John Goddard wrote down this list of things he wished to do before his death at age 15. By age 74 he had accomplished 111 of 127 of these goals. Here is the list, an asterix indicates that he achieved this goal.

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:

9. * The Congo
10. * New Guinea
11. * Brazil
12. * Borneo
13. * The Sudan (nearly buried alive in a sandstorm)
14. * Australia
15. * Kenya
16. * The Philippines
17. * Tanganyika (Now Tanzania)
18. * Ethiopia
19. * Nigeria
20. * Alaska

CLIMB:

21. Mt. Everest
22. Mt. Aconcagua, Argentina
23. Mt. McKinley
24. * Mt. Hauscaran, Peru
25. * Mt. Kilimanjaro
26. * Mt. Ararat, Turkey
27. * Mt. Kenya
28. Mt. Cook, New Zealand
29. * Mt. Popocatepetl, Mexico
30. * The Matterhorn
31. * Mt. Rainier
32. * Mt. Fuji
33. * Mt. Vesuvius
34. * Mt. Bromo, Java
35. * Grand Tetons
36. * Mt. Baldy, California

OTHER

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

PHOTOGRAPH:

42. * Iguacu Falls, Brazil
43. * Victoria Falls, Rhodesia (Chased by a warthog in the process)
44. * Sutherland Falls, New Zealand
45. * Yosemite Falls
46. * Niagara Falls
47. * Retrace travels of Marco Polo and Alexander the Great

EXPLORE UNDERWATER:

48. * Coral reefs of Florida
49. * Great Barrier Reef, Australia (photographed a 300-pound clam)
50. * Red Sea
51. * Fiji Islands
52. * The Bahamas
53. * Explore Okefenokee Swamp and the Everglades

VISIT:

54. * Great Wall of China
55. * Panama and Suez Canals
56. * Easter Island
57. * The Galapagos Islands
58. * Vatican City (saw the Pope)
59. * The Taj Mahal
60. * The Eiffel Tower
61. * The Blue Grotto
62. * The Tower of London
63. * The Leaning Tower of Pisa
64. * The Sacred Well of Chichen-Itza, Mexico
65. * Climb Ayers Rock in Australia
66. Follow River Jordan from Sea of Galilee to Dead Sea

SWIM IN:

67. * Lake Victoria
68. * Lake Superior
69. * Lake Tanganyika
70. * Lake Titicaca, S. America
71. * Lake Nicaragua

ACCOMPLISH:

72. * Become an Eagle Scout
73. * Dive in a submarine
74. * Land on and take of from an aircraft carrier
75. * Fly in a blimp, balloon and glider
76. * Ride an elephant, camel, ostrich and bronco
77. * Skin dive to 40 feet and hold breath two and a half minutes underwater.
78. * Catch a ten-pound lobster and a ten-inch abalone
79. * Play flute and violin
80. * Type 50 words a minute
81. * Make a parachute jump
82. * Learn water and snow skiing
83. * Go on a church mission
84. * Follow the John Muir trail
85. * Study native medicines and bring back useful ones
86. * Bag camera trophies of elephant, lion, rhino, cheetah, cape buffalo and whale
87. * Learn to fence
88. * Learn jujitsu
89. * Teach a college course
90. * Watch a cremation ceremony in Bali
91. * Explore depths of the sea
92. Appear in a Tarzan movie (he now considers this an irrelevant boyhood dream)
93. Own a horse, chimpanzee, cheetah, ocelot, and coyote (yet to own a chimp or cheetah)
94. Become a ham radio operator
95. * Build own telescope
96. * Write a book (On Nile trip)
97. * Publish an article in National Geographic Magazine
98. * High jump five feet
99. * Broad jump 15 feet
100. * Run mile in five minutes
101. * Weigh 175 pounds stripped (still does)
102. * Perform 200 sit-ups and 20 pull-ups
103. * Learn French, Spanish and Arabic
104. Study dragon lizards on Komodo Island (Boat broke down within 20 miles of island)
105. * Visit birthplace of Grandfather Sorenson in Denmark
106. * Visit birthplace of Grandfather Goddard in England
107. * Ship aboard a freighter as a seaman
108. Read the entire Encyclopedia Britannica (Has read extensive parts in each volume)
109. * Read the Bible from cover to cover
110. * 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)
111. * Become familiar with the compositions of Bach, Beethoven, Debussy, Ibert, Mendelssohn, Lalo, Liszt, Rimski-Korsakov, Respighi, Rachmaninoff, Paganini, Stravinsky, Toch, Tschaikosvsky, Verdi
112. * Become proficient in the use of a plane, motorcycle, tractor, surfboard, rifle, pistol, canoe, microscope, football, basketball, bow and arrow, lariat and boomerang
113. * Compose music
114. * Play Clair de Lune on the piano
115. * Watch fire-walking ceremony (In Bali and Surinam)
116. * Milk a poisonous snake (bitten by diamondback during photo session)
117. * Light a match with .22 rifle
118. * Visit a movie studio
119. * Climb Cheops' pyramid
120. * Become a member of the Explorer's Club and the Adventure's Club
121. * Learn to play polo
122. * Travel through the Grand Canyon on foot and by boat
123. * Circumnavigate the globe (four times)
124. Visit the moon ("Someday, if God wills")
125. * Marry and have children (has five children)
126. * Live to see the 21st century