Current Status of The List:  ✔ 64/80 Items Done or Partly Done (Click orange links)

​The List has 10 Categories with 8 items each.  The Categories are:
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  1. Adventure
  2. Nature & Wildlife
  3. Creative
  4. Entertainment/ Sporting Events
  5. Food & Drink
  6. Giving Back
  7. Skills
  8. Travel - General
  9. Travel - Iconic Man-Made Wonders
  10. Experiences ​​
adventure bucket list: dog sledding
Dog sledding
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​Adventure Bucket List
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1  ✔ Air Boat Across an Alligator Infested Swamp
2  ✔  Land In a Seaplane 3  Dog Sled in the snow
4  ✔ Ski down a Mountain
5  ✔ Land in a Helicopter in the Grand Canyon (USA - Arizona)
6  ✔  Hike into a Frozen Canyon
7  ✔ Backpack around Europe 8  ✔  Play & Win a Game of Paintball
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Wildlife bucket list: feeding a kangaroo in Australia
Mary feeding a kangaroo near Adelaide, Australia
 
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​Nature & Wildlife Bucket List
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9  ✔  Feed an Elephant in Africa
10 Climb Mount Vesuvius (Italy)
11  ✔  Feed a Kangaroo in Australia
12 Admire the Northern Lights in Iceland
13  ✔  Hug a Redwood Tree (USA - California)
14  Relax in a Natural Hot Spring
15  ✔  Explore the Great Barrier Reef (Australia)
16  Visit 8 Stunning Waterfalls (7/8) ​
creative bucket list ideas
Creative ideas: lightbulb moments
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​Creative Bucket List
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17  ✔  Get Published by a world-renowned Publisher
18   ✔ Perform Live:
  1. ✔  On a City Stage &
  2. Record a Song in Nashville
19  ✔ Organise a Themed Party
20  ✔ Create a Family Tree with at least 4 Generations
21  ✔  Create a Piece of Public Art
22  ✔ Start a Blog and Design a website
23  ✔ Design/Redecorate a Garden/ House
24   ✔ Learn 8 Poems
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sporting bucket list ideas
Leopardstown Racing (Editorial credit: Shutterstock.com)
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​Entertainment/ Sporting Event Bucket List

25  ✔  Be in the audience at some memorable Shows/ Concerts 26 ✔  Be in the audience of a Prime Time TV Show
27  Go to a World Sporting event e.g. Olympic Games, Soccer/Rugby World Cup
28  ✔  Go to a Moto GP Race & ✔  the IOM TT
29  See a Tennis match live at Wimbledon
30  ✔ Bet on a Horse at a Racecourse
31  ✔  Be Interviewed Live on Radio
32  ✔ Be on Page 3
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food & drink bucket list ideas
Wine tasting
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​Food & Drink Bucket List
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33  ✔ Enjoy Food at a Food Festival
34  ✔ Eat/Drink Regional Foods/ Drinks (See the 38 Tasted)
35  ✔  Bake a Cake with Someone Special
36  ✔  Drink Whiskey/ Whisky at an Irish & Scottish Distillery 37  ✔  Go wine tasting in Tuscany, Italy & the Napa Valley, California
38  ✔  Eat in 8 Memorable Restaurants (8/8)
  1. ✔  360 Bar & Dining, Sydney Tower
  2. ✔  Quanjude Restaurant, Beijing, China 
  3. ✔   Bellevue Restaurant, Prague, Czech Republic
  4. ✔  Pisces Restaurant, St. Lawrence Gap, Barbados
  5. ✔  360 CN Tower, Toronto, Canada
  6. ✔ 360 Piz Gloria Restaurant, Schilthorn, Switzerland
  7. ​✔  Olives (now Spago), Bellagio Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
  8. ✔  Aqua Shard, London, England
39  Partake in Afternoon Tea at 8 Different Locations (6/8)
  1. ✔  ​Raffles Hotel, Singapore
  2. ​✔  Fife Arms, Braemar, Scotland
  3. ​✔  8 in Dublin, Ireland
  4. ​✔  Hayfield Manor Hotel, Cork, Ireland
  5. ✔   Waterford Castle Hotel, Waterford, Ireland
  6. ​✔   Cashel Palace Hotel, Cashel, Co. Tipperary, Ireland
40  ✔   Take a Cookery Class at a top Cookery School
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giving back bucket list ideas
Giving back bucket list ideas
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Giving Back Bucket List

