break it

Do the Amelie thing with a garden gnome

Eat dinner for breakfast

Eat breakfast for dinner

Get completely drenched by the rain

Get pictures taken in a photo booth with someone I love

Have pet ants (in an ant farm)

Attempt gardening

Go camping and actually enjoy it

Order food from room service in a hotel

Make pancakes in the shape of mickey mouse

Extract my own DNA

Experience the cliche beach experience (complete with sun hat, umbrella, book, sunscreen etc.)

Flatten a coin on a train track

Let someone else have the chance I missed

Find the perfect little black dress

Make homemade microwave s'mores

Make s'mores while out camping

Go for drinks at one place, appetizers in another, main course at another, dessert, then drinks again in another.

Make baklava at home

Read by the fire

Grow a clover lawn

Meet a monk

Celebrate my half birthday by making and/or eating half a cake (May 20th)

Learn to contact juggle

Make Spring rolls at home

Donate blood

Visit a castle

Bake a pie from scratch


Eat/Try to eat:

mochi icecream

Nattō

Durian

Century Egg

steak tartare

Baba ghanoush

Epoisses

black pudding

Foie gras

Goat

head cheese

Clotted cream

Haggis

absinthe

Roadkill

Snake

Crocodile/Alligator

Deep fried twinkie

Frito Pie

Fried coke (soda)

Deep fried candy bar

Turducken

Green eggs and ham

Roasted Chestnuts from an open fire

Fondue

Soufflé


Be a tourist in my own city & view all of the roadside attractions that are interesting to me: (Some of these may not get done since some of them sometimes close down before I ever get a chance to go to them)

Harvey the Giant Rabit

Large Homemade Dog Statue

Giant Indian Head

A&W Root beer family

Saturday Market

"Rebecca At The Well" (a.k.a. Shemanski Fountain)

Portland Art Museum

Powell's Book Store

Tom McCall Waterfront Park

"The Quest" Statue (a.k.a. Three Groins in the Fountain)

"Allow Me" Statue (a.k.a. Umbrella Man)

Pod Mother and Child - The grotto

Replica of Michaleangelos pieta

Omsi Museum

Wrong Value of Pi

Portland Children's Museum

Zoobomb Bikers Monument

Second largest hammered copper statue

Portland Police Museum

Space Room Bar

Worlds smallest park

24 hour chuch of elvis

Lan Su Chinese Garden

Stark's vacuum museum

Talking transparent woman

Kidds toy museum

Rimskeys korsacoffee house

The hat museum

Museum of velvet paintings

Giant in a gym

Yaquina Bay Lighthouse

Volcano within city limits

Strip club shaped like a jug

Retail birthplace of Uhaul

Adidas big shoes

Paul bunyan statue

Grave of bobbie the wonder dog

1939 signal tower gas station

Worlds largest continual chocolate waterfall

World's tallest barbershop pole

Roloff farms from Little people big world

Peace candle of the world

WW2 Bomber gas station

Statue of liberty replica

McLoughlin House

End of the Oregon Trail

Restored flying A gas station

Oregon City Municipal Elevator

Spinning globe 65th meridian monument

Oregon's centennial candle

Town of boring

Bathroom memorial

Safari club restaurant (animals attack!)

Vista house the western statue of liberty

Hart's reptile world

Junk mess at Jans Katch all

Mt. Angel Abbey

The Glockenspiel

Worlds largest pig hairball (abbey museum)

Statue and mural of bobbie the wonderdog

Park with one tree

Enchanted forest

10 Waterfalls (can walk behind one)

Evergreen aviation and spruce museum - spruce goose

Alf's ice cream, bugers, and a monkey!

Erratic rock park

Mikey's Muffler Sculptures

The Living Rock Museum

Short Bridge - Fake Ghost town

Shipwreck of the Peter Iredale

Military Batteries - Truck Tours

Astor Column

Lewis and Clark Salt Works

World's largest Sitka spruce stump

Air Museum - worlds largest wooden structure

The D river, shortest river in the world

Paranormal activity

Oregon Coast Aquarium

Ripley’s Believe It or Not! in Newport, OR

The Wax Works Museum

Worlds smallest Harbor

Devils punchbowl

Giant Orca - killer whale statue

Mona Lisa on hillside

Whale's tail and blowhole

Sea Lion Caves

Carnivourous Plants

Pirhana Sculpture

Charlie the tuna statue

Prehistoric Gardens

Muffler Man

Sheriff Johns Classic car and doll museum

Japanese bombed here too

Shoe Tree (any shoe tree)

Good Riddance Rajneesh Mini Memorial

Ice Cave

Lava River Cave

Town of Boring

Japanese Garden

Pittock Mansion

Columbia River Gorge

Vista House - Corbett Oregon

Newberry National Volcanic Monument - Bend

Shelton McMurphey-Johnson House - Eugene

Mt. Hood Railroad

Flavel House Museum - Astoria

Mission Mill Museum - Salem

International Museum of Carousel Art - Hood River

Shanghai Tunnels

Tiki Inspired alibi restaurant

Grants Park

Aurora Colony Museum

Giant Bowling pin - Burns Junction

The Roxy

Peter Finch's Round Barn - Burns

Statue of Paul Bunyan's Little Brother - Butte Falls

Grant County Historical Museum, two headed calves etc. - Canyon City

Eagle Nabs fish - Canyonville

Out N about treehouse resort - Cave Junction

Big Logger Twins - Central Point

Train Mountain Mini Railroad, the worlds longest hobby mini railway - Chiloquin

Crack in the ground - Christmas Valley

Shooting Star Lavander Farm Jackie Chan & Jet Li, Kirk Douglas Shoes - Clatskanie

Flippin Castle - Clatskanie

Big Bear with fish - Crescent Point

Mohawk Lounge and Resturaunt, taxidermy - Crescent

Bathroom Memorial - Estacada

BMW Isetta Collection - Eugene

Skeleton of the Tusko Elephant - Eugene

Bear with coffee statue - Florence

Bliss Hot Rod Grill - Florence

Carnivorous Plants - Florence

Davis Graveyard

Oregon Vortex - Gold Hill

Community art project bears - Grants Pass

Caveman - Grants pass

Town Named after a website - halfway half.com

Big Fishing Pole - Hebo

House of chinese healing man - John Day

Favell Museum, indian artifacts - Klamath Falls

Big Goofy Black bird - Medford

Community art for frogs - Milton-Freewater

Henry the bear, real bear - Mitchell

Muffler Man - Myrtle Point

Aquarium Village in Newport, OR

Giant fly - O'Brien

Wenzel Farm fantasy trail - oregon city

devil's punchbowl - otter rock

underground tour - pendleton

oregon city ghost tours

peterson rock garden -redmond

wooden rooster - rogue river

grave of the wonder cow - salem

park w/ 1 tree - salem

Salem's Riverfront Carousel

iron motorcyclist - sandy

tropical sno cone shaped stand - seaside

lewis and clark salt works - seaside

45th parallel marker - shaniko

giant magic mushroom - sutherlin

skateboard memorial - talent

rocks ann - dalles

walleye capital of the world - umatilla

metal men on roof -umatilla

john wayne figure - umatilla

bates motel - vale

fish ladder - winchester

noahs ark resturant - winston

(...I'll add more if I happen to go somewhere I missed when listing)

"Allow Me" Statue (a.k.a. Umbrella Man)
2/2/10



Even after putting my usual sarcastic cynicism aside, I still sincerely believe that "The Awakening" by John Seward Johnson II (the same artist) would have been a more fitting statue for Portland.

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