The List

Continually being updated and added to! Suggestions for additions are greatly appreciated. To see the items I have completed, please go to my Completed Page. There are also links to blog posts concerning completed items there.

1. Ride in a hot air balloon
2. Walk on the Great Wall of China
3. Go to all of the US States
4. Complete my Map Adventure (buying a map and crossing out the countries I have been to)
5. Stand on an ocean cliff and let the water spray my face
6. Become fluent in French
7. Hear the call to prayer in Istanbul
8. Take a suicide prevention course
9. Go to the peace-towns along the Gaza Strip
10. Climb a mountain
11. Go to the bottom of the Grand Canyon
12. Sleep under the stars in a field
13. Swim with the dolphins
14. Cross the Atlantic on a boat
15. Cross the Pacific on a boat
16. Go in a submarine
17. Weld something
18. Give someone at least a small part of a tattoo
19. Go to Mardi Gras in New Orleans
20. Ride in a helicopter
21. Sing “What About Love” total karaoke style, complete with dramactions.
22. Stand at the top of a mountain and scream
23. Get my Masters
24. Get my PhD
25. Get drunk with someone famous
26. Get a massage from a professional
27. Go bareback riding on the beach
28. Take a self-defense class
29. Learn how to ballroom dance
30. Go to Japan and see real-life Harajuku girls
31. Do karaoke in Hong Kong
32. Go to an open mike night and perform
33. Have my picture taken with dress up Lenin in Petrograd
34. Practice yoga in India
35. Go to a nudist colony and be naked
36. Live in Italy for at least one month on my own
37. Go scuba diving
38. Go to an Indian wedding
39. Go to a drive in movie theatre
40. Run in a marathon
41. Fire walk
42. Get my driver’s license
43. Donate blood
44. Go blonde
45. Publish a book
46. Change a tire on a car
47. Go to a supposedly haunted house
48. Make a zombie movie
49. Read War and Peace
50. Take a class to learn Arabic
51. Have gelato for breakfast
52. Take a tour of a concentration camp
53. Throw a surprise party
54. Sleep on a beach
55. Go swimming in South America
56. See the penguins in South Africa
57. Take a cooking class
58. Take a painting class
59. Get a pedicure
60. Get a passport
61. Volunteer at an animal shelter
62. Own a hammock
63. Take a stripper class
64. Go to a crazy Irish or English soccer game
65. See the Lake on the Mountain in Ontario
66. Participate in Ramadan
67. Go kayaking
68. Spend a whole day floating on a lake in a small paddle boat
69. Eat baklava in Greece
70. Give confession in a cathedral
71. Skinny dip
72. Smoke pot in Amsterdam
73. Go on an excavation dig for fossils
74. Collect seashells on a beach
75. Restore a classic car
76. Go to a festival concert
77. Visit the Capri Grotto
78. Visit the Taj Mahal
79. Drink a pint of beer in Ireland
80. Take belly dancing classes
81. Learn to appreciate wine
82. Attend a Mormon church
83. Attend a mosque
84. Go to a beer hall in Munich
85. See a meteor shower
86. Spend a few nights in a Scottish castle
87. Pick apples
88. Go to Jerusalem
89. Drive across Canada, road trip style
90. Drive to Mexico from Canada
91. Drink margaritas in a small Mexican town
92. Trying skiing or snowboarding
93. Eat in an upscale restaurant that serves “courses”
94. Stay in a cabin on a lake
95. Go canoeing
96. Wear a bikini to a Mediterranean beach
97. Help build a Habitat for Humanity home
98. Visit Mayan ruins
99. Take a picture of me giving the thumbs up in front of the Sphinx
100. Climb an Aztec pyramid
101. Invest a small amount of money in the stock market
102. Walk on the glass floor of the CN Tower
103. Get a picture with the Christ de Redeemer in Brazil
104. Audition for a Broadway performance
105. Visit Jordan and see Petra,the city carved in rock
106. Go to a real desert and see sand dunes
107. Dance in the middle of Stone Henge
108. Yell as loud as I can in the Sydney Opera House
109. Visit the Hagia Sofia in Turkey
110. Own my own place
111. Visit the Viking landing place in Newfoundland
112. See the statues of Easter Island
113. Climb part of a volcano
114. Witness the birth of something
115. Volunteer at a nursing home
116. Eat fresh grapes in France
117. Make a video documentary about a roadtrip though the Southern United States
118. Be an extra in a film
119. Put a message in a bottle and throw it in the ocean
120. Knit a sweater
121. Visit the Hoover Dam
122. Go to natural hot springs
123. Plant a tree
