Bucket List
A bucket list is a wish list of things to do before you die or ‘kick the bucket’. I have no intention of departing from this mortal life until I have crossed everything off my bucket list, which seems to be growing longer daily.
This section of my website contains details of my bucket list. Some of the things I have managed to do and some of the things I still have to do before I die. Whenever I see something new that I want to do, I add it to this list. I have recently started cruising and have found it an excellent way to enjoy a holiday and to be able to cross off some of the things on my bucket list. It does seem that a lot of the things on my bucket list are travel-related.
The term Bucket List has been around for a long time but has maybe become a lot more popular since one of my favourite films, The Bucket List’ starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman, was released in 2007. If you have never seen this film, I highly recommend you watch it. If you haven’t already got one, it will make you start your bucket list.
I went on The Maid of the Mist when I went to America in the 1990s with my friend Alistar Parry. We flew to New York, hired a car and drove through the state of New York to the Canadian and American border, where we stayed on the American side of Niagara Falls.
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One of the places I have always wanted to visit is the Augusta National Golf Club. I love golf, but I do not want to play golf there. Just walk around the course to soak up the beautiful location.
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I saw a photo of the Langkawi Sky Bridge on my computer when Microsoft chose it as a screen saver, and I decided to add it to my bucket list.
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I have my computer set up to change images daily using Microsoft Bing images. One morning the picture shown was this marvellous castle. As it is in Spain, there is an excellent chance that I will be able to visit it and take it off of my bucket list.
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I think the first time I saw a Segway was on television. It was a policeman riding one somewhere, and I thought straight away that I had to have a go.
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Why would anyone want to go cliff diving? I remember seeing Elvis Presley diving off a cliff in one of his films and thinking how cool it would be to have a go.
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As a small boy, I was fascinated by China and always wanted to visit China. One of the things I wanted to do if I visited China was to walk a section of the Great Wall of China.
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Machu Picchu was one of the places my dad always wanted to go and never went to because of ill health. Because of my dad, I started looking into going to Machu Picchu to see what it was, where it was and why he wanted to go there.
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My parents went to Jasper National Park, and once I saw the photos of them there, I immediately put it on my bucket list.
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The Elephant Nature Park is a unique project set in the Chiang Mai province in Northern Thailand. I have ridden an Elephant at San Diego Zoo, but I want to visit this park to see them in more natural surroundings.
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My mum would have told you I have already been to the Eiffel Tower. She was pregnant with me when she visited it in 1966.
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Petra is a historical and archaeological city in the southern Jordanian governorate of Ma'an and it is a place on my bucket list to visit.
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Angkor Wat is a temple complex in Cambodia and the largest religious monument in the world.
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Chichen Itza in Mexico is a place that I have only ever seen on television but is a place that, as soon as I saw it, I thought I had to visit.
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I have always loved swimming, and diving on the Great Barrier Reef has been on my bucket list for a long time.
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I saw the Sanctuary of the Virgin of Hope online and thought it looked like a great place to add to my bucket list.
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I saw a picture of the Kaleto Fortress on a computer screen saver and decided it was a place I would add to my bucket list as a place to visit.
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I guess swimming with dolphins would be on most people's bucket lists. I managed to swim with dolphins at Discovery Cove, Sea World in Orlando, Florida, in 2004.
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I had wanted a balloon flight for a long time and received a balloon flight from my mum as a Christmas present for Christmas of 2003, which was my first time flying in a hot air balloon, but not the last.
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I am in the lucky position to say that I have flown the Grand Canyon on three occasions.
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