41  ✔  Get an Organ Donor Card
42  ✔  Sponsor a Child in a Developing Country
43  ✔  Get My "Stuff" Together ...before I kick the Bucket
44  Support 8 Favourite Charities 45  Donate Blood/ Plasma
46  ✔ Learn to do CPR
47 ✔  Write a Letter of Gratitude
           ✔ To HDU, Adams McConnell Ward Beaumont Hospital - 2004
           ✔  To the Family in Wales my mother Peggy worked for in the late 1940s - 2001
48  Volunteer
skills bucket list: learn to play a musical instrument
Learn to play a musical instrument (Shutterstock)
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​Skills Bucket List

49   ✔  Learn to Play A Musical Instrument 50  ✔   Learn & Use "Thank You" in 8 Languages
51   Create Something With My Hands
52  Learn Yoga/ Meditation
53  ✔ Be Passably Good in at least one Sport
54  ✔  Grow & Care For Plants
55  ✔   Read at least 80 Good Books  (80/80)
​               ✔   Books 1 - 8
               ✔   Books 9 - 16     
               ✔  Books 17 - 24
               ✔  Books 25 - 32
               ✔  Books 33 - 40
               ✔  Books 41 - 48
               ✔  Books 49 - 56
               ✔  Books 57 - 64 
               ✔  Books 65 - 72
                ✔ Books 73 - 80
56  ✔ Learn to Play One Card Game For Fun
travel bucket list: heathrow airport
Travel: Heathrow Airport, UK (Shutterstock)
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​Travel Bucket List - General

57  Set foot on Every Continent (5/7) 58  Visit 80 Countries (See the 43/80 I've visited)
59  Visit 80 Memorable Hotels (See the 68/80 I've visited)
​60  (a) ✔ Visit 80 Iconic Cities/ Towns (See the 80 + I've visited) &
​60 (b) ✔ Stay in All of the Counties in Ireland (See the 16/32 I've stayed in)
61  Sail "the Seven Seas" (7/7)
  1. ✔ Pacific Ocean (Inside Passage, Alaska) - Celebrity Century
  2. ✔ Atlantic & Mediterranean - Sapphire
  3. ✔  Adriatic - Emerald
  4. ✔  Aegean - Olympic Voyager
  5. ✔  North Sea - Independence of the Seas
  6. ✔  Mediterranean
    1. ​ - Symphony of the Seas​
    2. ​ - M.S. Sunbird
  7. ​✔  Atlantic - Anthem of the Seas
    1. ​​Part 1
    2. Part 2
                Plus 62  ✔  Visit 8 States in the USA (8/8)
  1. ✔  Massachusetts
  2. ✔  Minnesota
  3. ✔  California
  4. ✔  Nevada
  5. ✔  Florida
    1. ​Seaplane to Islamorada
    2. Miami​
  6. ✔ Alaska
  7. ✔ New York 1996 & New York 2006
  8. ​✔  Arizona
And
  1. ✔ New Jersey
  2. ✔ Illinois
63  Cruise on 8 Major Rivers (4/8)
  1. ✔ River Seine, Paris, France
  2. ✔  River Thames, London, England
  3. ✔   Chobe River, Botswana
  4. ​✔   Zambezi River, Zimbabwe
64  Take 8 Epic Train Rides (4/8)
  1. ✔  Kuranda Railway, Queensland, Australia
  2. ✔  Bullet Train, Shanghai, China
  3. ✔  "The Canadian", Toronto to Vancouver, Canada
  4. ✔  Inter-railing in Europe 1991
    1. Part 1 of 5 - Paris to Brussels
    2. Part 2 of 5 - Berlin to Prague
    3. Part 3 of 5 - Munich to Florence
    4. Part 4 of 5 - Florence to Rome
    5. Part 5 of 5 - Rome to Lucerne to Paris
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travel bucket: taj mahal
Gaze in awe at the Taj Mahal
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Travel Bucket List - Iconic Man-Made Wonders