124. Eat a slice of authentic New York Pizza
125. Make a quilt
126. Stay up all night dancing
127. Go behind a waterfall in Africa and contemplate
128. Go to Oktoberfest in Germany
129. Spend New Year’s in a foreign country
130. See the East Sussex Cliffs
131. Start a scholarship or bursary
132. Catch a fish and release it
133. Buy a stranger a drink
134. See the Northern Lights in all three of the Territories
135. Go to Alert and experience complete silence
136. Take a cruise of Alaska
137. Touch an iceberg
138. Try rock climbing
139. Take a fencing class
140. See a Broadway musical
141. See Rocky Horror Picture Show at a theatre
142. Go to a foreign country with no hotel booked
143. Follow a band around and see at least 5 shows
144. Walk across the Golden Gate bridge
145. Write Bill Nye a fan letter for teaching me so much cool shit
146. Play raquet ball
147. Go for a hay ride
148. Have a bon fire
149. Have my fortune told
150. Make my own pizza from scratch
151. Stay at the Ariau Towers Hotel
152. Party like a rock star in Dubai
153. Go to a Sex Show (the trade fair kind)
154. Have my picture taken in an old western bar setup
155. Fire a gun
156. Hold a monkey
157. Learn to walk on stilts
158. Jump off something really high into water
159. Try archery
160. Climb a really big tree
161. Take singing lessons
162. Touch a zebra
163. Make my personal recipe book a reality
164. Have a candle lit dinner
165. Go snorkeling
166. Go back to Niagara Falls
167. Spend a whole day hiking
168. Fast for three days
169. Go to Carnival in Rio de Janiero
170. Create a family tree
171. Try surfing
172. Fly somewhere first class
173. Hold a lamb
174. Hold a bird
175. Carve a whole family of pumpkins for Halloween
176. Make a snowman
177. Dance with a stranger in a foreign country
178. Milk a cow or goat
179. See Saturn through a telescope
180. See the giant meteor crater in Arizona
181. Be at the South pole at night
182. Spend 24 hours naked
183. Try riding a unicycle
184. Make my own alcoholic beverage and name is after myself
185. Go white water rafting
186. Write a will
187. Gamble in Vegas
188. Try golfing
189. Ride a mechanical bull
190. Go to a NHL Stanely Cup playoff game
191. Do 50 real push-ups in a row
192. Watch the Lord of the Rings trilogy in one day
193. Make home made bread
194. Have breakfast in bed
195. Try tight rope walking
196. Ride on a motorcycle
197. Get my motorcycle license
198. Hold a tarantula
199. Make homemade ice cream
200. Read a book written in French
201. Watch the sunrise after staying up all night
202. Eat vegan for a month
203. Try curling
204. Create a Holiday and make my friends celebrate it
205. Solve a rubix cube
206. Watch the Sound of Music
207. Hold a formal party
208. Have a toga party
209. Tip a server 100% of the bill
210. Spend a day at a spa
211. Ride a gondola in Venice
212. Go somewhere in a limo
213. Play spin the bottle
214. Build a sandcastle
215. Stay up 50 hours straight
216. Do vodka shots in Russia
217. Go on a pub crawl
218. Make my own cheesecake
219. Ride on a Segway
220. Have tea in England
221. Ride on a double decker bus
222. Go somewhere on a glass bottom boat
223. Go to a Strongman Competition
224. Help someone learn English
225. Have my picture taken with a llama
226. Have a picture taken with an alpaca
227. Live without television for one month
228. Buy absolutely nothing for one week
229. Go to a live comedy show
230. Jump in a pool fully clothed
231. Visit a third world country
232. Go on a road trip without a map
233. See the changing of the guard in England
234. Get henna done
235. Make my own lollipops
236. Bring a new neighbour baked goods
237. Drink coffee in Seattle
238. Go to the banana museum in California
239. Learn how to use a pogo stick
240. Find a four leaf clover
241. Stay at an all inclusive resort
242. See a turtle on the Galapagos Islands
243. Eat poutine in Montreal
244. Go to Burning Man
245. Work in a federal or provincial election
246. Go clubbing in Spain
247. Get lost in Tokyo
248. Make and drink Jell-o shooters
249. Get hummingbird tattoos for my mum!
250. See Marilyn Manson live
251. Make my own webpage using html code, by myself!
252. Get drunk in the United States
253. Take a train somewhere
254. Go inside a lighthouse
255. Buy a painting
256. Buy a bicycle
257. Take my mom to Scotland
258. Make my own tiramisu
259.    Spend Christmas Eve in front of the fire place with my family
     
