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Africa 2012 Africa 2019 Europe 2009 Europe 2014 Scandinavia 2017 Europe 2019 USA 2007 Mexico 2010 Cuba 2010 USA 2015 Canada 2015 Central Asia 2016 India 2019 Japan 2023 South Korea 2023 South America 2006

Places / countries / cities already ticked: Walk on the Golden Gate bridge See the Grand Canyon Gamble in Las Vegas Drive a car in the USA Have a holiday in Hawaii The Isle of Skye The Tower of London Visit Stonehenge Loch Ness Henry V111's cod-piece Drive through / stay in Death Valley San Francisco cable car Take a harbour cruise in Singapore See the moai on Easter Island Visit Machu Pichu Fly over the Nasca Lines Reed boats of Lake Titicaca Take a boat ride on the Amazon River See the White House in Washington Drive through Monument Valley Get sprayed on at Niagara Falls Cliff dwellings at Mesa Verde Empire State building Statue of Liberty See the Leaning Tower of Pisa Go to the top of the Eiffel Tower See the Mona Lisa in the Louvre Stand on the Rialto bridge in Venice Cruise on the Danube St Peter's Square in Rome Walk in the Colosseum Visit Gallipoli Cuba before the Castros die See the Mayan / Aztec culture Go back to New York Visit a South Pacific Island (Rarotonga) Safari in Lake Ngorongoro crater Stay on Zanzibar See the deserts of Namibia Lake Victoria & Victoria Falls Balloon ride over Masai Mara Table Mountain in Capetown Check out the geysers of Iceland Phallic museum in Reykavik St Petersburg & Moscow Stay in southern France Go for a cruise in Alaska Check out the "stans" : Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgystan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan Visit the Forbidden City See the terracotta soldiers Walk on the Great Wall of China Go as far north as North Cape - the very top of Europe Visit Scandinavia Go to Spain, Morocco, Portugal Baltic countries See the Berlin Wall, and Checkpoint Charlie Taj Mahal Rajastan Japan South Korea - specifically the DMZ Places / countries / cities unticked: South America: Brazil, Argentina, Eduador, Bolivia (some of these would be good) Colombia - specifically Catagena Vietnam/Laos/Cambodia (but having second thoughts about that in terms of heat) Jordan, Israel, Egypt - supposed to visit in 2023 Antarctica - second thoughts. Should tourists really be going there? Greece: some islands and the Acropolis Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan (maybe not bearing in mind their current situation) some Scottish islands southern Italy - ideally with a week's stay somewhere Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg X rated ? ? ? ? Things to try / do - ticked: go to a strip club picked up by a guy who's 30 years younger than me sailing drive a racing car drive a car in Europe ride on a Harley a roller coaster own my own home ballooning (Canterbury Plains AND Kenya) walk off the Sky Tower in Auckland learn to play jazz on a piano fly any class except "cattle" dirt-bike riding be a bridesmaid Nevis Swing have a helicopter lesson Things to try / do - unticked: Sky-dive (booked 3 times; weather had other ideas) New Zealand list: (from 2020, this became a "thing"!) and I've already seen an lot of New Zealand Farewell Spit (top of South Island) Southern Alps train trip stay at the Hermitage (Mt Cook) Doubtful Sound cruise Dart River Jet boat Marlborough Sounds via the Mail Run Drive around Catlins (Slope Point and Curio Bay) NewZealand list - unticked: Helicopter onto a glacier in Southern Alps Cape Reinga - I've been there briefly, but it was raining heavily

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