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B_Rye's Profile:
I live in Green Bay, WI, and I'm a 1/2 time entrepreneur and a 1/2 time stay-at-home dad for our two-year-old son and newborn daughter.
Although my absolute top priority in life is my family, all of my daydreaming time is taken up with dreams of sailing and world travel. That said, I'm also constantly thinking about friends, staying fit, the environment, and being "of use" to the world.
Although my absolute top priority in life is my family, all of my daydreaming time is taken up with dreams of sailing and world travel. That said, I'm also constantly thinking about friends, staying fit, the environment, and being "of use" to the world.
| Be fluent in French | |
| I took French all through High School, and I keep from losing it completely by traveling to French-speaking places. I speak much more fluently after drinking. In fact, my best French was spoken to a.... |
[search Language] reader comments updated: May 7, 2008 |
| Be on TV | |
| I REALLY want to get the word out about ReaperList.com!! Completed! Update: 1/19/09: The interview footage is no longer on the WFRV website. So I've had to remove the link. Looks like I'll just have to get interviewed again...I was interviewed on WFRV Channel.... |
[search News, Journalism, and Publishing] reader comments updated: Jan 24, 2009 |
| Become a member of the TCC | |
| Check out http://www.travelerscenturyclub.org. Current count is 16 so I have a ways to go... |
[search Travel: Other] reader comments updated: Jun 24, 2008 |
| Build a Habitat for Humanity Home | |
| ...but if they see some of my do-it-yourself projects they may not let me volunteer!! |
[search Charitable Institutions] reader comments updated: Apr 28, 2009 |
| Buy a house | |
Completed! The first (and only) house we bought was 80-years-old. It was NOT an appropriate "starter home."We bought the house in Green Bay in 2000. It had a 20-year old furnace, 20-year-old kitchen appliances,.... |
[search Economics: Home] reader comments updated: Jun 8, 2010 |
| Buy a stand-up paddleboard | |
| If I reach my goal of 200 lb, then I'm going to get a stand-up paddleboard. Then a Matthew McConaughey body is just around the corner!! Or maybe not... Completed! I just can't get below 207!But last week we went on a week vacation in Door County. My choice was either get one for the trip or wait until next year. So I broke my promise to myself and got.... |
[search Economics: Purchases] [search Surfing] reader comments updated: Dec 15, 2008 |
| Compete in a run | |
Completed! I've done many Crazylegs runs in Madison, WI (5 mile), the Meriter Nurse's Run in Madison (10k), the Bellin Run in Green Bay (10k), the Noodlini Run in Green Bay (15k), and the Seroogy's Valentine's Day.... |
[search Running] reader comments updated: Jun 8, 2010 |
| Complete a Triathlon (not Ironman) | |
| The next sprint triathlon for me is in Door County, WI in July. Completed! I've done a few sprint triathlons (1/4 mile swim, 15 mile bike, 3 mile run), but I can't imagine I'll ever go farther (I'm a horrible swimmer).The Lake Mills, Wisconsin triathlon is a good one..... |
[search Athletic Outdoor Exercise] reader comments updated: Jun 8, 2010 |
| Eat At The French Laundry | |
Completed! "Is that on your Bucket List?" asked the woman at the art gallery a short walk down the road. I had just told her we were waiting for our reservation at The.... |
[search Drink] [search Food] reader comments updated: Jul 22, 2009 |
| Get a captain's license | |
Completed! I got my US Coast Guard license "Master of steam, motor, or auxiliary sail vessels of not more than 100 gross tons upon Great Lakes and Inland Waters also, authorized to engage in commercial assistance.... |
[search Boating] reader comments updated: Jun 8, 2010 |
| Get an MBA | |
Completed! After 10 years as an engineer, I received my MBA from UW Oshkosh in December of 2006. Read on for my opinion on online courses...http://www.mba.uwosh.edu/ I.... |
[search Education] reader comments updated: Feb 5, 2008 |
| Get married | |
Completed! After 10 years of dating, several years of living together, and two "breaks," I proposed to Kim on the evening of the turn of the millennium. We bought a house in Green Bay, and we were married almost.... |
[search Wedding and Marriage] reader comments updated: Jan 19, 2009 |
| Have Children | |
Completed! Our son, Finn, was born in January of 2007. He came a month early, and he surprised all of us when Kim's water broke in Barnes and Noble. Kim's List: read full text » |
[search Family] reader comments updated: Jun 8, 2010 |
| Learn to Ballroom Dance | |
Completed! I'm not sure how common this is, but I had a ballroom dancing unit in high school phy. ed. (do schools even have phy.ed. any more?). That gave me a great foundation for polishing it with a friend of.... |
[search Dance] reader comments updated: May 17, 2008 |
| Learn to Kiteboard | |
| [search Water Sports: Other] reader comments updated: Oct 27, 2008 |
