What is on the bucket list?
It has been a dream for about eight years to spend time travelling Latin America and this morning I woke up and realised that many of my big dreams are coming to fruition this year.
So that I keep asking “What’s Next?” I sat down this morning and created a bucket list, here are the things I would like to do before I kick the bucket…
The Bucket List
1. Learn to sail, sail the world - need to eliminate sea sickness!
2. Learn guitar and get good! – on hold, no space for a guitar in my gear
3. Visit 100 community projects around the world and get a taste for their work
4. Visit Machu Picchu
5. Swim with a whale shark – still trying! No joy as yet 
6. Dive the Blue Hole (Belize) – DONE! October 2012
7. Explore underwater cities – heard about a cool Mayan one in a lake in Guatemala
8. Write 3 best-selling books – one down!
9. Create a school for young social entrepreneurs
10. Travel through Africa
11. Travel through South East Asia
12. Learn to cook Vietnamese food like a native
13. Have or adopt kids!
14. Spend a year travelling in Latin America – underway
15. Spend time in space
16. Meet Nelson Mandela
17. Be a trapeze artist
18. Live in a small friendly coastal community in a Spanish speaking country, in a wooden house complete with hammocks and a writing room with a view – looking for the perfect spot as we go
19. Get fit enough to enter some sort of endurance event and finish!
20. Learn kite surfing
21. Fly in a hot air balloon
22. Land a back flip into the water
23. Grow a lush vegetable garden
24. Do a degree in something fascinating
25. Produce electronic music
26. Master photography
27. Inspire people to get off their bums and do something that matters – Five Point Five is now launched!
28. Be an awesome public speaker
29. Learn how to make cheese
30. Live with an indigenous tribe in the Amazon
31. Spend time in Cuba – DONE! Oct/Nov 2012
32. Learn how to use Photoshop – properly!
33. Become fluent in Spanish
34. Live somewhere with a massive trampoline
35. Do Burning Man festival
36. See the Northern Lights
37. Buy an island
38. Dive more Cenotes in Mexico
39. Go to film school
40. Learn how to knit
41. Go snowboarding in Vancouver
42. Do a Vipassana Meditation Retreat
Well that is it for now, adding to it all the time – if you have a bucket list, please leave your link below so I can check it out (and maybe borrow your ideas!!).
12:28 pm
Hmmm…I reckon 8 and 27 are underway too!!
11:09 am
Haha yeah I guess so!
8:31 pm
If you want to learn to sail we have a boat but travelling the world on it is another thing. Maybe 9 nautical miles around south solitary island is about our limit. But as they say it’s a small world. On my bucket list I’d like to join the 100+ club when I’m old enough and by that time I hope my creative juices have improved enough so people will read my books and say “wow that was good”
8:06 am
Hey Jan, that is so cool, we may have to visit sometime!
I have never really considered 100+, do you get a prize?
3:21 pm
The prize is active longevity
6:49 pm
Don’t you get a letter from the Queen?
2:37 am
Yes I think you do Joanna!
2:54 am
Love your bucket list… Here are few things from mine: 1. Write 5 best selling books
2. Create at least 10 sources of passive income
3. Be debt-free in 2012
4. Create a Retreat that welcomes many wonderful people from all around the world
5. Speak Spanish fluently, live in Costa Rica for months at a time practicing yoga and writing
6. Become a confident inspiring speaker/teacher
7. Cruise and explore Hawaii, Caribbean,Mediterranean and travel to African countries.
8. Inspire young people to make healthy choices, increase the wealth of their families and choose knowledge over ignorance…love over hate
9. Go on a silent retreat
10. Deepen my spiritual understandings
8:08 am
Great list Margo!
I am planning a Vipassona (silent) retreat in Mexico, I guess I should put that on the list too! I am currently in Costa Rica, I can see why you would like to live here.
10:35 pm
my bucket list…nearly 100 things on it! have ticked off about 9. visit the sahara, learn to drive, grow my own veg, graduate from university…
dive the Blue Hole is on my list too!
big one is visit the 7 wonders of the world!
8:09 am
Hey Paula,
100? I think I may be playing too small with my 30 haha! I may have to up the ante
6:38 pm
better do #16 very soon and be warned – i reckon #13 will make your whole list change to #1 get a full night’s sleep #2 remember their names #3 etc…………
2:41 pm
Haha touché! So true Nancy!
6:47 pm
Hey Serena, visit this website and then you can tick off NO.29 http://curd-nerd.com/
It was voted the best cheese making blog on the web!
I love the thought of making cheese and treathen to do it often…lol
2:40 pm
Mmmmmmm Joanna that is dangerous! I am already struggling having no kitchen, I may have to make cheese in my room
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11:53 am
Hi Serena,
We’re a ‘snap’ at No. 21 & 35…see my list at:
http://soulcuisine.co.nz/knowing-me-knowing-you/
I’m pretty sure you could cross No. 28 off your list too
x Paula
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