1. Travel to all 50 U.S. states (completed 2012, Alaska)
2. Discover a new species (Metallosphaera Yellowstonensis Spherical Virus, 2012)
Alasksa – state # 50!
3. Set a world record (Three Peaks Challenge, 2016, Bali)
4. Go to the Olympics
5. Argue a case in a court of law (2010, Denver)
6. Get a piece of writing published in a magazine (Bozeman Outdoor, 2013)
7. Obtain a second Passport
8. Become a bestselling author (Better Business Book, January 2017, Superconductors, July 2018)
9. Drink “the best beer in the world” from Westvleteren Brewery in Belgium (April 2016)
10. Run alongside riders at Le Tour de France
11. Design and produce a piece of clothing (Shoes, Hoi An, Vietnam, 2014)
12. Become a millionaire (Net worth U$D 1,000,000)
13. Go to Space
World Record Setting Team on Mount Abang
14. Trek through the Sahara on camels to see the pyramids (like Coelho’s The Alchemist)
15. Win a Macarthur “Genius” fellowship
16. Grow podcast to 100,000 downloads (January 2017)
17. Speak or teach at my Alma Mater – Macalester College
18. Go cave diving (Roubidoux Springs, Missouri, November 2017)
19. Fly an airplane
20. Own a custom suit (Hoi An, Vietnam, 2015)
21. Attend a movie premier (Ubud, Bali 2016)
22. Learn to dance the two step (Bozeman, MT 2013)
23. Duel with banjos
Discovering a new species in Yellowstone National Park
24. Run with the bulls in Pamplona
25. Write and publish a comic strip
26. Receive an adventure award
27. Found or build a school
28. Sleep in a Castle (Grad Otočec, Slovenia, July 2017)
29. Make a room size photo of an epic landscape
30. Harvest grapes and make wine with them
31. Hang out with Tim Ferriss
32. Walk on a glacier (Alaska, 2012)
33. See a whale in the wild (Alaska, 2012)
34. Own an island
35. Dine in Paris’ catacombs
36. Go paragliding (Golden, Colorado, 2011)
37. Own a hand painted bicycle (Grafitti art wheels, March 2019)
38. Sell a photograph (Outside Bozeman Magazine, 2013)
39. Bike across a continent
40. Endow a university faculty position
41. Climb Mt. Kilimanjaro
42. Save someone’s life (as a lifeguard, 2002)
43. Sleep in a treehouse
44. Hang ten on a surfboard (Longboard, 2015, Canggu, Bali)
45. Own an orchard farmhouse in the mountains
46. Sell a company I founded
47. Deadlift 2x my bodyweight
48. Go to Burning Man
49. Start an annual conference
50. Visit the Great Wall of China
51. Live on the Mediterranean coast (Malaga, Spain, 2007)
52. Visit the Fjords of Norway
53. 10K Instagram followers 100,000 Instagram followers
54. Get paid $5,000+ to give a speech (currently at $1500 in 2018)
55. Visit the cliff-carved temple at Petra that was in Indiana Jones
56. Live on board a Sailboat (2004, Australia)
57. Visit indigenous tribes people (Hmong mountain tribes of northern Vietnam, 2014)
58. Have my own theme song (I use it as intro music for the Art of Adventure Podcast)
59. Visit Lake Baikal, Russia
60. Cycle the Beartooth Pass out of Redlodge, MT (2013)
61. Go to the world cup soccer tournament
62. Catch a deep sea fish (Alaska, 2013)
63. Become a Dr. Duke, Sir, or other cool title (Lord Loudermilk of Sealand, 2016)
64. Meet the Dalai Lama
Angkor Wat at Sunrise
65. Shoot a flaming arrow to light a fire
66. Ski the Birkebeiner in Norway
67. Create a new fermented food or beverage (Komboozecha – Beer and Kombucha mix, 2013)
68. Play in an African drum circle in West Africa
69. Visit Angor Wat in Cambodia (September, 2014)
70. Learn a martial art
71. SCUBA Dive between two tectonic plates in Iceland
72. Ski Chamonix
73. Organize a cyclocross race
74. Attend Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany (September 16, 2017)
75. Drive an orange Lamborghini
Handstanding in Bali
76. Go on an Ayahuasca journey (2016)
77. Hold a handstand for two minutes (January, 2016)
78. Own a motorcycle
79. Sing Karaoke (St. Louis, MO, 2015)
80. Paint street art or graffiti (March 20, 2016, Ubud, Bali)
81. Visit Jiro’s sushi restaurant in Japan
82. Go hot air ballooning in Cappadocia, Turkey
83. Learn to Salsa Dance
84. Speak three languages fluently (English, Spanish – 2018)
85. Do a backflip (into the Adriatic sea, Zadar Croatia, 2017)
86. Learn to falcon
87. Visit the Atacama desert
88. Make an adventure documentary (Baja, Mexico, 2017)
89. Visit Machu Picchu
90. Participate in Carnival in Rio
91. Raft the Grand Canyon
92. Learn to vault in parkour (Brussels, Belgium 2016)
93. Learn a magic trick (card trick, Bali, 2015 New Years Eve)
94. Ride RAGBRAI
95. Go ice climbing
96. Own a map that is 200+ years old
97. Climb Mt. Ranier in Washington
98. See Angel Falls and the South American Tepuis
99. Learn to play the guitar and write a song
100. Learn to mountaineer and summit a technical mountain
101. Publish writing or photos in National Geographic
102. Read the Bible and Koran in full
103. Have children and raise a family (My son was born Nov 23, 2016)
104. Ride the trans Siberian express
105. Make a pilgrimage to Nelson Mandela’s village
106. Hike Buckskin Gulch
107. Go Heli Skiing
108. Start an Adventure Grant to fund other’s adventures
109. Swim with whale sharks
110. Attend the Cannes Film Festival
111. Make my own jewelry
112. Visit Patagonia
113. Visit Antarctica
114. Attend a 10 day Vipasana silent meditation retreat
115. Visit a tea plantation in China
116. Fly a drone
117. Have a personal library with a secret passage behind the bookcase and a ladder going to the ceiling
118. Visit Harar, Ethiopia
119. Go Hunting, butcher, and eat an animal
120.Visit Easter Island
121. Visit Jerusalem
122. Deliver a TED talk
123. Learn Kite Surfing
124.
Courses/Certifications
- Yoga Teacher Training
- Videography/Video Production
- Master SCUBA Diver
- NLP training
- ALA training
- Nonviolent Communication Mediator Certification
- Learn to play GO
- Mountaineering Certification
Quests (Long term goal frameworks):
- Catalogue and document the worlds greatest traditional and native art, and put it into a comprehensive display
- Live at least three months on every inhabited continent (four down, Africa and South America left)