260. Make a scrapbook
261. Read the bible in it’s entirety
262. Check out Boston’s North End
263. Go on a bike trip somewhere
264. Write a book, published or not
265. Make my own purse
266. Work at a coffee house
267. Work as a waitress
268. Write my autobiography
269. See a kangaroo in its natural habitat
270. Fly somewhere and sit in the window seat
271. Travel somewhere by myself
272. Decorate my house on my own
273. Go berry picking
274. Post a video on youtube
275. Add a video podcast to this blog (thanks Nabeel!)
276. Organize a dinner party and cook all the food myself
277. Visit the Corner Gas town in Saskatchewan (Rouleau)
278. Go para-gliding or hang-gliding
279. Go to Sundance Film Festival
280. See a Cirque du Soleil show
281. Build a piece of furniture
282. Grow my own vegetables
283. Visit Rome and see St. Peters Bascillica
284. See Venezuela’s Everlasting Storm at Lake Maracaibo
285. See a polar bear in real life
286. Eat organic only for a month
287. Take a cruise somewhere tropical
288. Take a shot of tequila
289. Go sailing in the San Fransisco Bay area
290. Eat chocolate in Belgium
291. Take a tour of a brewery
292. Go 100 days without fast food
293. Stay in the Cappadocia Cave Hotel in Turkey
294. Go to a nude beach
295. Hold a koala bear
296. Collect all of the released versions of the Alphie toy
297. Go to Marie Antoinette’s Petite Hameau at Versailles
298. Go to Head-Smashed in Buffalo Jump
299. Learn to dance the salsa
300. Make my own bruschetta
301. Go to a Canadian film festival
302. Go spelunking
303. Adopt a dog
304. Donate $1000 to a charity
305. Eat Greek cuisine in Greece
306. Go to the strippers
307. Run for 30 minutes straight on the treadmill
308. Go to the Spotted Lake at Osoyoos BC
309. See a sheep in New Zealand
310. Go to Budapest
311. Visit Loch Ness in Scotland
312. Walk down the world’s steepest street, in New Zealand
313. Go to Zzyzx Road in the States
314. Go biking on Wolf Island, Ontario
315. Try the raw food diet for two weeks
316. Fly somewhere on my own
317. Go to the Icelandic Phallological Museum
318. Visit Viking, AB and see the Giant Viking Boat
319. Drive along the California coast in a convertible
320. Go to the Remington Carriage Museum
321. Get leid in Hawaii
322. Go swimming in Costa Rica
323. Ride a camel in the desert
324. Drive on the autobahn
325. Kiss the Blarney Stone
326. Take a bar-tending class
327. Polar bear dip!
328. Make buns using my Grandmother’s recipe
329. Make my own jam
330. Travel on the Trans-Siberian railway
331. Stay in a bed and breakfast
332. See a rocket launched by NASA
333. Attend a film premier
334. Eat a hot dog from a street stand in New York
335. Go to an oasis
336. Visit the Ethiopian Highlands
337. Volunteer in a foreign country
338. Go sea-doing
339. Go to the Melbourne Aquarium
340. See Angel Falls in Venezuela
341. See a platypus
342. Visit Yosemite National Park in California
343. View Hunlen Falls in British Columbia, the highest falls in North America
344. Raft through the Grand Canyon
345. See the Nile
346. Swim in Lake Superior
347. See where the Amazon drains into the Atlantic
348. Walk through Pompeii
349. See the Rotterdam Harbour
350. Graduate with a BA
351. Go to the pirate museum in Nassau, Bahamas
352. Stand in Times Square
353. Walk on a beach with star sand
354. Go as far south as I can on South America
355. Visit Ascension Island
356. See the Northern Lights in Iceland
357. Go without internet for two weeks
358. Walk on the Causeway of Ireland
359. See the Cliffs of Moher
360. Go to Toronto Pride Week
