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6 Nov 09 The Bucket List
Life is here to be lived, so I’ve decided to start living. This bucket list is very much a work in progress, but it will serve as a baseline for future updates:
- Become location independent (earn a living without being dependent on a specific location
- Write on my own initiative a piece of end-user software/webapp that at least 5000 people are willing to pay to use.
- Become conversational in Spanish
- Become conversational in German
- Become conversational in French
- Learn at least two additional languages so I can get by as a tourist (ie: be able to communicate in 8 languages).
Run another marathon (done one, Stockholm Marathon in 2004)- Complete a full Ironman event (2.4 miles/3.86 km swimming, 112 miles/180.25 km bike ride and a marathon 26 miles 385 yards/42.195 km run in one event)
- Climb the Seven Summits, highest peak on each of the worlds continents:
- Mount Everest, Asia (8848m)
- Vinson Massif, Antarctica (4892m)
- Kilimanjaro, Africa (5892m)
- Mount Kosciuszko, Australia (2228m)
- Elbrus, Europe (5642m)
- Mount McKinley, North America (6194m)
- Aconcagua, South America (6962m)
- Become debt free (including mortgages)
- Visit every continent
EuropeNorth AmericaAfricaSouth America- Asia
- Australia
- Antarctica
- Visit all remaining Wonders of the World (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Seven_Wonders_of_the_World )
Giza PyramidsColosseum, Rome- Machu Picchu
- Christ the Redeemer, Rio de Janeiro
- Chichen Itza, Mexico
- Great Wall of China
- Petra, Jordan
- Taj Mahal, India
Visit Iguazu Falls- See the Grand Canyon
- Visit the Serengeti
- Experience weightlessness (should be affordable in my lifetime)
- Try Parasailing
- Vist at least 50 countries (22 down)
- Learn Scuba diving
- Win a game in a competitive tennis tournament with 16 or more contestants
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Learn the basics of Krav Maga for self defense(done in 2009, not an expert, but I can handle myself) - Be “homeless” continuously for at least a year (see first point)
