The List
This list stared shortly after I left secondary school. My father always encouraged my brother and I to explore the world a little, find a place that made up happy and enjoy life. When I was 18 I had a few days off work, with no planning (something that characterized a lot of my travels since) I caught a ferry to Ostend and ended up in Bruges and Brussels for a few days.
This started a life long love of travel and adventure.
This is a living list, items get added or removed occasionally. Not because they are necessarily impossible, but for what ever reason it does not interest me in the same way anymore. Occasionally an item just gets replaced by something new and shiny.
To do:
Learn to play an instrument proficently
Have a house that is distinctively mine instead of just a place I own
Build a car and race it
Have a photograph displayed in a gallery
Become a proficient climber
Run and learn to enjoy it
Spend time in India
Watch Rangers play Celtic
Do real, up and down multi-day hikes on different continents
See the Northern lights
Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao
Go to Carnivale
Get a tattoo celebrating survival
Throw a dart onto a map and travel there
Ride around Alaska
Take the train to St Petersburg
Do Le Dakar
Live in France
Touch the Pyramids
Xian and Forbidden City
See England play away
Drive the PCH in a convertible
Dive the Blue Hole in Belieze
Done:
Confidently play craps in Las Vegas (2009)
Dive Tioman island (1994)
Dive Great Barrier Reef (1992)
Drive across the US (1992)
Drive across Canada (1995)
Road trip through Europe (1988)
Use an around the world ticket (1996)
Pack a bag and get on a train to somewhere (1987, the one that started this. I ended up in Brussels)
Bungy jump (Cairns, 1992)
Learn how to sail (Of all places – Milton Keynes, 1990)
Have a website (since 1997)
Watch the sun set from Victoria peek (2000)
See the Sistine chapel (1990)
Stand on the Ponte Vecchio (1994)
Take part in the PPIHC (2003)
See Ankor Wat (1992, very adventurous at the time)
Sit on a beach and cook fish I’ve just caught (South of France, 1995)
Walk across Sydney Harbour Bridge (1993)
Go to the Olympics (1992 and 2010)
New Years Eve in Trafalgar Square (1996)
Visit a concentration camp and remember (Dachau, 1992)
Spend an entire day wandering in the Louvre (2001)
Visit the Air and apace Museum in Washington (1992)
Run the entire British open championship (1989)
Rally in Europe (1989)