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One Life, Live It (also known as the Bucket List)

7 Natural Wonders - Aurora Borealis, Norway 2014
Skydive - Lake Wanaka, NZ 2010
Learn to ride a motorbike - license since 2004
Eat truffles - bought at Borough Market 2013
Give blood - March 2014
Cycle to Paris - from Cirencester, 430 miles, 2013
Fly a helicopter - ex-boss's reserve in South Africa, 2005
7 Natural Wonders - Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia, 2009
AZ in a RV - 2012
Have 3 kids (with hubby) - 2001, 2008, 2012
Gap year world trip - 2009 to 2010, with kids in tow!
Hike a glacier - Fox Glacier, 2010
Great White Shark dive - Gansbaai, South Africa, 2009
Go on safari - Tanzania & Zanzibar, 2008
Start my own business - Electric Octopus founded 2009
7 Manmade Wonders - Colosseum, Rome, 2005
Drive a husky sled - Kiruna, Sweden, 2008
7 Natural Wonders - Grand Canyon, AZ, USA, 1995 and many times since
Own a house - since 1998
Holiday in the Maldives - 2002
The ever growing, list:

1. Trek the Torres del Paine circuit
2. Learn basic Spanish
3. Improve my photography skills
4. Learn to navigate properly!!
5. Go on a survival skills course
6. Read all the books on my bookshelf
7. Go to Wales with my Dad to do the ancestry trail
8. Go on a yoga retreat
9. Swim the Dart 10k
10. A year of family Micro Adventures
11. See a polar bear in the wild
12. Ride coast to coast USA on a Harley
13. Climb Kili (or Aconcagua, or both)
14. Visit Antartica
15. Build an Earthship
16. Volunteer in a soup kitchen
17. Write myself a letter to be read in 10 years time
18. Bum around Europe in a Camper
19. See Neil Young and Crazy Horse in concert (again!)
20. See sunrise at Stonehenge at summer solstice
21. Spend a month on a remote island
22. See the seven manmade wonders of the world: a. Chichen Itza, b. Christ the Redeemer, c. Great Wall of China, d. Machu Pichu, e. Petra, f. Taj Mahal, g. Colosseum ✓
23. Hire a big house for a big family Christmas
24. Write a travel book
25. Go to the Opera
26. Do a car rally
27. Abseil (don’t really want to, terrified of heights, but got to challenge yourself occasionally)
28. See the Aurora again and again
29. See a panda
30. Win an award
31. See the world!  I’d love to visit every country in the world, but for now, top of the list of as yet unvisited countries are: a. Iceland, b. Canada, c. Belize, d. Cuba, e. Jordan, f. Zambia
32. See the seven natural wonders of the world: a. Paricutin, b. Victoria Falls, c. Mount Everest, d. Rio Harbour, e. Grand Canyon ✓ f. Great Barrier Reef ✓  g. Aurora ✓