Bucket List

Visit all 196 countries in the world
Live with the Mursi people of Ethiopia
Write a book
Get my book published by an established publishing house (Turbine)
See a wild Polar Bear (Svalbard, minus 22 degrees celsius)
Drink palm wine with the tribal people of Papua New Guinea
~~Drive slalom between bisons on a snowmobile in Yellowstone~~
Stand on the top of an erupting volcano
Take the kids to Afghanistan
~~Getting shot at with burning arrows (as an extra in the movie Fatahillah”, Indonesia, 1997)~~
Visit all 7 continents before the age of 30
See mountiain gorillas in the wild
Eat blood sauce in Benin
Visit all the countries of Europe, North America, Caribbean, Antarctica, South America, Pacific, Asia, Africa
Dive with great white sharks
Visit the North Pole
Get to the final of an international Photo Competition. Win an international Photo Competition
Hand feed a wild hyena
Photograph my daughter hand feed a wild hyena
Witness a satanic Poro ceremony in Cote D’ivoire
Overland (no flight) from Antarctica to Equator and from Equator to Alaska (solo 1999/2000)
Get my destination travel articles published in danish media covering 10,20,30,40,50,60,70,80, 90, 100, 110, 120, 130 countries
Appear on national danish television, international television
Get intervied by a danish magazine, intl magazine, danish newspaper, intl newspaper
Get interviewed by: DR aftenshowet, TV2 Go’ morgen Danmark, Jyllands-Posten, Politiken, DR Versus, P1, P3, P4, P5, 24Syv, Nova, Børneavisen, dr.dk, tv2.dk, bt.dk, Opdag Verden, KK Magazine (Norway), Counting Countries (US), Nomad Mania (UK) The Question (english/russian).
Spend 7 nights in a hammock on a riverboat traversing the Amazon River
Drive through Sahara in a 2WD Fiat Palio
Get first child before I was 35, second before 40
Buy a house. Pay of the mortgage.
Be financially independent
Witness the secret and illegal Mursi “Donga” (stickfighting) ceremony
Witness the ceremonial “Jumping of the bulls” with the Hamer people in Ethiopia
Sleep (family trip) in a Yurt in the mountains of Kyrgyzstan
See the great temples of Bagan, Burma and Angkor Wat, Cambodia
~~Sleep with a different woman on each of the 7 continents: 1,2,3,4,5,6 (bring your own gf of course counts..unfortunately I failed Antarctica..)~~
See the major waterfalls of the world: Salto Angel, Niagara, Iguazu, Victoria Fallshop, Kaieteur
Say hello to a Komodo Dragon
Overland (no flight) from Moscow to Bali (solo 1996/97)
Take the children on a Round the world trip (3 months in 2012 15 countries, 7 of these in the Pacific)
Travel 24 hours in the back of Mr Singhs (fully loaded) Bedford truck through the jungle of Guyana
Being shot at by the Khmer Rouge (Angkor district, Cambodia 1996- may have been some other random people- shooting in the jungle when we were passing with a public boat though)
Sleeping locally: Laos (Stilt house), Georgia (farm house), China (Monastery), El Salvador (priests house), Guatemala (fraternity house), Kyrgyzstan (Yurt), Ethiopia (camping with tribes) etc.
Travel with the children and an armed guard between Hageisa and Berbera, Somaliland
Being able to make a (decent) income from travelling (in stead of working in IT)

(and yes I know some of the stuff was not on my bucket list before I did them – so it’s sort of a mixed bucket/achievement list – but I thought some of the experiences were so great that had I known in advance I would have put them on!)