Amazon Jungle, Brasil


My Travel Wishlist (Part II)


I've been travelling for one-hundred and forty-six days, and I'm currently sitting in the Christchurch airport, waiting for my flight to Sydney to board. I was looking back on past blog entries and got a chance to re-read the goals list I put together while waiting for a boat out of Belém. Since I didn't put together those travel goals specifically with this trip in mind, I'm not exactly surprised that; after almost five months, six countries and having done a whole lot of stuff; I'm only able to cross three things off the list. Three things out of nineteen. In fact, once I really started revising the list, I found I added more things than I'd taken off.

Because I'm always grateful for easy, low-maintenance blog content, I present the new, updated version:

(Added September 24th, 2009)
  • Set foot on Antarctica
  • Climb Mt. Kilimanjaro
  • Jump out of a plane in Queenstown (well, over Fox Glacier, actually), New Zealand
  • Do the 'World's Most Dangerous Hike' up Hua Shan, Shaanxi, China.
  • Pay my respects at the Canadian National Vimy Memorial, Vimy Ridge
  • Trek to Everest Base Camp
  • See the Sun Rise over Angkor Wat
  • Trek in Patagonia
  • Visit Petra, Jordan
  • Get onto the roof of a train in India
  • Reflect on the beaches of Normandy
  • Paraglide in Nepal
  • Backpack in Glacier National Park
  • Ride the Trans-Siberian Railway
  • Connect with my inner-Darwin in the Galapagos Islands
  • Ride a ship up or down the Amazon River
  • Cycle up the Col de Tourmalet.
  • Run the Médoc Marathon, sampling all eighteen wine stations.
  • Drive the PCH between Marin and Big Sur, on a sunny day, in a convertible.
(Added January 13th, 2010)
  • Find the Freakiest Mannequin in the World
  • Spend Carnival in Brazil (in Rio or Salvador)
  • Backpack in Torres del Paine National Park
  • Summit at least one 6,000 metre peak (Chachani Volcano, I'm looking at you!)
  • Backpack the Milford Track in the Fiordlands of New Zealand
  • Leap off the highest commercial bungy jump at the Macau Sky Tower

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    3. (Very Nearly) Down to the End of the World
    4. New Year's Eve 2009
    5. Valparaíso

    2 comments:

    dre said...

    When I was in Macau, I wasn't very impressed with their Bungee. To be honest, it looked like a low-budget apparatus they stuck to the tower for the heck of it cuz China likes to make money off every little thing. I don't know if it's a view thing either, but there's not much of a view there...

    Doug said...

    Still going to do it -- let's face it, bungy platforms are always going to look at bit cheap since they're just glorified rigs onto which to hook a giant rubber band. As for the view, I'm kinda going to be focusing on the ground when I jump. If you've never bungyed, it's such a ridiculous experience. Bungying down 233 metres will be even more of a ridiculous experience.

     
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