My Bucket List -Updated 2023

• √ Drive across the Nullabour plain
• √ Climb the Sydney Harbour Bridge
• √ Sail the Whitsundays
• √ 4wd the Tanami Track (Kimberlies to Alice Springs)
• √ Participate in a cattle muster (I am NOT good on a horse!)
• √ Surf at Margaret River (nearly died but I did it!)
• √ NRL Football Grandfinal
• √ AFL Football Grandfinal
• Drive the Oodnadatta Track
• Hike with camels in the Simpson Desert
• √ Drive the Canning Stock Route
• √ Melbourne Cup
• √ Roebourne Cup
• √ Dive/Snorkel The Great Barrier Reef
• √ Road trip Sydney to Cairns
• √ Swim at Bondi Beach
• √ Ski at Queenstown
• √ Drive the Coromandel Peninsular
• √ Drink Wine on Waiheke Island
• √ The Shotover Jet in Queenstown
• √ Curl my toes in the sand of Whitehaven beach
•  Sunrise on the east coast and sunset on the west coast of Australia (deliberately).
• √ Sydney 2000 Olympic Games
• √  Swim in To-Sua Ocean Trench Samoa
• √  Swim with the giant clams in Samoa
• √  See a traditional Cava Ceremony in Fiji
• √  The Daintree Rainforest
• Sail Sydney Harbour for New Years Eve
• √  Drive the Nullabor Plain (at least 4 times!)

• √ Uluru at sunset
• √ The Great Barrier Reef from a helicopter
• √ Milford Sound NZ
• √ Eighty Mile Beach in Broome
• √ King Leopold Ranges
• √ Rottnest Island
• √ See the Diamantena River in flood
• √ The Bungle Bungles
• √ The Wild Rivers Tasmania
• √ The Pinnacles Cervantes
• √ The Avon Descent
• √  Snorkel Ningaloo Reef (In my top 10!)
• Kangaroo Island SA
• √ Broken Hill
• √ Cooper Pedy
• √ Kakadu National Park
• Lizard Island
• √ Byron Bay Blues Fest
• Mine for an opal
• √ Chili Beach Cape Tribulation
• √ The Blue Mountains
• √ Port Arthur, Tasmania
• √ Bay of Plenty NZ
• √ White Island (Whakaari) NZ
• √ Rotarua NZ
• √  Climb the Sydney Harbour Bridge
• √  See Milford Sound NZ
• √  Pat a Quokka on Rottnest Island
• Stay in an overwater bungalow on Bora Bora
• Watch the surfers at Teahupoʻo in Tahiti
• Sail the Yasawa Islands of Fiji
• √  4WD Fraser Island
• √  Vivid Festival Sydney

• √ Angkor Wat Siem Reap
• √ Visit the floating market of Bangkok
• √ Go to Simon Caberet in Phuket (an amazing lady boy show)
• Ride through Saigon on a scooter (somehow we ran out of time for this one!)
• √ Laze on the beach in Samui
• √ Go to a full moon party on Koh Phangan
• √ Visit the hill tribes of Thailand
• √ Swim with the whale sharks in Oslob
• √ See a Face Changing show in China
• √ Sail in Halong Bay
• √ Soak in an Onsen Japan
• √ Go trekking in Sapa
• Canyoning in the Philippines- I was sick this day 🙁
• √ Climb the Great Wall Of China
• √ See a Face Changing show in China
• √ Stay at a Buddhist monastery
• Walk the friendship bridge from Nepal to Tibet
• Travel The Silk Road
• Eat a Yak burger in Tibet
• √ Sail the Turkish Coast
• √ The Snow Festival in Sapporo
• √ Climb Mount Kinabalu
• √ Sail northern Palawan
• √ Spend a week in an overwater bungalow in the Maldives
• Pay my respects at Gallipolli, Turkey

