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List of goals (test)

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

Explore

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Goal Achieved Description Comments
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:

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Goal Achieved Description Comments
9. The Congo
10. New Guinea
11. Brazil
12. Borneo
13. The Sudan
14. Australia
15. Kenya
16. The Philippines
17. Tanzania
18. Ethiopia
19. Nigeria
20. Alaska

Climb

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Goal Achieved Description Comments
21. Mount Everest
22. Mount Aconcagua
23. Mount McKinley
24. Mount Hauscaran
25. Mount Kilimanjaro
26. Mount Ararat
27. Mount Kenya
28. Mount Cook
29. Mount Popocatepetl
30. The Matterhorn
31. Mount Rainier
32. Mount Fuji
33. Mount Vesuvius
34. Mount Bromo
35. Grand Tetons
36. Mount Baldy, California

General

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Goal Achieved Description                    Comments
37. Carry out careers in medicine and exploration (studied premed, treats illnesses among primitive tribes)
38. Visit every country in the world (30 to go)
39. Study Navaho and Hopi Indians
40. Learn to fly a plane
41. Ride horse in Rose Parade

List of goals

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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:

  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

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