I am currently: Level 13 (60% towards Level 14)

Most Recent Mission: Play Golf at St. Andrews in Scotland



Welcome to my Epic Quest of Awesome!

I’m traveling all over the world, going on crazy adventures, and helping other people level up THEIR lives along the way. Curious about where I’ve been? This video will help:

Every time I cross something off of my bucket list, I gain 20% experience towards my next “level.” Thanks to some lucrative credit card deals and frequent flyer offers (all learned from Chris Guillebeau’s Frequent Flyer Master), I have over a million airline miles (not an exaggeration) and I’m using them to see the world. I’ll be meeting up with Nerd Fitness readers and using any travel-hacking skills I’ve acquired to accomplish this quest without breaking the bank.

I’ve flown 35,000 miles for $418, traveled an additional 150,000 miles all around the world, and lived like James Bond in Monaco using these tactics.

Steve’s Epic Quest of Awesome

Here are the things I hope to accomplish over the next few years – it’s a work in progress and subject to change based on future circumstances. Nerd Fitness is a community, and I want to help others do cool things too. If I’m coming to your neck of the woods and you want to meet up or join me on an adventure, please let me know so we can meet up!

Completed Quests

Level 13

Have a Youtube Video Reach 1 Million Views (Completed 3/1/18)

Play Golf at St. Andrews in Scotland (Completed 7/17/16)

Visit Loch Ness in Scotland (Completed 7/7/16)

Visit the William Wallace Memorial in Stirling (Completed 7/16/16)

Level 12

Level 11

Attend Yacht Week – (Completed 8/9/14)

Pay off my student loans – four years early! (Completed 12/19/13)

Play golf at Kiawah Island Ocean Course (1/5 completed on Top 5 Public Courses) (Completed 10/10/13)

Watch the Red Sox win the World Series (Completed 10/30/13)

Pass 100,000 subscribers on Nerd Fitness (Completed 9/24/13)

LEVEL 10

Visit Christ the Redeemer in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil (Completed 2/8/13)

Attend Carnival in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil ( Completed 2/9/13

Have 50,000 Subscribers on Nerd Fitness (Completed 3/4/13)

Have 1 million visitors in 30 days on Nerd Fitness (completed 3/3/13)

Set a world Record: World’s Longest Floating Human Chain (completed 7/5/13)

LEVEL 9

Visit Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany (Completed 09/28/12)

Visit Neuschwanstein Castle in Germany (Completed 09/29/12)

Speak at TEDx (completed 4/28/12)

Do a muscle up ( completed 3/14/12 )

Get 20,000 subscribers on NF (completed 6/28/12)

LEVEL 8 – MASTER QUEST – worth 100% exp

Be a Guest Speaker at Facebook (completed 1/25/12)

LEVEL 7

See the big 5 on an African Safari (completed 12/15/11)



Visit Cape of Good Hope (completed 12/10/11)



Climb Table Mountain in South Africa (completed 12/9/11)

Have 10,000 subscribers on NF (completed 11/20/11)

Have my own clothing line (completed 9/24/11)

LEVEL 6 – MASTER QUEST – worth 100% exp

Live like James Bond in Monte Carlo – (completed 9/10/11)

LEVEL 5



Visit the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, Spain (completed 9/17/11)

Climb the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France (completed 9/6/11)



Exercise in front of the Palace of Versailles in France (completed 9/4/11)



Visit the Notre Dame Cathedral in France (completed 9/3/11)



Go through the Louvre in Paris, France (completed 9/3/11)

LEVEL 4



LEVEL 3 MASTER QUEST (worth 100% exp)

Be a guest speaker at Google (Completed 6/1/11)



LEVEL 2

LEVEL 1

Make a full time living on Nerd Fitness (Completed 06/19/10)

Visit Machu Picchu in Peru ( Completed 11/10/10 )

Start my own company ( Completed 6/15/10)

Perform on stage in front of at least 1,000 people (Completed 1/10/10) I’m the one playing piano on the left.

Drive cross-country – (Completed 08/06/06) Cape Cod, MA to San Diego, CA

North America (The Starting Zone)

Swim in the Atlantic and Pacific in the same day

Go camping and rafting in the Grand Canyon

Surf on my own handmade board

Visit Mount Rushmore in South Dakota

Go to the Statue of Liberty in New York

Be an extra in a Hollywood movie

Be in a commercial

Fix up an old boat and take it out on the ocean (like Andy in the Shawshank Redemption)

Play in the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, NV

Go fishing in Newfoundland

Go fishing in Alaska

Play golf at top 5 public courses in America (Pebble Beach, Whistling Straits, Pacific Dunes, Kiawah Island , Shadow Creek).

Watch the Red Sox Win the World Series

Drive cross country (Sandwich, MA to San, Diego, CA)

Central/South America (The Jungle/Forest Level)

Exercise in front of the statues on Easter Island

Visit the Galapagos Islands

Participate in a Capoeira roda in Brazil

Attend Carnival in Rio de Janeiro

Visit Christ the Redeemer in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

Dance the tango in Argentina

Visit Tikal in Guatemala

Visit Chichen Itza in Mexico

Visit Teotihuacan in Mexico

Go through the Panama Canal

Visit the Salar de Uyuni Saltflats in Bolivia

Visit Machu Picchu in Peru

Europe (The Ancient City Level)

Kiss the Blarney Stone in Ireland

Visit Giants Causeway in Northern Ireland

Visit Loch Ness in Scotland

Visit the Lagavulin Distillery in Scotland

Take a bagpipe lesson in Scotland

Play golf at St. Andrews in Scotland

Attend an English Premiere League match, singing cheers and drinking with the hooligans

