Igor Freakin' Mekhtiev

I just came back from my trip to Costa Rica, managing to cross bunch of things off the list! I will post links to photos later next weekend. Updated things are in bold.

General stuffs:

1. Save someone’s life
2. Face my fear
3. Fall absolutely, madly, deeply in love November 2011
4. Help a complete stranger
5. Send a message in a bottle
6. Introduce two people who fall in love
7. Do something nice for someone who will never find out
8. Go somewhere naked
9. Bring a life into this world
10. Write a letter to each of my children telling them what I want them to know about my life, and the lessons I’ve learnt
11. Shake hands with someone who has truly changed a country
12. Detox for 100 days
13. Join Mile-High club
14. Plant a tree and carve my name in it 25 years later
15. Go on a holiday with no luggage
16. Solve a Rubik’s cube
17. Make a difference in at least one person’s life
18. Experience zero gravity
19. Experience an earthquake
20. Bungee jump
21. Rock climb a cliff
22. Go white water rafting - December 2011 (Pix coming soon)
23. Ice diving
24. Jet skiing
25. Wake board
26. Paraglide off a cliff
27. Zip Lining - December 2011
28. Do a superman on a zip line  December 2011
29. Paintball
30. Shoot someone in the ass in paintball
31. Go diving in a shipwreck
32. Ride in a hot air balloon at sunrise
33. Have a pen pal I meet at some point in life
34. Build something that will outlive me
35. Cross a glacier on foot
36. Swing through the sky on a trapeze
37. Spend a week saying yes to every invitation I receive
38. Buy a meal for the homeless
39. Milk a cow
40. Seduce a boss
41. Stomp on grapes to make wine
42. Try ice climbing
43. Steal a “Igor St.” sign
44. Snowboarding
45. Wind surf
46. Have my picture in the newspaper
47. Appear as an extra on film
48. Appear on TV
49. Bath in mud
50. Have a mud fight
51. Have a snowball fight
52. Build a snowman
53. Build a tree house
54. Explore a haunted house
55. Explore an abandoned mental institution
56. Do something I should regret, but don’t
57. See a tornado
58. Make a time capsule
59. Have my portrait painted
60. Get a caricature drawn of myself
61. Skinny dip
62. Strip poker
63. Take a 365 day challenge
64. Complete a 365 challenge
65. Watch a meteor shower
66. Witness an electric storm
67. Quit my job
68. Be present at a birth
69. Swim with sharks
70. Swim with dolphins
71. Hold a big spider
72. Motorbike license
73. Learn drums
74. Learn piano
75. Wrap a huge snake around my shoulders
76. Own a pet lizard
77. Donate blood
78. Watch turtles run and hatch for the ocean
79. Make a career of my passion
80. Give an abandoned pet a home
81. Canopy tour  December 2011
82. Sleep under the stars
83. Leave a love note on a windscreen
84. Become drenched walking in the rain
85. Witness a complete solar eclipse
86. Visit someone in jail and learn his/her story
87. Write the story of my life
88. Go a month without using my phone
89. Give out random compliments to complete strangers
90. Learn circus skills
91. Spend a night in jail
92. Take a bath in natural hot springs - December 2011
93. Go on a survival weekend
94. Have a candlelit dinner followed by a candlelit bath
95. Write a will
96. Ask a stranger for a date, and go through with it
97. Get stoned and watch Mr Bean
98. Eat wild mushrooms
99. Be kissed in the rain

Ride a…

1. Something bigger than a horse
2. Donkey
3. Mechanical bull
4. Camel
5. Elephant
6. Horse
7. Horse while wearing all white on the beach

Drive…

1. A bulldozer
2. A monster truck
3. Go off-roading at night
4. Quad biking

Travel

1. Travel the world
2. Travel the world, alone
3. See every continent [2/7]
4. Join the mile high club
5. Learn another language
6. Be in two places at once
7. Climb a mountain
8. Climb a volcano December 2011
9. Go island cruising
10. See a volcano explode
11. See the Titanic while in a submarine
12. Cross a country using only public transport
13. Attend a music festival in another country

Latin America

1. Dance tango in Argentina
2. Enjoy a freshly rolled cigar in Cuba
3. Enjoy a fresh cigar in Cuba
4. Enjoy a mojito in Havana
5. Participate in the biggest party on earth: Brazilian Carnival
6. Raft the Amazon
7. Visit Machu Picchu, Peru
8. Explore the Amazon Rainforest
9. See the Christ Redeemer, Brazil
10. Visit Chile & Patagonia
11. Swim in the world’s largest swimming pool off the Chile coast
12. Learn Latin dancing
13. Visit Costa Rica - December 2011

North America

1. Visit a real blues bar in Chicago
2. Lose money,  in Las Vegas
3. Learn to surf in Hawaii
4. See the Aurora Borealis – Northern Lights
5. Experience the meaning of “cold” on a dog sled in Quebec
6. Take a U.S roadtrip
7. Visit Alcatraz
8. Drive along Route 66, USA
9. See the Niagara Falls
10. Do the hula in Hawaii
11. Look for UFO’s in the Roswell Desert, New Mexico
12. Participate in The Burning man, Nevada
13. Hike to the bottom of the Grand Canyon
14. Chichen Itza, Mexico

Europe

1. Start a pub brawl in England
2. Break the law in Amsterdam
3. Have sex in Paris
4. Go to a cabaret show in France
5. Ride a gondola in Venice
6. Visit the Colosseum
7. See the Eiffel Tower
8. See the ruins of Pompeii
9. Look for the Lochness Monster
10. Stone Henge
11. Oktoberfest
12. Climb a mountain in Switzerland
13. Leaning Tower of Pisa
14. Tower of London
15. Visit Auschwitz
16. Escargot: Eat snails in France
17. Love Parade in Germany
18. See the Acropolis in Athens
19. Visit the Trevi fountain in Rome
20. Visit Dracula’s castle in Romania
21. Cruise the Greek Islands

Asia

1. See how the other half lives
2. Travel India by train
3. Revisit my place of birth
4. Bath in the Ganges
5. Participate in a Tea Ceremony in Japan
6. Participate in the world’s largest water fight: Thailand’s New Year’s Festival
7. Walk The Great Wall of China
8. Visit the mountain regions in Nepal
9. Mistake men for woman in Thailand

Africa

1. Go on a safari in Africa
2. Explore the Pyramids of Giza
3. Experience the world’s largest waterfall: Victoria Falls (Zambia & Zimbabwe)
4. Take a bush plane ride into Africa’s interior, indulge in the unique culture and diverse wildlife
5. Join a caravan in the Sahara
6. Take a boat trip down the Nile
7. Climb Table Mountain in Cape Town
8. See mountain gorillas in Uganda

Oceania/Antarctica

1. Get lost for the fun of it – bring water
2. Visit Bora Bora (Tahiti)
3. Swim in the Great Barrier Reef
4. Climb the Sydney Harbour Bridge
5. Go swimming amongst icebergs in Antarctica
6. Walk through a rainforest in New Zealand
7. Backpack around Australia in a caravan
8. Learn the didgeridoo
9. Eat kangaroo meat
10. Go on a lord of the rings tour in New Zealand
11. Hike the Tongariro Crossing, New Zealand
12. Climb Ayres Rock