Wondering World Anew
seeing the world with a sense of wonder
80 THINGS TO DO BEFORE I TURN 80
I thought if I was going to start a travel blog I should have a to do list....to add to and cross off as I get to them....it's going to be a long one and ever changing I think. After all it's already changed....I've crossed off a lot on my first ever to do list, which was started over 30 years ago so I decided to start a new one...it began with 50 by 50 which is pushing it :) so changed it to 60...and then the list grew to 70 and then.......so why not 80 by 80....
1/See an African Elephant in the wild.
2/To check my South Korea to do list and see what
I can knock off
3/Go hot air ballooning over the Serengeti.
4/To eat at the Fat Duck in London (or any Heston Blumenthal restaurant)
5/Walk the Inca Trail to Macchu Pichu.
6/To climb Mt Fuji.
7/To do a tango in Buenos Aires.
8/Go to every Disney Park (three down, three to go) done 27/10/19)
9/Snorkel the Great Barrier Reef.
10/Do the canyon swing in Queenstown.
11/See the star filled skies near Uluru.
12/Walk the glass suspension bridge at Stone Buddha Mountain in the Shiniuzhai Geopark.
13/Spend time at a school in Africa
14/Do a cooking class in Thailand.
15/Stand in the mist above Victoria Falls.
16/Go back to the country I was born in, Zimbabwe.
17/Take a cable car up Table Mountain.
18/To lay a wreath at Auschwitz.
19/Take a walk over Charles Bridge in Prague.
20/Sail/cruise through the Panama canal.
21/To do a lanes and arcades tour of Melbourne
22/ To knock off the other seven observation wheels from my list; Singapore Flyer, Los Vegas High Roller, Navy Pier Ferris Wheel Chicago, Tianjin Eye China, London Eye, Riesenrad Vienna and Pacific Park Wheel Santa Monica.
23/Go ziplining, just about anywhere.
24/ To see the Igauzu Falls and take jet boat through them
25/Have Thanksgiving dinner in New York (and do th e sales after)
26/To walk the Great Wall of China.
27/To go to Base camp at Everest.
28/To see a water puppet show in Vietnam
29/To walk the steps to the giant Buddha on Lantau Island.
30/.To stay in a villa in Tuscany
31/To do a cruise.
32/To find the Loch Ness Monster (or at least try and find it.)
33/To see Angkor Wat
34/To see a show at the Grand Ol' Opry in Nashville
35/To put a flower on the genocide memorial in Rwanda.
36/To see the Glaciers in Alaska.
37/to travel the Trans Siberian/Mongolian railway.
38/To see the Aurora Borealis.
39/To find Santa in the North Pole (and try and get off the naughty list.)
40/Drink yak milk in a yurt in Mongolia
41/To visit Myanmar before it becomes too touristy.
42/To go to an Olympic event (preferably gymnastics)
43/To take a helicopter ride over the volcanoes of Hawaii.
44/To volunteer at Peru Challenge if only for a week.
45/Christmas decorations at 333 Collins St.
46/To have my portrait painted in Montmatre
47/To go sandboarding in Namibia.
48/To see why the Blue Ridge Mountains are named that.
49/To see orangutans in their natural habitat.
50/To take a cable car up Sugar Loaf Mountain.
51/To ski in Switzerland.
52/ To go to a lantern festival in Asia
53/To drink port in Portugal.
54/to travel the Silk Rd.
55/to find street art in every city I visit
56/Lake Louise/Banff national park...what can I say.
57/Do the Docklands Public Art Walk.
58/To eat deep dish pizza in Chicago.
59/To walk in the Tatra mountains.
60/To see the Taj Mahal.
61/To drink tea in Sri Lanka.
62/Walk along the scary glass walkway at Tiannnen Mountain, Zhongjiajie.
63/Take a boat down the Amazon
64/Spend Halloween in the US. done 31/10/19
65/To go to a Bollywood movie in Bollywood.
66/to see cigars being made in Havana.
67/to watch a sunrise/sunset over a Mayan ruin.
68/to go to the womens only souk in Ibra City Oman.
69/ To eat injera and stew in Ethiopia
70/to take a boat ride up the Nile river.
71/To eat tapas in Madrid.
72/To see Komodo dragons in their natural habitat.
73/To take a paddleboat steamer down the Mississippi river.
74/to experience a sunrise and sunset in Africa.
75/Go to a Christmas market in Europe
76/Travel the trains in India
77/To jump out of an airplane (with a parachute on)
78/Check my Japan to-do list and see how many more I can knock off that list
79/To spend an evening under the stars at Bryce Canyon
80/To see the Plain of Jars in Laos.
81/To see the Grand Canyon from the south rim this time.
82/to check my to USA to do list and see what I can knock off
83/to experience some White Light Nights in other parts of the world, like St. Petersburg, Paris, Calgary, Sydney or Toronto
84/To see Blues Bands Perform in Memphis or New Orleans
85/Swim in a Icelandic lagoon.
86/Go up the glass elevator in Hubei...and walk along the walkway to the cliff top.
87/To stay at the Burg Al Arab(a high tea or a drink in the bar might do)
88/ Sail boarding anywhere in the world
89/ Go to North Korea.
90/To visit an elephant orphanage.
88/To see polar bears in the Arctic
89/ To check my Taiwan to do list and see what
I can knock off
90/ Walk the Golden Gate Bridge
91/ To see Petra
92/ Graceland....need I say more
93/ To go to the San Sebastian Festival in Puerto Rico
94/ To see Bilbao in Spain with it's beautiful old town, amazing architecture in the modern part and spectacular coastal scenery
95/ To see the as yet unrecognised country of Somaliland and the area around the horn of Africa when it is no longer war-torn
Added 28/10/19
96/ Go up the observation decks in Shanghai to get a birds-eye view of this amazing city (and just see what else this city has to offer.
​96/ Exploring the Yu Gardens in Shanghai properly and not the touristy area around it that Westerners are confused by.
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