Some men may not agree with my bucket list- to them I say "thicken your stache"
Movember is almost over. Tomorrow, I shave my facial hair to perfection and enter a competition with Josh Brownlee from Aim To Travel. Today, Travel Write Sing, has officially lost it’s guest blogger virginity. Emjay Meesh Pelchat, who might just have the best name ever, answered last week’s challenge to write a Manly Bucket List of her own. Emjay was hand selected for this task based on her intrepid ability to juggle fire, and in general for being someone who rushes life for fifty yards while juggling hamsters. Meeting her on the 3rd Annual Mariachi Pub Crawl in Antigua, Guatemala was on par with Colombus discovering the new world. Without further adieu, here’s Emjay’s bucket list.
Ultimate Manly Bucket List
by Emjay Meesh Pelchat
To officially consummate your Movember you must first participate. Ultimately, this is a challenge. A friend passed a torch to me to write “the ultimate manly bucket list” in order to help bring awareness to Movember.
Movember is the month in which men gain an excuse to grow a daring moustache food catcher and women bicker to grow their leg hair in retaliation. Movember brings awareness to prostate cancer, a deadly disease that affects approximately one in six men. One man in 36 will die of this disease. Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer affecting males in Canada and is the second most diagnosed cancer for men in America.
Prostate cancer can be a serious disease, but If detected and treated early, it can have a survival rate of 95 per cent. Movember’ers help raise awareness to “check your boys” , spread awareness and raise money to research early detection. I am a woman, 22 days into my Movember leg hair growth, and with that said Movember participation, I feel more connected with accomplishing a quest and entertaining the public with my interpretation of what would be “the ultimate man bucket list”.
I’ve decided the ultimate manly bucket list would be a list of things that when you do them, you feel truly alive. And the thus the quest began to find the ultimate “manly bucket list” ideas and combine them. Making this list was about more than just asking men what they wanted to experience in life, making the ultimate man bucket list for me was discovering the taste that Everyman craves. The experiences he believes he can’t live without.
1. Have an encounter with an Asian women while free falling over some beautiful islands with a parachute attached to your back and have the bat mobile pick you up upon landing. (Many men were very specific the women be asian. James Bond comes to mind).
2. Wakeboarding while being towed by your pet dolphin to one of the world best free climb rock faces and climb as high as you can, only to free fall into the warm turquoise waters below. And tied to the rock is your sail boat and the smell of fresh bacon.
3. Shoot the wings off a fly with a 9 mil while riding an emu.
4. Ride in a time machine.
5. Shred the perfect mountain, with fresh powder and great visibility with your 5 closest friends who keep up nicely’. And in your pockets- beer. And did I mention you just pulled off a HEIST! I am, of course, being stereotypical to a general age range and personality type of men. Writing, but not writing, defining the ultimate bucket list is about alot more then writing a list. “The ultimate manly bucket list” is about discovery and happiness. Some men may not agree with my bucket list- to them I say “thicken your stache”. And with this article written my torch considered carried, and the end of Movember nearing, I bid you a-due , and relinquish myself to shave my legs, end my character exploration, and clog my shower drain.
