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...the  list was pretty long to start with so it became 60 by 60...and then the list grew to 70 and then.......so why not 80 by 80...(I might want to slow down by then :) )

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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

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/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 in South Korea (done 6/1/19)

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

30/To go to SouthKorea. (done 6/1/19)

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/Visiting night markets in Taipei (done 3 and 4/1/19)

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 South Korea. (done 6-20/1/19)

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

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

45/Eat tteutboki (spicy rice cakes)  and eumok (fish cakes) in South Korea.(done 6-20/1/19)

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 (done Taipei and Seoul)

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

57/Maokong Gondola Cable Car in Taipei (done 5/1/19)

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/Seeing the Taipei 101 building (and do the observatory) (done 5/1/19)

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/ have soju and beer at a street. market stall in South Korea (done 6/1/19)

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, 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/ Eat KFC (that is Korean Fried Chicken) in South Korea (done 9/1/19)

89/ Go to North Korea.

90/To  visit  an  elephant  orphanage.

88/To see polar bears in the Arctic

89/ Eating soup dumplings at Din Tai Fung, Taipei (done 5/1/19)

90/ Walk the Golden Gate Bridge

91/ Jiufen Old St in Taiwan (done 4/1/19)

92/ To see Petra.

93/Sail boarding anywhere in the world

94/To eat injera and stew in Ethiopia.

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

96/ Do the Docklands Public Art Walk.

97/ Christmas decorations at 333 Collins St.

98/To go to an Olympic event (preferably gymnastics)

99/to travel the Trans Siberian/Mongolian railway.

100/To stay in a villa in Tuscany

101/To see a water puppet show in Vietnam.

Added 21/1/19

102/ To check my South Korea to do list and see what I can knock off

103/ To check my Taiwan to do list and see what I can knock off

104/ To do a temple stay in Asia

Added 1/3/19

105/ To see the Iguazu Falls and take a jetboat through them (thanks to the Travel Guides show on Channel 9)

106/ To go the the San Sebastian Street Festival in Puerto Rico (thanks to a vlog from youtubers Kara and Nate)

Added 26/6/19

107/ To see Bilbao in Spain with it's beautiful old town, amazing architecture in the modern part and spectacular coastal scenery (thanks to a vlog from youtubers Flying the Nest)

Added 21/8/19

108/ Thanks to this amazing vlog  from Geography Now I would love to see the unrecognised country of Somaliland

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