65  ✔  Explore the Hoover Dam (USA - Nevada/Arizona)
66  Admire the Statue of Christ the Redeemer (Brazil - Rio de Janeiro)
67  ✔  Walk a section of The Great Wall of China (China)
68  Explore Macchu Picchu (Peru)
69  ✔  Check out the Colosseum (Italy - Rome)
70  Gaze in awe at the Taj Mahal (India - Agra)
71  ✔  Explore the Pyramids of Giza (Egypt - Giza)
72  ✔ Climb the Eiffel Tower (France - Paris)

experiences bucket list: singapore botanic gardens
Singapore Botanic Gardens
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​Experiences Bucket List

73  ✔ Go on an African Safari
74  ✔   (a) Pick 8 Favourite Films
  1. "The Commitments"
  2. Forrest Gump
  3. ​Saturday Night Fever
      ✔   (b) & 80 Songs/Pieces of Music
  1.    My Favourite Album - "Top of the Tots"
  2.    "The Wind beneath my Wings" by Bette Midler
  3. ​   "Big River" by Jimmy Nail
  4.    ​"Danny Boy" as sung by Eva Cassidy
  5.   " Who Knows Where The Time Goes" by Sandy Denny
  6. Soundtrack from Forrest Gump​
  7. "Disco Fever" cassette
  8. "Fields of Gold" by Eva Cassidy
  9. ​"Don't Forget Your Shovel" by Christy Moore
  10. "Old Shep" by Elvis Presley
  11. ​"Will Ya Go Lassie Go" as performed by The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem
  12. "Kilkelly, Ireland" as performed by Robbie O'Connell/ Mike Moloney
  13. "Grace" as performed by Aoífe Scott, Danny O’Reilly & Rόisín Ó (Reilly) 
  14. ​"Memory" as performed by Barbra Streisand
75  Experience the wildlife of the Galapagos Islands
76  Visit 80 of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites (See the 64/80 I've Seen)
77   See Mount Everest
78  Take a Gondola ride through the canals of Venice
79  ✔ Be Pampered at a Spa
80  Enjoy The View from 80 Tall Buildings/ Vantage Points (27/80)
  1. ✔  Eureka Skydeck, Melbourne
  2. ✔  Sydney Tower​
  3. ✔  Sky Terrace 428, The Peak, Hong Kong
  4. ✔  Oriental Pearl Tower, Shanghai, China
  5. ✔   Coit Tower, San Francisco, CA, USA
  6. ​✔  CN Tower, Toronto, Canada
  7. ​✔  Top of The Rock, Gibraltar
  8. ✔ Ski Lift, Pamporovo, Bulgaria
  9. ✔ Eiffel Tower, Paris, France​
  10. ​✔ View from Cable Car in Swiss Alps
  11. ✔ Empire State Building Observatory, New York City, USA
  12. ✔ "Eiffel Tower", Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
  13. ✔  Stratosphere Tower, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
  14. ✔  Helicopter Ride Over Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA
  15. ✔ TV Tower, Berlin, Germany
  16. ✔  The Shard, London​
  17. ✔  The Back of an Elephant, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
  18. ​✔  Helicopter Ride Over Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
  19. ​✔  Table Mountain Cable Car & Viewing Point, Cape Town, South Africa
  20. ​✔   Cliffs of Moher, Co. Clare, Ireland
  21. ​✔   Slieve League, Co. Donegal, Ireland
  22. ✔   Mount Teide & Cable Car, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
  23. ✔   Deserted Village (Slievemore), Achill Island, Co. Mayo, Ireland​
  24. ​✔   One World Trade Center, New York City, USA
  25. ✔   Sears Tower (now Willis Tower), Chicago, Illinois, USA 
  26. ✔   Top of the Rock, Rockefeller Center, New York City, New York, USA
  27. ✔   Helicopter Ride over Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
 
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