More than a few people have asked if I have a bucket list posted somewhere, which I did not, so I decided to post one here.
Some of these have been goals of mine for quite a while, and some weren’t added until after I had already done them and thought, “yah–that qualifies.”
A few are short-term (e.g. visit over 100 countries by the time I’m 35 40), and others are definitely more long-term (e.g. go to space).
No rush though! I think I’m doing good so far…
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Current Bucket List
- Visit 100 countries before I’m
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- Obtain European Union (Hungarian) Citizenship
- Week-long Complete Darkness Meditation Retreat
- Become a certified SCUBA Dive Master
- Attend Carnaval do Brasil (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
- Visit North Korea
- Visit Cuba
- Fly in an ultra-light aircraft
- Visit Afghanistan
- Visit Tibet
- Visit Jammu & Kashmir, India
- Attend a buzkashi match
- Compete to win the Icarus Trophy
- Attend Mardi Gras (New Orleans, USA)
- Attend the Biennale (Venice, Italy)
- Live in a castle for a week
- Drive from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, Argentina
- Run with the bulls (Pamplona, Spain)
- Australian Road Trip
- Build a Tiny House and/or #VanLife Van
- Do a long-term van trip in New Zealand
- Extended trip on a live-aboard sailboat as a crew member
- Walk the entire Camino de Santiago trail (Spain)
- Get my Spanish up to a conversational level
- Stay on Necker Island with Sir Richard Branson
- Present to a large (500+) audience
- Attend Naadam summer games in Mongolia
- Attend (or compete in) the Dakar Rally (Argentina & Chile)
- Attend (or compete in) the Baja 1000/500 Rally (Mexico)
- Do the Mongol Rally again, but finish it properly this time (2024?)
- Compete in the Marathon des Sables (Morocco)
- Learn to play chess
- Start a foundation that changes the world
- Go trekking in Papua New Guinea
- Visit the Galapagos Islands
- Visit Easter Island
- Hike around Arunachal Pradesh, India
- Attend the La Tomatina Festival (Buñol, Spain)
- Go hiking in Georgia (the country)
- Go hiking in Yosemite National Park (California, USA)
- Hot air balloon ride over Cappadocia (Turkey)
- Walk the Shikoku Hachijūhachikasho Meguri (88-temple Pilgrimage route) (Japan)
- Walk the length of Japan, from Kagoshima to northern Hokkaido (approx. 2,600km)
- One month with no Internet
- Gain certification as a tea sommelier (Toronto, Canada)
- Become a beer sommelier (“cicerone“)
- Do a trans-oceanic crossing via container ship
- Fly somewhere via private jet
- Start my own distillery
- Own an island
- Swim with dolphins
- Visit the seven ancient wonders of the world (or where they used to be) (4/7)
- Visit all 193 UN Nations (plus Antarctica and Taiwan)
- Learn to play the guitar
- Ride in a fighter jet
- Zero-G flight experience
- Get my private pilot’s license
- Go into space
Completed
- 04/2022 – Go Spearfishing (Playa del Carmen, Mexico)
- 07/2021 – Officiate a Wedding (Jackson, Michigan)
- 01/2021 – Sail the South Pacific (Tahiti)
- 12/2020 – Fast for 72 Hours (water only)
- 08/2020 – Ride in a Vietnam-era “Huey” Helicopter (Ypsilanti, Michigan)
- 02/2020 – Complete a 10-day Vipassana silent meditation course (Claymont, DE)
- 01/2020 – Become an ISS certified Japanese Sake Adviser (Secaucus, NJ)
- 11/2018 – Gorilla trekking (Uganda)
- 10/2018 – Polar bear safari (Manitoba, Canada)
- 10/2018 – Go dog sledding (Manitoba, Canada)
- 06/2018 – Drive a super-car on a racetrack (Audi R8 in Pontiac, Michigan)
- 05/2018 – Meet comedian Adam Carolla (Royal Oak, MI)
- 04/2018 – Drink something from the 1800’s (1850 French Cognac in Hokkaido, Japan)
- 01/2018 – Circumnavigate the Indian sub-continent 7,000+ miles in an auto-rickshaw/tuk-tuk (via three separate journeys, 2011-2014-2018)
- 11/2017 – Complete a second full marathon (KIA Marathon, Moshi, Tanzania)
- 11/2017 – Live and hunt with Tanzania’s last remaining hunter-gatherer tribe, the Hadza (Lake Manyara Region, Tanzania)
- 08/2017 – Witnessed a full solar eclipse in totality (Wyoming, USA)
- 08/2017 – Learn how to drive a manual-transmission car (proficiently) (a bit late for this one!)