361. Stay in a hostel
362. Get my picture with the Fucking, Austria sign
363. Go to Dildo, Newfoundland
364. Sing Jukebox Hero karaoke!
365. Experience the Harbin Ice Festival
366. Visit Lake Chargoggagogg manchauggagogg chaubunagungamaugg
367. See the Eiffel Tower in Paris
368. Take one of those “holding up the Leaning Tower of Pisa” pictures
369. See the original Mona Lisa
370. Have a tropical drink in Miami
371. Get my picture taken in front of the Kremlin
372. Eat pierogies in Ukraine
373. See Mt. Everest
374. Go to all of the Canadian provinces and territories
375. Visit the Faroe Islands
376. See Napoleon’s place of exile at St. Helena
377. Travel to all of the European countries
378. Go to Bad Water, Death Valley, the lowest point in North America
379. Visit the lowest point on Earth, the Dead Sea
380. Spend some time in Inuvik and travel to Tuktoyaktuk
381. Travel to Ushuaia, the southern most city (up for debate) on the planet
382. Sky dive
383. Have a party and hire those cheezy strippers
384. Send someone a singing telegram
385. Give a stranger 100 dollars
386. Visit Lake Como in Italy
387. Get my picture outside of the White House
388. Chase a wild turkey
389. See the Statue of Liberty
390. Volunteer at a women’s shelter
391. Get a picture in front of Mount Rushmore with a “this is colonialism” sign
392. Help paint a mural
393. Have a house party
394. See a Civil War re-enactment
395. Take flying lessons
396. See Jumbo the Elephant in St. Thomas
397. Get a picture of the giant Mennonite Boy in Cambridge
398. Go to Moose Factory, Ontario
399. Visit Chelsea, Australia
400. Go whale watching
401. Spend a day at the Disneyland in Paris
402. Visit a bee farm
403. Go to Salt Lake City and do Mormon things
404. Hold a baby chick
405. Visit Cave of the Wind in Colorado and discuss ManBearPig
406. Buy or sell something on Ebay
407. Create or help edit a page on Wikipedia
408. Enter the Vatican
409. See the Swiss Alps
410. Go to Legoland in Denmark
411. Go back to San Fransisco and actually get pictures
412. Do something completely cliche-strong-independent-female-like in Tuscany
413. Have a hot stone massage
414. Buy one of those giant city-wide lottery tickets for a good cause
415. Kiss someone under water
416. Have a shot-for-shot drinking contest
417. Learn how to play poker
418. Go to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
419. See the Hollywood sign
420. Try hash
421. Have fondue
422. Visit the Smithsonian Museum
423. Eat fish and chips in Ireland
424. View cases at a court house
425. Send someone flowers
426. Ride on the Maid of the Mist
427. Eat Vietnamese food in Vietnam
428. Drink wine in Paris
429. Visit the Parthenon in Greece
430. See Big Ben in London
431. Play tennis on an actual tennis court
432. Visit the Cologne Cathedral
433. Visit the Black Forest in Germany
434. Visit the Mayan Riveria
435. Vacation in Cuba
436. Have a pet rabbit
437. Celebrate Dia de los Muertos in Mexico
438. Learn to speak Spanish fluently
439. Visit Tibet
440. Learn to juggle
441. See fire flies again
442. Go on a helicopter tour of the Rocky Mountains
443. Meet a parrot that can talk
444. Scuba dive in the Great Barrier Reef
445. Go to a wax museum
446. Ride “the tube” in London
447. Go to the Forbidden City
448. Walk through the Botanical Gardens in Montreal
449. See Ayer’s Rock in Austrailia
450. Go to the Disneyland in Japan
451. Go to Disneyland in Anaheim, California
452. Travel by train through the Rockies
453. Do a “tour of celebrities homes” dealie in L.A.
