EVENT
LOCATION
EXPERIENCE
PHOTO
Sky diving
1. Camarillo, CA
2. Chester, SC
3. Chester, SC
1. Dropped my shoe the first time.
2. Did a back flip the second time.
3. Jumped on my birthday the third time.
Surfing
1. Santa Monica, CA
2. North Shore, Maui, HI
1. Accidentally slammed my instructor in the face with the surfboard. He survived!!
2. Surfing in Hawaii was scary.
Snow Skiing
Sugar Mountain, NC
A couple of us slipped waiting in the ski lift queue and knocked out half the line.
Mud run
Tough Mudder
Ultimate Mudder
Seneca, SC
(2014, 2015)
Came back home with 17 bandages.
Turned my bathtub into a mud pool.
Para sailing
Goa, India
It was pretty chill. Got a nice view of Goa beaches from up there.
Flying a plane
Greenville- Anderson- Clemson- Greenville
Signed up for a beginner flight tutorial at the airport. The pilot gave me complete controls (except throttle). Flew over Death Valley!
Snowboarding
1. Ski Beech, NC
2. Sugar Mt., NC
3. Big Sky, MT
4. Jackson hole, WY
5. Aspen, CO
6. Highlands, CO
7. Snowmass, CO
8. Heavenly, CA
9. Winterplace, VA
-Thankful to my buddy Kyle Walter for taking me to all these places and training me.
-Went down a black diamond dragging myself on my butt the first day of snowboarding.
-Tried to go pretty fast and couldn't make a turn. Flipped a few times and landed on my head with a minor concussion.
Paragliding
Kashmir, India
Jumped off a cliff in dense fog. Close shave with a cliff. Landed in a beautiful meadow with wild horses running alongside.
Horseback riding
1. Matheran India
2. Pisgah, SC
3. Helen, GA
4. Greenville, SC
Our horses went out of control on cliffs of Matheran. Lead horse threw my cousin.
Swim to an island one mile away
Lake Hartwell-Peanut Island (my friend named it), SC
Stuffed our clothes and firewood in trash bags and used them as floats to swim to the island at night.
Rope Swinging
1. Rock Quarry, SC
2. Isaqueena, SC
3. Lake Keowee, SC
DNR cut down the tree after we did rope swinging here. :p
Sleeping in a cave
1. Himalayas, India
2. Kauai, Hawaii
-Got hallucinations in Himalayas.
-Got lost in Hawaii, followed a river out to a cliff beach. Found a cave in the cliffs and slept overlooking the milkyway.
Scuba Diving
1. Lake Jocassee, SC
2. Cayman Islands
(Carrebian)
Best part was having a lecture 20 feet under water.
Water skiing
Lake Keowee, SC
Stood up in my second try. Then fell flat on my face.
Visit all the states of India
22/26 States
U.P., Maharashtra, M.P., Haryana, Rajasthan, Karnataka, A.P., Gujarat , Orissa, Telangana, H.P., Goa, Assam, Chhattisgarh, T.N., J&K, Kerala, Punjab, Delhi, Jharkhand, Chandigarh
Flat water Kayaking
1. Lake Keowee, SC
2. Chareston, SC
and many more...
Ended up doing a Class III rapid on my first time kayaking ever.
Rapid water Kayaking
Chattooga river, SC
Class III, Class IV rapids. Chased my helmet for half a mile. Flipped off the kayak twice.
Midnight Rapid water Kayaking
Chattooga river, SC
Timed it on a full moon night. Didn't realize moon was not exactly 90 degrees. Got swept so many times in dark. Never doing this again!
Ice Skating
1. Dallas, TX
2. Chicago, IL
3. Greenville, SC
The first time I tried it, I fell and hurt my bum eight times.
Ride a Jet Ski
Cayman Islands
(Caribbean)
This thing was a beast! It rides so fast. Did a couple of 360's, chased some hight speed boats, and jumped some waves.
Wake Boarding
1. Lake Hartwell, SC
2. Lake Keowee, SC
Got it in my first try. Got over confident and tried a stunt. Fell FLAT on my face.
50 States of USA
Visited 48 / 50
(Oregon and Alaska
are remaining)
Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming.
Blowing up my Chemistry Lab
Hyderabad, India
Did not prepare for my lab exam. Accidentally added poured a glass of base into HCL jar. Fumed the whole lab. Never took another chemistry class again.
Take a bath in a natural hot spring
1.Gold Strike Canyon, NV
2. Boiling River, WY
Hiked for two hours and finally found the hot springs at sunset. Got lost for 4 hours in the canyon while hiking back at night to our car
Eat lunch on the roof of a moving car
Goa, India
Sat in the window of the car with a box of pizza and coke on the roof of the car.
Attending an American wedding
Nathan, Catilyn,
Josh/Kim, Heath
American weddings are like a fairy tale.
Running after a train
Somewhere in India
Jumped off the train at a lonely station at night to run after a thief who stole my brothers phone as the train started. Could not catch the thief. Caught the last door in the last coach, and hanged on to my life until my friends pulled the emergency chain.
Build a snowman
1. Washington, DC
2. Greenville, SC
3. Chicago, IL
DC- Snowman looked like a fat Olaf
Greenville- snow didn't stick, only made the butt.
Chicago- Made a perfect snowman.
Attend a random lecture
Intermediate College (5)
Clemson University (3)
Enjoyed asking some random doubts to professors, and getting a good explanations.
(ECO, BIO, CIVIL, AGR, ECE, MECH)
Getting pulled over by a cop
Aspen, CO
Got a polite warning for getting out of the car and trying to take a photo of us being pulled over, when the cop was in pursuit.
#new.rule.learned
