DO NOT EXCEED...
...60 years old, without a fight at 59
Welcome to my journey through my 60th year.
I'm not crazy, my reality is just different than yours
An adventure through life
How much can one man achieve in one year??
There's no denying that 2024 has a been a busy year. As I moved into October with just the post Christmas visit to Prague and Budapest left to go, I decided that I would take it easy in 2025, rest up and pay off some of the cost of 2024.
That decision lasted about a month when I realised that I will be 60 in December 2025 and moving into latter middle age. I thought that there's no way I am just going to drift past that milestone. I now intend to enter my 60s in a ball of flame!!
I thought that trying to do 60 things before turning 60 would be a good way to go down and the title of this site was born.
Further investigation revealed that this isn't as unique as I thought, which means there are a lot of good ideas out there. Much of my list was put together with ideas of my own plus suggestions from family and friends but I have nicked a few.
If you have read this far, hopefully you will click on a link or 2 and share the journey; I hope you enjoy it.
And, remember, this is NOT a Bucket List!!
Cheers, Danny
The List
Starting with things that were already planned, ideas of my own and suggestions from friends, I got to 44 items. The rest have been shamelessly plagiarised. I won't say which are which, I'm just hopeful I can achieve them all.
Click on the links below to access content. Bullets highlighted in GREEN are complete, those in AMBER are in progress
- Travel blogs
- Sing With a Band
- Build a 500 Book Library
- Attend a Ballet
- Catfish & The Bottlemen
- Stereophonics
- Fontaines DC
- The Sherlocks
MadCool Festival
- Chinese tattoo
- Build a website
- Learn Italian
- Regular outdoor cinema
- Meet with seldom seen / never seen SM friends
- Wear a kilt
- Go to a ceilidh
- Drink 60 year old port
- Antigua
- Montana log cabin
- AC Milan at the San Siro
- Cross the Arctic Circle
- Copenhagen
- Prague and Budapest
- Grand Canyon skywalk
- Los Angeles
- Smooktoberfest
- De-Clutter
- Grow herbs
- Zipworld activity
- Adam & Eve
- Regular wild camping
- Write blogs/film vlogs
- Go to a highland games
- Write and record a song
- Write a short story
- Create a piece of art
- Knit a scarf
- Make a Lasagne
- Bake Bread
- Vegan Christmas dinner
- Sound bath
- Gravel bike race
- Fell a tree with an axe
- Danuary
- Stand under a waterfall
- Regular paddleboarding
- Walk/cycle to work
- Digital detox
- Give blood
- Do voluntary work
- Become a STEM ambassador
- Interact with the homeless
- Run Ultra Wales 50
- Run Ring O Fire
- Surf
- Regular yoga sessions
- 50% vegetarian
- Regular stargazing
- Cold water swimming
- 3 Peaks
- Eryri sunrise
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