Visit Stonehenge in England

Spend a night in a castle

Visit the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, Spain

Dance all night on the island of Ibiza, Spain

Attend Yacht Week in Croatia

Attend Tomatina in Spain

Climb the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France



Visit Mont St. Michel in France

Visit the Louvre in France

Exercise in front of the Palace of Versailles in France

Visit the Notre Dame Cathedral in France

Go to Oktoberfest in Germany

Visit Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria

Visit Hohenzollern Castle in Germany

Visit the Coliseum, Vatican, St. Peter’s Basilisca, in Rome, Italy

Visit the Leaning Tower of Pisa in Pisa, Italy

Visit the Duomo in Florence, Italy

Visit the Parthenon in Greece

Visit the Statue of Leonidas in Thermopylae, Greece

Visit the Blue Domed Church of Santorini, Greece

Exercise in Plitvice Lakes National Park in Croatia (which reminds me of Metroid: Prime)

Exercise in front of St. Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow, Russia

Research my ancestry in Sweden, Norway, and Finland

Africa (the Desert Level)

Visit the Pyramids in Egypt

Go on an African Safari

Dive with sharks in South Africa

Ride an ostrich in South Africa

Climb Table Mountain in South Africa

Go to the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa

Visit Madagascar

Snowboard at Ski Dubai in Dubai

Climb Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania

Ride a camel through the Sahara Desert

Visit Petra, Jordan (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade ftw!)

Far East (the Hidden Temple Level)

Attempt the Ninja Warrior course in Japan

Study Kung Fu in Shaolin, China

Visit the Great Wall of China

Visit Okinawa, Japan, the home of Mr. Miyagi

Visit Potala Palace in Tibet

See the Taj Mahal in India

Go to the Holi Festival or Dwali Festival in India

Ride the Trans-Siberian Railroad across Russia

Visit the Hagia Sofia in Istanbul, Turkey

Visit the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey

Ride a horse in Mongolia

Visit Angkor Wat in Cambodia

Spend a week or more studying Muay Thai Boxing in Thailand

Rock climb on the cliffs of Thailand

South Pacific (the Water/Beach level)

Skydive over New Zealand

Bungee Jump in Queenstown

Scuba dive the Great Barrier Reef

Visit Ayer’s Rock

Snowboard and surf in the same day in New Zealand

Visit Borobudur Temple in Java, Indonesia

Visit the Palace of Brunei

Antarctica (the Snow Level)

Set foot on land

High-five a penguin!

Personal Level Up Goals

Pilot an Airplane

Start My Own Company

Spend a week getting kite board certified

Complete a rally racing training school

Visit all 7 continents (6/7 complete)

Fly completely around the world (in one direction)

Pay off all of my student loans – $6,600 to go

Shoot even par on 9 holes on a full size golf course

Shoot even par on 18 holes on a full size golf course

Shoot under par on 18 holes on a full size golf course

Get a hole in one on a regulation golf hole

Get a bullseye with bow and arrow

rock star Goals

Perform on stage in front of at least 1,000 people

Write and record an original song

Learn to play “Promentory” on the violin

Learn to play “Concerning Hobbits” on the violin

Sit at a piano in a public place, start playing “Piano Man” (piano), and have the crowd singing along by the end.

Spend an afternoon as a busker on a street corner (guitar)

Join a band on stage for one song in a Nashville Bar (any instrument)

Business Goals

Make a Full time living through Nerd Fitness

Become a published author

Become a NYT-Bestselling Author

Start a charity that raises at least $1,000,0000

Create a video on YouTube that has 1,000,000 views

Have my own clothing line

Have 10,000 subscribers on NF

Have 20,000 subscribers on NF

Have 50,000 subscribers on NF

Have 100,000 subscribers on NF

Have 250,000 subscribers to NF

Have 500,000 subscribers to NF

Have 1,000,000 subscribers to NF

Get a million visits to the site in one month

Jason Bourne/James Bond Goals

Become conversational in a 2nd language (Spanish)

Become conversational in a third language

Become conversational in a fourth language

Obtain dual citizenship

Create and keep a WTSHTF bag ready (google the phrase)

Take a Krav Maga course and become proficient

Pass a civilian firearms training course

Pass a SWAT class

Learn how to become a proficient locksmith

Strength Training Goals

Do 10 handstand push ups against the wall

Do 5 handstand push ups freestanding

Do 10 pistol squats with each leg

Do 10 one-arm push ups with each arm

Hold a freestanding handstand for 60 seconds

Do a muscle up

Do 5 consecutive strict muscle ups

Hold a wide leg planche for 10 seconds

Hold a front lever for 10 seconds

Hold a back lever for 10 seconds

Deadlift 405 lbs once (currently 3 reps at 320 lbs and climbing!)

Do 10 pull ups with 45 pounds of additional weight

Master Quests

These are all worth 100% experience or more due to their complexity or difficulty



Buy a tropical island (yes I’m serious)

Play golf at Augusta National in Georgia

Get photographed walking down the red carpet at some epic event

Be a guest on a prime time talk show

Go into outer space

Get in the Guinness Book of World Records for something

Live like James Bond in Monaco

Be a guest lecturer at Google HQ

Be a guest lecturer at Facebook HQ

So, what am I missing? What are some of the places I need to see or things I need to do that aren’t on this list? If you live in a place I plan on visiting and you want to meet up, please let me know. Don’t worry, you’ll be able to read all about where I’m at and where I’m headed here on NF.

I’ll leave you with a quote from the Shawshank Redemption that expresses how I feel:

I find I’m so excited, I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it’s the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain.

I can’t wait to hear your suggestions on what to add to the Epic Quest.

Just don’t get me killed, okay?

My mom would be PISSED.

-Steve

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