My Bucket List: 200 Things to do Before I Die

  1. My Bucket List

  2. Current Count: 29/200

  3. Travel and Adventure

  4. Travel to Loch Ness and search for Nessie
  5. Take a tropical cruise
  6. Go on a Disney cruise
  7. Go to Australia
  8. Go to Paris (Tuesday, April 8th, 2007)
  9. Go To British Columbia
  10. Explore a pyramid in Egypt
  11. Visit 100 places from the book 1000 Places To See Before You Die (current count: 10)
  12. Visit Stonehenge (Sunday, January 30th, 2011)
  13. Swim with the dolphins
  14. Visit the wreckage of the Titanic
  15. Dive in a submarine
  16. Go on a missions trip
  17. See the Northern Lights
  18. Take a spontaneous vacation by plane
  19. Visit Vienna
  20. Go whale watching
  21. Travel down the Grand Canyon
  22. Visit Israel
  23. Visit Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California
  24. Visit every Disney theme park
  25. Go white river rafting
  26. Visit Lake Champlain
  27. Ride a Gondola through Venice
  28. Visit all of the continents
  29. Walk the Great Wall of China
  30. Visit a rainforest
  31. Visit Auschwitz
  32. See giraffes in the wild
  33. Go paragliding
  34. Live abroad (Tuesday, May 27th, 2010)
  35. Visit Forrest Summer’s grave in France
  36. Visit Petworth, Hampshire (Monday, July 19th, 2010)
  37. Watch sea turtles hatch
  38. Ride a camel
  39. Go to the top of the CN Tower
  40. Visit St. George’s church in Kent
  41. Go to New Zealand
  42. Go on safari
  43. Visit Cheddar Gorge, Somerset
  44. Go to India
  45. Visit Langstone Harbour (Monday, July 19th, 2010)
  46. Walk Hadrian’s wall
  47. Visit all the provinces in Canada
  48. Visit twenty different countries (current count: 6 (Canada, US, Jamaica, England, France, Belgium))
  49. Throw a dart on a map and go wherever it lands
  50. Go on a random adventure

  51. Education and Learning

  52. Get published (Saturday, February 2rd, 2007)
  53. Learn to recite the alphabet backwards
  54. Learn to play the guitar
  55. Get baptised
  56. Learn how to say hello in fifty languages
  57. Watch something from “The Last Lecture” series
  58. Read the whole Bible
  59. Read at least one piece of work by Shakespeare, Plato, Aristotle, Dickens, Thoreau, Hemingway, Twain, Burroughs, Poe, and Emerson
  60. Complete Lent (Saturday, April 12th, 2009)
  61. Learn how to ballroom dance
  62. Learn a second language fluently
  63. Read fifty “banned books”
  64. Learn sign language
  65. Find out my blood type
  66. Write a will (Wednesday, July 21st, 2010)
  67. Write a letter to my future self
  68. Write an autobiography
  69. Get a degree/diploma
  70. Write a (complete) screenplay
  71. Publish a book (Saturday, May 29th, 2010)
  72. Sell a book (Wednesday, August 11th, 2010)
  73. Learn to juggle three balls
  74. Get my full license
  75. Learn how to properly use chopsticks
  76. Learn to ride a unicycle
  77. Solve a Rubrik’s cube
  78. Learn to walk in heels
  79. Learn to use a pogo stick
  80. Learn to rollerblade
  81. Learn to cook

  82. Family

  83. Get married
  84. Have a son with the name Forrest somewhere in his name
  85. Have a daughter
  86. Pass on my book of quotes to my first-born
  87. Own a pet bird
  88. Own a Yorkie
  89. Have a white picket fence
  90. Adopt a child
  91. Own a house
  92. Get a Jack Russell named Wishbone
  93. Take my children to DisneyWorld
  94. Fall in love
  95. Become a Grandmother
  96. Become an aunt
  97. Become a godmother
  98. Give my childhood teddy bear to one of my children
  99. Write future letters to my children on the days they are born
  100. Have a treehouse

