Quests

  • get a Masters and/or PhD
  • make an academic contribution to physics, math or philosophy
  • continually find my callings (professionally)
  • do a long distance thru-hike or backpack
  • do a long distance bike ride
  • visit: Oregon coast, Yosemite, New Orleans, upstate New York, Maine, Hawaii, Alaska, Antarctica, Isle of Skye, more of Scotland & Ireland, Iceland, Switzerland, Norway, New Zealand, Germany
  • spend quality time in all 50 states (36/51 so far)
  • visit all continents
  • ride in a hot air balloon
  • ride in a sail plane
  • ride in a helicopter
  • go on a cruise
  • go to the opera (the dress-up-outrageously kind, say in NYC)
  • write a book
  • see a tornado or experience a hurricane
  • stay up on waterskis for e.g. more than a minute
  • snowboard or ski at all Colorado resorts (10/25 so far)

Every Day
  • think about who I am and what I want
  • stretch
  • laugh, make someone laugh
  • smile, make someone smile
  • explore somewhere new
  • learn something new
  • meet someone new
  • make (or re-make) something
  • clean, fix or improve something
  • read something
  • write something
  • do something that scares me
  • make a mistake or break a ‘rule’
  • take a risk
  • start something
  • finish something
  • fail at something
  • succeed at something