User:Cyberherbalist/John Goddard's Life List

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John Goddard's “Life List”. The asterisk or boldface denotes a goal he has achieved.

List of goals
EXPLORE:
 * 1) Nile River
 * 2) Amazon River
 * 3) Congo River
 * 4) Colorado River
 * 5) Yangtze River, China
 * 6) Niger River
 * 7) Orinoco River, Venezuela
 * 8) Rio Coco, Nicaragua

STUDY PRIMITIVE CULTURES IN:
 * 1) The Congo
 * 2) New Guinea
 * 3) Brazil
 * 4) Borneo
 * 5) The Sudan
 * 6) Australia
 * 7) Kenya
 * 8) The Philippines
 * 9) Tanzania
 * 10) Ethiopia
 * 11) Nigeria
 * 12) Alaska

CLIMB:
 * 1) Mt. Everest
 * 2) Mt. Aconcagua, Argentina
 * 3) Mt. McKinley
 * 4) Mt. Hauscaran, Peru 
 * 5) Mt. Kilimanjaro 
 * 6) Mt. Ararat, Turkey 
 * 7) Mt. Kenya 
 * 8) Mt. Cook, New Zealand
 * 9) Mt. Popocatepetl, Mexico 
 * 10) The Matterhorn 
 * 11) Mt. Rainier 
 * 12) Mt. Fuji 
 * 13) Mt. Vesuvius
 * 14) Mt. Bromo, Java
 * 15) Grand Tetons 
 * 16) Mt. Baldy, California 
 * 17) Carry out careers in medicine and exploration (studied premed, treats illnesses among primitive tribes)
 * 18) Visit every country in the world (30 to go)
 * 19) Study Navaho and Hopi Indians 
 * 20) Learn to fly a plane 
 * 21) Ride horse in Rose Parade

PHOTOGRAPH:
 * 1) Iguacu Falls, Brazil 
 * 2) Victoria Falls, Rhodesia (Chased by a warthog in the process) 
 * 3) Sutherland Falls, New Zealand 
 * 4) Yosemite Falls 
 * 5) Niagara Falls 
 * 6) Retrace travels of Marco Polo and Alexander the Great 

EXPLORE UNDERWATER:
 * 1) Coral reefs of Florida 
 * 2) Great Barrier Reef, Australia (photographed a 300-pound clam) 
 * 3) Red Sea 
 * 4) Fiji Islands 
 * 5) The Bahamas 
 * 6) Explore Okefenokee Swamp and the Everglades 

VISIT:
 * 1) North and South Poles
 * 2) Great Wall of China 
 * 3) Panama and Suez Canals 
 * 4) Easter Island 
 * 5) The Galapagos Islands 
 * 6) Vatican City
 * 7) The Taj Mahal 
 * 8) The Eiffel Tower 
 * 9) The Blue Grotto
 * 10) The Tower of London 
 * 11) The Leaning Tower of Pisa 
 * 12) The Sacred Well of Chichen-Itza, Mexico 
 * 13) Climb Ayers Rock in Australia 
 * 14) Follow River Jordan from Sea of Galilee to Dead Sea

SWIM IN:
 * 1) Lake Victoria 
 * 2) Lake Superior 
 * 3) Lake Tanganyika 
 * 4) Lake Titicaca, S. America 
 * 5) Lake Nicaragua 

ACCOMPLISH: 101. * Run mile in five minutes 102. * Weigh 175 pounds stripped (he still does) 103. * Perform 200 sit-ups and 20 pull-ups 104. * Learn French, Spanish and Arabic 105. Study dragon lizards on Komodo Island (Boat broke down within 20 miles of island) 106. * Visit birthplace of Grandfather Sorenson in Denmark 107. * Visit birthplace of Grandfather Goddard in England 108 * Ship aboard a freighter as a seaman 109. Read the entire Encyclopedia Britannica (Has read extensive parts in each volume) 110. * Read the Bible from cover to cover 111.* Read the works of Shakespeare, Plato, Aristotle, Dickens, Thoreau, Rousseau, Conrad, Hemingway, Twain, Burroughs, Talmage, Tolstoi, Longfellow, Keats, Poe, Bacon, Whittier, and Emerson (not every work of each) 112.* Become familiar with the compositions of Bach, Beethoven, Debussy, Ibert, Mendelssohn, Lalo, Liszt, Rimski-Korsakov, Respighi, Rachmaninoff, Paganini, Stravinsky, Toch, Tschaikosvsky, Verdi 113.* Become proficient in the use of a plane, motorcycle, tractor, surfboard, rifle, pistol, canoe, microscope, football, basketball, bow and arrow, lariat and boomerang 114. * Compose music 115. * Play Clair de Lune on the piano 116. * Watch fire-walking ceremony (In Bali and Surinam) 117. * Milk a poisonous snake (bitten by diamondback during photo session) 118. * Light a match with .22 rifle 119. * Visit a movie studio 120. * Climb Cheops' pyramid 121. * Become a member of the Explorer's Club and the Adventure's Club 122. * Learn to play polo 123. * Travel through the Grand Canyon on foot and by boat 124. * Circumnavigate the globe (four times) 125. Visit the moon ("Someday, if God wills") 126. * Marry and have children (has five children) 127. * Live to see the 21st century
 * 1) Become an Eagle Scout 
 * 2) Dive in a submarine 
 * 3) Land on and take of from an aircraft carrier 
 * 4) Fly in a blimp, balloon and glider 
 * 5) Ride an elephant, camel, ostrich and bronco 
 * 6) Skin dive to 40 feet and hold breath two and a half minutes underwater. 
 * 7) Catch a ten-pound lobster and a ten-inch abalone 
 * 8) Play flute and violin 
 * 9) Type 50 words a minute 
 * 10) Make a parachute jump 
 * 11) Learn water and snow skiing 
 * 12) Go on a church mission 
 * 13) Follow the John Muir trail
 * 14) Study native medicines and bring back useful ones 
 * 15) Bag camera trophies of elephant, lion, rhino, cheetah, cape buffalo and whale 
 * 16) Learn to fence 
 * 17) Learn jujitsu 
 * 18) Teach a college course 
 * 19) Watch a cremation ceremony in Bali 
 * 20) Explore depths of the sea 
 * 21) Appear in a Tarzan movie
 * 22) Own a horse, chimpanzee, cheetah, ocelot, and coyote (yet to own a chimp or cheetah)
 * 23) Become a ham radio operator
 * 24) Build own telescope 
 * 25) Write a book (About his Nile trip) 
 * 26) Publish an article in National Geographic Magazine 
 * 27) High jump five feet 
 * 28) Broad jump 15 feet