My 1000 adventure list

Yeah, 1000 adventures. I’ve not thought of them all yet but that’s my impossible goal! I’m so inspired by reading other people’s bucket lists, and I get a sense of achievement when I look over the experiences I’ve had in my life so I’m combining the two into this ultimate life list. This has been a piece of work over the last few months, and I’ll continue adding to it as I think of new ideas and achieve new things.

Some of the completed experiences have links to my corresponding blog post, perhaps a new goal will be to write about each one too!

The list below includes future goals and past achievements, the ones I’ve completed are in bold.

2020 Update – So I organised this list a bit better with sub-headings! Unfortunately, I cannot figure out how to continue the numbering underneath each but for reference there is about 378.

Travel

1. Visit Disney World, Florida
2. Visit the Louvre
3. Visit Reykjavik
4. Tour the Houses of Parliament
5. Visit the Colosseum
6. See the northern lights
7. See the Hollywood sign
8. Visit Warwick Castle
9. Visit Pax Lodge
10. Attend a Brazilian carnival
11. Visit Sagrada Familia, Barcelona
12. Visit Universal Studios, Florida
13. Walk across the Golden Gate Bridge
14. Visit another Scandinavian city
15. Spend a night on a Megabus
16. Visit New York
17. Complete the Golden Circle, Iceland
18. Visit the Tower of London
19. Visit and escape Alkatraz
20. See the Changing of the Guard, London
21. Walk the Hollywood walk of fame
22. Visit the Vatican
23. Tour the Churchill Cabinet War Rooms
24. Visit Castle Hedingham
25. Travel first class
26. Visit Disneyland, Paris
27. Go on a cruise
28. Tour the Globe Theatre
29. Visit The Atomium, Brussels
30. Walk along the Great Wall of China
31. Visit Asterix Park, Paris
32. Take a boat to see The Needles, Isle of Wight
33. Visit Dover Castle and the Underground Hospital
34. Visit the Blue Lagoon, Iceland
35. See Mount Rushmore
36. Make a wish at the Trevi Fountain
37. Visit Porta Ventura theme park in Spain… three times!
38. Stand at the top of Mount Vesuvius
39. Visit Australia
40. Visit the Comics Art Museum, Brussels
41. Attend the Edinburgh Festival
42. Visit Pompeii
43. Visit Niagara Falls
44. Visit Platform 9 & 3/4
45. Visit Stonehenge
46. Go to a Japanese theme park
47. Go to the top of the Eiffel Tower
48. Visit the catacombs of Paris
49. Visit Disney Land, California
50. Visit the Roman Baths
51. Visit all capital cities in the UK
52. Tour the Blackpool Tower
53. Spend 24 hours at an airport
54. See Tintagel Castle
55. Celebrate Christmas in Lapland
56. See The Little Mermaid statue in Denmark

Adventure

1. Ride underwater in a submarine
2. Ride in a dune buddy
3. Get a tattoo
4. Ride in a helicopter
5. Try stand up paddling
6. Feed a giraffe
7. See sunset and sunrise in the same night
8. Go on safari
9. Ride the vomit comet
10. Shoot paintballs with a slingshot
11. Try a VR escape room
12. Camp at a music festival
13. Ride a Segway
14. Take an indoor skydiving lesson
15. Try archery
16. Tour a police station
17. Try caving
18. Swim with dolphins
19. Ride a jet ski
20. Visit ICANDO
21. Take a bushcraft lesson
22. Go white water rafting
23. Go up a volcano
24. Go zorbing
25. Go on a ghost hunt
26. Go camping
27. Feed an elephant
28. Ride a chairlift
29. Try clay pigeon shooting
30. Tour a secret nuclear bunker
31. Mosh in a mosh pit
32. Ride Kingda Ka at Six Flags, New Jersey
33. Play laser tag
34. Go snorkeling
35. Ride The Smiler at Alton Towers
36. Attend a concert
37. Go zip lining
38. Go paintballing
39. Go rock climbing
40. Ride The Ultimate at Lightwater Valley
41. Explore a cave
42. Play The Void Star Wars VR experience
43. Do a high ropes course
44. Escape an escape room
45. Race a Go Kart
46. Have a spontaneous water fight
47. Learn to start a campfire
48. Hold a Tarantula
49. Try axe throwing
50. Ride a Ferris Wheel
51. Take a Jack the Ripper tour around London
52. Visit an Ice Bar
53. Ride in a horse drawn carriage
54. Find way out of a corn maze at night
55. Ride in a limo
56. Try kayaking
57. Ride the London Eye
58. Go parasailing
59. Walk over the o2
60. Climb Stealth at Thorpe Park
61. Try disc golf
62. Go geocaching
63. Hold a snake
64. Ride in a hot air balloon
65. Carry the Olympic torch
66. Go to space

