Adventure List – revised 12-17-01
1. Complete a 2 or 4 year college degree
2. Go Hang-gliding
3. Visit 20 National Parks in the US (Been to: Bryce Canyon, Zion, Grand Canyon, Denali, Katmai, Crater Lake, Olympic, North Cascades)
4. Stand on both sides of the equator
5. Explore inside an Egyptian Pyramid
6. Taste Absinthe
7. Ride the Orient Express
8. Read Canterbury Tales, see Chaucer’s grave in Westminster Alley
9. Climb to the top of a Mayan Temple
10. Publish an article in a magazine with over 200,000 circulation
11. Have 10 photographs published in a magazine or textbook
12. Sell screenplay and have it made into a movie
13. Go ghost-hunting in at least 5 different haunted locations (Winchester House; Alcatraz)
14. Go to Cape Town, South Africa and climb Table Mountain
15. Ride in a Submarine
16. See a Great White Shark from inside of a shark cage
17. Sky dive from a plane at over 10,000 feet
18. Publish a fiction book
19. Publish a book about travel
20. Explore a historical castle
21. See the temples at Angkor Wat
22. See “Old Faithful” erupt in Yosemite National Park
23. See the Grand Canyon
24. Swim with Dolphins and Manta Rays
25. Go to a koala Conservation Park in Australia
26. See the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas
27. Walk the Labyrinth at Chartes Cathedral
28. Go to the site of the OK Corral in Arizona
29. Have an appearance on a movie or TV show
30. Have my name be listed in the credits of a movie
31. Visit all major theme parks on theme park list
32. Go to the observatory at Mauna Loa, Hawaii
33. See the start of the Iditarod Dog Sled race
in Anchorage, Alaska
34. See a glacier calve into the ocean
35. See killer whales from a boat
36. Visit every state in America (to go: Nebraska, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Dakota, Kansas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Wyoming, Indiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Alabama, Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey, West Virginia, Delaware, Vermont, Connecticut, Iowa, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Massachsettes)
37. Travel through the top 225 populated cities in America
38. See an active volcano (flowing lava) from up close
39. Become self employed
40. Go Kayaking in Baja, Mexico
41. See Crater Lake, Oregon
42. Walk on the tree canopy bridge in the Amazon Rain Forest
43. Drive the Al-Can Highway
44. Volunteer in an animal rehabilitation program for at least 6 months
45. Visit Iceland
46. See the Eiffel Tower in Paris
47. Go to the Church of Stebbing in England
48. Go to the Coliseum in Rome
49. Kiss the Blarney Stone in Dublin
50. See a Polar Bear in the wild
51. Attend the Sundance film festival
52. Hunt for the Loch Ness Monster in Scotland
53. Hunt for Bigfoot in the forests of the Pacific Northwest
54. Go to Amsterdam
55. Go to my family’s homeland of Akan, Germany
56. Go to the Canary Islands in Spain
57. Walk in the Acropolis in Athens
58. Ride in a hot air balloon
59. Go Whitewater rafting in a class 3 rapids
60. Go to the Galapagos Islands
61. Climb the Statue of Liberty
62. Go to the observation level in the Empire State Building
63. Ride to the top of the Space Needle
64. See the Winchester Mystery House in San
Jose, California
65. Visit all 7 Continents (To Go: South America, Europe, Asia, Antarctica, Australia, Africa)
66. Go to the Great Barrier Reef in Australia
67. Ride on a Fan Boat in the Everglades
68. Drive in a circle around America, hitting Seattle, Los Angeles, New York and Atlanta
69. Visit 15 European Capitals
70. Join the Adventurer’s club
71. Join the Explorer’s club
72. Get 7 tattoos (2 down)
73. Go to Easter Island
74. Own five pieces of real estate (current: 1)
75. Learn to play guitar
76. Walk on the great wall of China
77. Find a Megladon Fossil in South Dakota
78. Go to the Natural History Museum in
Washington DC
79. See the Terra Cotta Army in Xian, China
80. Go on an official treasure hunting expedition
81. Collect photographic trophies of the following animals from the wild: dolphin, whale, giraffe, rhino, lion, cheetah & elephant
82. Drive the up the west coast from San Diego to Vancouver BC
83. Go to Hearst Castle
84. Read Dante’s Inferno
85. Descend in a mine shaft for over 2000 feet
86. Stand at the point of the Cape of Good Hope
87. Watch bats exit for feeding from a major bat cave
88. See Stonehenge
89. Hike the length of the Appalachian Trail
90. Climb Mt. Fuji in Japan
91. See Emperor Penguins in their native habitat
92. Swim with Nurse sharks
93. See Mount Rushmore
94. Visit Poe’s grave in Baltimore
95. Go to the Louvre in Paris
96. Travel to Costa Rica
97. Hike in the Great Smokey Mountains (KY)
98. See the sun rise on Mt. Everest from Nepal
99. Hike in the Valley of Fire in Nevada
100. See a tornado live
101.Go to Cannery Row in Monterey, CA
102. Ride in a gondola in Venice, Italy
103.Go in a solitary confinement cell in
Alcatraz
104. Walk on Bourbon Street in New Orleans
105. Visit Mexico during the Day of the Dead festival
106. Visit Roswell, New Mexico and watch for UFOs
107. Be backstage at a large event
108. Go to the homes of Hemingway in Key West, FL; James Joyce in Dublin; Jack Kerouac in San Francisco, CA; Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein
109. Go to the castle of Vlad the Impaler in Romania
110. Ride the chunnel from England to France
111. Ride in a hovercraft
112. Ride in a blimp
113. Go to Madagascar
114. Sail from America to England
115. Visit the Mammoth caves in Kentucky
116. Go to the site of the Salem witch trials in Salem, Mass
117. Go to the meteor crater in Winslow, AZ
118. See Niagara Falls
119. Get a Ph.D.
120. Go on a vortex tour in Sedona, AZ
121. Walk across the London Bridge in Lake Havesu City, AZ
122. Go to the Lost Dutchman museum in the Superstition mountains of AZ
123. Go to the 10 highest waterfalls in the world
124. Visit Cape Cod, Mass
125. Visit Mystic Seaport in CT
126. Go to America’s first Aquarium in Baltimore, MD
127. Go to the windiest place in America (Mt. Washington, NH)
128. Walk the freedom trail in Boston, Mass
129. Go to the Desoto Caves in Alabama
130.Walk on a Glacier
131. Visit Graceland in Memphis, TN
132. Explore the Carlsbad Caverns in NM
133. Visit Jewel Cave, Wind Cave and the Badlands national park in SD
134. Travel to Patagonia
135. See all movies on the compiled classic movie list
136. Read all books on the compiled classic book list
137. Go to Arches National Park in Utah
Drove from Erie, PA to Dallas, TX
Went caving
Lived in jungle of Fiji for 2 weeks
Washington DC: Went to American History Museum, Museum of Flight, walked by the white house, Lincoln memorial, National Monument
Current Adventures working on:
6. Taste Absinthe
8. Westminster Alley
20. Explore castle
26. Alamo