TURNDOG'S BUCKET LIST


Visit The Pyramids


Go to The Superbowl


Kiss Zooey Deschanel on the cheek


Own an Aston Martin DB5


Visit: Baldwins Book Barn (West Chester, Pennsylvania), Shakespeare & Company (Paris, France), Goulds Book (Sydney), West Side Books (Denver), Brazenhead Books (NYC), The Writers Workshoppe (Seattle)


Free Orbit in Space


Interview Alan Sugar, Richard Branson & Malcolm Gladwell


Have a drink with Stephen Chbosky


Work with Apple


Do a solo Everest Skydive


Publish a work of fiction


Appear on the New York Best Sellers List


See the Northern Lights


Build A House In South America


Speak a foreign language fluently


Run a marathon


Climb one of the summits


Drive the great ocean road


Raise $1,000,000 for charity/good cause


Be a good dad


Take the love of my life to Venice (before it sinks)


Visit at least 5 countries in Africa


Play a round of golf at St Andrews


Learn to play the guitar


Busk in the London Underground


Visit the Lost City


Go on a spiritual weekend of meditating


Get arrested for having too much fun


Buy a drink for Ben Gibbard, Chris Martin & Jon Bon Jovi


Speak at SXSW


Have a night of drinking in New Orleans


Party at the Rio Carnival


Step foot on Antatrica


Visit each country in Scandinavia (plus Iceland)


Go to at least 5 Asian Countries


Fly First Class with Virgin


Go to the airport and take the next flight available


Paddle down the Amazon


Visit the Grand Canyon


Drive down route 66


Spend an entire weekend with my nieces and spoil them to death


Open up a Book/Coffee Shop


Make love on a secluded beach


Spend $5,000 in Las Vegas (in one weekend)


Split, and finish, a bottle of single malt whiskey with my first born son


Die on my own terms


Go for a run in Central Park


Swim with Sharks


Write a short story as I watch the sunset in Hawaii


Fly a plane


Do a talk in front of more than 1,000 people


To read the Little Prince to each one of my children on the day they are born


Go skiing


To go an entire weekend without saying a word


Read more than 2,000 books


Listen to every Beetles album on vinyl


Own a suit from Saville Road


To never stop dreaming


Create a marketing related book that’s remembered


Find my true voice, both in Fiction and the more natural, Non-Fiction/Online world


Stay up all night during a Full Moon Party


To go an entire three days without sleep


Experience a natural hallucination


Write a 1st Draft of a novel in one month


Watch the sunrise at Uluru


Buy a random stranger dinner without them knowing


Watch Tottenham in a major final (live)


See a Cincinnati Bengal game


Invest in a Startup I believe in


Live in poverty for a month and truly give back to a community


Do a TED Talk


Do Missionary Work in a developing country


Volunteer in the town/city where I bring up my children


Watch sunrise at the Grand Canyon


Write a book with nothing but a notebook and typewriter


Help more than 1,000 people through the Turndog Foundation


Own an entire wardrobe of handmade clothes/shoes


Take Kid Turndog to Disney Land


Found or Co-Found a Social Enterprise/Charity that genuinely helps a community


Pick Coffee Beans and make my own cup of uber fresh coffee


Experience New Year’s Eve in Edinburgh


Go to World Domination Summit, SXSW, & Misfit Con in the same calendar year


Successfully Crowd Fund a campaign


Go vegetarian for a year


Become a qualified yoga instructor


Watch Kid Turndog in a school play (and be overly enthusiastic)


Discover Financial Freedom


Skinny-Dip in Sweden – in winter


Write For Time Magazine


Drop Kid Turndog off at YMCA Camp Ernst


Not work for an entire week, and not feel guilty about it


Teach The Kid how to ride a bike


Read 250 Books in a single calendar year


Never become a politician


Visit all the places I wrote about in Tick to the Tock (and take a picture holding the book)


Learn how to make a great whiskey cocktail


Learn how to make a wonderful cup of coffee


Spend Oktoberfest in Munich