The First List

This first list is very humble. It perhaps reflects with the very simple ideals I had at the time, or, more likely, the very limited knowledge of the amazing things there are out there. Very few of these are thrill seeking. I am not that kind of person. My bucket list is more about experiences. And as you can probably guess, I'm a bit of a nature fan, with a bit of ancient history thrown in for very good measure. So here I present the very first list:

1. SCUBA dive the Great Barrier Reef
2. See Uluru
3. Sleep under the stars in the Outback
4. Dive Ningaloo Reef with a Whale Shark
5. Great Wall of China
6. Golden Palace of Russia
7. Tower of Dubai
8. Rome: Colosseum, Spanish Steps, Trevi Fountain
9. Drive a Scooter around Rome
10. Gondola in Venice
11. Athens
12. Temple of Artemis
13. Spain
14. Romany
15. France: Eiffel Tower, Louvre, Arc de Triomphe
16. Stone Henge
17. English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Castles
18. Pyramids
19. Kenya: see Lions and Cheetah
20. Balloon Ride over the Serengeti
21. Grand Canyon
22. Yellowstone
23. See a Bear in Alaska
24. Nepal
25. Dive the Caribbean
26. Skydive
27. Christmas in the Snow
28. Learn how to Sail
29. Learn a foreign language
30. See the Northern and Southern lights

Not unambitious, and completely lacking any kind of altruism. But it was only a very rough draft. This list has been revised several times. Even my current list is being revised. The point of the list is not to do everything before I die. I hope to never stop dreaming, so the list will never stop changing and more importantly, growing. But it is a way for me to keep my goals in sight, and also a way of remembering all the amazing things I've seen and done. This list when I wrote it was a dream that I might achieve one day in a far off, distant time. But it never seemed real. I have since proven myself wrong.