Creative

1. Start a blog
2. Have a caricature drawn of me
3. Complete a life journal
4. Tie dye a t-shirt
5. Make a YouTube video
6. Make pastry from scratch
7. Complete a scrapbook
8. Keep a line-a-day journal for one year
9. Publish a novel
10. Design and paint a games room mural in my home
11. Make soap
12. Take a life drawing course
13. Act on stage
14. Complete my web comic
15. Learn to crochet
16. Learn basic origami
17. Record a podcast
18. Act in a play
19. Learn a magic trick
20. Create art with spraypaint
21. Publish my web comic online
22. Try calligraphy
23. Build snowman twins
24. Make a hummingbird in origami
25. Write a children’s novel
26. Make toys out of felt
27. Carve a pumpkin
28. Learn five songs on the guitar
29. Make a nativity set
30. Produce and host a nativity play & carol service
31. Write and produce an Epiphany day play
32. Learn to play the drums
33. Complete a 365 Day photo challenge
34. Bake a creative cake I’m proud of
35. Make a ‘Guy’ for bonfire night
36. Paint a Christmas bauble for our tree
37. Make beaded pattern bracelets on a loom
38. Write a campfire song
39. Learn to knit (and complete all the knitting kits I’ve been given!!)
40. Have an illustration published
41. Produce a colourful church banner
42. Make and sell stickers of my own design
43. Complete a NaNoWriMo
44. Make a piñata
45. Buy art at an auction
46. Complete a Wasjig puzzle
47. Publish a blog post every week for a year
48. Learn five Christmas songs on the piano
49. Make slime
50. Make some balloon animals
51. Make an advent calendar
52. Complete my camp blanket (Progress)
53. Bake Lebkuchens
54. Build a website from scratch
55. Build a bird table
56. Design a charity Christmas card
57. Take a photo at each Monopoly location in London
58. Build a gingerbread house

Shows & Events

1. Attend Comic Con
2. See Hamilton
3. See an immersive theatre experience
4. Camp at a music festival
5. Tour a police station
6. See a caravan banger race
7. Attend a Formula One race
8. Attend a secret cinema event
9. Go on a ghost hunt
10. See a tennis match at Wimbledon
11. Have a palm reading
12. Mosh in a mosh pit
13. Have a dolphin perform a trick
14. See a musical at the west end
15. Attend a murder mystery
16. Put on a bet at Newmarket
17. Attend a concert
18. See Blue Man Group live
19. See the red arrows
20. Attend the Edinburgh Festival
21. See WWE live
22. Take a Jack the Ripper tour around London
23. See a Boxing match
24. Go to a horror maze experience for Halloween
25. See Derren Brown live
26. See the New Year fireworks in London
27. See a show / musical from a private box
28. See an event at the summer Olympics
29. Watch experiments at the Science Museum
30. See a Basketball match
31. Watch Chelsea at Stamford Bridge
32. Attend the filming of a TV show
33. Attend a TED Talk
34. Sit on a jury
35. See a Cirque du Soleil show
36. Attend an equestrian event
37. See the Trooping of the Colour
38. Visit a planetarium … (almost! It broke the day we visited!)
39. Go to a silent disco
40. Scare someone in Madame Tussards
41. See a demolition derby
42. Attend Big Gig

Active

1. Try paddling boarding
2. Play human table football
3. Workout every day for 3 months
4. Do yoga
5. Take a fencing class
6. Hold a plank for 5 minutes
7. Play Basketball
8. Run 5k
9. Take a skiing lesson
10. Be able to tread water for 30 seconds
11. Learn ballroom dancing
12. Compete (and win) at a relay race
13. Run 10K
14. Play Hockey
15. Run a half marathon
16. Complete a Colour Run
17. Be able to comfortably touch my toes with straight legs
18. Be able to do the splits
19. Walk the London Bridges
20. Beat James at table tennis
21. Carry the Olympic torch
22. Complete a 30 day exercise challenge

