I have a long list of things I hope to achieve in my life – most of them centered around travel! Some are big dreams that will take time, money, and dedication, while others are goals I’m eager to check off in the near future. Every time I accomplish one, it’ll be crossed off the list. And as I grow and explore more, new bucket list items will certainly be added along the way.
General travel goals
• Travel to every country and territory on Earth (88/254)
• Visit all seven continents (6/7)
• Visit all 18 islands in the Faroe Islands (17/18)
• Visit all inhabited islands in Denmark (41/78)
• Visit all Baltic islands (15/47)
• Visit all islands in the Scottish Island Bagging book (26/154)
• Visit all towns and villages on Greenland (18/72)
• Visit all US states (11/50)
• Three-month roadtrip through Scandinavia and the Baltics
• Ride the Trans-Siberian Railway
• Buy a van and try vanlife
• Live in another country for a year (Scotland, 2023-24)
• Study for a semester in another country (Greenland, autumn/winter 2018-19 & autumn 2019)
• Spend New Years Eve in another country (Ireland, 2015/16 & Greenland, 2018/19)
• Spend Christmas in another country (Greenland, 2018)
• Visit the geographic North Pole
• Visit the geographic South Pole
• Stand on the equator
History and culture
• Urnes Stave Church, Norway
• Petroglyphs in Alta, Norway
• The abandoned settlement of Pyramiden, Svalbard
• Visit a Sami family in Sápmi (Sweden, April 2015)
• Chernobyl and Pripyat, Ukraine (March 2019)
• Pompeii and Herculaneum, Italy (August 2024)
• Meteora, Greece (May 2018)
• Stonehenge, England (July 2009)
• Persepolis, Iran (January 2017)
• Bahá’í Gardens in Haifa, Israel (December 2019)
• Jerusalem, Israel/Palestine (December 2019)
• Old churches of Armenia
• Stay with nomads in Mongolia (April 2016)
• Taktsang Palphug Monastery, Bhutan
• Drive the Route 66, USA (August 2017)
• Meet the Amish in the USA (August 2017)
• Stay with an Amish family for a week
• Black Milk Clothing headquarters in Brisbane, Australia (December 2015)
Wildlife
• Polar Bear
• Penguin (Australia, November 2015 & Peru, July 2018)
• Kangaroo (Australia, November 2015)
• Koala (Australia, November 2015)
• Whale (Humpbacks in Ilulissat, Greenland, October 2018 & humpback and orcas in Alaska, August 2023)
• Arctic reindeer (Svalbard, April 2015)
• Wolf
• Puffins (Multiple times on the Faroe Islands since 2015)
• Orangutans (Malaysian Borneo, March 2016)
• Komodo dragon in Indonesia
• The Big Five in Africa
• Quokkas on Rottnest Island in Australia
• The Galápagos tortoise
• Sort Sol (North Germany, March 2019)
Natural phenomenons
• Aurora Borealis (Iceland in April 2015 & multiple times in Greenland and the Faroe Islands)
• Aurora Australis
• Midnight Sun (Svalbard, April 2015)
• Polar Night
• Total Solar Eclipse (Faroe Islands in March 2015, Indonesia in March 2016 & USA in August 2017)
• Annular Solar Eclipse
• Total Lunar Eclipse (Denmark, September 2015)
• Flowing lava (Fagradalsfjall volcano in Iceland, July 2021)
• Meteor (Nuuk, Greenland, January 2019)
• Meteor crater (Meteor Crater, USA, August 2017)
• Cherry blossoms in Japan (April 2016)
Special places
• Antarctica
• The Falkland Islands
• Nordkapp and Cape Nordkinn, Norway
• Svalbard (April 2015)
• Jan Mayen
• East Greenland (September-November 2019)
• Siorapaluk, the northernmost village in Greenland
• Shetland Islands, Scotland
• Fair Isle, Scotland
• St. Kilda, Scotland
• Transnistria
• Melilla and Ceuta, Spanish Morocco (July 2020)
• Azores, Portugal
• Bialowieza, the oldest forest in Europe (Belarus, October 2017)
• Kihnu Island, Estonia
• Yakutsk, the coldest city on earth, Russia
• Kola Peninsula, Russia
• Kaliningrad, Russia
• Zelenogradsk, the cat village in Kaliningrad, Russia
• North Caucasus, Russia
• Olkhon Island, Russia
• Sakhalin Island, Russia
• The Saatse Boot, Russia
• Big Diomede Island, Russia
• Little Diomede Island, Alaska, USA
• Altai Mountains, Russia/Mongolia/China/Kazakhstan
• Curonian Spit, Lithuania/Russia
• Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan
• Artsakh
• South Ossetia
• Abkhazia
• Socotra, Yemen
• Saudi Arabia
• Madha and Nahwa, Oman/UAE
• Afghanistan (May 2016)
• Gobi Desert, Mongolia (April 2016)
• Gates of Hell, Turkmenistan
• North Korea
• The Great Wall, China
• Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang and Tibet
• Galapagos Islands
• Easter Island
• Tristan da Cunha
• Pitcairn Islands
• New York, USA
• Grand Canyon, USA (August 2017)
• Alaska (July-August 2023)
• Autumn in northeast USA
• Nunavut, Canada
• Lesotho
• Tuvalu, the world’s least visited country
Outdoor
• Trek from East to West through Iceland
• Trek from South to North through Denmark
• Trek the High Coast Trail in Sweden
• Trek from Nuuk to Kapisillit in Greenland (September 2019)
• Trek from Qaqortoq to Igaliku in Greenland
• Trek from Kangerlussuaq to Sisimiut in Greenland
• Trek from Europe to Asia over the Ural Mountains in Russia
• Trek the Scottish National Trail
• Trek the Inka Trail in Peru (June 2018)
• Trek the Pacific Crest Trail from Mexico to Canada
• Walk Hadrian’s Wall in England
• Conquer all mountains in the Faroe Islands (66/340)
• Climb Mount Kinabalu in Malaysia (March 2016)
• Climb Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania
• Climb Table Mountain in Cape Town
• Climb an active volcano (Mount Batur, Indonesia, March 2016)
• Climb a mountain higher than 4000 metres (Mount Kinabalu, Malaysia, March 2016)
• Climb a mountain higher than 5000 metres
• Bike the length of a European river
• Fly in a hot air balloon
• Sleep in a tree house
• Polarplunging (Nuuk, Greenland, December 2018)
• Ride a snow mobile (Sweden, April 2015)
• Snowshoeing (Svalbard, April 2015)
• Horseback riding in Kyrgyzstan (May 2016)
• Snorkel in the Great Barrier Reef (November 2015)
• Sail through the fjords of the Musandam Peninsula in Oman