454. Visit the Bay of Fundy in New Brunswick and walk on the ocean floor
455. Visit Quebec City
456. Vacation in Tofino, BC
457. Get a picture of Iguazu Falls in South America
458. See Victoria Falls
459. Vacation in Fiji and go to the Mamanuca Islands
460. Travel by dog sled
461. Go back to the Columbia Icefield
462. Swim in the Black Sea
463. Go swimming in the South of France
464. Tour the Museum of Questionable Devices within the Science Museum of Minnesota
465. Visit the Museum of Witchcraft in Cornwall
466. Travel to Madagascar
467. Visit Phnom Penh in Cambodia
468. See Buckingham Palace
469. Eat pasta in Italy
470. Visit Choeung Ek in Cambodia
471. See the Panama Canal
472. See the Colosseum in Rome
473. Attend a Love Parade
474. Go shopping in Peru
475. Get carnal (tee hee) in a foreign country
476. Drink a Singapore Sling in Singapore
477. Eat pastries in Vienna
478. See the Notre Dam Basilica in Montreal
479. Visit the Suomenlinna Sea Fortress in Helsinki
480. Visit Yemen
481. Walk through the Amsterdam Sex Museum
482. See the Red Light District in Amsterdam
483. See Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin
484. Tour the Imperial War Museum in London
485. Throw a coin in Trevi Fountain
486. Smoke a cigar
487. Kiss in the rain
488. Kiss someone under mistletoe
489. Attend a drag show
490. Visit all seven continents
491. Make peanut butter from scratch
492. See someone get a tattoo
493. Play an April Fool’s joke on someone
494. Play the same numbers in the lottery every week for a year
495. Cross Confederation Bridge
496. Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day
497. See the sun rise over the Atlantic Ocean
498. See the sun set over the Pacific Ocean
499. Walk in Central Park
500. See the Hollywood walk of fame
501. See the Chelsea soccer team compete
502. See Canada’s Parliament buildings
503. Eat at a Medieval Themed restaurant
504. Walk across the Langkawi Skybridge
505. Participate in La Tomatina
506. Spend some time in Cape Town
507. See the Golden Temple in India
508. See Niagara Falls from the American side
509. Visit Venice before it sinks (which I assume, much like L.A. it will do)
510. Sun bathe in the Maldives
511. See Old Faithful do what it does best
512. Visit Mont Saint-Michel
513. Stay at Chateau Lake Louise
514. Spend a night in the Fairmont Banff Springs hotel
515. Spend a week in Zurich
516. Visit the Creationism Museum in Kentucky
517. Visit the Creationism Museum in Big Valley Alberta
518. Fly over the Rocky Mountains sitting in the window seat
519. Reach my goal weight
520. Ride on the London Eye
521. Fly in a water plane
522. See the Zen Garden in Kyoto
523. Go to the Louvre
524. Go to a midnight release of a movie
525. Go without chocolate for 3 months
526. Make spaghetti sauce from scratch
527. See the cherry blossoms in Japan
528. Visit Old Town Square in the Czech Republic
529. Go to Puget Sound
530. See Carcassonne in France
531. Own a car
532. Fly a kite again
533. Visit Greenland and see if there’s anything actually there
534. Drive along the Cabot Trail in Nova Scotia
535. Participate in a Pride March
536. Sing Sweet Home Alabama in Alabama
537. Get my portrait sketched by one of those street artists
538. See the replica of the Statue of Liberty in Paris
539. Participate in a photo shoot
540. Eat at Tubby Dog in Calgary
541. Spend the night in a houseboat
542. Walk the Vegas strip
543. Go to the Joseph Smith Memorial Centre
544. Drive on the Extraterrestrial Highway in Nevada
545. Just SEE the Grand Canyon
546. Practice yoga on a beach
