I discussed my bucket list in greater detail in my entry on the subject, but here you’ll find it in its entirety including my progress in achieving them. Feel free to contribute suggestions by commenting.

Completed

 

169 – Get a lap dance in a strip club. Achieved on January 14th, 2012

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In Progress

 

 116 – Run a race on every inhabited continent

One down (City 2 Surf in Australia). Five to go.

139 – Have a lover from every continent

Europe, Oceania, North America, and Africa are done. South America and Asia to go.

156 – Kiss a girl from every country in the world

Seven down. 187 to go. I’m gonna need some chapstick…

 214 – Scuba dive on every continent

One down (Australia). Six to go.

The List

 

1 – Kiss passionately in the pouring rain

2 – Get married in Vegas

3 – Get married and really mean it

4 – Give a speech at a good friend’s wedding

5 – Climb a mountain

6 – Swim with a whale or whale shark

7 – Spend a week camping and living off the land

8 – See the northern lights

9 – Go on safari

10 – Have a threesome

11 – Eat dinner in Italy with an Italian family

12 – Have a beer with one of my heroes

13 – Go to a fancy party and rub elbows with the rich and famous

14 – Live like a king in Dubai

15 – Go sky-diving

16 – Take a pretty girl out to dinner and a show on Broadway

17 – Visit North Korea

18 – Visit Auschwitz

19 – See the sun rise over Stone Henge

20 – Publish a novel

21 – Volunteer and really make a difference

22 – Go dog-sledding

23 – Spend a night under the stars on the Mongolian steppes

24 – Visit Pripyat

25 – Celebrate New Year’s in New York City

26 – Have a White Christmas in England

27 – Attend Oktoberfest

28 – Serenade somebody

29 – Sail from one country to another

30 – Spend ANZAC Day in Gallipoli

31 – Attend a mass at St Peter’s in the Vatican City

32 – See Australia play a World Cup game

33 – Go crazy at a decadent beach party or boat party

34 – Swim in an isolated canyon or gorge

35 – Visit Antarctica

36 – Visit Cuba

37 – Attend Carnaval in Brazil

38 – Get messy at La Tomatina in Spain

39 – Attend Mardi Gras in New Orleans

40 – Explore the Florida Everglades

41 – Attend Diwali in India

42 – Attend Burning Man in Nevada

43 – Celebrate the Day of the Dead in Mexico

44 – Get soaking wet celebrating Songkran in Thailand

45 – Finish a marathon

46 – Pioneer an Australian Thanksgiving holiday

47 – Have a whirlwind romance on the road

48 – See a ping pong show in Thailand

49 – Learn the tango in Argentina

50 – Attend a live NFL, NHL, Premier League, and NBA game.

51 – See the Pyramids and the Valley of the Kings

52 – Make the trek to Jerusalem

53 – Spend 24 hours in the Amazon

54 – Travel as the locals do in the Sahara

55 – Spend at least a month biking or walking around a country

56 – Backpack in my own country

57 – Ride the Trans Siberian for its entire length

58 – Ride in a hot air balloon

59 – Kayak through the Grand Canyon

60 – Walk along the Great Wall of China

61 – Make love to somebody without speaking the same language

62 – Hike the Inca Trail and explore Machu Pichu

63 – Go skinny dipping

64 – Spend a weekend at a Buddhist retreat living like a monk

65 – Be in a movie

66 – Catch, clean, and cook my own meal

67 – Build something with my own two hands

68 – Visit a hash cafe in Amsterdam

69 – Spend the night in a haunted location

70 – Do street performance and make a bit of money at it

71 – Pack my life up, buy a ticket, and live on the road

72 – Make over $1000 for a charity

73 – Attend a wrestling PPV

74 – Ride in a submarine

75 – Go to a nudist resort or nudist beach (and be naked)