• √ The Floating Market of Bangkok
• √ The killing fields in Cambodia
• √ The Mekong Delta
• √ The Giant Buddha at Leshan
• √  Phang Nga Bay Thailand
• √  See a Tasir in the Philippines (yes but not in the wild)
• √ Tam Cok Vietnams inland Halong Bay
• √ The scenery of Guilin
• √ Tienanmen Square
•  See the Caucasian Mummies in Urumqi
• √ Baguio Rice Terraces
• √ The Pandas in Chengdu
• √ The Terracotta Warriers Xi’an
• See the real Avatar landscape at Zhangjiajie
• √ Sail down the Yangzi River
• √  Eat fried tarantulas in Cambodia
• Potala Palace in Tibet
• Hong Kong from the top of Victoria Peak
• The Mongolian steps
• √ The Torii Gates of Inari Shrine, Kyoto
• Gaze in wonder at the spires of the Cremlin
• √ The Snow Monkeys In Japan
• Red Square Moscow
• √ See A geisha in Japan
• √ The Hanging Coffins at Sagada

• Pay my respects at Auswitz
• √ Go to a Rammstein concert in Germany (done in Cardiff instead)
• √ Cruise through the canals of Amsterdam
• √ Gamble at a casino in Monte Carlo
• Sail Croatia’s coastline
• √ Beach it on the Costa Blanca
• Drink coffee at a sidewalk cafe on the Champs Ellyse
• Ride a gondola in Venice, Italy
• √ Shipwreck Beach, Zakynthos
• Go Hot Air Ballooning in Cappadocia, Turkey (2022)
• √ Visit The Sagrada Familia
• √ Go to a Monaco Grand Prix (Classique but still a Grand Prix in Monaco)
• Spend a weekend watching the Isle of TT Motorbike Race
• Do a river cruise through the Rhine region.
• Visit the Lofoten Island Norway
• Cruise through the Fjords in Norway
• √  See the Roman Aquaduct at Segovia Spain.
• √  Spend a day in the Alhambra Spain
• Neuschwanstein Castle in Germany
• √  Do a big football game in Europe. We did a Real Madrid game in Madrid and a local derby in Barcelona.
• Giants Causeway in Ireland
• √ Eat handmade pasta in a small village in Italy

• √ The windmills in the Netherlands
• √ The yorkshire dales
• Neuschwanstein castle Germany
• √ Shipwreck Beach, Greece
• The Black Forest
• The Parthenon
• √ The Sagrada Familia
• √ The Blue Caves of Zykanthos
• Rome’s coliseum
• √ The Geysers in Iceland
• √ See where the tectonic plates meet in Iceland
• The Corryvreckan Whirlpool Scotland
• √ The Outer Hebredes Scotland
• Stonehenge, England
• √ Lake Como Italy
• The Leaning Tower of Pisa
• Pompeii, Italy
• √ Plitvice Lakes in Croatia
• Red Square Moscow
• The Winter Palace in St Petersburg
• The Berlin Wall
• √  The Northern Lights
• √ The Hagia Sophia in Istanbul
• See the sunset over the caldera in Santorini
• The Dark Hedges in Ireland
• √ See the Quairing on the Isle of Skye
• √ See Plitvice Lake s in Croatia
• See the Puffins!
• Any and ALL of Romania (I’m obsessed)

• √ Spend a few days in Las Vegas
• √ A week in Lake Tahoe
• √ Swim at Malibu Beach
• √ Walk Sunset Boulevard
• √ Learn to mush in Canada
• √ New Years Eve in Times Square
• √ Road trip from LA to San Fransisco
• √ Mardi Gras in New Orleans
• Drive Route 66
• Stay at a Dude Ranch somewhere
• √ Do the Plantation Route in New Orleans
• Bobsled down the old olympic track in Calgary
• √  Spend a few days in The Hamptons
• Sail the coast of Alaska
• √ Go to a Chargers football game
• √ Attend a HUGE concert – Madonna Miami 2002!
• √  Visit the small towns of south Louisiana
• √  See the architecture of Palm Springs
• √  Visit Joshua Tree national park
• √  Ride the Maid of the Mist Niagara Falls
• √  Swim along the Big Sur coast
• √  Walk across Brooklyn Bridge
• √  See Sequoia National Park
• √  Head to the top of the Empire State Building
• √  Swim in Havasu Falls
• √  Catch a broadway show
• √  Do open mike night at The Bluebird Cafe Nashville
• √  Spend a night at the Oprey, Nashville
• √  Picnic in Central Park
• See Martha’s Vinyard, Massachesetts
• Hike up Diamond Head, Hawaii
• √  Drive the Road to Hana
• Spend a week on the Lake of the Ozarks
• √  Admire the Art Deco Architecture in Miami
• √  Visit Head Smashed In Buffalo Jump, Canada