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| Learn to roll a kayak | |
| I have already done a lot of kayaking, but I can't do an "Eskimo Roll." I'm planning to learn this and do it on World Do It Day! (June 26, 2010). |
[search Boating] reader comments updated: Jun 8, 2010 |
| Live carbon neutral | |
| I own a Prius, I bike a lot, and I kick in extra money for "green" electricity, but there is a LOT more I can do! The thing about biking is you can decide to do some of your driving errands by.... |
[search Technology: Other] reader comments updated: Jan 19, 2009 |
| Organize a bicycle tailgate party | |
| At Lambeau Field! I have an Xtracycle with several attachments. http://www.xtracycle.com I'm confident I can carry a cooler full.... Completed! I'd call this partially done, because we had a bicycle tailgate party, but everyone except Kim and me DROVE CARS!The grill lit up easily, providing much-needed warmth on this late November day. |
[search Bicycling] reader comments updated: Mar 10, 2009 |
| Patent an invention | |
| I have a new invention idea every week, but most of them are too silly to be worth continuing. Every once in a while, though, I think of something that may be big. Oh, and I won't be sharing.... Completed! In August 2009 I filed a provisional patent for an electric-assist bicycle trailer. A load sensor in the trailer hitch tells the trailer how much to throttle up its onboard motor, and using a closed-loop.... |
[search Technology: Other] reader comments updated: Jun 8, 2010 |
| Read the top 100 novels of the 20th Century | |
| As defined by the New York Times, of course... http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100bestnovels.html I.... |
[search Literature] reader comments updated: Jan 18, 2010 |
| Ride a hot air balloon | |
| [search Flight: Lighter Than Air] reader comments updated: Apr 15, 2010 |
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| Ride in a Zeppelin | |
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[search Flight: Lighter Than Air] reader comments updated: Jan 21, 2009 |
| Ride the Empire Builder to Seattle or Portland | |
| My wife and I took the train from Milwaukee to LA. It was cool, but we took the southern route with much less scenery. It was a great experience, but I have to admit it got a little long. The.... |
[search Travel: US: Northwest] reader comments updated: Aug 21, 2008 |
| Sail a tall ship | |
Completed! In the fall of 1998 I served for three months as a deckhand aboard the "HMS" Rose, the largest active wooden sailing ship in the world. Here is my journal, complete with photos: After losing.... |
[search Sailing] reader comments updated: Jan 15, 2009 |
| Sail in Belize | |
Completed! In Belize the rainy season stops on Christmas Day. When I discovered this I thought, "How quaint. Mother Nature gives a wonderful Christmas present to Belize." Well...apparently we were naughty that.... |
[search Travel: Central America/Caribbean] [search Sailing] reader comments updated: Jan 15, 2009 |
| Sail in Croatia | |
| Check out my journal. Croatia is the best place in the Mediterranean to sail. Completed! Wednesday, June 1, 2005The Air, Amsterdam It was an uneventful but extremely tiring flight. We actually had a four leg trip from Green Bay to Detroit to Amsterdam to Zagreb to Split. As.... |
[search Sailing] [search Travel: Europe: Other] reader comments updated: Mar 30, 2009 |
| Sail in Italy | |
| We plan to charter a boat (again) in Naples and sail up and down the coast for a week. I'm just putting the trip together now. read full text » Completed! Did it! In the late Spring of 2009.Still need to get my journal together, but here are some photos! read full text » |
[search Sailing] [search Travel: Europe: Italy] reader comments updated: Jun 8, 2010 |
| Sail in Tonga | |
| Send me a message. I'd love to talk Tonga. Completed! In the Spring of 2004 we chartered a 38’ catamaran from Sunsail and sailed throughout the Vava’u island group of the Kingdom of Tonga. Here's my trip journal:TUESDAY, APRIL 13 “THE AIR” Kim.... |
[search Travel: Pacific] [search Sailing] reader comments updated: Jun 24, 2010 |
| Sail the Mediterranean | |
| I've talked with my wife about taking 6 months off and sailing around the Mediterranean. We've sailed here and there through Sunsail charters (French Riviera, Corsica, Croatia), but we've only just scratched.... |
[search Travel: Europe: General] [search Sailing] reader comments updated: Mar 15, 2008 |
| Sail the North Channel | |
| The North Channel of Lake Huron is among the best sailboat cruising grounds in the world. This would come as a surprise to many people, which is one of the reasons it stays so unspoiled and keeps the.... Completed! I wrote an article about the experience for Northern Breezes Magazine. You can link to the article here: read full text » |
[search Travel: North America: Other] [search Sailing] [search Travel: US: Northeast] reader comments updated: Mar 10, 2009 |
| See the Northern Lights | |
