Goals
My current life, adventure, and travel goals. I vow to accomplish each of these unless one of them kills me. 
Current List of Goals
- Run with the bulls in Pamplona, Spain
- Ride on top of a train in India
- Dive in a shark cage
- Visit all 50 states
- Go hang gliding
- Go to a Burning Man festival
- Try white water rafting in real rapids
- Become proficiently bilingual in a foreign language
- Do a volunteer project
- Write a book
- Learn to snowboard
- Swim in Devil’s Pool at the top of Victoria Falls
- See African lions in the wild
- Learn to Latin dance (well)
- Spend a week in the wild alone
- Go trekking in Papua, New Guinea
- Learn to ride a horse (well)
- Finish a 5 day fast
- Learn mountaineering
- Have a vision in a native American sweat lodge
- Visit Tibet
- Visit Everest Base Camp in Nepal
- Visit Burma (Myanmar)
- Sail as part of a crew from point A to point B
- Live on a deserted island
- Walk in an active lava field
- Ride a motorcycle larger than 500cc
- Travel from point A to point B by train hopping
- Sleep in the desert
- Walk on all 7 continents
- Try zero budget travel
Get a bamboo/traditional tattoo
Goals Completed So Far:
- Try skydiving
- Try bungee jumping
- Learn to Scuba Dive
- Go inside a shipwreck
- Solo (without protection) rock climb a named peak
- Have a grizzly encounter in the wild
- Swim with sharks
- Visit Angkor Wat, Cambodia
- Study Shaolin Kung Fu in China
- Learn to drive a motorcycle
- Go hitchhiking
- Shoot a machine gun
- See Komodo dragons in the wild
- Try surfing
- Use a machete in the jungle
- Try cliff diving
- Live with locals in a country
- See a full moon party in Ko Phangan, Thailand
- Go to Oktoberfest in Germany
- Walk on a glacier
- Walk on a nude beach (nude, of course)
- Land a pre-paid travel writing assignment
- See the Egyptian Pyramids and Valley of the Kings
- Stand on top of an active volcano
- Bribe a foreign official to get out of trouble
- Go fishing in Alaska
- Become self employed
- Go into an underwater cave
- Shoot something and eat it
- Pet a tiger
- Learn to spin a fire torch
- Ride an elephant
- Visit Machu Picchu
- Meet my favorite travel writer (Rolf Potts)
This is a living list. I’m sure that it will be growing as I meet new people and learn of new opportunities!
Above all, as Nik Halik told me, my goal is to just walk with a smile.
Photos of my past adventures.
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Kentucky, USA
Thanks for commenting on my blog, your list is inspiring!
awesome list mate, very similar to mine
good work!
Now I’m going to have to do this on my site. We actually share a lot of the same items!
You haven’t been to Burning Man yet? What are you waiting for? It’s only a 36 hour drive! Seriously, if you liked Loi Krathong, you’d dig a a burn.
This list of goals is a great list! How many of them have you checked off since you posted the list?
Back in Belgium (and already starting to think about a way of being out of here
). I didn’t find the website you told me about but your blog. And as are your trips and your way of living, its quite inspiring!
As for the list of goals completed, I thought the one about bribing a foreign official was quite an easy one!
I’ll keep reading your blog to find inspiration. Take care.
Awesome list! I’m probably going to add almost all of these to my list
Don’t forget about sharing your passion with others, which you do very well. At the end of the day I think that’s most important.
Love your blog! Great list! Amazing life!
you should try –
* Walk with African Lions in the wild (Zambia / Zimbabwe)
* See Big 5 of Africa
* Ride a Kenyan “matatu” from/to Masai Mara
* Dance with Masai Warriors
* Jump / Swim in the most dangerous pool in the world – Devil’s pool on top of Victoria Falls
Safe travels!
EL