- 06/2017 – Brew my own beer (tepache pineapple beer)
- 04/2017 – Explore Madagascar
- 05/2016 – Learn to surf (Bali, Indonesia)
- 04/2016 – Visit the Bonin Islands, the “Galapagos of the Orient” (Japan)
- 04/2016 – Attend the Onbashira festival (Suwa, Japan)
- 01/2016 – See the Northern Lights (Tromsø, Norway)
- 12/2015 – Visit Western China (Kashgar, Xinjiang)
- 11/2015 – Visit Iran
- 07/2015 – Visit Venice, Italy
- 07/2015 – Attend Yacht Week (Split, Croatia)
- 05/2015 – Skydive (Berlin, Germany)
- 04/2015 – Dinner with Richard Branson (Marrakesh, Morocco)
- 04/2015 – Attend an Ayahuasca Ceremony (Huaraz, Peru)
- 04/2015 – Cruise the Amazon (Iquitos, Peru)
- 04/2015 – Visit Machu Picchu
- 01/2015 – Stay at a luxury resort in the Maldives (Conrad Rangali Island)
- 01/2015 – Swim up-close with a whale shark (Maldives)
- 11/2014 – Attend the Loi Krathong Lantern Festival (Chiang Mai, Thailand)
- 09/2014 – Attend Oktoberfest (Munich, Germany)
- 09/2014 – Learn to juggle (Barcelona, Spain)
- 06/2014 – Visit Myanmar
- 05/2014 – Visit Sikkim, India
- 02/2014 – Attend the (in)famous Full Moon Party on Koh Phangan Island (Thailand)
- 10/2013 – Create a podcast (Adventure Metrics)
- 08/2013 – Attend Burning Man (Nevada, USA)
- 12/2012 – Helicopter ride (Reunion Island, Indian Ocean)
- 11/2012 – Swim with Great Whites (South Africa)
- 11/2012 – Drive from England to Cape Town, South Africa (Shoebaru Charity Rally)
- 10/2012 – See the great wildebeest migration (Serengeti, Tanzania)
- 10/2012 – Whitewater rafting on Class 5 rapids (Zambezi River, Zambia)
- 09/2012 – Visit the stone churches of Lalibela, Ethiopia
- 08/2012 – Hot air balloon ride (Luxor, Egypt)
- 08/2012 – Sail the Nile (Aswan-Luxor, Egypt)
- 08/2012 – See the Pyramids of Giza (Cairo, Egypt)
- 08/2012 – Experience the month of Ramadan in the Muslim world (Tunisia-Libya-Egypt)
- 07/2012 – Visit over 30 countries on all seven continents by 30 years of age
- 06/2012 – Fly in a restored World War II-era B-17 Flying Fortress (Ohio, USA)
- 04/2012 – Be interviewed on live TV (Fox 2, Detroit)
- 09/2011 – Visit Bhutan
- 08/2011 – Receive my motorcycle operator license
- 07/2011 – Go paragliding (Oludeniz, Turkey)
- 07/2011 – Rent a private yacht with friends and sail the Mediterranean (Turkey & Greece)
- 03/2011 – Solo road trip across the US (Detroit-Los Angeles-Detroit, 66 days)
- 02/2011 – Start an international company (Pamoja Safaris, Ltd., Tanzania)
- 08/2010 – Climb Kilimanjaro (Tanzania)
- 08/2010 – Go on a safari in Africa
- 05/2010 – Be featured on the cover of a magazine (The Rotarian)
- 05/2010 – Become SCUBA Certified (Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles)
- 02/2010 – Give a recorded presentation in front of a live audience (Mongol Rally Recap, Detroit)
- 12/2009 – Visit Angkor Wat (Cambodia)
- 09/2009 – Help build a school (Mongolia)
- 09/2009 – Complete a full marathon (with zero training) (Gobi Desert, Mongolia)
- 09/2009 – Travel on the Siberian Express (Novosibirsk, Russia to Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia)
- 08/2009 – Learn to read/write the Cyrillic alphabet
- 08/2009 – Drive across the world (England-Tajikistan, Mongol Rally)
- 04/2009 – Be interviewed on live radio (89X, Detroit)
- 08/2008 – Fly in a fixed-wing glider aircraft
- 01/2006 – Visit Antarctica
- 04/2004 – Throw a release party for my own album (2900, EP)
- 12/2002 – Learn to snowboard (Nagano, Japan)
- 05/2002 – Start my own company (mSeven Media, Inc., Detroit)
- 12/2001 – Become fluent in a foreign language (Japanese)
- 11/2001 – First paid DJ gig (Kyoto, Japan)
- 08/2001 – Climb Mount Fuji (Japan)
- 08/2001 – Bungee jump (Osaka, Japan)
- 03/2001 – See the cherry blossoms in Japan
- 07/1996 – Climb the Great Wall of China