76 – Spend the night in a castle

77 – Swim in the Mediterranean

78 – Go spelunking

79 – Climb on a volcano

80 – See ice bergs up close

81 – Jump off a cliff and into the ocean

82 – Go white water rafting

83 – See Angel Falls, Niagara Falls, and Iguazu Falls

84 – Explore Pompeii

85 – Visit all of the European countries

86 – Participate in a Flash Mob

87 – Visit all of the Wonders of the World

88 – Visit the 10 biggest theme parks in the world

89 – Get a tattoo

90 – Visit Halong Bay

91 – Explore New Zealand’s Fjordlands on foot

92 – Explore the Galapagos Islands

93 – Spend at least a week on the Grecian coast

94 – Visit the Blue Lagoon in Iceland

95 – Learn to ski

96 – Get a blowjob in a cinema

97 – Have sex in a public place

98 – Start my own bar or hostel

99 – Spend a year backpacking in South and Central America

100 – Visit Angkor Wat

101 – Visit Yellowstone

102 – Take a gondola ride in Venice

103 – Spend a month living on an island

104 – Be complimented on my body

105 – Learn to salsa dance well

106 – Win an athletic contest

107 – Work a wrestling match

108 – Be in a real fight

109 – Give a eulogy

110 – Go to the Full Moon Party in Thailand

111 – Walk the Kakoda Trail in Papua New Guinea

112 – Explore all of the ‘Stans

113 – Celebrate Chilean Independence Day in Chile

114 – Attend a 4^th of July BBQ on the lake

115 – Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day in Ireland

116 – Run a race on every inhabited continent

117 – Score the winning point(s) in a game

118 – Go on a cruise between two continents

119 – Win money gambling in a casino

120 – Visit Siberia

121 – Brew my own beer

122 – Make my own wine

123 – Learn to do a standing flip and/or kip-up

124 – Shake a president or member of royalty’s hand

125 – Visit Kakadu and Uluru

126 – Have an awesome costume for a zombie walk

127 – Spend a weekend on a country estate

128 – Have a romantic evening at an American county or state fair

129 – Spend a weekend living like people did in a different time period

130 – Have a child

131 – Have a debauched boys weekend in a country other than the one I’m living in

132 – Fly a plane

133 – See a chart topping band in concert

134 – See every Academy Award Best Picture winner

135 – Sleep with somebody way out of my league

136 – Travel somewhere by river-boat

137 – Tail-gate a college football game in the United States

138 – Eat poutine in Canada

139 – Have a lover from every continent

140 – Quit a job in a dramatic way

141 – Eat only things I cook or prepare myself for one month

142 – Get a six-pack and/or killer biceps

143 – Lick the Liberty Bell

144 – Have a bar or cafe that my friends and I are regulars at

145 – Have someone I’m not dating or related to cry when I leave a place

146 – Learn to light a fire and then cook something on it

147 – Perform an obnoxious karaoke duet with a significant other

148 – Propose to a girl in a completely over the top and staged way

149 – Participate in the Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras

150 – Get rid of my credit card debt

151 – Ride a horse along the beach

152 – Overcome my fear of huntsman spiders

153 – Drift dive in a river

154 – Meet real gypsies

155 – Eat haggis in Scotland

156 – Kiss a girl from every country in the world

157 – Spend the night in a hammock on the beach

158 – Go a month without the internet

159 – Spot a celebrity in Hollywood

160 – Explore the ruins of Petra

161 – Spend time in a war-torn country

162 – Attend the Glastonbury festival and camp out

163 – Ride the train in India and bathe in the Ganges

164 – Attend the Holi Festival in India

165 – Visit the Himalayas

166 – Spend a day at the baseball

167 – Explore a ghost town

168 – Be treated like a VIP in a club

169 – Get a lap dance in a strip club January 14th, 2012

170 – See a tornado (from a safe distance)

171 – Explore San Francisco

172 – Explore the Caribbean

173 – Paint somebody’s portrait

174 – Find an opal in the outback and turn it into some kind of jewelry

175 – Attend a country music concert

176 – Record a song and give people the CD

177 – Organize and execute a romantic picnic

178 – Have sex on the beach

179 – Make a sex tape

180 – Learn to speak another language

181 – Go hang-gliding

182 – Visit Transylvania in Romania

183 – Twins

184 – See Killer Whales in the wild

185 – Scuba dive a wreck

186 – Swim with dolphins in the wild

187 – Participate in a protest for something I care about

188 – Learn to swing dance

189 – Visit the Killing Fields in Cambodia

190 – See a meteor shower

191 – Go bungee jumping

192 – Have a drink throw in my face/get slapped for being a cad

193 – Have something I do go viral and have my 15 minutes of fame

194 – Get a kiss from a celebrity, preferably female

195 – Be in a (one more) play

196 – Travel somewhere in a helicopter

197 – Have a lover 10 years my senior and 10 years my junior

198 – See a tsunami

199 – Host a ridiculously big party

200 – Go on a cross country road trip

201 – Get my PADI Dive Master certificate

202 – Get my driver’s license

203 – Celebrate Christmas at Bethlehem

204 – Seduce a pretty girl from Maryland

205 – Scuba dive the sardine run in South Africa

206 – Hike to Everest Base Camp

207 – Bike along the Rhine River through Germany, Switzerland, and the Netherlands

