Experiences I’ve chased, places I still dream about and adventures already completed.
Still to come
Have an exhibition of my photos
Have my photos published in Australian Geographic
Go to Las Vegas
Camp in the Grand Canyon
Go on safari in Africa
Complete a course in Business Management
Be able to rock climb 20/21’s cleanly
Learn to meditate
Go ice diving
Give a speech
Learn to dance
Get a macro lens
Go snow skiing
Go water skiing
Go diving once a year
Learn to speak a language fluently
Climb Ayres Rock
Ice skate at Rockefeller Centre
Get a tattoo
Dive Vanuatu
See the Aurora Borealis
Go hot air ballooning over the Serengeti
Dive Lady Eliot Island
Dive New Guinea
Learn to surf
Teach someone to read
Spend New Years Eve somewhere big
Learn to skim stones
Learn to juggle
See the top 10 art galleries in the world – Vatican Museums (Rome) Jan 2012, Uffizi Gallery (Florence) Feb 2012, Musee du Lourve (Paris) Dec 2012, Musee d’Orsay (Paris) Dec 2012, Prado (Madrid) Oct 2017, Tate Modern (London) Dec 2019
Get a dog
See an opera under the stars
Be in the audience of a tv show
Stay in a castle
Look through a telescope at an observatory
See a game at a big stadium
Rent an apartment in Venice for a month
Climb the via Ferrata in the Dolomites
Go to the top of the Eiffel Tower
Do a course in falconry
Go to Iceland and Greenland
Go to Mont St Michel and Versailles – Mon St Michel, October 2019
Witness the Whirling Dervishes in Turkey
Go to a wolf park (Canada or Norway)
Fly business class long haul
Go to the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta
Go the the Christmas markets in Strasbourg
Completed Adventures
Go to Patagonia – Ushuaia, El Calafate & El Chalten – October 2025
Go to Rio de Janiero – October 2025
Sing in front of a crowd – AMTC Choir 2024
Pat a cheetah – Canberra – May 2023
Learn to knot – 2019
See an opera in a grand opera house – Tosca, Prague – December 2017
Go to Prague – December 2017
Walk the Camino de Santiago for my 55th – October & November 2017
Go on horse riding cattle drive – Mansfield, Victoria – November 2015
Sleep under the stars – Mansfield, Victoria – November 2015
Firewalk – Anthony Robbins Seminar, Sydney – September 2014
Attend an Anthony Robbins Seminar – Unleash the Power Within, Sydney – September 2014
Play the violin – WEA Violin for Beginners – December 2013
Swim with dolphins – Pet Porpoise Pool, Coffs Harbour – August 2013
Go to Stradbroke Island – August 2013
Attend an ANZAC Day dawn service – Brisbane – April 2013
Learn to draw & paint – Painting April 2012 / Draw April 2013
Go Stand Up Paddle Boarding – Surfers Paradise – April 2013
Drive a dog sled – Kiruna, Sweden – December 2012
Have a White Christmas – Kemi, Finalnd – December 2012
Stay in an ice hotel – Kiruna, Sweden – December 2012
Learn to crack a whip – Rockhampton – September 2012
Hand milk a cow – Rockhampton – September 2012
Ride a motor bike – Rockhampton – September 2012
Memorise a poem – Invictus – August 2012
Go to carnival in Venice for my 50th – February 2012
Travel through Italy – January & February 2012
Go to Moreton Island – January 2012
Pat a tiger – Australia Zoo – November 2011
Go up in helicoper – Barossa Valley – December 2010
Climb the Sydney Harbour Bridge – June 2010
Go up in a glider – February 2010
Ride an elephant – Chitwan National Park, Nepal – November 2009
Go to Bhutan – November 2009
Do the “5 Secrets” interview with Mum & Dad – February 2009
Go in a flight simulator – January 2009
See an opera – Turandot – October 2008
Rock climb at Arapiles – September 2008
Do a pottery course – March 2008
Go up to the Observation Deck at the Q1 – March 2008
Swing from a trapeze – February 2008
Go on a really long flying fox – Salta, Argentina – December 2007
Go to Machu Picchu – November 2007
Learn to ride a horse – 2007
See Cirque du Soliel live – Verekai – November 2006
Shave my hair off – January 2006
Climb the Story Bridge – NYE December/January 2006
Go to Fraser Island – December 2005
Finish my TAFE Course – November 2005
Read Nelson Mandela’s biography – August 2005
Climb to the Bluff at Carnarvon Gorge – May 2005