100 Things To Do While You're Still Alive

'This life is a short journey. How can you make sure you fill it with the most fun and that you visit all the coolest places on earth before you back those bags for the very last time'

This was the quote made by David Freeman, the founder of the original '100 Things To Do Before You Die' list who died last week having reached about half of his goals. So this inspired me. In memory of Mr Freeman and partly to fuel my ambition to travel as much as possible and enjoy life as much as I possibly can I have made my own 'bucket list'. I can't really call it a '100 Things to do..' list because as I have thought more about it more have been added and more are likely to be. And just because I like to think of myself as a bit of a optimist it will be known as a '100 Things To Do While You're Still Alive' list. Much more positive. And just for your entertainment I will try and write little articles as I achieve each one.

1. Join the Mile High Club (No Solo Membership)

2. Star in a Porn Movie

3. Grow a proper 'tache

4. In a packed lift (preferrably Empire State Building or Canary Wharf. i.e. one with a lot of floors) press every single button on the way down.

5. Do a loud fart in a packed lift

6. Hit a hole in one. DONE August 2001

7. Sleep rough. DONE Paris- October 2007. Outside the Louvre on a building site

8. Get arrested.

9. Go to Vegas and put everything I have with me on Black

10. Drive cross country without a map or Sat-Nav

11. Eat Roadkill

12. Scuba Dive

13. Sky Dive and Bungy. DONE. New Zealand and Australia 2005 but would do again

14. Get a tattoo

15. Light a fire using just sticks

16. Secretly date two people who know each other.

17. Run away from a date. DONE. Leicester Square. August 2008

18. Live somewhere random for a year

19. Live in France for at least 6 months

20. Live in Canada for at least 6 months

21. Learn the Guitar

22. Learn French

23. Do something for Charity. DONE. VSO India Trek. August 2008

24. Give quite a lot to charity anonymously

25. Run the London Marathon

26. Do a Triathlon

27. Learn a Martial Art

28. Write a Novel

29. Do a Full Moon Party

30. Try some drugs

31. Pull off a hoax that gets reported as truth in a Newspaper

32. Karate chop a board in half with my bare hand

33. Test drive a top-end sports car with absolutely no intention of buying it

34. Be a film extra

35. Convince people you're a celebrity. DONE. India 2008. Convinced Hotel Manager that I was Michael Owen. I didn't, someone I was with did.

36. Brew your own beer

37. Send a Messagein a Bottle

38. Spend a day saying 'Yes' to everything

39. Stay out all night and go to work next mornign without having gone to bed

40. Do Pamplona Running With The Bulls

41. Tour Britain by Campervan

42. Go to Oktoberfest

43. Shower in a Waterfall

44. Live like a Bodybuilder for just 3 months

45. Learn to Juggle

46. Spend Christmas on the beach

47. Drive the Autobahn REALLY fast

48. Tour Europe by Train

49. Canoe from Canada into America (or Vice Versa)

50. See the Barrier Reef

51. Ski a double black diamond run

52. Learn to Surf

53. Drive Route 66

54. Have a threesome (2 girls)

55. Go up in a Hot Air Balloon

56. Take part in a police line up

57. Visit the 7 Modern Wonders (Chichen Itza, Mexico; Chris Redeemer, Rio; Colosseum, Rome; Taj Mahal, India (Done, August 2008); Great Wall; Petra, Jordan; Machi Picchi, Peru; Pyramids)

58. See a Solar Eclipse

59. See the Northern Lights

60. Party for 48 hours straight

61. Carnival in Rio

62. Swim in the Serpentine Lake in Hyde Park. DONE. This morning. 10/9/08.

63. Walk as far along the Thames as possibly (South from Waterloo heading East). DONE. 31/08/2008.

64. Sapporo Snow Festival, Japan

65. Do Calgary Stampede

66. Climb the Empire State Building by foot

67. Visit Ground Zero. DONE. 2005.

68. Watch a Test Match at Lord's

69. Visit Angkor Wat (Cambodia)

70. Do Yom Kippur at the Western Wall in Jerusalem.

71. Edinburgh Festival

72. Cannes Film Festival

73. Snowboard and Heli-ski

74. Go to London Pride

75. Mardi Gras in New Orleans

76. Nude Night Surfing on Bondi Beach

77. Swim with WILD Dolphins

78. Visit the Statues on Easter Island

79. Notting Hill Carnival

80. Have a Curry on Brick Lane

81. Visit and Bungy at Victoria Halls, Zimbabwe

82. Base Jump

83. Canyon and tombstone

84. Iditarod Sled Race in Alaska

85. Do Safari in Africa

86. Stay in a treehouse

87. Cycle a leg of the Tour De France

88. Go to Wimbledon

89. Capture a wild animal (exotic) on Camera

90. Get a photo published

91. Climb Sydney Harbour Bridge

92. Be a cowboy for a day

93. Do a Voodoo Pilgrimage in Haiti

94. Smoke a Cigar in Havana

95. Watch a Super 14 Match

96. Visit Kincavel in Scotland as well as Loch Ness and Isle of Skye

97. Swim with Sharks

98. Work a night in a Soup Kitchen

99. Go sea fishing and eat your catch

100. Hitchike

101. Read Mein Kampf.

There are all, I feel, difficult but very doable and I will make it an ambition of mine to do it in my lifetime. Please let me know what you think and if there are any you think I could add to my list.