If you are familiar with the television show Ice Road Truckers on the History Channel, the story follows the sagas of trailer truck drivers who drive the 414 mile Dalton Highway in Alaska in the winter time.

The road, also know as the North Slope Haul Road, runs from Fairbanks to Prudhoe Bay. The trucks carry all sorts of mechanical equipment, piping, and supplies to support the oil drilling rigs located at Prudhoe Bay. The highway generally follows the Alaskan pipeline and is clearly one of the most desolate roadways in the U.S. In the winter, there are approximately 250 trucks on the road every day.

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If you have not yet seen the movie The Bucket List, I strongly encourage you to rent it sometime soon. The storyline is that Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman are both terminally ill and reluctantly have to share a hospital room. They compiled a list of all the things they would both like to accomplish before they “kick the bucket”. Hence the term the bucket list. The movie tracks their humorous and stressful ‘vacation’ around the world fulfilling their bucket lists.

Since I am down to a quarter of a tank on my “gas gauge of life,” I too have created my own bucket list. I have always been a goals oriented guy, and this is no different.

My Bucket List:

- To walk my beautiful daughter down the aisle on the day she gets married

- To walk hand-in-hand with my wonderful wife on the Great Wall of China

- To make love with her on a beach in Tahiti as the sun slowly sets in the west

- To snorkel on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia

- To see the Northern Lights

- To go on a round-the-world cruise

- To shake hands with the President of the U.S. to thank him/her for being the leader of the greatest nation on the planet

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