Learning

1. Complete all coding lessons on Khan Academy
2. Take a Bookkeeping course
3. Attend a cooking class
4. Attend a baking class
5. Complete an online course
6. Be able to recite all the Commonwealth countries
7. Take a creative writing course
8. Take a French Patisserie course
9. Learn to meditate
10. Complete a data course
11. Be fluent in another language
12. Learn the periodic table
13. Learn to use chopsticks
14. Be able to recite all the European countries & their capitals
15. Attend a wine tasting
16. Learn a fact about 10 dinosaurs
17. Complete all statistics lessons on Khan Academy
18. Improve self through counselling
19. Learn to start a campfire
20. View an exhibition at the Science Museum
21. Be able to recite the 50 American States
22. Learn to spot constellations
23. Read a parenting book
24. Understand Macbeth
25. Learn sign language
26. Read a self improvement book
27. Complete a leadership & Management course
28. Know how to solve a Rubik’s cube
29. Be able to mix three cocktails
30. Learn to juggle
31. View an exhibition at the British Museum
32. Understand chess strategies
33. Figure out crosswords
34. Complete a first aid course
35. Be able to complete a full car check
36. Attend a self improvement class
37. Complete a cryptic crossword
38. Learn Morse Code

Food & Drink

1. Eat pizza in Naples
2. Eat a croissant in Paris
3. Drink beer at Oktoberfest
4. Eat chocolate at Cadbury World, Birmingham
5. Eat a cannoli in Italy
6. Eat a Cornish Pasty in Cornwall
7. Try a corn dog in America
8. Eat a Macaron in Paris
9. Bake a gingerbread house
10. Eat McDonalds three times in 24 hours!
11. Gut a fish
12. Help cook Christmas dinner
13. Make pastry from scratch
14. Eat churros in America
15. Eat at a dark restaurant
16. Eat a Grande Big Mac
17. Drink Limoncello in Sorrento
18. Eat chocolate and waffles in Brussels
19. Collect a glass from every Hard Rock Cafe (Progress)
20. Try Frogs Legs

Career & Volunteering

1. Get a promotion
2. Earn my Girlguiding leadership qualification
3. Complete the Girlguiding ‘Going Away’ qualification
4. Organise a tombola fundraiser
5. Be a Girlguiding Peer Educator
6. Collect and donate school equipment to Malawi
7. Be a Post Pals Fortnightly Writer for a year
8. Lead a campfire
9. Organise an event for over 100 people
10. Complete the Commonwealth Award
11. Complete the Chief Guide’s Challenge
12. Organise a Girlguiding district event
13. Donate blood
14. Count the vote in an election
15. Co-ordinate and produce a 40 page brochure
16. Sponsor a child for 5 years
17. Be interviewed for a magazine article
18. Become a Girlguiding trainer
19. Organise an international Brownie pen pal exchange
20. Volunteer at a national Girlguiding event
21. Volunteer at a Peer Educator training weekend
22. Volunteer at Wellies & Wristbands

Fun and Random

1. Get a tattoo
2. See sunset and sunrise in the same night
3. Win a big game of Monopoly
4. Witness a wedding proposal
5. Read one novel every month for a year
6. Have a capsule wardrobe
7. Buy a house
8. Have Afternoon Tea
9. Contact someone with the same name
10. Watch all Studio Ghibli films (Progress)
11. Bury a time capsule
12. Get face painted as an adult
13. Read all of ‘A Song of Ice & Fire’
14. Wear fake eyelashes
15. Give a haircut
16. Catch all 150 Pokemon in one game
17. Send flowers
18. Try a reflexology treatment…reluctantly!
19. Meet a sloth
20. Try hypnosis
21. Get a spray tan
22. Complete a Mario game
23. Create family tree
24. Watch every classic Disney film (Progress)
25. Have professional family portrait taken
26. Read all the Sherlock Holmes stories (Progress)
27. Be visited by the 13 Yule Lads of Christmas
28. Get a manicure
29. Dye hair blonde
30. Dye hair ginger
31. Dye hair pink
32. Watch a full season of LOST in 24 hours
33. Own a pet axolotl
34. Carry the Olympic torch

Family & With Children

1. Say ‘Yes’
2. Have a child
3. Breastfeed my child

Travel (with children)

1. Holiday on the Isle of Wight
2. Visit Cornwall
3. Visit the Louvre in Paris
4. Build a sandcastle in Spain

Adventure (with children)

1. Visit Blackgang Chine
2. Visit Centre Parcs
3. Visit Alton Towers
4. Visit Legoland
5. Visit Thorpe Park
6. Go camping
7. Visit Pepper Pig World

Creative (with children)

1. Dress up in matching cosplay with my kids
2. Help paint a canvas for their bedroom
3. Create personal Christmas Eve boxes for my kids

Shows & Events (with children)

1. Attend Comic Con
2. See a Pantomime

Active (with children)

Learning (with children)

Food & Drink (with children)

Fun & Random (with children)