208 – Ride the world’s highest altitude train into Tibet

209 – Attend the Harbin Ice and Snow Festival

210 – See Hallelujah Avatar Mountain in Zhangjiajie National Park, China

211 – Hike through  Jiuzhai Valley National Park, China

212 – Spend Christmas in Lapland

213 – Rough it in the Arctic (or Siberia)

214 – Scuba dive on every continent

215 – Travel the Silk Road

216 – Ride the Orient Express

217 – Pose for a sexy calendar for charity

218 – Become fluent in another language

219 – Have a travel article published in hard form

220 – Have something published by Lonely Planet or Frommer’s

221 – See a tiger, giant panda, bear, elephant, lion, giraffe, hyena, bison, blue whale, platypus, rhino, hippo, and gorilla in the wild.

222 – Harvest my own fruit and bake it into something

223 – See a geyser explode

224 – Visit a genuine tribal village

225 – Volunteer in an impoverished area and make a difference

226 – Ride the zipline on Fremont Street, Vegas

227 – Jump off of a cliff or waterfall into the water

228 – Fire a gun. Further to that, fire an automatic weapon or throw a grenade

229 – Join the Mile High Club (or the Mile High Blowjob Club)

230 – Couchsurf

231 – Paratroop (see Barney Stinson)

232 – Drive across the Nullarbor Plain in Australia

233 – Swim with a Great White and conquer my fear

234 – Conquer my fear of spiders by holding a tarantula

235 – Overnight in the jungle

236 – Bathe in mud pools in Rotorua

237 – Walk the Milford Trek

238 – Stay in a capsule hotel

239 – Spend the night in an igloo

240 – Party at the Castle in London

241 – Attend a live polo match

242 – Attend the Highland Games

243 – Visit Sealand and the Hutt River Principality

244 – Try my lack gambling in Monaco

245 – Visit the Berlin Wall and Checkpoint Charlie

246 – Learn to make pasta in Italy

247 – Walk Paris at midnight and be inspired as the great authors were

248 – Attend the Mardi Gras in New Orleans

249 – Make use of the ‘top sheet’ in a hostel

250 – Participate in Portland’s naked bike ride

251 – Launch Road Romance

252 – Cruise the Yangtze River

253 – See the Terra Cotta Warriors in Xi’an, China

254 – Stand atop all of China’s ‘Five Sacred Mountains’

255 – See the Giant Pandas at play in Sichuan province, China

256 – Attend an event at which a national leader or monarch is also dining

257 – Attend a traditional black tie ball and dance up a storm

258 – Swing dance in an authentic 1950s style diner

259 – Have a student contact me to thank me for improving their life in some way

260 – See one of my teams win a grand final (Newcastle Knights or Newcastle Jets)

261 – Visit Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre

262 – Meet Stephen King

263 – ‘Park’ and make out like a teenager

264 – Get to third base (or hit a home run) at a baseball field

265 – Go streaking (through the quad, if possible)

266 – Attend a traditional American kegger

267 – Have a Thanksgiving dinner in the United States

268 – Travel the length of the Silk Road

269 – Motor cycle across a country (or countries) and write about my travels

270 – See some live jazz where it all started in Chicago

271 – Visit every one of the Disney theme parks

272 – Eat a Philly cheese steak in Philadelphia

273 – Eat blue crab in Maryland

274 – Eat some real gumbo in Louisiana

275 – Eat real clam chowder in the American New England

276 – Visit a Japanese hostess bar

277 – Attend one of the ‘big’ football matches (El Clasico, Merseyside Derby, Manchester derby etc)

278 – Learn to give a good full body massage

279 – Study yoga in India

280 – Practice the kama sutra with a beautiful Indian girl

281 – Familiarize myself with other faiths by participating in a Jewish, Islamic, Buddhist, and Hindi holy day or service

282 – Make pottery while listening to Unchained Melody

283 – Trek through the Andes on a donkey

284 – Float in the Dead Sea

285 – Visit Easter Island

286 – Go rock climbing outside of a gym

287 – Go Wakeboarding

288 – Scuba dive the Big Blue Hole in Belize

289 – Jump into a fountain fully clothed

290 – Go Guerrilla Camping