My Bucket List
Things I’ve Already Done
- Meet the Dalai Lama
- Swim with sharks
- Hand feed a crocodile in the wild
- Win a dance battle in Prague
- Sleep under the stars in the Sahara Desert
- Jump out of a plane
- Float in the Dead Sea
- Celebrate Christmas in Eastern Europe
- Photograph a live surgery
- Eat sheep brains in Jemaa El-Fna
- Hike the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu
- Jump off a waterfall
- Dive with dolphins in the wild
- Go for a swim at 4 am on Christmas Day
- Use my Ivy League degree wisely
- Fly First Class
- Win a didgeridoo playing contest in a bar
- Have my work exhibited in a museum
- Sip champagne in the hot tub of a penthouse suite
- Drink a beer in a motel hot tub somewhere random
- Find my way back to a hostel at 5 am
- Stay in a 5 Star Hotel
- Start a fire without matches
- Hear Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony performed live
- Hitch a ride on the side of the road
- Back-flip off a pontoon
- Ride a motorbike during rush hour in Kuta, Bali
- Cross the street in Vietnam
- Slide down the slide of a volcano
- Train Muay Thai in Thailand
- Get colored at the Holi festival in India
- Take in the view from the tallest building in the world
- Drive through a giant Redwood tree
- Ride a camel in the desert
- Eat street meat without getting Delhi Belly
- Ride an elephant across a river
- Get a 3 hour massage
- People watch from a Parisian café
- Keep a journal for a year
- Play ping pong in an underground bar
- Surf in Australia
- Ride a mechanical bull shamelessly
- Walk around Stonehenge
- Eat fresh mutton on the side of a Moroccan road
- Do the whole coin thing in the Trevi Fountain
- Snorkel at night in the Great Barrier Reef
- Snowboard in fresh powder
- Snowboard indoors
- Climb an Arch at Arches National Park
- Learn only the best magic trick ever
- Have a cappuccino after my cappuccino in Rome
- Cook in a restaurant
- Finish a Spartan Race
- Learn to speak French or master the French accent
- Rock a Tough Mudder
- Soak in a thermal hotspring
- Climb Half Dome
- Paraglide
- Camp in the Yellowstone backcountry
- Use a machete in the rainforest
- Listen to Flamenco in Andalucia
- Cross from Europe to Asia by ferry
- Win a chicken-wing eating contest
- Dive the Red Sea
- Fall off a raft while peeing in the Amazon river
- Haggle for useless trinkets in a bazaar
- Sand board down a giant sand dune
- Get hassled at the Great Pyramids
- Get hassled at the Coliseum
- Celebrate Carnaval in South America
- Start my own business
- Hike the Annapurna Circuit
- Get soaked on the Maid of the Mist at Niagara Falls
- Wakeboard in a shark-infested river
- Explore Petra
- Spend Thanksgiving in Turkey
- Celebrate my birthday for over 24 hours
- See the Salar de Uyuni when it’s wet
- Make the news
- Get over 1,000,000 views on YouTube
Things I Want To Do
- Write a hit country song
- Run with the bulls in Pamplona
- Throw tomatoes at La Tomatina
- Climb Kilimanjaro
- Walk the Camino de Santiago
- Celebrate New Years on the International Dateline
- Ride the Vomit Comet
- Swim in a lake full of jelly fish in Palau
- Audition for a reality TV show
- Learn Parkour
- Bike from Berlin to Greece
- Complete the Spartan Trifecta and the Ultra Beast
- Kayak around a calving glacier in Alaska
- Experience the Aurora Borealis
- Go bushwhacking
- Use my Ivy League degree wisely
- Scuba with a whaleshark and a mola mola
- See an animal migration
- Watch the sun rise and set on all 7 continents
- Do an underwater photoshoot
- Ride the Orient Express
- Float in the bio-luminescent bays of Puerto Rico
- Climb Uluru
- Leave a meaningful 100% tip
- Stomp grapes in Tuscany
- Seek shelter in a yurt
- Ride a motorcycle through South America
- Standing dangerously close to an erupting volcano
- Summit a mountain over 18000 ft
- See Earth come into view from space
- Have a sushi breakfast at the Tsukiji fish market
- Get an 8 hour massage
- Meet Richard Branson
- Say hello to Park Ji Yoon in Korean
- Roast a whole pig somewhere in Eastern Europe
- Drive on the Autobahn
- Camp in the Serengeti
- Watch Roger Federer win a Grand Slam
- Gamble in Monte Carlo
- High Tea in London
- Go on a dinosaur dig
- See one of my photographs on a billboard
- Ride Trans-Siberian between Russia and China
- Zorb down a hill in New Zealand
- Have $1,000,000 in my bank account
- Learn to breakdance
- Eat a home cooked meal with a big Italian family
- Kayak down the Grand Canyon
- See a bullfight in Spain
- Do a fashion shoot for a major magazine
- Crash an Indian wedding
- Eat at French Laundry
- Join the National Geographic Society
- Get published in Vanity Fair
- Descend into the Cave of the Swallows in Mexico
- Go back in time in the Naica crystal mines
