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Writer's pictureMira Gietzel

Adventure Before Dementia: My Bucket List

Updated: Jul 11, 2019


"Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see." Angelina Jolie

My bucket list is a mix of adventures exotic to simple, and things that I could only dream of as being a student right now with endless fee's. So here are 69 things to do before I die; not including any of the amazing opportunities I've already had in travel and in life experiences which I am utterly grateful for. I hope to frequently cross things off the list as well as add to it xxxx

1. Create a bucket list ✓

2. Put a love lock on the Pont des Arts Bridge, France ✓

3. Have sex on a plane to join the Mile High Club

4. Fly in a hot air balloon ✓

5. Take salsa dancing lessons

6. Celebrate a Marti Gras festival

7. Eat breakfast at 5th Avenue Tiffany's ✓

8. Attend a fashion week show ✓

9. Make a guard at Buckingham Palace laugh (attempted)

10. Learn to play an instrument

11. Die my hair blonde

12. Eat snails and frog legs, (only if its in France) ✓

13. Ride a mechanical bull

14. See the Northern Lights

15. Go to a New York broadway show ✓

16. Test drive a convertible Ferrari

17. Learn a foreign language ✓

18. Donate blood

19. Visit all four Disney World Parks

20. Walk on hot coal

21. Go skinny dipping in Greece

22. Run a marathon

23. Buy something from Channel

24. Ride a horse on the beach

25. Play poker in Las Vegas

26. Pay for a strangers coffee

27. Go skydiving ✓

28. Have a beer in Oktoberfest

29. Make a phone call from a red telephone box in London ✓

30. Visit family in Yugoslavia

31. Attend the Victoria Secret Fashion Show in person

32. Swim with sharks

33. Compete in a food eating contest

34. Visit every continent

35. Hail a taxi in NYC ✓

36. Pull a fire alarm

37. Travel overseas for a white christmas ✓

38. Run in a colour run

39. Go to a "cafe" in Amsterdam ✓

40. Bungeejump in New Zealand

41. Attend a masquerade ball

42. Go on an African safari

43. Visit Tom's Restaurant NYC where Seinfeld was filmed

44. Be published as a writer ✓

45. Visit a nudist beach

46. Swing on the Edge Of The World in Ecuador

47. Visit a sunflower field ✓

48. Live in a foreign country / study abroad ✓

49. Have a portrait painted of myself

50. Be in Times Square on new years eve

51. Go on a Contiki tour

52. Drive the Great Ocean Road, South Australia

53. Drink tequila in Mexico

54. Buy Blair Waldorf's favourite macaroons in Paris ✓

55. Go to Coachella

56. Attend a major sporting event (Super Bowl, NBA playoffs, Major League Baseball game) ✓

57. Graduate university with honours

58. Go to an American college frat party

59. Volunteer at a homeless shelter

60. Get a job as a bartender

61. Go wine testing at a vinyard ✓

62. Let go of a floating lantern in Thailand ✓

63. Go on a cruise ✓

64. Make a YouTube channel ✓

65. Ride a gondola in Venice, Italy ✓

66. Sing karaoke in a bar ✓

67. Visit the Taj Mahal, India

68. Go scuba diving in the Maldives

69. Run with the bulls in Spain

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