Life List
The Makings of my Life List
1. Hitchhike in the back of a rickety truck with chickens, goats, or other nervous livestock
2. Live on a beach for a year
3. Go one month without wearing shoes (and not getting tetanus)
4. Trip to Ushuaia and Antarctica
5. Everest base Camp with Alexis and Garrett
6. Ski in the Andes
7. Extended South American overlanding journey
8. Teach English in a remote town for six months
9. Mongolia
10. Borneo
11. Meet Amy Sedaris and cower in the shadow of her awesomeness…or tell her a joke that makes her cackle
12. Make a steady and sustainable income from Nomadderwhere
13. Sell a photo or an article to a National Geographic print magazine
14. Madagascar
15. Cuba
16. Become a capable flamenco and tango dancer
17. Learn how to do the windmill break dancing move
18. Obtain local recipes from every country I visit that can be recreated at home
19. Be able to run 5 miles at a fast jog without stopping
20. Build a table and chairs for my first personal residence
21. Get over my jitters of Scuba and learn how to dive Done December 29th, 2009
22. Cross a country border by foot, bike, boat, plane , auto, segway, self-propelled water vessel, dance, skates, skateboard, and get more creative with each new border
23. Suck it up and try some ballsy food like innards, camel, sea urchin, and anything not typical of an American suburban diet Done July 25, August 5 and December 2009 (Haggis, caviar, oysters, pig kidney)
24. Meet Anthony Bourdain, get him really drunk, and make him sing karaoke
25. Overland Central America from its top to bottom
26. Become an overlanding driver for Dragoman and work the Western China/Asia route or South America
27. Do a really long biking adventure
28. Camp for a long time
29. Road trip from Indiana to the West Coast
30. Return to Kashmir
31. Pakistan and Afghanistan…someday
32. Have a regular column in a well-respected travel publication
33. Become utterly devoted to an already-existing or self-founded charity that I connect profoundly with Done with The Nakavika Project
34. Have a gallery exhibition
35. Return to Wabash, Indiana and do something good
36. Grow old
37. Learn how to make reductions, sauces, and special preparation dishes with finesse and consistency
38. Have a family
39. Read a 300+ page book in one day
40. Find the perfect city I’m supposed to live in for the remainder of my life
41. Be an extra in a Bollywood movie
42. Climb Kilimanjaro
43. Pet a lion
44. Publish a book
45. Take weekly dance classes for the vast majority of my life
46. Sing a solo in a massive arena
47. Compose a song
48. Write a screenplay
49. Participate in La Tomatina in Bunol, Spain on the last Wednesday of August…and wear a snorkel mask
50. Road trip across Mexico
51. Learn how to make music mashups
52. Complete my 101 in 365 list at least once in my hopefully many years
53. Learn conversational Portuguese
…to be continued
