Bucket List

What’s a Bucket List?
It is a list of all the goals I want to achieve, dreams I want to fulfill and life-experiences I wish to experience before I ‘Kick the bucket’.

  • Head back to Tibet.
  • Kora around Mount Kailash.
  • See Everest with my own eyes.
  • Ride in a hot air balloon.
  • Get fitter and healthier.
  • Travel to Easter Island.
  • Have photo’s printed in a magazine.
  • Be featured on a blog.
  • Have 1000+ followers on Twitter.
  • Visit the sets of Twin Peaks.
  • Stay in the Beagle Hotel.
  • Buy a brand new Leica M.
  • Have a Job I love.
  • Improve my spelling and grammar.
  • Keep my blog up to date.
  • Become a pro with Photoshop & Final Cut.
  • Stop procrastinating Facebook & Twitter.
  • Solve a Rubik’s Cube.
  • Canoe the Mississippi River.
  • Party at  The Burning Man Festival.
  • Ride the old Orient Express train route.
  • Cycle from Mersea Island to London on a single speed bike.
  • Read more books.
  • Show my own photo’s in an exhibition.
  • Travel from London to Dakar overland.
  • Frame my Tibetan art work.
  • Start a scrap book/journal.
  • Climb the 3 highest peaks in the UK. Ben Nevis/Scafell Pike/Snowdon.
  • Take one last epic overland trip around the World.
  • De-clutter my bedroom and live a minimal lifestyle.
  • Make money off my website.
  • Get over my fear of public speaking.
  • Visit the Playboy Mansion. ;-)
  • Own a coffee shop/Gallery
  • Dance Tango in Argentina.
  • Learn to speak Spanish
  • Learn to surf.
  • Visit my cousins in Australia.
  • Make £10K for Charity.
  • Learn how to Scuba dive.
  • Buy a house. (Not in the U.K).
  • Go hiking in Glacier National Park.
  • Finish cycling back to London from NYC, via Asia.
  • Write a book about my travels.
  • Tell a story at the Moth story-telling night.
  • Be a good husband to Julie.
  • Get back into DJ-ing.
  • Be less critical of myself.
  • Cycle from San Fransisco back to New York.
  • Make another short ‘art’ film.
  • Keep up to date with my vlog/blog/website.
  • Visit Norway.
  • Try another American food challenge.
  • Compete in an alley cat bicycle race.
  • Visit the Spam Museum in Minnesota.

life-experiences & goals I’ve already achieved.

  • Worked in TV & Radio.
  • Partied at the Berlin Love Parade.
  • Hiked the Great Wall of China.
  • Cage dived with Great White Sharks.
  • Visited Cape Town.
  • Camped out under the stars in Alaska.
  • Hiked Tiger Leaping Gorge.
  • Paid my respected at Auschwitz.
  • Partied in Ibiza.
  • Rode a horse in Mongolia.
  • Drank Vodka with a Russian on the Trans-Siberian.
  • Won over $200 in Vegas.
  • Visited the Dwarf Theme Park in China.
  • Snorkelled in a barrier reef.
  • Cooked Marshmallows on a active Volcano.
  • Came first place in a drag queen competition.
  • Partied in New Orleans.
  • Cycled to Amsterdam.
  • Went on Safari in Africa.
  • Watched the sunrise from the top of one of the temples of Tikal.
  • Visited Tibet.
  • Took a tour around Chernobyl and Pripyat.
  • Visited the gates of Area 51.
  • Took a road trip on both the East & West Coasts of America.
  • Seen the Grand Canyon and Monument Valley with my eyes.
  • Ate Tacos in Mexico City.
  • Watched a Mexico Wrestling match live.
  • Have wonderful friends all over the world.
  • Walked around Mersea Island – Achieved on 16/07/2009. Google map.
  • Swam in Lake Baikal, Russia.
  • Took a drive in a 1950′s car in Cuba.
  • Walk the Coast to Coast path across the UK. Achieved on 24/08/2009. Google map.
  • Get more out of London. Achieved Summer 2010
  • Raise money for Cancer Research UK. Achieved on 24/08/2009. Justgiving page.
  • Bicycle Trip in Europe. Achieved June 2010. Google Map
  • Grow a full on beard. Achieved on 24/08/2009. Check out this hairy ape.
  • Shot an AK-47 & other rather large weapons.
  • Camped out under the Northern Lights in Iceland.
  • Cycled through the Redwood National Forrest.
  • Travel on the last passenger train in Mexico
  • Drank in the Burj al Arab (The worlds only seven star hotel)
  • Stood on the most southerly tip of Africa.
  • Partied in the largest Halloween street carnival.
  • Travelled from New York to San Francisco on-board Amtrak.
  • Visited the Very Large Array Telescope in New Mexico.
  • Dj’ed at a top London Night Club.
  • Partied at Queens Day – Amsterdam.
  • Met Kylie Minogue.
  • I have a wife. And she’s very cute American.
  • Cycled across the US.
  • Visited the site of the Kent State Shooting.
  • Searched for Big Foot.
  • Having the single speed bicycle of my dreams.
  • Moved to another country.
  • Cycled the magnificent ‘Going-to-the-Sun-Road’.
  • Stayed in the Black Sail Hostel in the Lake District.
  • Made a YouTube/Vimeo video that got over 1000+ views in the first month.
  • Visited the set of The Goonies.
  • Ate the worlds largest grilled cheese sandwich.
  • Said ‘I do’ in Vegas; And got married by Elvis.