...watched the sun rise over the Lost Fantasy Island volcano.

We went to Hawaii, which, Honolulu excluded, really is the paradise you think it is. Honolulu is just another crappy big American city, except with smaller roads and parking spaces. It still should be visited once, to see Pearl Harbor and, of course, to run Waikiki beach.

...climbed the warped wall.

I've been getting in increasingly better shape over the past few years, but let me tell you something: getting over a warped wall that is sized to challenge you feels amazing. 

...became a minimalist runner.

In a bout of stupid machismo, I agreed to run a half marathon with my crazy runner wife. Then I got the running bug and became crazy myself. The problem was that my knees hurt like hell once I started running more than 5 miles at a time on a regular basis.

I bought knee braces and a couple different types of Brooks and Hokas and some Advil. Lots of Advil.

...I did half of something awesome!

I think it was back in early twenty-teens when, in a moment of false bravado, I said to my wife, "I'll run exactly one half-marathon with you: The Maui Half." I'd been athletic in high school and college, but never much of a runner for its own sake. Then I got old and my health plan was simple: "Save room for dessert." It worked, and I was still thin because I have the food-related will power to actually save the room.

...photoshopped my wife into every awesome Star Wars scene.

Yeah, I sorta did that. I honestly can't remember why she put on the ear muff things and asked me to do it, but I ran with it. Maybe it had something to do with the clear thing she's holding...a speculum, maybe? A bit of obstetrics and genecology has myotises'd its way into my brain over the years. She's a real life OB/GYN. But sadly, she's not the blogger that goes by OB/GYN Kenobi. Well, I say sadly, but that dude's a dude, and I'm pretty happy with my wife.

...scaled the Cliffs of Insanity with the Last Jedi.

I was skyping with my children while at an amazing B&B in Dingle, Ireland, population of right around 2,000. "Boys, tomorrow, we're going to see the Cliffs of Moher. They're like the Cliffs of Insanity from Princess Bride. Ok, see ya later." Then on a whim, I googled it. I was spot on: they were the exact cliffs used as the establishing shot in the film (one of my favorites), and I was going to see them in a day! 

...watched a U2 concert in Dublin.

In junior high, that's middle school for you whippersnappers, I listened to the radio a lot. That's when I discovered U2's Pride (In the name of love). Then Joshua Tree came out. Then some years passed, and I found myself dating a big U2 fan in college. It seemed like the relationship might be going somewhere (it did, and that "somewhere" has been pretty freaking nice for the last 27 years), so I borrowed her cassettes and CDs and made myself a U2 mixtape.