Things I would like to do before I'm 30

• It's my 20th birthday soon. I don't like the term birthday, if it merely informs everyone that I am now getting old. I figure next year, my 21st birthday, is the last good one I've got left in me. After that it's 30. When I start to get noticeable wrinkles. When I have no choice but to dye my hair and since every attempt I make always results in my becomming ginger, combined with my terrible exercise regime and late onset of puberty meaning I'm covered in spots, this is not a point in my life I am looking forward to. And after 30? I honestly don't dare to think about it.
  
• In lieu of this, knowing my life is soon coming to an end, I thought I might share with you the things that I would like to do before that dreadful day arrives.
  

Things I would like to do before I am dead/30...

1) Sit in a bath full of custard.

2) Eat the bath of custard. Might rethink that one though upon completition of #1.

3) Go to China and Japan.

4) Go to India. (Will hopefully be completing this in the next month!)

5) Take a zero gravity flight in Florida

6) See an eclipse from the best view.

7) See the Grand Canyon.

8) Stay awake for 24 hours of daylight, and watch the sun as it circles in the sky above the Arctic Circle during the summer solstice. Best locations apparently are Hammerfest, Norway; Fairbanks, Alaska; and Inuvik, Canada.

9) See the Northern Lights.

"When I was a lad, a tiny wee lad, My mother said to me, ‘Come see the Northern Lights my boy, They’re bright as they can be!’ She called them the heavenly dancers, dancers in the sky, I’ll never forget, that wonderful sight. They made the heavens bright!"

10) Go whale watching.

11) Canopying in Costa Rica.

12) Eat underwater. I'm not really sure why I want to do this, but I'm really interested in finding out how I'll go about it. I think it's going to be the easiest for me to achieve at this point, as I don't have any Wales or Grand Canyons to hand.

13) See a volcano erupt. I don't feel I've ever had to legitimately run for my life other than the odd blind crossing of the street then realising a car is coming. This should be apt enough though.

14) Take the Ozbus.

15) See an elephant. Will try and get this one down whilst in India, but unsure whether that's going to be possible so it can stay black for now.

16) See gorillas in their natural habitat.

17) Learn to play the saxophone. Or at least the guitar.

18) Learn to speak Spanish. Semi properly will do.

19) Go to Rio during Carnival, and go wild. obvs :)

20) Write a tv script. I know I'm lame and not funny in the slightest but it's just something I've always wanted to do but never been good enough to have a go at. Maybe I'll save it for after I turn thirty and become officially lame though? Undecided at present time.

21) Drive along Route 66. On a Harley. Naturally.

22) Get something published. That would be really amazing for me, since most of what I write is bollocks. It'd be nice to actually come up with something worthy of other people reading and enjoying.

23) Walk the Inca trail in Peru.

24) Ride in a hot air balloon. This is probably up there with easy to do ones.