Here are 10 things that “normal” people are not supposed to do. How they happened is beyond me.

Maybe that’s why my life is still filled with magic. And if things like this can happen to a kid who grew up in the poverty of the Appalachians, they can happen to YOU!

1. Assisted a cardiologist in heart surgery.
2. Had a bush plane drop me deep in the Alaskan wilderness with only a tent and a raft with the grizzlies in Kodiak Island—for a week.
3. Hiked through a rainforest in the Blue Mountains of Australia.
4. Had a tribal meal on the floor of a yurt with a nomadic family in remote Kyrgyzstan.
5. Sang a solo in front of 30,000 people at the Hoosierdome before a presidential address. (No, it was not the Star Spangled Banner and it was the president of the Southern Baptist Convention.)
6. Had my tent torn to pieces by a grizzly while backpacking high in the Grand Tetons.
7. Attained pure summits of four fourteen thousand foot mountains (14ers) including the highest mountain in the contiguous United States.
8. Savored a bottle of 1975 Chateau d Yquem and a 1990 Quintarelli Amarone.
9. I have met the “holy trinity” of male rock vocalists, Don Henley, Michael McDonald and Peter Cetera.
10. Ran 23 marathons. (yes, 26.2 miles each)

Question: What is something YOU have done that normal people are not supposed to do?