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im walking from calais in france down to south africa

Well I've done some of what I want, travelled down the Zambezi, Bunji jumped from Victoria Falls, crossed through the veldt and jungle on foot, hike Belize, crossed the Mojave, sailed the Gulf of Mexico, but there are two that have really crossed my eye lately.

1.)Camel trek across the Sahara.

2.)Cross country through the Gobi.

It may not be as glamorous as K2, but my ultimate adventure would have to be the north of Norway. No trees, total sunlight or darkness, poisonous plants swaying in the wind, no trees, and a landscape untouched.

give me a tent and some boots and some rations and I’d go walking for a month around their, grab a visa for Russian before I went and walk into Russia!!

For me, I think the ultimate adventure would be a solo, self-supported kite skiing trip across Antarctica. Probably, not viable on many levels, but, I'd settle for a trans Greenland trip instead.

I have a couple of ideas...

First: I'm with Sideways Elephant - sailing round and round the world would be great.

Second: Doing the Bicentennial Trail on Horseback - 2000+km of trail from the top of eastern Australia to the bottom through National Parks most of the way.

Third: Swimming with Whalesharks (I've already swum with White-tip reef's, Bronze whalers, Tiger shark and an enormous Shovel-nose so to swim with one that doesn't have teeth would be a novelty).

Fourth: Long time now I have wanted to do a Sea-Kayaking trip for a few weeks, hopping from island to island.

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Originally posted by halfnine:
For me, I think the ultimate adventure would be a solo, self-supported kite skiing trip across Antarctica. Probably, not viable on many levels, but, I'd settle for a trans Greenland trip instead.

That sounds amazing. Too bad you're set on a solo trip...

Performing a split and roll in an F16 ranks right up there.

I've always wanted to scuba dive in Antarctica. I'm grossly under qualify for that kind of diving though. Hopefully someday.


I also would love to learn to fly ultralights and go fly in remote locations all over the world. Flying out over a canyon or 20 feet over the rainforest canopy or .... I better stop day dreaming or I'll never get back to work.

I have plans to do all these:

Race in the UAE's World's Most Preferred Endurance Ride

Travel through the Andes on foot with a guide.

Do 1000 jumps by my 35th bday

Travel the Amazon river on a small river boat.

Run in the Baja 500 in a modded Cherokee.

Do Alaska to the tip of Argentina on motorcycles

Do Japan to Ireland on a moto.

And, England to South Africa in a Landie.

Cliff dive on every continent.

Sail around the world (and, take my time doing it).

Do some surfing in C. America, S. Africa, Aussie/NZ/Taz, Oceania, SE Asia...you know- all the cool spots.

Do a good bit of snowboarding (my favorite- never get to do it) in various locations.


I'm not one for climbing mountains, but I would definitely like to travel across a few ranges. Who knows. Maybe I'd like it. I'm a total adrenaline junkie.

Cross the Darien Gap on foot (yes... yes- I've heard everything from "that's incredibly stupid" to "that's not possible". I'd fed-ex my moto from to bmw dealership in Panama City to a dealership in Colombia and walk through. :P

Take the same journey as depicted in the Illiad and the Odyssey.

Bicycle through India

Hitchhike through the US...lmao.

I'm 20 now, so I've got quite a few years ahead to achieve these goals :P

a) Riding a bicylce up to Lhasa.
b) Riding 'home' to Switzerland through Pakistan and Iran.

I think the ultimate adventure would be to travel to Space. I would love that to see the earth from the outside surrounded by the darkness of space. But seeing as I'm unlikely to ever have enough money to take off my earthly goals will have to do.
Not a huge climber but I would like to climb a mountain (Mt Kosciusko doesn't really count in my book).

Definately sail around the world but that will have to wait until I move to somewhere remotely close to the coast to learn how to sail.

Walk the Kakoda Track

Go to the Antarctica

Travel around the world without flying.

Cross the Sahara on a camel

There are more and they change regularly

And if ever a discount space airline sets its self up then I'm there.

Man, you guys are giving me so many ideas... this is a TERRIBLE thread to read just before having to slouch off to my 2 pm lecture... sigh.

Someday!

I already have part of my ultimate adventure planned! Instead of RTW, I want to do an overland RTA (Round the Asia!). Or a Bisect The Asia. Not sure what you'd call it.

I'd start in Beijing, take the choo-choo train to Mongolia, cross in the West to Kazakhstan then down to Kyrgyzstan, then into China and take the Western Route into Tibet. From there, overland through Nepal and down into India. I figure to end up on a beach in Goa four to five months after starting.

Spring 2011 ... if anyone is game ...

To ride my bike around the world. I'll be taking off in June to ride from Alaska to Argentina with my husband and kids - so we'll do half of the journey there. If all goes well, we will seriously consider continuing on - flying to South Africa and cycling back north. That way we would go around the world north to south and back north again. Not the direction most people think of cycling around the world, but what the hey!

Mine is kind of boring compared to all the ones that are on here. I'm afraid of heights, so the whole climbing Mt Everest thing is out...although i can't imagine how amazing that would be to stand on top of that mountain...feeling you conqured the world!

I honestly would buy a nice sailboat...and just sail around the caribbean for a few months - listening to Bob Marley and Jimmy Buffett...kind of boring, i know...

Sailing is still an adventure, one I would dearly love to do sometime.

I've got a new one:

Hike the American Discovery Trail end to end. Delaware to California.

I start cycling around South America 2 Mondays from now.

(i use around loosely.. through and around really)

Oneday id like to get into adventure racing, and..

Hopefully sailing sometime once i return home.

The ULTIMATE adventure?

1. I wanna drive all around my country Australia. And stand at the very tip where the sign says, "You are standing on the northern most point of the Australian mainland."
2. Camel riding along the beach at Broome
3. Backpack through Asia
4. Walk along the Great Wall of China
6. See Machu Picchu
5. Learn to ski
7. Climb the Matterhorn
8. Go to Marrakech and go on a camel safari
9. Go to the top of the Empire State Building
10. Visit every country in the world

Since I'm in New Zealand for a year and I love hiking/camping/scenery/etc, I've set a goal for myself to complete all nine Great Walks by the time I go home to Canada.