Monday, 31 March 2008

Things I want to do before my time has come - PART 2

Back in November, I published a list of things that I would like to do before I die. From the 27 items on my list, I am happy to say that I managed to do 14 from the original list and three others that were not listed.....but having said that the list seems to be growing.

ACHIEVED

Learn to ride and buy a motorbike - November 2006, bike (Honda CB 400)purchased January 2007
Climb a mountain - Mount Kilimanjaro January 2007
Learn rock climbing - May 2003
Go on a safari in the Serengeti - January 2007
See Robbie Williams in Concert - July 2006 - San Siro Stadium Milan
Learn how to ride a horse, and go on a horseback trek - February 2008 - Trans Andes horseback trek - Mendoza, Argentina to Santiago, Chile
Take a tram ride in San Francisco - December 2002
Learn how to ice climb - Dolomites, Italy January 2000
Experience the white nights - Tampere, Finland, June 2002
Go white water rafting - Austria, August 2007
Get involved in a charity or charitable organisation - 2006, 2007 Park of Friendship (offering services to persons with a Disability), 2006 Kilimanjaro Challenge 3...it won't stop here though
Create your website or blog - 2007 you are reading it!
Visit New Orleans and get tipsy in Bourbon Street - June 2005
Find the love of my life - January 2008 :) not giving too many details :)
Go on a hot air balloon ride - Dubai, April 2007
Visit Buenos Aires, Argentina - February 2008
See and feel the power of the Iguazu Falls - February 2008
Participate in Equestrian Competitions (show jumping, dressage) - in progress

WORKS IN PROGRESS
Travel Route 66 on a bike
Travel to all the continents - in progress
Spend Christmas, in a mountain chalet, complete with log fire and snow outside
Abseil from a helicopter
Walk the Great Wall of China (if not all part of it)
SCUBA dive in the Red Sea or Great Barrier Reef
Do the Macchu Pichu trail in Peru
Learn how to ski
Visit the Golan Heights and the Holy Land
Swim with Dolphins
Do Lifecycle Challenge (a gruelling bike ride, usually going through unfamiliar territory, mega steep hills and unfriendly places)
Go dog sledding in Lapland
Reach the summit of Mont Blanc- (in progress, currently training for it)
Participate in Equestrian Competitions (show jumping, dressage) - in progress
Buy my own horse and calling him Rafiki (meaning friend in Swahili)
Buy a BMW motorbike and visit Europe overland
Organise a photographic exhibition - my own works of course!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

The list simply gets longer... but one thing that should encourage you is that you have already accomplished twice as many things as normal people would do in a lifetime... and you are still young with new horizons to conquer and new pages to turn...

Anonymous said...

All I can say is that I did THREE of those you still need to do, ok, ok, I need another lifetime to catch up on the rest with you! Keep Going!!!!! X

Anonymous said...

Ok! I was in fact hoping to meet someone who also wanted to:

Abseil from a helicopter

Make sure u let me know when u find a way. I've been hassling the AFM for quite a while now... they just won't let me!

PLEASE!!!!

Ah, by the way... i also sign up for the Macchu Picchu trail...

great blog sweety! keep it up ;)

Zen