Travel Tips

1. Work as a guide or driver for an adventure holiday company.
2. Travel in the Namib desert. (Done)
3. Eat something that is still alive.
4. Celebrate Christmas in Lalibella, Ethiopia. (Done)
5. Swim with a shark or whale.
6. Travel through Iran.
7. Stand above 6000m.
8. Work at a refugee camp.
9. Have breakfast with Kylie Minogue
10. Visit the Everest base camps in both Nepal and Tibet.
11. Trek to K2 base camp, Pakistan.
12. Work and live in New Zealand.
13. Have a travel story published. (Done)
14. Have a book published.
15. Do something no one else has done before.

16. Journey to the source of the nile. (Done)
17. Venture into the Colombian jungle (Done)
18. See the Big Five in the wild.
19. Drive on the Silk Road. (Done)
20. Drink coffee in a war zone.
21. Hold a very large spider.
22. Shake hands with Michael Palin.
23. Sail in the Arctic or Antarctic.
24. Teach English as a foreign language.
25. Travel with nomads.
26. Stand at the base of Angel Falls.
27. Win a Guiness drinking competition in Ireland. (Done)
28. Visit every country ending in '...stan'.
29. Sandboard down a sand dune.
30. Fly a kite from the summit of a mountain.

31. Experience incarceration in a foreign jail (..for a very short time).
32. Save a life.
33. Feel an earthquake.
34. Ride the back of an Ostrich.
35. Cross Mongolia.
36. Search for Lara Croft at Ankor Watt. (Done)
37. See the ancient city of Petra, Jordan, on horseback. (Done)
38. Face up to a mountain gorilla. (Done)
39. Get wet at Victoria Falls. (Done)
40. Witness a volcanic eruption.
41. Sunbathe on the Beirut Riviera.
42. Dance on stage at a gay bar.
43. Make the pilgrimage to Mt. Kailash.
44. Swim with a dolphin. (Done)
45. Finally be granted a Sudanese visa and allowed in. (Done)

46. Attend an Embassy party. (Done)
47. Salsa at the Rio carnival.
48. Attempt an overland journey on a ride-on lawn mower.
49.Teach Ray Meyers something he doesn't already know.
50. Marry before Im 50.
51. Live with a tribe.
52. Sit on the Great Wall Of China.
53. Say hi to the lads of the Terracotta Army, Xian (.. and learn how to spell Terra-whatever).
54. Drive on the Road Of Bones.
55. Visit that church decorated with bones in Eastern Europe (oh yea, the Sedlec Ossuary in Czech Republic - thanks lohki.)
56. Drive on the Karakorum Highway.
57. Honour hippys everywhere with a journey through Afghanistan.
58. Cross the Danikil Desert (Danikalia) - the hottest and most desolate place on earth.
59. Sleep in a mud skyscraper in Yemen. (Done)
60. Appear in a film.
61. Study a foreign language in its native country. (Done)
62. Take a babe in a burqa out on a date.
63. Do an all-American road trip across the US of A.
64. Sail in a yacht around the islands of the South Pacific.
65. See the stone statues on Easter Island.
66. Wander around the Dead Cities of eastern Syria.
67. Be mesmorized by the green eyes of the Kalash people of northern Pakistan.
68. Sail across an ocean.
69. Visit an original 1930s cinema in Asmara, Eritrea.
70. Become bewitched by the Northern Lights.
71. Work in an Icelandic fish factory.
72. Finaly run into Ewen McGregor & Chris Boardman on the road (third time lucky..)
73. Buy a cheap old car and drive south from the UK 'till the wheels fall off.
74. Buy a bicycle and ride it east from the UK 'till the wheels fall off.
75. Go window shopping in Amsterdam.
76. Play 'fetch' with a comodo dragon.
77. Cross the highest pass in the world, Thorung La (5416m), Nepal. Done
78. Cross a higher pass than the highest pass in the world... !