
- Swim with whale sharks
- Hot balloon at Cappadocia, Turkey
- See all 7 wonders of the world (3/7)
- Go sky diving
- Road trip to/visit all US National Parks
- See a ballet in Russia
- View Big Diomede Island from Little Diomede Island (Looking into Russia from Alaska: Looking into the “future” due to time zone changes.)
- WWOOF in New Zealand
- Ride bikes on the Via Appia in Rome
- Go tubing at an old Hawaiian sugar plantation
- Visit every region of Spain
Go to the OlympicsCompleted August 2016. I would love to attend again. You can check out my experience on my Rio Olympic blog post but as I only watched wrestling one day, it’s still on my list!- Take a cooking class in Italy
- See the Northern Lights
- Stay in a Mongolian yurt
- Travel through India
- Hike the Grand Canyon
- See Antartica
- Road trip across Route 66
- Visit Greenland
- Cruise in the Arctic
- Hike the Camino de Santiago
- Stargaze in Atacam Desert
- Road trip across Canada
- Experience European Christmas Markets
- Oktoberfest
- Become scuba certified
- Visit the Great Sand Dune National Park in Colorado
- Climb to the crown of the Statue of Liberty
- See a play at the Globe Theatre
- Road trip along Ring Road in Iceland
- Visit Newfoundland, Canada
- Visit all 50 states
- Ride horses on the beach
- Enjoy the tame deer on Miyajimi Island, Japan or “deer island”
- Experience the Great Migration at Serengeti National Park, Tanzania
- Search for Nessie
See amazing views from a helicopterCompleted summer 2008, Kauai, Hawaii- Float in the dead sea
- Go to the Grafton Jacaranda Festival, Australia
- Twirl in a field of sunflowers-preferably in Southern Spain
- Visit “smurf village” in Júzcar, Spain
- Have at least a six month honeymoon traveling around the world
- Dogsled in Canada
- Ride the Trans-Siberian Railroad from Russia to Mongolia to China
- Take depth defying photos at Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia
- Get messy at La Tomatina in Spain
- Experience a sunrise or sunset at Fushimi Inari Taisha in Japan
- Relax in the baths of Budapest, Hungary
- Visit the sand dune lakes of Brazil
- Scuba dive in an underwater museum in Cancún, Mexico
- See the masterpiece of the Sistine Chapel
- Hike to Machu Picchu
- Live abroad in one place for at least a year (I lived in Vigo, Spain for 5 months)
- Be a ecotourist in the Amazon in Ecuador
- See a snow leopard in Ladakh, India
- Visit Cuba
- Celebrate Carnaval in multiple continents (Rio, Venice, and Quebec City are all on my list)
- Explore Pompeii
Experience the kindness of a stranger while abroadCompleted summer 2014. While on a train in Switzerland, I was talking to a man about how I was traveling. Before he got off he handed me a juice box. It wasn’t until I got off the train about an hour later that I realized he slipped 20 Swiss Francs under the juice box, doing this completely out of kindness and expecting nothing in return.- Bern, Switzerland
- Return kindness to a stranger while abroad
- Go on a night tour of the Paris Catacombs
- Fold 1,000 paper cranes and place them at Hiroshima
- Learn a recipe from a local (and not sign up for a class, but learn it through building a relationship with someone)
- Stay in an old prison in Ottawa, Canada
- Watch the running of the bulls in Bilbao
Hold an alligatorCompleted March 2018. Louisiana Blog Post- Complete a polar plunge
- Visit an elephant sanctuary
- Release a floating lantern in Thailand
- Be a tourist in Nebraska (my home state) and see Chimney Rock and Carhenge
- See FC Barcelona play against Real Madrid at Camp Nou
- Twirl in the Austrian Alps like Julie Andrews
- Ride the train over the Glenfinnan Viaduct (Hogwarts Express)
- Visit New Zealand’s glowworm caves
- Kayak in Prince William Sound, Alaska
- Explore castles in Transylvania, Romania
- Visit 40 countries before I turn 30 (I’ve hit 18 by age 24 currently)
- Visit 100 UNESCO World Heritage Sites
- Kayak on Iceland’s Glacier Heinabergslón Lagoon
- Celebrate Semana Santa in Spain
- Have afternoon tea in London I just experienced afternoon tea in Manhattan and loved it. On to the next location!
- Go gnome hunting in Wroclaw Poland
- Eat my way through the Butler County Donut Trail in Ohio
- Bungee jump in Australia (thanks one of those quizzes where you select your birth month and then date for the idea!)
- Visit the top 100 places to see on Lonely Planet’s Ultimate Travel list
- Island hop some of Croatia’s 1000+ islands