Plans

North America

• Raft some epic rivers
  • Middle fork of the Salmon
  • Colorado thru the Grand Canyon
  • At least a 3 day trip on the Rogue in Oregon
• Maybe a short backpack down Forbidding Canyon on the Navajo Indian Reservation.  It has gorgeous swimming pools, waterfalls, and great scenery.
• Havasupai Indian Reservation on the Grand Canyon.  The most beautiful water that I have seen anywhere in the world.  Giant waterfalls, thousands of swimming pools, in a lush green paradise next to a remote Indian village.
• Canyoneering in Arizona on the Mogollon Rim near Sedona.  Awesome canyoneering in warm Arizona with lots of fun pools, pretty slots, and gorgeous desert scenery.
• Swimming and Beach Camping on the Sea of Cortez!!! Just a few hours south of Arizona in Mexico is the beautiful Sea of Cortez.
• Canoe the Silver river in Florida
• Visit Yellowstone
  • Kayak Lake Yellowstone
  • Backpack North Rim of Yosemite Valley in early summer..May or June.
  • Backpack to Mr. Bubbles hot springs.  Stay at Ferris Fork Campsite (9D1)
• Learn enough mountaineering to climb Ranier
• Explore Alaska
  • Katmai National Park in Alaska
• 3 or 4 day kayak trip in Washington’s San Juan Islands.

The America’s south of the US

• Easter Island
• Galapagos Islands  January 2010.
• Ski Chile or Argentina during the US Summer
• Bike World’s Most Dangerous Road
• Salar de Uyuni during the wet season.
• Motorcycle all the way down to the southern tip.
• Ambergris Cay and Blue hole in Belize.
• See Tikal and raft the Cahabon River in Guatamala.
• Copper Canyon in Mexico
• Drive my jeep up and down the Baja peninsula, camping on beaches along the way.

Africa

• Bungee Jump over Victoria Falls
• See the pyramids in Egypt
• Visit Mountain Gorillas
• Scuba Dive in Mozambique.  August 2009.
• Visit the western oasises in Egypt
• Climb Kilimanjaro
• Visit the Serengetti during the annual migration
• Go white water rafing on the Nile
• Go white water rafting below Victoria Falls
• Botswana Okavango Delta (Again with a better camera!)
• Visit Ghana, Mali, etc.
• Morocco including the Rif mountains.

Asia

• Drive/Bike/Motor the Karakoram Highway
• Potala Palace in Tibet
• Terracotta warriors in Xian, China.
• Visit the Gobi desert.
• Visit India.
• Nepal…Saragamatha national park, rafting, etc. April 2010.
• Tokyo Japan, Mt. Fuji, etc.
• The ‘stans.

Europe

• Visit Sicily and see the volcanos there
• Visit Stonehenge
• Go to Oktoberfest in Munich.  September 2001
• Drink Absinthe in Prague  September 2001
• Drive the Alsace wine route in France between Strasbourg to Mulhouse
• Visit the Croatian Dalmation Coast
• Iceland
• Scandanavian Fjiords
• Cappadocia in Turkey
• Greek Islands, and the meteora.

Australia/New Zealand/Pacific Islands

• Drive 4×4 in Oz..Cairns to Broome
• See Uluru  December 2002
• Visit Rarotonga  February 2009
• See volcanos and land diving by the navives on Vanauatu.  The ocean diving is good as well.
• See a total eclipse of the sun

Antarctica

• Winter at the South Pole  2002, 2004
• Summer at Palmer
• Sail to Antarctica from New Zealand 2006, 2007
• Visit the Dry Valleys 2007
• South Georgia Island

Dive Locations

• Dive one of the Aggressor liveaboards (Fiji, Palau, etc)
• Dive the Maldives
• Dive Bikini Atoll
• Dominica in the Caribbean
• Bonne Terre Mine in Missouri
• Yap islands in Micronesia

Colorado Adventures

• Take the Durango – Silverton railway halfway for the Chicago Basin hike. Climb Eolus, Sunlight and Windom.
• Backpack to Conundrum hot springs.
• Bike the Monarch Crest trail.
• Bike the Continental Divide trail
• Overnight backpack to Black Canyon of the Gunnison.
• 4×4 Medano Pass road to Mt. Herard for great view over Great Sand Dunes in Colorado.
• West Maroon Pass in late July for wildflowers.

Skills to Learn

• Surfing (more than just standing up)
• White water kayaking