547. Listen to Tool’s “Lateralus” CD while inebriated
548. See the sunset over the Atlantic ocean in Europe
549. Swim at Croatian beaches
550. Walk across the Charles Bridge
551. Vacation in the Mayan Riviera
552. Go tobagganing again
553. Make a flip book cartoon
554. Cross the Brooklyn Bridge
555. Visit Bora Bora
556. Eat at White Castle
557. Stay at the Venetian in Las Vegas
558. Gamble at the Bellagio in Las Vegas
559. Gamble in Atlantic City
560. Get a cheezy portrait done with my friends
     
561. Make an apple pie from scratch
562. Drink apple cider
563. Try mulled wine
564. Go for dim sum
565. Go to Lisbon
566. See the Plain of Jars in Laos
567. Attend a wedding for someone I actually know
568. Eat French fries in France
569. Go ice fishing
570. See the sunset in the Bahamas
571. Vacation in Turks and Caicos
572. Try crab
573. See Whirling Dervishes
574. Tour a chocolate factory
575. Eat at the McDonald’s in Moscow
576. Eat fried chicken in Kentucky
577. Take my mom on vacation for Mother’s Day
578. Cross the Equator
579. Ride in a blimp
580. Spend an entire thunderstorm outside
581. Go camping again
582. Get a picture with the giant “Amsterdam” sign
583. Soak up the Caribbean sun
584. Visit Harlem
585. Get a picture of me in Chelsea NYC
586. Visit the Ozarks
587. Try alcoholic egg nog
588. Drink tea in Afghanistan
589. Read 52 books in one year
590. Try Jimmy John`s
591. Try Tang
592. Visit Philadelphia
593. See the Thames
594. Go to San Juan, Puerto Rico
595. Make corn dogs
596. Sell my own jewellry on Etsy
597. Take a photography class
598. Make my own pickles
599. See the Red Square in Russia
600. Go to Pier 21 in Halifax
601. See Peggy’s Cove
602. Take the Glacier Epress
603. Ride the Flam Railway in Norway
604. See the Space Needle
605. Go shopping in NYC
606. Go up the Sears Tower in Chicago
607. Eat tapas in Spain
608. Dine at the Cheesecake Factory
609. Take piano lessons
610. Send someone an Edible Arrangement
611. Use a squatty potty
612. Ride the Roosevelt Island Tramway
613. Go to Lake Titicaca and giggle like an idiot
614. See the Liberty Bell
615. Do a body shot
616. Eat at a cheap buffet in Las Vegas
617. Have Deep Dish Pizza in Chicago
618. Find out if everything is bigger in Texas
619. Volunteer in Africa
620. Drive along Australia’s Great Ocean Road
621. Visit Nameless, TN, USA
622. Eat salmon in Alaska
623. Walk on the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia
624. Celebrate Halloween in Salem
625. Drive Route 1 in Iceland, the ring road around the country
626. Visit Longyearbyen
627. See the Prime Meridian
628. Visit Grindewald, Switzerland
629. Travel to Brazil
630. Do a Friendship Tour of North Korea
631. Visit Boston
632. Fire a musket
633. Learn to drive standard
634. Visit Katharine of Aragon’s grave at Peterborough Cathedral
635. Go rafting lazily down a river
636. Be right-handed for an entire day
637. Take a picture of myself every day for a year
638. Try Korean BBQ
639. Visit Cleaveland
640. Visit Samoa
641. Go to Hooters
642. Check out the Amsterdam Tattoo Museum
643. Visit Somaliland
644. Go to the smallest desert in the world in the Yukon
645. Smoke a Cuban cigar
646. Drive across the Atlantic Ocean Road
647. Visit the Criminology Museum in Rome
648. Hang out in a cafe in Reykjavik
649. Relax in Icelandic hot springs
650. Go to the Southern most point of the US
651. Drive across the Øresund Bridge
652. Go to the Museum of Eroticism in Paris
653. Check out the the Gopher Hole Museum
654. Visit the city of Pompeii
655. Drive in a foreign country

Last updated February 2012