Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
– Steve Jobs
Here then, is my bucket list:
- Play in the WSOP Main Event
- Ride a water jetpack
- Experience Zero Gravity
- Go to space
- See Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights)
- Climb Mount Kilimanjaro
- Climb Mount Fuji
Visit Haleakala Crater at sunrise– almost done (visited way after sunrise. Oh well!)!- Visit Machu Picchu
- Visit Antarctica
Visit Alaska– ✅ Done!- Visit Iceland – ✅ Done!
See a glacier – Before they all melt🙁 – done and done!See an active volcano✅ Done!- Climb Sydney Harbor Bridge
- Visit South/East Africa: the Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya
- Visit South/East Africa: the Serengeti in Tanzania
- Visit South/East Africa: the Okavango Delta in Botswana
- Visit South/East Africa: the Kruger National Park in South Africa
- Visit South/East Africa: the Spectacular Namibian Sand Dunes in the Namib-Naukluft National Park of Namibia
- Visit Santorini – Greece
- Visit Hang Son Doong – GIANT (World’s largest) cave in Vietnam, pictures here
Visit Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the Tallest Building in the World– ✅ done!- Visit Japan’s futuristic underground flood control tunnel – constructed to protect capital Tokyo against flooding. You can apparently take a tour, details here on this Japanese-language website
- Visit Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route – wiki article here
- Visit Petra – Jordan
- Visit the pyramids in Egypt
- Visit the Parthenon, Acropolis and other sites in Athens
Visit the Colosseum in Rome✅ Done- Visit the Leaning tower of Pisa
- Visit the Taj Mahal
- Visit Torres del Paine National Park in Chile
Visit Niagara Falls– ✅ done!Skydive– ✅ done!Bungee Jump– ✅ done!Fly a fixed wing aircraft– ✅ done!Fly a helicopter– ✅ done!Visit Sequoia National Park– ✅ done!- Visit Salar de Uyuni (Bolivian Salt Flats)
Visit Iguazu Falls (Brazil – Argentina)– ✅ done!Visit the Capilano Suspension Bridge (Vancouver), official website– ✅ Done!- Visit Hamilton Pool Preserve (near Austin, Texas), official website
- Visit the Norwegian Fjords
- Visit the Galápagos Islands
- Visit Easter Island
- Visit Ladakh
- Learn to play a musical instrument
- Learn to speak and understand Spanish
Visit Vancouver, Whistler✅ Done- Visit Banff, Jasper
- Visit Everglades National Park
- See Komodo dragons
- Dive the Great Barrier Reef
- Visit Schlegeis Lake in Tyrol, Austria
- Spend 30 minutes in the quietest room on Earth: The minus-9.4-decibel anechoic chamber at The Orfield Labs in Minneapolis, MN
Visit Hagia Sophia– ✅ Done!Visit The Pantheon– ✅ Done!- Visit Cologne Cathedral
Visit the Statue or Liberty– ✅ Done!Visit the Sistine Chapel– ✅ DoneVisit St Peter’s Basilica– ✅ Done- Edinburgh Castle – St Margaret’s Chapel
Rijksmuseum– ✅ Done!Big Ben✅ Done!Sagrada Familia✅ Done!Alhambra– ✅ Done!Sydney Opera House✅ Done- Christ the Redeemer
Golden Gate Bridge✅ DoneRedwood Forest✅ DoneYosemite✅ DoneGrand Canyon✅ Done- The Acropolis replica in Nashville
- The Metropolitan Museum, NYC – ✅ Done
St. Vitus cathedral (Prague castle)– ✅ Done!- St. Basil’s Cathedral – Moscow
- Machu Pichu – Peru
The Alamo – San Antonio✅ DoneSt. Louis Cathedral – NOLA– ✅ Done- Notre-Dame Basilica (Montreal)