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 jump out of an airplane (with a parachute on)

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 Two down, four to go(as Shanghai Disney set to open mid 2016)

9/Snorkel the Great Barrier Reef.

10/Do the canyon swing in Queenstown.

11/See the star filled skies near Uluru.

12/Swim in a Icelandic lagoon.

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 go to an Olympic event (preferably gymnastics)

22/To stay at the Burg Al Arab(a high tea or a drink in the bar might do)

23/Go ziplining, just about anywhere.

24/Graceland....need I say more

25/Have Thanksgiving dinner in New York (and do the sales after)

26/To walk the Great Wall of China.

27/To go to Base camp at Everest.

28/To see a K-Pop concert (done 27/10/18 now need to change it to see a K-Pop concert in South Korea)

29/To walk the steps to the giant Buddha on Lantau Island.

30/To go to Korea, both North and South

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 see polar bears in the Arctic

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 eat kimchi in Korea.

43/To take a helicopter ride over the volcanoes of Hawaii.

44/To volunteer at Peru Challenge if only for a week.

45/To stay in a villa in Tuscany

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 eat injera and stew in Ethiopia.

53/To drink port in Portugal.

54/to travel the Silk Rd.

55/to travel the Trans Siberian/Mongolian railway.

56/Lake Louise/Banff national park...what can I say.

57/To see Petra.

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 the Golden Gate Bridge

63/Take a boat down the Amazon

64/Spend Halloween in the US.

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  visit  an  elephant  orphanage.

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/As I've done the trains in Japan...lets take it up a notch and try one in India

77/To watch a sumo match in Japan

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 or Toronto

84/To see Blues Bands Perform in Memphis or New Orleans

85/To see a water puppet show in Vietnam.

Added 3/10/15

86/Go up the glass elevator in Hubei...and walk along the walkway to the cliff top.

87/Walk along the scary glass walkway at Tiannnen Mountain, Zhongjiajie

88/Walk the glass suspension bridge at Stone Buddha Mountain in the Shiniuzhai Geopark.

Added 25/04/16

89/ Eat tteutboki (spicy rice cakes) and eumok (fish cakes) in South Korea.

Added 20/01/17

90/Do an alleys, arcades and lanes tour of Melbourne

Added 20/01/17

91/ Eating soup dumplings at Din Tai Fung, Taipei

92/ Seeing the Taipei 101 building (and doing the observatory)

93/ Jiufen Old St

94/ Maokong Gondola Cable Car

95/Visiting night markets in Taipei

Added 29/09/18

96/Sail boarding anywhere in the world

Added 2/10/18

97/ To see 333 Collins at Christmas time

98/ Do the Docklands Public Art Walk.

Added 3/10/18

99/ 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.

100/ To find grafitti art in every city I visit

Added 6/10/18

101/See a lantern festival in Asia

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