Things i want to do,

A recent conversation on IRC and Yellow Stevens's post the other day about his Big Tick made me think: There are lots of things i would like to try. I should make a note of them before i forget.

There are so many things happening on this planet. Amazing things. Some of them are good, some of them are bad. Even the things that are bad are amazingly interesting, and can give a whole different view on life. Too many people just do the same thing, day after day, without really experiencing anything really that different. Now, not meaning to brag, but i've done lots of things that most people havnt (if you really want to know some of them, just send me an email, facebook message, or whatever but im a modest kind of guy (no, really, it's true.)). So, here is a list of some of the things i still want to do at some point. Some of them are highly unrealistic, but humour me anyway. I will probably update this list many times and may even give it a more permanent home somewhere, somehow. Anyway... for now, here it is (excuse the rambly bits. its late, im tired, i just wanted to get this done before i forgot about it tomorrow):

•  Go to the actual north and/or south pole - i mean, how amazing would that be? the long days, or long nights, huge fields of ice. I really hope i get to do this some day
• Visit a war stricken area - OK. you're probably thinking "crazy" here but hear me out. Im not saying that i want to go kill people, or run around a mine field, but i believe that you would see some incredible things in places like iraq, afganistan etc. Yeh, they are incredibly dangerous and all that, and getting there isnt the easiest thing, but if someone offered me a job as an embedded photographer or something, i would seriously consider it. that would be quite an adventure.
• Hike through a proper, hardly visited, jungle - Right. Cons: really poisonous insects, reptiles etc, loads of deadly diseases, hard to get help if you get in to trouble. Pros: you get to see loads of cool things, some of which might have never been seen before! OK, they probably have, but not by many people. and you can see it in the wild as well! you just cant beat that.
• See some of those really poor communities in africa and south america - We have a pretty good life. even tramps on the streets of swindon have it pretty nice compared to some of the people in these areas. We see these appeals on tv all the time. £2/month for this, £1/week for that. They throw images of blind children and crippled old people on to our screens. I dont really know why, but i think its because you see all these charities trying to help them out and you always see these images, but it still isnt real. its a promotion. marketing. I would love to see it all first hand.
• Climb a really big mountain - Not everest. too high. I would probably die. but there are some other mountains that are also really big! i think something around 20,000 ft would be good.
  
• See the northern lights (aurora borialis (sp?)) - Because who doesnt want to see that?
  

Those were all quite big, expensive, trips. i really hope to do some of them but i realise that many will just be forgotten dreams. Here are some smaller things that are far more likely:

• Fly a helicopter - It just looks like fun
• Own a lizard, or maybe a few - lizards are awesome. need someone to look after them when i go away on holiday and things though...
• Get some of my photographs in a gallery somewhere - OK, im not that great, but i hope someday, something i do might be good enough for people to go "hmmm... how much?"
• Have a pet monkey - same problem as the lizard thing, but how cute would a little pet monkey be? a man can dream.
• Learn to throw knives - i doubt i will ever get around to this, but that would be a fun skill to have
• Learn gymnastics - will i ever be fit enough to do a backflip? probably not. but it would be cool if i could

And as im making lists, here is a big list of countries i want to visit, some of them for the second or third time:

• Kenya
• Egypt
• South Africa
• Brazil
• Canada
• Many states in America
  
• Japan
• Russia
• Iceland
• New Zealand
• West coast of Australia
• Cuba
• India