Bucket List

Below is a list of some things that I would like to do in my life, and a handful of things that I have done, that were on the list

Completed Items:

See a wild Snow Leopard

Spend at least 3 months consecutively (mostly) living on a boat

Travel by/with horse, donkey, camel, or goat for at least 2 weeks

See the Northern Lights

Attend the French Poetry Market in Paris, and learn French

Complete the Appalacian Trail

Complete the Pacific Crest Trail

Complete the Te Araroa in New Zealand (at least South Island)

Drive the entirety of the Pan-American Highway from Alaska to Argentina

Experience Gilgit Balistan in Pakistan, the highest cold desert in the world

Be able to do a human flagpole

See a tennis match at Wimbledon

Drive the North Yungas Road in Bolivia (Death Road)

Climb El Capitan in Yosemite NP

Summit Mount Chimborazo in Ecuador, the point on Earth closest to space

Go to the Uyuni Salt Flats in Bolivia

Visit all seven continents

Summit Mount Olympus, conquer Zeus

Complete Via Alpina

Run a sub 3 hour marathon

Travel over 50 miles on foot in a single day

Items left to complete

Complete the Camino de Santiago Portuguese (6 days, avg. of 30 miles per day, Feb-March 2023)

Become a dual pilgrim by completing El Camino de Santiago and Kumano Kodo in Japan

See an Opera at the NY Metropolitan Opera (Miss Saigon)

Live alone in a cabin in the woods doing nothing for a month (April 2021, Gap Year)

Run a half marathon (November 2023)

Traverse the entirety of the Minuteman Bike Path by running (from Bedford to Alewife)

Get ordained (Universal Church of Life)

Run a marathon (Belgrade, April 28, 2024. Official time: 4:21:50)

Join the Mostar Diving Club (attempted 5/20/2024, did not pass the training program, learned I don’t really enjoy diving, counting it with a huge asterisk. Still did a 40 foot dive into the coldest river in Europe!)

Run a marathon in under 4 hours (Manchester, New Hampshire. November 10, 2024. Time: 3:36:58:01)

Complete the Irish E8, walking 400 miles across Ireland from Dublin to Dursey Island, the last place the sun sets in Europe (16 days, ~25mi/day)

Complete the Via Podiensis and Camino de Santiago Frances, walking from Le Puy en Valey to Santiago de Compostella (~1050 miles, 51 days)

Celebrate Holi in India (Manali, March 3-4, 2026)

Complete the Vermotn Long Trail (273 miles, 60k vert gain) in 10 days, 3 hours (summer 2025)

Travel over 40 miles in one day by foot (Sarria to Melide, Spain, 40.2 miles)