  101. Fun

  102. Get a professional massage (Wednesday, March 19th, 2008)
  103. Go fencing
  104. Shoot a gun
  105. Go skydiving
  106. Go bungee-jumping
  107. Go on Xtreme Skyflyer at Wonderland (Saturday, September 19th, 2008)
  108. Ride a mechanical bull
  109. Learn how to do The Mashed Potato (Saturday, August 11th, 2007)
  110. Hold a skunk
  111. Play with a llama (Saturday, August 18th, 2007)
  112. Teach a bird to say something
  113. Get on television (Tuesday, January 12th, 2010)
  114. Watch a live court hearing
  115. Talk to a psychic (Saturday, August 18th, 2007)
  116. Go scuba diving
  117. Ride in a hot air balloon
  118. Bury a time capsule
  119. Make Grandma’s shortbread cookies (Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008)
  120. Go to a Billy Joel concert (Saturday, May 30th, 2009)
  121. Finish a scrapbook
  122. Watch a show on Broadway
  123. Be serenaded
  124. Own every Billy Joel album
  125. Go to the drive in
  126. Get front row tickets to a show
  127. Go to a school reunion
  128. Dye my hair (Thursday, September 17th, 2009)
  129. Ride Kingda Ka
  130. Buy something off Ebay (Thursday, June 10th, 2010)
  131. Take part in a murder mystery party/show (Wednesday, January 27th, 2010)
  132. Mail someone a surprise care package
  133. Watch half of the movies on IMDB’s top 250
  134. Watch a meteor shower
  135. Attend a Victorian ball
  136. Send a message in a bottle
  137. Throw a pot
  138. Buy a pair of designer shoes
  139. Get a tattoo
  140. Sleep under the stars
  141. [Help] set a world record (Friday, April 11th, 2007)
  142. Fly first class
  143. Complete This Book Will Change Your Life
  144. Experience a New Year’s kiss
  145. Complete the 100 Snapshots Challenge
  146. Make ice cream from scratch
  147. Be a Maid of Honour
  148. Visit a movie/tv set during filming
  149. Experience weightlessness
  150. Have a lucid dream
  151. Hold an orang-utan
  152. Milk a cow
  153. Completely fill my book of quotes
  154. Attend a movie’s midnight premiere
  155. Try speed dating (just for fun!)
  156. Be an extra in a movie
  157. Go skinny-dipping
  158. Grow a bonsai tree
  159. Send a letter to Billy Joel
  160. Slow dance in the rain
  161. Go paintballing
  162. Have a star named after me
  163. Ride a tandem bike
  164. Carve my initials with someone in a tree
  165. Have jury duty
  166. Try surfing
  167. Go zorbing
  168. Flatten a coin on a railroad track
  169. Attend a live recording of a television show (Tuesday, July 19th, 2005)
  170. Ride a horse on a beach
  171. Bake a fresh loaf of bread
  172. Buy a monokini

  173. Challenge

  174. Fix a car
  175. Get out of debt
  176. Cross breed two plants
  177. Light a candle with a match (Saturday, January 16th, 2010)
  178. Build a tree-house
  179. Watch a scary movie (Tuesday, June 3rd, 2007)
  180. Keep my room clean for three straight months
  181. Go rock climbing on a legit mountain
  182. Complete a New Year’s Resolution (Friday, February 5th, 2010)
  183. Walk on hot coals
  184. Have $10,000 of my own hard-earned money in the bank all at once
  185. Get Billy Joel’s autograph
  186. Get Taylor Swift’s autograph (Tuesday, January 5th, 2010)
  187. Successfully complete a ‘very difficult’ Sudoku puzzle without cheating
  188. “Unplug” for a weekend
  189. Organize my iTunes
  190. Go vegan for a month
  191. Stop biting my nails (Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010)
  192. Knit something WITHOUT giving up halfway through
  193. Get my dream job
  194. Build a piece of furniture

  195. Feel Good

  196. Liberate an animal
  197. Donate blood
  198. Build a Habitat for Humanity house
  199. Be part of a relief team during a tragedy
  200. Buy a meal for a homeless stranger
  201. Change the world
  202. Save a life (Saturday, January 29th, 2010)
  203. Do a charity walk/run
  204. Write a Bliss List
  205. Count my blessings (literally)
  206. Pay back my parents
  207. Make a list of 10 songs that were important to me at different times in my life. Scrapbook it.
  208. Write down the highlight of each day for a year
Author Comments: 

It started as a list of 50 things, when I was 17. It's been growing though, since I'm 21 now and it's up to 200!