Bucket List

1. Travel to all 50 U.S. states (completed 2012, Alaska)

2. Discover a new species (Metallosphaera Yellowstonensis Spherical Virus, 2012)

Alaska. Travel to all 50 states

Alasksa – state # 50!

3. Set a world record (Three Peaks Challenge, 2016, Bali)

4. Go to the Olympics

5. Argue a case in a court of law (2010, Denver)

6. Get a piece of writing published in a magazine (Bozeman Outdoor, 2013)

7. Obtain a second Passport

8. Become a bestselling author (Better Business Book, January 2017, Superconductors, July 2018)

9. Drink “the best beer in the world” from Westvleteren Brewery in Belgium (April 2016)

10. Run alongside riders at Le Tour de France

11. Design and produce a piece of clothing (Shoes, Hoi An, Vietnam, 2014)

12. Become a millionaire (Net worth U$D  1,000,000)

13. Go to Space

Three Peaks Challenge Art of Adventure World Record

World Record Setting Team on Mount Abang

14. Trek through the Sahara on camels to see the pyramids (like Coelho’s The Alchemist)

15. Win a Macarthur “Genius” fellowship

16. Grow podcast to 100,000 downloads (January 2017)

17. Speak or teach at my Alma Mater – Macalester College

18. Go cave diving (Roubidoux Springs, Missouri, November 2017)

19. Fly an airplane

20. Own a custom suit (Hoi An, Vietnam, 2015)

21. Attend a movie premier (Ubud, Bali 2016)

22. Learn to dance the two step (Bozeman, MT 2013)

23. Duel with banjos

Discovering a new species in Yellowstone National Park

Discovering a new species in Yellowstone National Park

24. Run with the bulls in Pamplona

25. Write and publish a comic strip

26. Receive an adventure award

27. Found or build a school

28. Sleep in a Castle (Grad Otočec, Slovenia, July 2017)

29. Make a room size photo of an epic landscape

30. Harvest grapes and make wine with them

31. Hang out with Tim Ferriss

32. Walk on a glacier (Alaska, 2012)

33. See a whale in the wild (Alaska, 2012)

34. Own an island

35. Dine in Paris’ catacombs

36. Go paragliding (Golden, Colorado, 2011)

37. Own a hand painted bicycle (Grafitti art wheels, March 2019)

38. Sell a photograph (Outside Bozeman Magazine, 2013)

39. Bike across a continent

40. Endow a university faculty position

41. Climb Mt. Kilimanjaro

42. Save someone’s life (as a lifeguard, 2002)

43. Sleep in a treehouse

44. Hang ten on a surfboard (Longboard, 2015, Canggu, Bali)

45. Own an orchard farmhouse in the mountains

46. Sell a company I founded

47. Deadlift 2x my bodyweight

48. Go to Burning Man

49. Start an annual conference

50. Visit the Great Wall of China

51. Live on the Mediterranean coast (Malaga, Spain, 2007)

52. Visit the Fjords of Norway

53. 10K Instagram followers 100,000 Instagram followers

54. Get paid $5,000+ to give a speech (currently at $1500 in 2018)

55. Visit the cliff-carved temple at Petra that was in Indiana Jones

56. Live on board a Sailboat (2004, Australia)

57. Visit indigenous tribes people (Hmong mountain tribes of northern Vietnam, 2014)

58. Have my own theme song (I use it as intro music for the Art of Adventure Podcast)

59. Visit Lake Baikal, Russia

60. Cycle the Beartooth Pass out of Redlodge, MT (2013)

61. Go to the world cup soccer tournament

62. Catch a deep sea fish (Alaska, 2013)

63. Become a Dr. Duke, Sir, or other cool title (Lord Loudermilk of Sealand, 2016)

64. Meet the Dalai Lama

Visiting Angkor Wat at Sunrise Derek Loudermilk

Angkor Wat at Sunrise

65. Shoot a flaming arrow to light a fire

66. Ski the Birkebeiner in Norway

67. Create a new fermented food or beverage (Komboozecha – Beer and Kombucha mix, 2013)

68. Play in an African drum circle in West Africa

69. Visit Angor Wat in Cambodia (September, 2014)

70. Learn a martial art

71. SCUBA Dive between two tectonic plates in Iceland

72. Ski Chamonix

73. Organize a cyclocross race

74. Attend Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany (September 16, 2017)

75. Drive an orange Lamborghini

Handstand Bucket List Derek Loudermilk

Handstanding in Bali

76. Go on an Ayahuasca journey (2016)

77. Hold a handstand for two minutes (January, 2016)

78. Own a motorcycle

79. Sing Karaoke (St. Louis, MO, 2015)

80. Paint street art or graffiti (March 20, 2016, Ubud, Bali)

81. Visit Jiro’s sushi restaurant in Japan

82. Go hot air ballooning in Cappadocia, Turkey

83. Learn to Salsa Dance

84. Speak three languages fluently (English, Spanish – 2018)

85. Do a backflip (into the Adriatic sea, Zadar Croatia, 2017)

86. Learn to falcon

87. Visit the Atacama desert

88. Make an adventure documentary (Baja, Mexico, 2017)

89. Visit Machu Picchu

90. Participate in Carnival in RioDerek Loudermilk Grafitti

91. Raft the Grand Canyon

92. Learn to vault in parkour (Brussels, Belgium 2016)

93. Learn a magic trick (card trick, Bali, 2015 New Years Eve)

94. Ride RAGBRAI

95. Go ice climbing

96. Own a map that is 200+ years old

97. Climb Mt. Ranier in Washington

98. See Angel Falls and the South American Tepuis

99. Learn to play the guitar and write a song

100. Learn to mountaineer and summit a technical mountain

101. Publish writing or photos in National Geographic

102. Read the Bible and Koran in full

103. Have children and raise a family (My son was born Nov 23, 2016)

104. Ride the trans Siberian express

105. Make a pilgrimage to Nelson Mandela’s village

106. Hike Buckskin Gulch

107. Go Heli Skiing

108. Start an Adventure Grant to fund other’s adventures

109. Swim with whale sharks

110. Attend the Cannes Film Festival

111. Make my own jewelry

112. Visit Patagonia

113. Visit Antarctica

114. Attend a 10 day Vipasana silent meditation retreat

115. Visit a tea plantation in China

116. Fly a drone

117. Have a personal library with a secret passage behind the bookcase and a ladder going to the ceiling

118. Visit Harar, Ethiopia

119. Go Hunting, butcher, and eat an animal

120.Visit Easter Island

121. Visit Jerusalem

122. Deliver a TED talk

123. Learn Kite Surfing

124.

Courses/Certifications

  1. Yoga Teacher Training
  2. Videography/Video Production
  3. Master SCUBA Diver
  4. NLP training
  5. ALA training
  6. Nonviolent Communication Mediator Certification
  7. Learn to play GO
  8. Mountaineering Certification

 

Quests (Long term goal frameworks):

  1. Catalogue and document the worlds greatest traditional and native art, and put it into a comprehensive display
  2. Live at least three months on every inhabited continent (four down, Africa and South America left)