All my life, I've been enthralled by the world's great adventures: bicycling around the world, riding a motorcycle from the arctic to the antarctic; walking across the U.S.; climbing one of the great mountains. From an early age, I kept a list of the great adventures I aspired to. Some of them were ruled out rather quickly. For example, since I couldn't even make the starting roster of my 6th grade baseball team, I decided that becoming a professional ball player probably wasn't in the cards
While any number of items were added and removed from the list over the decades, three epic adventures were always there: sailing around the world on a sailboat; climbing one of the world's great mountains; and completing one of the great hikes…