Here is my travel bucket list! It is pretty extensive and I will continuously add on onto it and cross things off as I do them. The bucket list is in no particular order…except maybe the first 4 🙂
- Visit New Zealand – DONE! February 2017
- See spots where they filmed Lord of the Rings – DONE! February 2017
- Go to Greece
- Live abroad – DONE! 2010 Paris; 2011-2012 in Lyon, 2012-2015 Hong Kong
- Visit the Great Wall of China – DONE! May 2014
- Go on a Safari in Africa
- Visit the pyramids
- Go up the Eiffel Tower – DONE! July 2006 and July 2012
- See the Statue of Liberty – DONE! December 2017
- See the Cherry Blossoms in Japan – DONE! April 2015
- Attend the Olympics
- Live in Paris – DONE! 2010
- Learn another language – DONE! Learned French in high school through college.
- Hike the Inca trail
- Visit the Galapagos
- Fly a class other than economy! (a girl can dream!) – DONE! July 2015 got Business class from Chicago to Tokyo!
- Go on a helicopter – almost in 2017
- Ride in a tuk tuk – DONE! April 2013 in Thailand
- Ride a hot air balloon (hopefully in Myanmar)
- Ride a motorbike – DONE! February 2016 in Colombia
- Visit NYC and go to a show on Broadway – DONE! 3 shows in December 2015
- Experience the salt flats of Bolivia
- Swim with dolphins – DONE! February 2017 in New Zealand
- See the Moai (giant heads) at Easter Island
- Go on an Alaskan cruise
- Learn how to Scuba Dive
- Visit Angkor Wat
- Ride a camel in the Sahara desert – DONE! April 2012
- Play with elephants – DONE! April 2013 and April 2014 in Thailand
- Stay in a villa over the ocean (like in Tahiti or Bora Bora!)
- Bungee jump OR go sky diving – DONE! February 2017 bungee
- Hike a glacier – almost, our heli-hike at Franz Josef Glacier got canceled 🙁
- Get in a shark cage (maybe)
- Travel solo – DONE! May 2014
- Snorkel the Great Barrier Reef
- See the Grand Canyon
- Visit Banff in Canada
- Swim in the Blue Lagoon, Iceland.
- See the glow worms cave in New Zealand – DONE! February 2017
- Go whale watching and see an orca and a humpback in the wild – almost, our tour got canceled in NZ 🙁
- Hike the Cinque Terre
- See the Golden Gate Bridge
- Visit Cuba! – DONE! January 2017
- Go on a cruise
- Visit Petra
- Float on the Dead Sea
- See the Northern Lights
- Tour Patagonia
- Swing at the End of the World – Banos, Ecuador
- Pet a cheetah or volunteer at the Cheetah Conservation Fund in Namibia
- Set foot on all 7 continents (6 down, 1 to go!)
- Travel out of state/country to go to a concert
Keep on checking back as I conquer things on my bucket list and continue to add. It’s a pretty big world out there!