My Life List: Attend the Late Show with David Letterman

This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time

I’ve had a list in my head for as long as I can remember. I crossed a few things off it here and there but there was always those “one day” things I knew I’d never do.

Then I started writing down things I have already done and was surprised at just how many interesting and unique things I have done on this journey. So I added to that list and finally wrote down the “one day” things and even started crossing some of them off.

This final step of publishing the list is a way of challenging, focusing, keeping track and being accountable as well as a constant motivation and reminder to keep living beyond normal.

THE LIST

TRAVEL

Set foot on all seven continents

- ~~Australia~~

- N America

- ~~S America~~

- ~~Europe~~

- ~~Asia~~

- Antarctica

- Africa

~~Travel to all Australian states/territories/capitals~~

~~Drive the Great Ocean Road~~

~~Climb Ayers Rock~~

Road trip across America in a classic muscle car

Go to Mardi gras in New Orleans

~~Visit Machu Picchu~~

~~Travel the English Tunnel~~

~~Ride the London Eye~~

~~See Mona Lisa at the Louvre~~

~~Eat pizza in Italy and see the Vatican~~

~~See the Colosseum and Panthenon~~

~~See Venice~~

~~See a sunset in Santorini~~

~~See the Acropolis~~

See Meteora

Get drunk on vodka in Red Square

~~See the Berlin Wall~~

~~Visit Prague~~

~~See Auschwitz~~

Visit Budapest

See Sagrada Familia

Visit Jerusalem

See Petra

See the Sphinx and Pyramids

See Krak Des Chevaliers

~~See the Taj Mahal~~

~~See Hagia Sophia and Blue Mosque~~

~~East meets West~~

~~See Potala Palace~~ ~~Tibet~~

Walk on the great wall

~~See Bagan~~

~~See sunrise over Angkor Wat~~

~~See the Cambodian Killing Fields~~

~~Smoke opium in the Thai mountains~~

~~Full moon party in Thailand~~

~~See the Plain of Jars~~

~~See~~ ~~Halong Bay~~

~~Ride the Ho Chi Minh trail~~

Go to cherry blossom festival in Japan

NATURE

Swim the five oceans:

- ~~Pacific~~

- ~~Atlantic~~

- ~~Indian~~

- Southern

- Arctic

~~See the Northern Lights~~

See a Three Toed Sloth in its natural habitat

Fish for Piranha

~~See~~ ~~Iguassu Falls~~

~~See a full solar eclipse~~

~~Go whale watching~~

Swim with dolphins

Feel an Earthquake

Chase a tornado

~~Go Tubing under a mountain~~

~~See snow~~

See Victoria Falls

~~Bathe in the Ganges~~

~~Visit Buddha's Bodhi Tree~~

See Perito Moreno Glacier

Walk on a glacier

Safari in Africa

~~Photograph lightning~~

PERSONAL

Quit cigarettes

Donate blood

~~Run a 9km~~

~~Run a 10km~~

Run a half marathon

Run a marathon

Be famous for doing something good

~~Grow a moustache~~

~~Date a girl half my age~~

~~Date a girl met on the internet~~

~~Meditate with monks~~

~~Have a letter published in a newspaper~~

Never grow up

Have a conversation with Richard Dawkins

~~Have a veteran tell me intimate war stories~~

~~Get a Mohawk~~

~~Grow hair down to my butt~~

~~Eat vegetarian for a week~~

~~Save a life~~

~~Work overseas~~

~~Live without a permanent address for six months~~

Win lotto to cross more off this list!

THAT’S ENTERTAINMENT

Finish writing a book

Write a Script ~~(Short)~~ (Feature)

Make a movie ~~(Short)~~ ~~(30min Travel Show)~~ (Feature)

Be an extra in a movie ~~(Short)~~ (Feature)

Be on a TV game show

~~Appear in a video clip on TV~~

~~Tour with a band~~

~~Have a song of mine played on radio~~

~~Write and record my own album~~

~~Play a solo gig~~

~~Visit Oscar Wilde's grave~~

Attend the Letterman show (Fail)

Play a song in Greenwich Village

Stay in the Chelsea Hotel in NY

Stand outside Dakota building where Lennon was shot

~~Meet someone who knew John Lennon~~

~~Get a photo crossing Abbey Rd~~

Go to Penny Lane

~~Visit the Beatles ashram in India~~

See Pink Floyd (with Waters and Gilmour)

Get a million hits on YouTube

~~Visit Hansa Tonstudio~~

~~Be a subject for an art project~~

TRANSPORT

Leave the atmosphere – space flight

Travel at the speed of sound – fighter jet

~~Drive at 200kmph~~

Attend a formula one Grand Prix

~~Attend the Bathurst 1000~~

~~Road trip on a motorbike~~

Submarine ride

Fan boat ride

Jet ski ride

Hot air balloon ride

~~Helicopter ride~~

~~Mountain bike ride~~

~~Limosine ride~~

~~Elephant ride~~

~~Horse ride~~

~~Camel ride~~

~~Ride the highest swing ride in the world in the oldest amusement park in the world~~

~~Skydive~~

~~Parasail~~

~~Scuba dive~~

~~Bungee jump~~

ODDITIES part 1

~~Make a bucket list blog~~

~~Live in a Hotel for a month~~

Stay in an Ice Hotel ~~(Visited)~~

~~Stay in an over water bungalow~~

Spend a week in a silent retreat

Protest march for something I believe in

~~Release a bird from its cage on a mountain at sunrise~~

~~Take a mystery flight~~

Go without internet for a month

~~Own less than 200 things~~

Have a job that is not work

~~Sponsor a child~~

Change a stranger’s life significantly for the better

~~Volunteer in a third world country~~

~~Donate to Kiva.org~~

~~Marry two people as a celebrant~~

Qualify for a Guinness world record

~~Dine in a revolving restaurant~~

~~Send a message in a bottle~~

ODDITIES part 2

~~Shoplift~~

Buy a round for the whole bar

Bet $100 on red in Vegas

Start my own cult

~~Attend a tourette syndrome meeting~~

Go to Burning Man

~~Be the only white guy in a crowd~~

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~~Trash a hotel room~~

~~See a ping pong show~~

Walk on water in a hamster ball

~~Shake hands with royalty (Prince Charles)~~

~~Eat something weird (Rat)~~

~~Pee on a National Monument~~

~~Eat something I killed with my bare hands~~

~~Sleep on a park bench~~

~~Ayahuasca ceremony~~

~~Be close enough to feel a bomb attack~~

~~Get Arrested~~

Get shot

Fire a:

~~-Handgun~~

~~-Rifle~~

~~-Shotgun~~

~~-M16~~

~~-M60~~

~~-M80~~

-Uzi

- AK47

My Life List

Tuesday, 11 August 2015

Attend the Late Show with David Letterman - Fail