My bucket list

What is a Bucket list? 

So named after the movie where the rich and miserable Edward Cole played by Jack Nicholson meets poor and happy Carter Chambers (Morgan Freeman). Despite having nothing in common apart from their terminal illness, a deep friendship is forged when, between vomiting up Chemotherapy bile, the two decide to write down and pursue a list of the outlandish things they have always wanted to do.

Why bother?

I started my Bucketlist in 2005 after returning home very adventure motivated from a trip to Vietnam. At the time I was becoming Edward Cole, yet wishing I was Carter.  I have since maintained my list and try to tick something off every month, my dreams are getting increasingly out there.

I think that maintaining a living bucket list is a great motivational tool, and an awesome way to remember that experiences define us, not material things.

If you want to join the awesome people who maintain their lists on my site just email me (bottom of page) and I will gladly grant you behind the scenes access to Red Rucksack.com along with instructions to get you started. Who knows someone may read your list and offer to help you out.

My list has evolved into this:

1. Solo overland Track in 40 hours…Winter 09
2. Mountaineering course in NZ
3. Trek in the Andes with a Donkey
4. Trek in Patagonia solo
5. Run my very own business, by myself
6. Climb Mount Kosiosko
7. Complete the Kokoda Trail
8. Make a sad old person really happy
9. Dance frantically in a thunderstorm
10. Learn how to wheel stand my motorbike
11. Jump a skateboard 20 centimetres high
12. Learn how to skydive
13. Visit Disney land
14. Buy house
15. Ride Route 66 on a Harley Davidson
16. Travel with a backpack for about 18 months with nil plans/gypsy
17. Grow dreadlocks
18. See a species which will be extinct in my lifetime (Sadly x3)
19. Win a real fight
20. Mountain climb in Nepal
21. Win a radio or magazine competition
22. Climb an 8000 meter high mountain
23. Climb Mt Kilimanjaro
24. Fly My Kilimanjaro
25. Do an African safari
26. Learn how to paraglide
27. Explore Jordan
28. Visit Madagascar and dance like those cartoon lemurs
29. Float in the dead sea
30. Work in a pharmacy with really long hair
31. Play messy twister
32. Skydive in a tuxedo
33. Climb Mt Cook
34. Attend Carnavale
35. Explore the Amazon
36. Publish a travel book
37. Get pranked on one of those TV prank shows
38. Trek the Overland track (or similar) with Mum and Dad again
39. Appear semi-naked in a calendar
40. Heckle a speaker at a formal event in a funny way
41. Take my Niece and Nephew on an overnight bush walk
42. Find and fly an epic site never flown before (Paraglider)
43. Visit the Easter Islands
44. Launch off Ama Dablam
45. Spend more quality weeks with Mel and Win
46. Eat moose meat
47. Get a six pack
48. Run 10 kilometres in less than 50mins (51:40 burnie ten 2008)
49. Run a marathon
50. Climb Mt Everest
51. Own a ride on lawn mower
52. Quit smoking (for good this time!)
53. Live in the same hemisphere as my lovely girlfriend
54. Climb a proper snowy mountain then fly off it
55. Get good at rock climbing – multi pitch climb.
56. Go to 8000 meters high on a mountain again
57. Big (2-3 months) over seas motorbike ride somewhere
58. Paraglide for two hours straight
59. Get an article published in a real magazine x2
60. Study Meteorology and understand those squiggly lines
61. Settle down and have kids
62. Get married near or on a mountain (Helicopter optional)
63. Ride a gondola in Venice with a beautiful lady
64. Complete a SIV course with Paragliding including a full stall, throwing the reserve
65. Talk my way out of a sticky situation with the authorities
66. Wait out a blizzard inside a snow cave
67. Visit Pamukkale Turkey
68. Scuba dive at Belize and the big blue hole
69. D-bag launch my Paraglider (Deployment bag)
70. Swim 80x 50 meter freestyle laps in one go
71. Launch a paraglider from a rooftop, at least 20 storeys high
72. Become a local at a cafe or restaurant
73. Be an extra in a movie
74. Jump into that fountain at the start of ‘Friends’
75. Visit the Vatican in Rome and tell a priest something really awkward (even if made up)
76. Get a tattoo
77. Learn Danish really well
78. See a proper ghost
79. Crash a wedding (again)
80. Inspire ten people to really push their limits
81. Overcome my fear of cows
82. Hold or attend a massive Halloween party
83. Convince someone I am famous – receive free drinks
84. Join the mile high club
85. Paraglide in the Swiss Alps
86. Go to a nudie beach completely nude
87. Crash a celebrity party
88. Walk through the Bronx in America
89. Spend three weeks speaking only Spanish
90. Get my scrotum waxed (Just checking you are still with me here!)
91. Spend a month in a hippy commune
92. Walk for 36 hours non-stop in the bush
93. Go overseas with my parents again
94. Bonehead (stick head into frame) a television news reporter in the street
95. Really rock out at Karaoke….sober

So there you are, everyone needs to dream! I hope this has inspired you to sharpen your pencil then write your own list.

Why not email me a request to join the other wicked bucketlisters hanging out here.