Here is my current life adventure bucket list. I vow to accomplish each of these unless one of them actually manages to kills me. 🙂
For write-ups and stories both serious and not-so-serious, have a look at my backpacking travel adventures page.
Run with the bulls in Pamplona, Spain(Done!)- Dive in a shark cage
- Join the Seven Summits club
- Go to Easter Island
- Visit all 50 states
- Try hang gliding
- Try white water rafting in serious rapids
- Become proficiently bilingual in a foreign language
- Do a volunteer project
- Write a book
- Do an ice plunge outdoors
- 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 and diving in Papua, New Guinea
- Learn to ride a horse (well)
- Finish a five-day fast (One water fast attempt failed)
- Learn mountaineering
- Have a vision in a Native American sweat lodge
Visit Tibet(not until China gives it up)Climb a mountain to 6,000 meters in Nepal(Done! 2016)Go to Everest Base Camp(Done! 2016)Visit Burma (Myanmar)(Done! 2015)- Sail as part of a crew from point A to point B
- Live for a while on a deserted island
- Walk in an active lava field
- Drive a motorcycle larger than 300cc
Sleep in the desert(Done! Rajasthan; 2012)- Walk on all seven continents
- Try zero-budget travel
Get a bamboo/traditional tattoo(Done! Koh Tao, Thailand; 2011)- See a tarsier in real life (death by cuteness?)
Life Adventure Bucket List Items 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 bear 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 Koh Phangan, Thailand
- Go to Oktoberfest in Germany
- Hike up Mount Rainier
- 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 (done before people knew it was a no-no)
- Visit Machu Picchu
- Meet my favorite travel writer (Rolf Potts)
This is a “living” life adventures bucket list. I’m sure that it will be growing as I meet new people and learn of new opportunities!
Above all, as Nik Halik advised me, my goal is to just wake up with a smile. This world is full of wonder and adventure waiting to be experienced.