Why a Bucketlist?
So named after the movie where the rich and miserable Edward Cole played by Jack Nicholson meets poor and happy Carter Chambers (Morgan Freeman). Despite having nothing in common apart from their terminal illness, a deep friendship is forged when, between vomiting up Chemotherapy bile, the two decide to write down and pursue a list of the outlandish things they have always wanted to do.
I started the list sometime in 2008 when I was planning our family trip around the world. It has since then been undergoing a big overhaul, and today it looks like this. It will for sure change from now and till the day I die, but hopefully it will be all yellow by that time.
- Visit New Zealand (DONE 2008)
- Visit New York (DONE 2008)
- Visit Sydney (DONE 2008)
- Visit Los Angeles (again) (DONE 2008)
- Visit Phoenix (again) (DONE 2008)
- Drive up Highway 1 (DONE 2008)
- Visit San Francisco (DONE 2008)
- Visit Yosemite (DONE 2008)
- Visit Las Vegas (DONE 2008)
- Visit Kingry's (DONE 2008)
- Visit San Diego (DONE 2008)
- Visit Fraiser Island Australia (DONE 2008)
- Visit Mount Cook (DONE 2008)
- Visit Queenstown (DONE 2008)
- Ride around New Zealand in an Autocamper (DONE 2008)
- Ride around Australia in an Autocamper (DONE 2008)
- Visit London with my family (DONE 2017)
- Visit Rome with my family (DONE 2019)
- Visit Paris with my family
- Travel for a longer period with my family (DONE 2008-2009)
- Try paragliding
- See my kidz grow up (in progress and what a couple of nice kidz we have)
- Try River rafting
- See Grand Canyon again (DONE 2008)
- Ride the La Marmotte again (DONE 2012)
- Ride the Ötztaler Radmarathon again (DONE 2011)
- Love my wife unconditionally (ON GOING) still do after 25 years
- Stand on Preaches chair in Norway
- Vist Trolltunga, Norway
- Climb Via Ferrata in Italy
- Ride my bike up Stelvio Italy (not just on Bkool)
- Ride 10000 km in 365 days on my bikes (that would be a crazy year)
- Visit Norway in the summer
- Visit Machu Picchu, Peru
- Climb Mont Blanch
- Climb Elbrus in Russia 2018 (DONE 2018)
- Climb Aconcagua in Argentina (Corona changed the plans...lets see when I can go)
- Write a book....any book!
- Have a Christmas eve in Austria or Norway with lots of snow
- See Louvre in Paris
- Sleep in a shelter or tent w. my son (father/son trip)
- Visit Scotland (DONE 2016)
- Visit Iceland (again) (DONE 2013)
- Ride my bike up Mt. Ventoux from all sides in one day (DONE 2013)
- See as many U2 concerts as possible (but at least 5) (DONE 2017) +more to go
- Ride a multi stage MTB race (DONE 2015)
- Ride from Flensburg to Skagen on my bike in 2 days (Nice challenge)
- Visit Stonehenge in England
- Visit the Eiffel tower in France
- Visit New York with my family (again) + visit Washington DC
- Trek up to EBC in Nepal (DONE 2015)
- Learn to make a damn good risalamande (DONE 2019)
- Learn to make a good brown sauce
- Try and climb with ice axes (DONE 2018)
- Try Gorges climbing in France
- Try Downhill mountain biking in the french Alps (Oh yes what a great plan U got there)
- Trek up to EBC in Nepal with my wife