• Brice Canyon Utah
• √ The Grand Canyon
• √ Times Square
• √ The Hamptons
• √ Hearst Castle
• √ The Florida Keys
• The Bandlands
• Yosemite National Park
• See the fall foilage in Quebec, Canada
• √ Lake Louise in Canada
• Day Of The Dead Mexico
• √ Coachella Music and Arts Festival
• √ Burning Man (HATED THIS! – Not for me at all)
• √  Live like a local in New York
• √  Visit Hoe River Rainforest, Olympic National Park
• √  Sail the Mississippi on a river boat
• √  Visit Graceland
• √  See the Civil Rights Museum in Atlanta
• √  Eat Gumbo!
• √  Visit Pike Place Market, Seattle
• √  Walk Hollywood Boulevard in LA
• √  Visit Alcatraz
• Do the balloon festival in Albuquerque.
• √  Cycle the Katy Trail, Missouri
• √  Drive over the Golden Gate Bridge
• √  Cycle The Santa Monica beach path to Venice Beach
• √  Explore Savannah
• Walk the San Antonio River Walk
• √  Everglades National Park
• Visit Mesa Verde National Park
• √  See the colored ladies of San Fransisco
• √  Do a tour of CNN in Atlanta
• Visit Mackinac Island
• Monument Valley Utah
• See the Grizzly bears in Denali
• √  Boat through the Thousand Islands Canada

• √ Eat guinea pig in Peru (I did it but it wasn’t easy)
• √ Carnival in Rio
• √  See A Tango Show in Buenos Aires
• Cartagena Colombia
• √ Spend a few days on Caye Caulker Belize
• √ Visit ATM Mayan Cave in Belize
• √ Swim with the sharks in Belize
• √ Swim in the Cenotes in Mexico
• √ Spend a few days on the beach in Tulum
• Swim with the pigs in Bahamas
• √  Lake Atitlan Guatemala
• √  Hike Volcan Pacaya Guatemala
• √  Spend a week on my own in the Dominican Republic (LOVE IT!)
• Punta Del Este, Uraguay
• Visit The Pantanal wetlands
• Moai statues of Easter Island, Chile
• Torres Del Paine National Park, Chile
• √  See a Toucan in Costa Rica
• √  Spend a month seeing Cuba
• √  Smoke cigars in Havana

• √ The salt lakes of Bolivia
• √ Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio
• √ Ipanema Beach
• √ The Amazon Jungle by boat
• Easter Island
• Galapagos Islands
• √  Salt Flats of Bolivia
• Glaciers in Patagonia
• √  Visit Eva Peron’s Grave in Buenos Aires
• √  See The Sloths in Costa Rica
• √  Zipline in Costa Rica
• √  See the Mayan Ruins (there are heaps but I’ve done like 4 main ones)
• √  Hike the Inca Trail To Machu Picchu
• √  Bocas Del Toro, Panama
• Angel Falls, Venezuela
• Atacama Desert, Chile
• Kaieteur Falls, Guyana
• √  La Boca, Buenos Aires
• √  Lake Titicaca, Peru/Bolivia
• Las Lajas Sanctuary, Colombia
• √  Swim in the waters of The Bahamas
• √  Sail the British Virgin Islands

