Bucket List

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:

  1. Play in the WSOP Main Event
  2. Ride a water jetpack
  3. Experience Zero Gravity
  4. Go to space
  5. See Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights)
  6. Climb Mount Kilimanjaro
  7. Climb Mount Fuji
  8. Visit Haleakala Crater at sunrise – almost done (visited way after sunrise. Oh well!)!
  9. Visit Machu Picchu
  10. Visit Antarctica
  11. Visit Alaska – ✅ Done!
  12. Visit Iceland – ✅ Done!
  13. See a glacier – Before they all melt 🙁 – done and done!
  14. See an active volcano ✅ Done!
  15. Climb Sydney Harbor Bridge
  16. Visit South/East Africa: the Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya
  17. Visit South/East Africa: the Serengeti in Tanzania
  18. Visit South/East Africa: the Okavango Delta in Botswana
  19. Visit South/East Africa: the Kruger National Park in South Africa
  20. Visit South/East Africa: the Spectacular Namibian Sand Dunes in the Namib-Naukluft National Park of Namibia
  21. Visit Western Africa: the Pendjari National Park in Benin – from Lonely Planet article
  22. Visit Western Africa: the Réserve de Nazinga in Burkina Faso – from Lonely Planet article
  23. Visit Western Africa: the Mole National Park in Ghana – from Lonely Planet article
  24. Visit Western Africa: the Tiwai Island Wildlife Sanctuary in Sierra Leone – from Lonely Planet article
  25. Visit Western Africa: the Makasutu Culture Forest in The Gambia – from Lonely Planet article
  26. Visit Santorini – Greece
  27. Visit Hang Son Doong – GIANT (World’s largest) cave in Vietnam, pictures here
  28. Visit Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the Tallest Building in the World – ✅ done!
  29. 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
  30. Visit Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route – wiki article here
  31. Visit Petra – Jordan
  32. Visit the pyramids in Egypt
  33. Visit the Parthenon, Acropolis and other sites in Athens
  34. Visit the Colosseum in Rome ✅ Done
  35. Visit the Leaning tower of Pisa
  36. Visit the Taj Mahal
  37. Visit Torres del Paine National Park in Chile
  38. Visit Niagara Falls – ✅ done!
  39. Skydive – ✅ done!
  40. Bungee Jump – ✅ done!
  41. Fly a fixed wing aircraft – ✅ done!
  42. Fly a helicopter – ✅ done!
  43. Visit Sequoia National Park – ✅ done!
  44. Visit Salar de Uyuni (Bolivian Salt Flats)
  45. Visit Iguazu Falls (Brazil – Argentina) – ✅ done!
  46. Visit the Capilano Suspension Bridge (Vancouver), official website – ✅ Done!
  47. Visit Hamilton Pool Preserve (near Austin, Texas), official website
  48. Visit the Norwegian Fjords
  49. Visit the Galápagos Islands
  50. Visit Easter Island
  51. Visit Ladakh
  52. Learn to play a musical instrument
  53. Learn to speak and understand Spanish
  54. Visit Vancouver, Whistler ✅ Done
  55. Visit Banff, Jasper
  56. Visit Everglades National Park
  57. See Komodo dragons
  58. Dive the Great Barrier Reef
  59. Visit Schlegeis Lake in Tyrol, Austria
  60. Visit Bled, Slovenia
  61. Spend 30 minutes in the quietest room on Earth: The minus-9.4-decibel anechoic chamber at The Orfield Labs in Minneapolis, MN
  62. Visit Hagia Sophia – ✅ Done!
  63. Visit The Pantheon – ✅ Done!
  64. Visit Cologne Cathedral
  65. Visit Aachen Cathedral
  66. Visit Egypt Pyramids
  67. Visit the Statue or Liberty – ✅ Done!
  68. Visit Taj Mahal
  69. Visit the Sistine Chapel – ✅ Done
  70. Visit St Peter’s Basilica – ✅ Done
  71. Edinburgh Castle – St Margaret’s Chapel
  72. Rijksmuseum – ✅ Done!
  73. Big Ben ✅ Done!
  74. Sagrada Familia ✅ Done!
  75. Alhambra – ✅ Done!
  76. Sydney Opera House ✅ Done
  77. Christ the Redeemer
  78. Golden Gate Bridge ✅ Done
  79. Redwood Forest ✅ Done
  80. Yosemite ✅ Done
  81. Grand Canyon ✅ Done
  82. The Acropolis
  83. The Acropolis replica in Nashville
  84. The Metropolitan Museum, NYC – ✅ Done
  85. St. Vitus cathedral (Prague castle) – ✅ Done!
  86. St. Basil’s Cathedral – Moscow
  87. Machu Pichu – Peru
  88. Roskilde Cathedral
  89. The Alamo – San Antonio ✅ Done
  90. St. Louis Cathedral – NOLA – ✅ Done
  91. Notre-Dame Basilica (Montreal)

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