My Bucket List

This is a work in progress.

Bucket List

  • Run a marathon (2004)
  • Learn to row (2007)
  • Visit Switzerland (2008)
  • Get a professional massage (2009)
  • Learn to play the cello (2010)
  • Climb a 5.10a (2010)
  • Get my nose pierced (2010)
  • Travel solo overseas (2012)
  • Achieve financial independence (2012)
  • Quit my job (2012)
  • Ride my bike nekkid in the Fremont Solstice Parade (2014)
  • Get a tattoo (2015)
  • Take a sailing class (2015)
  • Do a solo backpacking trip (2015)
  • Live overseas (2016)
  • Visit with Tibetans (2018)
  • Speak Spanish fluently (2019)
  • Visit Alaska (2019)
  • Stand-up paddle board (2020)
  • Build and live in a tiny house (2020)
  • Write a book (in progress)
  • Sail across the ocean
  • Hike the Wonderland Trail
  • Hike the John Muir Trail
  • Do a triathlon

Bicycle Touring Bucket List

North America
  • Pacific Coast (2012)
  • Columbia Gorge (2013)
  • US Cross-Country (2013)
  • Crater Lake (2014)
  • Sierra Cascades (2014)
  • The Olympic Peninsula (2015)
  • The Icefields Parkway (2015)
  • Great Divide (2017)
  • RAMROD (fully loaded, multiple days are okay)
  • Idaho Hot Springs Loop
  • Grand Canyon (North Rim)
  • Sawtooth Mountains (Idaho)
  • Blue Ridge Parkway (North Carolina)
  • The Golden Triangle (Alaska)

South America
  • The Lake District (2016)
  • Carretera Austral (2016)

Europe
  • Spain (2017)
  • EuroVelo Route #8
  • Iceland

Asia
  • The Friendship Highway (Lhasa --> Kathmandu)
  • Vietnam
  • Cambodia
  • Thailand
  • Laos
  • The Stans

Oceania
  • New Zealand (South Island) -- also hiking Milford & Routeburn Tracks