Travel Bucket List

One thing every traveler should have is a bucket list.  If you're not familiar with the term, a bucket list is a list of things you want to do before you kick the bucket.  There have been movies, books, and magazines all dedicated to this.  As with everyone, my bucket list is a working document.  It is continuously evolving as I find more things I want to do and accomplish some of the things I've set out as goals.

Here are some of the tops items on my travel bucket list.

• Go to the World Cup
• Visit every continent
• Swim with sharks 
• Swim with Sea Turtles in the Galapagos Islands
• Go on a safari in Africa
• Visit Mt. Rushmore
• See the penguins in Antarctica
• Eat fresh sushi in Japan
• Take a RTW (round-the-world) trip 
• Yellowstone National Park
• Take the Trans Siberian railway through Russia
• See the Taj Mahal
• Fly over Cappadocia in a hot air balloon
• Visit all 50 states
• Wine tasting in Chile

Completed Items:

• Stay a night in an Ice Hotel - Completed 1/2013
• Walk on a Glacier - Completed 3/2013
• See the Northern Lights - Completed 3/2013
• Visit Macchu Picchu - Completed 5/2013
• Nashville and see a show in the Grand Ole Opry - Completed 11/2013
• Alaska - Completed 5/2014
• Back to Orlando for the new Harry Potter Amusement Park (Diagon Alley) - Completed 8/2014
• Visit my friend, Jib, in Thailand - Completed 11/2014
• Walk the Great Wall of China - Completed 4/2015
• London - Completed 11/2015
• Visit Costa Rica - Completed 2/2016
• Visit the hobbit village in NZ - Completed 4/2016
• Tour of Italy - Completed 4/2024