50 (Realistic) Things To Do Before I Die

During a conversation with a friend the other day, the topic of what we want to do with our lives came up. Both of us are hitting the big 3-0 in the next couple of months and with me making such a life-changing decision it has kind of thrown her for a loop. So we decided to challenge each other and make a list of 50 things that we want to do before we die.

Now there are lots of things like 'end world poverty' or 'find a cure for cancer' that I would love to do but that is not realistic. So it took me a good couple of hours to think and get 50 realistic things to do and a few of them I know I will achieve fairly soon (hopefully).

Anyway, enjoy the list and perhaps I can challenge you to make one of your own!!!

 

1. Set foot on each of the seven continents of the world.

2. Spend a significant period of time in another country learning the language and culture.
3. Visit every capital city in Europe
4. Dive with a whale shark
5. Scuba dive in the Great Barrier Reef
6. Take a bush plane ride into Africa’s interior.
7. Travel down the whole length of the Nile from source.
8. Learn how to do a back handspring
9. Photograph an endangered species
10. Spend some time in the Amazon rainforest studding the wildlife.
11. Teach English in a foreign country
12. Cross a developing country using only public transport
13. Shake hands with someone who has truly changed a country
14. Sail through the Northern Passage
15. Road trip across the USA
16. Walk the Inca trail to Machu Picchu
17. Learn how to pilot a plane
18. Find the love of my life, marry him and grow old together
19. Shower in a waterfall
20. Gallop a horse along a deserted beach in the sun
21. See a killer sunrise and sunset
22. Explore the Galapagos Islands
23. Visit the Holy Land
24. Become debt free
25. Design and build a house
26. Visit Niagara, Victoria, Angel and HannokiFalls
27. Ride something larger than a horse
28. Fly first class
29. Get a tattoo
30. Learn how to say hello in 20 different languages
31. Experience weightlessness
32. See the Northern Lights
33. Go to the Carnival in Rio
34. Learn to play chess
35. Take up photography
36. Go on safari for more than 2 days
37. Create a photography bucket list
38. Visit Tibet
39. Read the Bible in a year
40. Attend a Superbowl game
41. Keep a journal/diary every day for a year
42. Put a pound away every day for a year and then donate the money to charity
43. Send my mum on her dream vacation
44. Be a voice actor in a Pixar film
45. Stand on both the international date line and the equator
46. Learn to play the guitar
47. Fly in a hot air balloon
48. Go to a Broadway show
49. Fill every page of my passport with stamps
50. To be able to say, in everything, whether success or failure…I tried