Bucket List

Last updated: October 6th, 2020.

This is a living, mostly unordered, and definitely incomplete list.

See also: Conquer Earth.

1. Drive the Carretera Austral, through Patagonia
2. Visit space
3. Step on every continent:
   1. Asia,
   2. Africa,
   3. North America,
   4. South America,
   5. Antarctica,
   6. Europe,
   7. Australia
4. Open and run a hotel
5. Tell people I’m gay 2013-2014
6. See the Northern Lights
7. Read 15 books in a year
8. Give a toast that people remember
9. Write and mail handwritten notes at least once a quarter for a year
10. Plan and execute a New Years Eve dinner party for 5 years in a row
11. Meditate consistently for 3 months
12. Drive the Amalfi Coast Road, Italy
13. Drive the Pacific Coast Highway
14. Visit Yellowstone
15. See the Mount Rushmore National Memorial, South Dakota August 2, 2020
16. See Chichen Itza, Mexico
17. See Christ the Redeemer, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
18. Start a company
19. Sell a company
20. Write a short story
21. Get published in a nationally-distributed periodical print publication
22. Get published in a book The 4-Hour Body, 2010
23. Stay in one place for a full year
24. Visit and see Machu Picchu, Peru September 5, 2019
25. Complete the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu
26. See a total solar eclipse
27. Work on something that touches more than a hundred million people 2015, Gawker Media
28. Create from scratch something that is used by more than a hundred million people
29. Fall in love
30. Get a pilot’s license
31. Get a motorcycle license
32. Visit Necker Island, British Virgin Islands
33. Have a meal with Barry Sternlicht
34. Meet Ray Dalio
35. Have a meal with Steve Bannon
36. Meet Elon Musk 2017
37. Meet Tim Cook
38. Meet J.J. Abrams
39. See Penn & Teller perform, and then meet them 2015
40. Meet Bill Gates 2018
41. Meet Marc Andreessen 2012
42. Have a genuine, wall-hung Picasso in my living room
43. Eat Uni Ikura in Hokkaido 2017
44. Live out of a backpack alone for 6+ months 2015
45. Skydive May 25, 2013
46. Go wine tasting in Napa May 26, 2013
47. Go wine tasting in Chianti September 17, 2020
48. Go wine tasting in France
49. Run a marathon
50. Eat at the top 10 restaurants on the Word’s 50 Best list within a year after the list is published
51. Eat at Noma, Copenhagen March 15, 2018
52. Eat at Eleven Madison Park April 24, 2017
53. Eat at Alinea, Chicago January 25, 2017
54. Have drinks at The Aviary & The Office, Chicago January 22, 2017
55. Eat at White Rabbit, Moscow
56. Eat at Gaggan, Bangkok February 23, 2020
57. Eat at Central, Lima August 19, 2019
58. Sleep on a luxury mega-yacht
59. Fly on a private jet
60. Own a private jet
61. Learn to cook well
62. Speak Spanish conversationally
63. Speak Spanish fluently
64. Become PADI Scuba certified May 25, 2014
65. Scuba dive in Thailand, off the Eastern Islands 2014
66. Scuba dive in Mexico 2016, 2017
67. Scuba dive in the Great Barrier Reef, Australia
68. Scuba dive in Sipadan, Malaysia
69. Scuba dive in Bali, Indonesia 2019
70. Scuba dive in Komodo, Indonesia
71. Scuba dive in the Shark and Yolanda Reef, Egyptian Red Sea
72. Ride in a helicopter 2017
73. Ride the trans-siberian railway from China to London (or London to China)
74. See actual lava
75. Shake the hand of the President of the United States (Update, 2020: or fist/shoulder-bump)
76. Sit in the Oval Office
77. Make $100 million in a single transaction
78. Give away a billion dollars
79. Get a college degree
80. Do not take any artificial drugs for 6 months
81. Buy a round of drinks for an entire bar, randomly 2016
82. Visit the Leaning Tower of Pisa, Italy September 19, 2020
83. Visit the Pyramids of Giza, Egypt
84. Visit Petra, Jordan January 10, 2020
85. Visit Galapagos, Ecuador
86. Visit London, UK December 28, 2012
87. Visit Paris, France January 12, 2013
88. Visit Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia May 22, 2014
89. Visit South America October 8, 2009 (Aruba), 2019 (Mainland)
90. Visit the Panama Canal, Panama 2019
91. Visit Mexico City, Mexico 2019 19 Visit Tuscany and Chianti, Italy September, 2020
92. Visit Antarctica
93. Visit Angkor Wat, Cambodia 2014
94. Visit Africa May 13, 2016
95. Visit the Sahara, Africa
96. Go on a safari in Africa Botswana/Namibia/Zambia/Zimbabwe, May-June, 2016
97. Visit the Li River, China
98. Visit India
99. Get to Everest Base Camp, Nepal
100. Visit Myanmar
101. Visit “The Hamptons”, New York July 2017
102. Visit the Colosseum, Rome Q1 2017 and again, more impressively, September 24, 2020
103. Visit the Great Wall of China 2014
104. Visit the Taj Mahal, India
105. Eat pizza in Naples, Italy September 26, 2020
106. Private 2013
107. Private 2014
108. Private 2014
109. Private 2012
110. Private 2012
111. Private 2016
112. Private 2016
113. Private 2017
114. Private 2017
115. Private 2017
116. Private 2018
117. Private 2018
118. Private 2018
119. Private 2019
120. Private 2019
121. Private 2020
122. Private 2020
123. Private 2020
124. Private
125. Private
126. Private
127. Private
128. Private

These items have become less interesting to me over time, but I don’t want to remove them entirely:

1. Live in Japan for 6+ months
2. Live in Bangkok for 6+ months