Welcome to my Sixty before 60 bucket list!
In 2020, just as Covid hit, I made myself a bucket list of things to do before I turned fifty. I had no idea at the time I would not be able to leave the country for almost two years, and occasionally not even be allowed to leave my house. Needless to say I did not get to do everything on the list. It was ambitious anyway, to achieve all 50 things on the list in less than three years.
Now I have a whole ten years to get through this 60 before 60 list – so I’ve included all those things I didn’t get to on the old list and a whole pile of new things to make it up to sixty new travel experiences. Surely this time I will get through them all!
If you are wondering what this bucket list is all about, the short version is that I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2019. I went through treatment, and came out the other side with a renewed sense of making the most out of life. It is no surprise I’m sure to hear that travel is my passion. It is what lights me up and brings me joy.
I have always had a (long!) list in my head of all those things I want to do next – now I also have it in writing. There is always more to see and do, but this gives me a list of things I can prioritise, rather than just waiting to see what comes along.
The first section below is carried over from my previous list. I have purposely left three spots blank so that I can add them if I come across something else. Ten years is a long time (yet not so long at all!)
Note: some links below (as I tick things off) go through to my other website, Exploring South Australia.
- Trek in the Himalayas
- Walk the Milford Track
- Snorkel the Great Barrier Reef
- Eat an insect
- Walk on the Great Wall of China
- See the Aurora Australis (sort of saw them in Tasmania, but not enough to say “done”!)
- Watch sunrise at Mt Fuji
- Fly first class
- Do a wine-blending class at the d’Arenberg Cube
- Cycle the Riesling Trail
- Swim with sea lions at Baird Bay
- Start walking the Heysen Trail
- Go to Womadelaide
- Visit Darwin (and Kakadu National Park)
- Go on a paddle steamer on the Murray River
- Swim in an outback waterhole
- Visit my last three South East Asian countries – Brunei, East Timor, Philippines
- Ride in a Helicopter
- See a Platypus in the wild
- Cruise the Nile
- Visit Yellowstone National Park (oldest)
- See the Pyramids and Grand Egyptian Museum
- Visit the Museum of the Future in Dubai
- Attend Oberammergau (2030)
- Visit continent #7 (Africa)
- Do an African Safari
- Trek to Macchu Picchu
- Visit Saudi Arabia
- Visit the remaining Great Wine Capitals of the World (Cape Town, Bilbao-Rioja, Lausanne, Verona, San Francisco-Napa Valley)
- Set foot on Antarctica
- Stay in an underwater hotel (like Reefsuite on the GBR)
- Cruise to the Galápagos Islands
- See an erupting volcano
- Go back to Agra and this time actually visit the Taj Mahal
- See the Grand Canyon
- Explore the Giant’s Causeway in the UK
- Walk the Camino de Santiago
- Visit the Coral Coast in WA
- See the landscape of the Atacama Desert
- Bolivia Salt Flats
- Do a Sydney Harbour Cruise
- Drive across the Nullarbor
- See the Sydney NYE fireworks
- Drive the Victorian silo art trail
- Hike to the top of Mount Kosciusko
- Get to Lord Howe Island
- Actually speak in a foreign language (probably German)
- Go skiing
- Stay in an Agriturismo
- Drink a Singapore Sling at Raffles
- See how many of the remaining European countries (12) I can visit
- Go to the Sydney Mardi Gras
- Visit the Qantas museum at Longreach
- Travel on the Ghan
- See the stairway to the moon at Broome
- Spend a few days in Robe
- See the white beaches of the Whitsundays
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Learn more about my travels here
My Adult Gap Year in Review
Our Ten Biggest Gap Year Failures
151 Inspirational Ideas for your Best Travel Bucket List
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