Bucket List

Yep, I have a long and ambitious bucket list!! Thankfully, I’ve already gotten started because I have a long way to go! If it’s crossed off, some awesome experience took place and if not? Well, let’s get to it!!

1. Visit all 7 continents (but would be happy with 6!)
2. Visit every country
3. Visit all 50 States (5 more to go!)
4. Ride in a hot air balloon
5. Sky-dive
6. Get scuba certified
7. Cage dive with great white sharks in South Africa or Australia or BOTH!
8. Scuba dive the Great Barrier Reef
9. Spend NYE (aka My Bday) in NYC to watch the ball drop
10. Attend Oktoberfest in Germany
11. See the Cherry Blossom trees blooming in Japan
12. Walk the Great Wall of China and toboggan down
13. Have British afternoon tea in London
14. Swim with dolphins in the wild
15. Swim with sharks
16. Hold, pet, and feed a stingray
17. Go to the Olympics
18. Ride a camel
19. Bathe, feed and play with an elephant at Patara Elephant rescue farm in Thailand
20. Go to the college football National Championship game
21. Go to the Super Bowl
22. Pet a tiger
23. Be in a movie
24. Go to a Chicago Cubs game at Wrigley Field
25. Go to a Boston Red Sox game at Fenway Park
26. Complete a half marathon
27. Pet and feed a kangaroo in Australia
28. Hold and feed a koala bear in Australia
29. See Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio
30. Visit Norway in January for its spectacular winter scene
31. See and photograph Mt Everest in Nepal
32. See and photograph Mt Kilimanjaro in Tanzania
33. See and photograph Mt Fuji in Japan
34. Hike up above and behind the Hollywood sign in LA
35. See and photograph the Taj Mahal
36. See the Holy Land
37. Swim in the Dead Sea
38. Swim in the Sea of Galilee
39. Be baptized in the Jordan River
40. See and photograph the Big Blue Hole in Belize
41. Find all of the Sound of Music filming locations in Austria
42. Go to Window of the World theme park in Shenzhen, China (130 of the world’s most famous landmarks in one park)
43. Go to the Tulip Festival in Washington state
44. Drive across the US
45. Go to Chelsea Market in NYC (home to the Food Network!)
46. Go on an African Safari
47. See and photograph Machu Picchu in Peru
48. Go to Austria and find the famous Sound of Music Mountain
49. See the Swiss Alps
50. Go to Versaille
51. Visit Easter Island
52. See the French Alps
53. Go to the top of Burj Khalifa in UAE
54. Eat sushi in Japan
55. Have pizza, pasta and limoncello in Italy
56. Go to the top of the Eiffel Tower
57. Fly into the Arctic Circle and get the certificate
58. See the northern lights dancing in Iceland
59. Swim between 2 continents in Iceland
60. Swim with sea turtles and get pictures WITH them while swimming
61. Go to Patmos where John was exiled and see the cave where he wrote Revelation
62. See and photograph the Matterhorn in the Swiss Alps
63. Paraglide from 10, 180 ft with the Matterhorn in Zermatt, Switzerland
64. See and photograph Mt McKinley in Alaska
65. See and photograph Mt Rainier in Seattle, Washington
66. Be a watchmaker in Geneva, Switzerland
67. Make my own chocolate in Vevey, Switzerland (home of Nestle!)
68. Make my own Swiss Army knife in Geneva, Switzerland
69. Hike and photograph Rainbow Mountain in Peru
70. Cruise the Amazon River
71. See the pink dolphins in the Amazon River in Peru
72. See and photograph every structure by the Spanish architectural genius, Santiago Calatrava
73. Live in a Spanish speaking country and complete a Spanish immersion program. Road to Spanish fluency.
74. See the tulips in The Netherlands
75. See Mt Rushmore in South Dakota
76. Go to Mall of America in Minneapolis
77. Glamp in the Sahara Desert
78. Live in a foreign country.
79. See and photograph Patagonia
80. Road trip in Oregon to include Willamette Valley, foodie heaven in Portland, Painted Hills, Mt Hood, Crater National Park