29 “Must Do” Things Before Turning 30 (listed in no particular order)

1. Swing by your knees on a flying trapeze

2. Teach the cat a trick

3. Develop your own cocktail and name it

4. Take a day trip to the local nudist colony

5. Place mentos in a two liter bottle of diet coke

6. Brew your own beer

7. Sit in the hazard zone of Blue Man Group

8. Eat duck in Chinatown

9. Go over the wake while waterskiing

10. Visit the Garden of the Gods…in a toga

11. Become an advanced super hula-hooper

12. Climb a fourteener

13. Wear a Hawaiian shirt for one day

14. Buy a pogo stick. Try it. Return it, claiming it made you look fat

15. Tour the Argonne National Laboratory

16. Build a wall

17. Learn to play a song on a guitar

18. Wear underwear of the opposite gender for one day -Tell no one!

19. Make a fruit cake and send it to someone

20. Visit Santa Fe, NM

21. Check out the Museum of Contemporary Art (in Chicago)

22. Take your photo with Superman

23. Place an ad in the paper “will accept free corvette”

24. Learn how to play golf

25. Run a marathon

26. Become a licensed U.S. Customs Broker

27. Buy something from a paid advertisement that ran after midnight

28. Create your own holiday and celebrate it each year

29. Tour the Robie House