• √ See the Vally of the Kings from a balloon
• √ See the Big 5 on Safari. (Easier than you think if you are lucky)
• √ Visit Elsemere (and cry because you will!)
• √ Visit Chefchaouen in Morocco
• √ Spend a few days on the Spice Island of Zanzibar
• √ See Victoria Falls
• √ See a running Giraffe (I know its weird but it was incredible)
• √  Cross the Sahara Desert
• √  Climb the Rock of Gibraltar
• √  See the start of the Nile in Jinja
• √  Spend a few days in the Okavango Delta, Botswana
• √  See Elephants roaming free (amazingly we saw them in Botswana outside of a game park which was my goal)
• √  Visit the Genocide Museum in Rwanda
• √  Safari the Masai Mara in Kenya
• √  Eat Injera in Ethiopia
• √  Visit the Danakil Depression
• √  Visit the Lalibella Stone Churches
• √  See Greater Zimbabwe Ruins
• Ride The Blue Train
• √  Visit the Drakensberg mountains
• √  See Lac Rose in Senegal

• √ Cage dive with the great white sharks
• √ Trek to see the mountain gorillas in Uganda, the DRC or Rwanda
• √ Climb the sand dunes in Namibia
• Swim in the Devils Cataract at Victoria Falls (you have to be there in the dry season to do this so I will just have to go back)
• √ Sail a Feluca down the Nile
• √ Gase in awe at the Great Pyramids of Giza
• √ Do a safari to the Ngorongoro Crater and the Serengeti
• √  Visit the Nairobi Natural History Museum
• √  See Lion Cubs
• √  The Skeleton Coast
• √  See the traditional end point of the Paris to Dakar Rally – Lac Rose, Senegal
• √  Do A wine tour in the Stellenbosch region in South Africa
• √  Visit Robin Island, Capetown
• √  Swim in Lake Malawi
• See the Wildebeast crossing in Masai Mara (so close – they were milling around the river but didn’t cross 🙁 )
• √  Eat Rolex in Uganda
• Experience the nature of Madagascar
• Swim in the waters around the Seychelles
• √  Drive the Garden Route in South Africa

Australia Bucket List Hikes

• √ The Great Sydney Coastal Walk
• Bibulmun Track Western Australia
• Larapinta Trail – started and got two days done but was struck down with a very horrible respiratory virus so had to pull the pin!
• √  Mount Amos for the Wineglass Bay View
• √ Overland Track
• Great Ocean Walk
• √ Walk around Uluru
• √ Cape to Cape Walk
• √ Thorsborne Trail Hinchenbrook Island
• Fraser Island Great Walk
• Seven Peaks Walk Norfolk Island
• √  Hike Carnarvon Gorge
• √  Gold Coast Hinterland Walk

New Zealand Bucket List Hikes

• Te Araroa – had it all planned for Jan 2019 and then got a blood clot in my leg coming back from the US the week prior!
• √ Coast to Coast walk – hike from east to west across NZ in Auckland in only a day!
• The Queen Charlotte Track
• The Routebourne Track
• The Milford Track
• Tongariro Crossing
• √ Ben Lomand
• √ Mueller Hut Route Mt Cook

Papua New Guinea Bucket List Hikes

• The Kokoda Trail

Central & South America Hikes To Do

• √ The Inca Trail
• √ Choquequirao Peru
• The W Trek, Torres Del Paine, Chile
• Ciudad Perdida Colombia

Africa Hikes To Do

• √ Hike the Otter Trail
• √ Climb Table Mountain
• √ Go remote area hiking somewhere in Africa (Chimanimani in Zimbabwe)
• Mount Kilimanjaro

Europe Bucket List Hikes

• √ The Camino De Santiago Frances Way
• Mont Blanc Circuit (Booked for August 2022)
• The Portuguese Way
• The Via De La Plata
• The Via Francigena
• The Cinque Terra
• The Le Puy Camino France
• Hike The Dolomites

Asia Hikes On My Bucket List

• √ Mt Kinabalu
• √ Headhunters Trail Borneo
• √ Kumano Kodo Japan
• Mt Fuji
• √ Jeju Olle (I’ve done 7 trails of this so far)
• √ Annapurna Circuit
• Everest Base Camp (December!)
• √ The Great Wall Of China
• √ Banaue Rice Terraaces
• √ Sapa Vietnam
• Kalaw to Inle lake Myanmar
• √ Tiger Leaping Gorge
• √ Doi Luang Chiang Dao
• The Snowman Trek Bhutan
• Walk Huashan’s “Plank of Death”
• Finish the Jeju Ole in South Korea