I was looking at the blogs of two postcrossing members – Ana (list) and Patsy (list) and saw they both had projects going on doing stuff from a list and how they were going with those goals. I liked the idea of a list which had no time limit and so decided to copy it with a few slight alterations to make it my own. Some of the things I will never achieve as I am approaching the last third of my life and lack of money will preclude me from travelling overseas (how wrong was this prediction, saved up for 11 months and went to Germany and the Netherlands with a day trip to Belgium for 3 weeks in Nov/Dec 2011).

This is my bucket list:

Things I have already done and can tick off the list are in red.

1. Start your own blog (I also started a Bulletin Board Service – BBS in the years before the internet – 2nd female sysop in Australia)
   
2. Go camping and sleep under the stars
3. Learn to play a musical instrument
   
4. Holiday on a tropical island
5. Make a wish on a shooting star
6. Give 1% of your income to charity
7. Go to Disneyland/world
8. Climb a mountain
9. Hold a praying mantis, a spider or a snake
   
10. Stay overnight in the desert
    
11. Bungee jump or parasail
    
12. Visit Paris and see the Mona Lisa at the Louvre
    
13. Watch a lightning storm at sea
14. Teach yourself an art/craft from scratch (taught myself to knit when I was pregnant with my 1st child. Taught myself to sew clothes for me and the children. Taught myself how to cross-stitch and embroider)
    
15. Walk to the top of the Uluru/Ayres Rock
    
16. Grow your own vegetables
    
17. Give a speech or presentation in front of a live audience (gave many speeches/presentations when Vice President of the Diabetic Association of SA)
    
18. Sleep on an overnight train
    
19. Go backpacking
    
20. Have a pillow fight
21. Travel solo (went to New Zealand for 13 days and Europe for 3 weeks on my own)
    
22. Take a sick day when you’re not ill (in the days when I actually got paid to work and not self-employed)
23. Tell someone you love them when they haven’t said it first (and he laughed at me and we drifted apart)
    
24. Help bring a life into this world – puppies, kittens, babies anything! (3 children count)
    
25. Go skinny dipping (last time I did this was within the last 10 years)
26. See the northern or southern lights
27. Try surfing
28. Ride in a gondola in Venice
29. See a total eclipse
30. Get up to watch a sunrise
    
31. Pursue a dream (went to Germany and the Netherlands to meet online friends)
    
32. See one of the great waterfalls in person – Victoria, Niagara, Iguazu
33. Visit the birthplace of your ancestors
    
34. See how a traditional indigenous community live
    
35. Do a spur of the moment Random Act of Kindness (many)
    
36. Decide you have enough money to be truly satisfied
37. Go rock climbing or abseiling
    
38. See Michelangelo’s David in Italy
    
39. Sing karaoke
40. Participate in a demonstration or some form of social/political activism (Hindmarsh Island ferry operators sacking protest.)
41. Buy a stranger a meal
42. Climb the Sydney Harbour Bridge
    
43. Walk on a beach by moonlight
44. Make love somewhere you could get caught
    
45. Be transported in an ambulance
46. Break the law (well nothing jailable but would have been big fines if caught)
    
47. Do something you know is reckless
    
48. Get your portrait drawn/painted/photographed
    
49. Go to the ends of the earth
    
50. See the Sistine Chapel in person
    
51. Climb to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
52. Go scuba diving or snorkeling
53. Come face to face with real poverty and don’t look away
    
54. Kiss in the rain
55. Play in the mud
56. Fall in love
57. Have your heart broken
58. Get married (2 times and might as well be a third for the length of time we have been together now)
    
59. Have children (3 )
    
60. Buy your own home (3 times)
    
61. Go to a drive-in theater
62. Appear on television or in a movie (TV when I was 5 years old)
    
63. Visit the Great Wall of China
64. Start your own business
65. Take a martial arts class
    
66. Visit Europe (visited Germany, Netherlands and Belgium in Nov/Dec 2011)
    
67. Volunteer to help the needy
68. Stand on a street corner and sell badges for charity
    
69. Go dolphin or whale watching
70. Buy someone flowers for no reason
71. Donate blood, platelets or plasma
    
72. Go sky diving
73. Visit a Nazi Concentration Camp
    
74. Fly in a helicopter
75. Save a favourite childhood toy (have my teddy and my papier-mache 1950’s french doll)
    
76. See the Pope, the Dalai Llama or another religious head (does being on first name basis and having meals with a Bishop count?)
    
77. Eat Caviar
78. Stand in Times Square
79. See a monkey, tiger or another exotic animal in the wild
    
80. Get fired from a job
81. See the Berlin wall
    
82. Break a bone
    
83. Drive a car over 150 km an hour
    
84. See the Grand Canyon in the USA
85. Get a book published
86. Visit the Vatican
87. See the coral of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia
    
88. Buy a brand new car
89. Walk in Jerusalem
90. Have your picture in the newspaper (Australia Day Award presentation)
91. Read the Bible or the Koran or another religious text in full
92. Visit the Australian Parliment House
93. Kill and prepare an animal for eating (we used to buy sheep on the hoof for $1.50 a sheep and slaughter them in the back yard and then freeze the cut up portions)
94. Save someone’s life (did this for 7 years on a daily basis. Injected several times a day, my youngest son, with insulin to keep him alive)
    
95. Sit on a jury
96. Confront your fears
    
97. Admit to someone you lied or made a big mistake
98. See the Pyramids of Egypt
99. Swim in the Dead Sea
100. Visit every state in Australia