Monday 5 September 2011

The bucket list

After being inspired by Suz’s Bucket List, below is a list of things that I have yet to do but may use as inspiration to fill some time while I am Idle...it's September 2011 let's see what date it will be when the first 51 are done...

1.     Travel overland from Cairo to Cape Town.
2.     Participate in a wildlife photography expedition
3.     Go to Carnival in Rio de Janeiro.
4.     Knit a jumper that can be worn.
5.     Join a wildlife conservation project in South America
6.     Have a wall in my house consisting entirely of pictures I’ve painted.
7.     Tell my family how much I appreciate and love them.
8.     Send people unexpected and anonymous gifts
9.     Sign up for a wall climbing class.
10.            Train a guide dog.
11.            Be present as someone is born.
12.            Support someone who is dying.
13.            Perform as a fire dancer.
14.            Volunteer at a hospice.
15.            See the northern lights.
16.            Trek the Annapurna Circuit in the Himalayas
17.            Learn to breakdance.
18.            Visit Disneyland
19.            Make my own wine
20.            Participate in a major art installation project.
21.            Spend a week sailing the Whitsunday Islands.
22.            Have a garden that feeds me.
23.            Experience weightlessness.
24.            Become a doctor.
25.            Help a stranger in a meaningful way.
26.            Complete a 5k run every day for a month.
27.            Go Whitewater Rafting
28.            Walk along the Camino de Santiago, Spain's 1,000-year-old pilgrimage route.
29.            Spend time listening to the elderly.
30.            Go snowboarding.
31.            Join an art group and go to life drawing once a week.
32.            Join a hiking club.
33.            Live near the ocean again.
34.            Travel overland from Russia to China.
35.            Take a picture that looks like I’m swimming backstroke across the Great Wall of China
36.            Take a cycling holiday in Vietnam.
37.            Take the tube for a week making eye contact and smiling a people.
38.            Complete an advanced yoga teachers training course.
39.            Host an exchange student.
40.            Teach a regular yoga class.
41.            Write a book.
42.            Create a spectacular fireworks display.
43.            Declare my love to someone at Yosemite National Park
44.            Build a tree house
45.            Let someone else take all the credit
46.            Learn to surf.
47.            Learn to speak Chinese
48.            Sew myself a garment that I would wear out in public.
49.            Be kind and compassionate.
50.            Skydive over turquoise water.
51.     Lie under the stars in the desert.