Completed! Every few years I get a chance to see them, either from Sun Prairie, Madison, Green Bay, or out on Lake Michigan. But the coolest display I ever saw was while camping with my family in the Bond Falls.... |
[search Natural Wonders] reader comments updated: Dec 19, 2008 |
| See the Packers win another Super Bowl | |
| 'nuff said. Aaron Rodgers rules! |
[search Spectator Sports] reader comments updated: Sep 8, 2008 |
| Snowboard | |
Completed! I learned on the painful, icy slopes of Wisconsin, and since then I've been to Breckenridge, Whistler, Jackson Hole, Telluride, and Crested Butte. In 2008 I got a 3rd degree shoulder separation.... |
[search Winter Sports: Downhill] reader comments updated: Jun 8, 2010 |
| Start my own business | |
| Send me a message and we'll discuss the real driver of our economy, SMALL businesses. Completed! I started Weather Gauge LLC, a professional captain service specializing in over-water yacht delivery. I delivered both sailing and power yachts anywhere between 30’ and 65’, and I ultimately began subcontracting.... |
[search Economics: Jobs] reader comments updated: Jul 7, 2008 |
| Stay in an underwater hotel | |
| Check it out! http://www.poseidonresorts.com/poseidon_main.html |
[search Travel: Pacific] reader comments updated: Feb 25, 2009 |
| Stop biting my nails | |
| I've been doing it for 25 years, so it's REALLY difficult to stop. I stopped for about 6 months several years ago, but then the company I worked for started a long slide into bankruptcy and I started.... |
[search Health: Personal] reader comments updated: Mar 4, 2008 |
| Surf | |
| I've taken a few lessons, but I'd like to get to the point where it's actually FUN! |
[search Surfing] reader comments updated: Dec 15, 2008 |
| Take mini retirements throughout life | |
| Instead of opting for the "deferred life plan," I would like to space several 3 to 6 month mini retirements throughout my life. I would like to alternate between working on career-related projects, traveling.... |
[search Philosophy/Psychology] [search Social Science: Other] reader comments updated: Apr 18, 2010 |
| Take the Polar Bear Plunge in Jacksonport, WI | |
Completed! UPDATE: 1/1/09 I did it again! And this time I dunked completely under!As we made our way to Jacksonport the day before, we looked out at the fog over the lake and we knew: Mother Nature was.... |
[search Swimming and Diving] [search Travel: US: Northeast] reader comments updated: Mar 10, 2009 |
| Taste wine in the Napa Valley | |
| This wasn't originally on my list, but it's on several other people's lists so I figured, what the heck! Completed! My wife and I toured Napa Valley in early November, 2008. I'm not at all a wine snob, but I do like tasting it. The good ones give you several different flavors in rapid succession, and that's.... |
[search Travel: US: California] [search Drink] reader comments updated: Mar 10, 2009 |
| Teach sailing and windsurfing | |
Completed! I learned how to sail at the Hoofers Sailing Club, and I eventually became an instructor. Learning, and then teaching, was definitely a life-defining.... |
[search Water Sports: Other] [search Education] [search Sailing] reader comments updated: Mar 15, 2008 |
| Visit Alaska | |
| Never been there. But it's so huge that a two-week binge trip isn't going to cut it. In a month I could just scratch the surface. |
[search Travel: US: Alaska] reader comments updated: Apr 18, 2010 |
| Visit Antarctica | |
| [search Travel: Other] reader comments updated: Feb 1, 2008 |
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| Visit Copenhagen | |
| My wife and I (and our toddler) want to spend a week in Northern Europe, but we're not sure yet if we should go to The Netherlands, Denmark, or Sweden. It's down to those, but we're not sure yet. We're.... Completed! We decided on Copenhagen, Denmark. We brought our niece along to help us keep Finn under control.Unfortunately, Finn never adjusted to the time change. So we slept very little, and I was miserable.... |
[search Travel: Europe: Other] reader comments updated: Jun 8, 2010 |
| Visit Cuba | |
| I've wanted to visit Cuba ever since high school. True, part of the allure is that our so-called "free" country won't allow us to go there, but based on photos and books it looks like such a beautiful.... |
[search Travel: Central America/Caribbean] reader comments updated: May 28, 2008 |
| Visit Martinique | |
Completed! This would be Kim's and my first vacation alone since Finn was born 15 months before. We couldn't quite swing a trip to Europe, and I was REALLY in need of a break from the long winter, so we settled.... |
[search Travel: Central America/Caribbean] reader comments updated: Jan 15, 2009 |
| Visit Paris | |
Send me a message and we'll talk Paris. Completed! When I plan and daydream about trips I always plan and anticipate the idle times. I dream of sleeping in, sitting in cafes, reading, and writing in this journal. But who has time!?! There is so much.... |
[search Travel: Europe: France] reader comments updated: Feb 23, 2009 |
