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THIS IS MY DREAM LIST. IT WILL PROBABLY CHANGE. But for now, these are the things I’d love to do before I die. The ones I’ve crossed off are the things I’ve already done… 🙂
Adventure and Travel
- Live in Venice like Rosalba in the Italian movie, Bread & Tulips
- Stomp grapes at a vineyard in Italy to make wine
- Visit all “Wonders of the World” at New 7 Wonders
- Tango in Argentina
- Participate in a Carnival parade in Brazil.
- Go on safari in Africa
- Participate in La Tomatina (last Wednesday in August) Buñol in the Valencia region of Spain
- Do the pilgrim’s journey to Camino de Santiago de Compostela. (Camino de Santiago)
- Run with the bulls in Pamplona, Spain during San Fermines
- Participate in Australia Day (January 26)
- Play a didgeridoo with aborigines in the Australian Outback
Sit in a hot tub outdoors in Banff, Canada and look at the stars- Eat the most AMAZING ice cream in the World at the Taiwanese night market
- Eat fresh fruit at the Floating Market in Thailand
- Hike in the Amazon Rainforest.
Walk all through Petra, Jordan and ride a camel, a horse and a donkey.Take a boat to an island in the Aegean Sea off the coast of TurkeyGo out in a boat on the Ganges at sunrise in Varanasi, IndiaVisit a fortune-teller/guru- Take a tour of a fortune cookie factory
Climb an active volcano (Santorini and the Big Island, Hawaii)
Visit the Taj Mahal in Agra, India- Shower in a waterfall
- See the Northern Lights
Take a camel safari in Jaisalmer, India- L
ive and work in South Korea Live and work in Oman- Learn how to make a national dish
- Go to a yoga retreat in India
- Attend a music festival in another country
Visit the temples of Angkor in Siem Reap, CambodiaTake a junk on Halong Bay in northern Vietnam- Ride a donkey at the Grand Canyon
Go white water rafting on the Salmon River in Idaho.And the Colorado River.Climb Cadillac Mountain in Acadia National Park, Maine- Go Parasailing
Go water skiingGo snow skiing- Run a half marathon
- Fly in First Class
Sit at a cafe in Paris and write like my hero Ernest Hemingway- Ride a motorbike in Hanoi, Vietnam
- Take a gondola ride in Venice, Italy
Take a hot air balloon ride in Cappadocia, TurkeyVisit the Greek islands: Crete & Santorini- Go hang gliding
- Go to the hanging monastery in China
- Take a boat ride in Guilin, China
- Go shopping and touring in Hong Kong
- Take a whale watching boat trip
- Spend New Years in an exotic location
- Spend New Years in Time Square, NYC
Live in Coeur d’Alene, IdahoTake a streetcar in San Francisco, CAHike in Yellowstone National ParkRide a camel in the desertSee the Old Faithful geyser eruptHike in Glacier National Park- Walk the Golden Gate Bridge
Using the ordnance maps in Great Britain, hike in the Cotswolds and the Lake District- Do something you should regret, but don’t
- Visit the Catacombs in Paris
Go to the top of the Eiffel TowerClimb to the top of Notre Dame in Paris- Jump off a cliff into a natural body of water in an exotic location
- Take a tour of the Favellas in Rio de Janeiro
- Drink beer in a pub in Cornwall, England
- Mardi Gras in New Orleans
- Trek through the jungle on the back of an elephant
- Visit the souq in Marrakesh, Morocco
- Stay in a tiki hut on an exotic beach
- See the Valley of the Kings in Luxor and Aswan Dam in Egypt
See the Pyramids of GizaVisit the Great Wall of China- See the Mayan temples
- Spend 3 months in Japan doing Buddhist practice
- Ride a tandem bike
- Go to the Kentucky Derby
- Climb to the top of St. Catherine’s monastery in Egypt
Live like a local for at least a month in another country (Egypt, South Korea, Oman).
- Live and work in Cairo, Egypt.
Take a 3 month trip around the USA and into Canada.- Jump out of an airplane in a parachute
- Visit Iguazu National Park in Argentina (see Celebrating The Wonder Of Iguassu!)
- Go boating on the Puerto Princesa Underground River, Palawan, Philippines: Boating Underground: One of the New 7 Wonders of Nature.
- Croatia: Plitvice Lakes National Park (Shutter Bug: Croatia Photo of the Day: Plitvice Lakes National Park)
- Take a balloon safari over the Serengeti in Tanzania. Tanzania Serengeti Balloon Safaris
- Go tent camping in the Serengeti: On the Go with Lynne: Tanzanian Bucket List: Tent Camping in the Serengeti
- Visit the rice terraces in Sa Pa, northern Vietnam: Janaline’s World Journey: Weekly Photo Challenge: Green
Visit Ethiopia: Addis Ababa, the rock-hewn churches of Lalibela, and Lake Langano.- Do a 5 week Moorish tour of Spain, Portugal and Morocco.
Visit United Arab Emirates: Dubai and Abu Dhabi.- Do the 88 Temple Pilgrimage, a 1,647-kilometer Buddhist pilgrimage circuit around the island of Shikoku, Japan: artist. hippie. cali chic.: Wanderlust Wednesday: The 88 Temple Pilgrimage
CITIES, COUNTRIES, OR PLACES TO VISIT:
- New Zealand (Katikati: Jo Bryant)
- Australia
- Bali
- Belize
Greece (Especially Santorini,Mykenos,Crete, Meteora, Athens, Nafplio, Delphi)- Loch Ness, Scotland
- Ibiza, Spain
- Himalayas – Nepal
- Galapagos Islands
- Easter Island
- Barbados
Hawaii- Moorea Island in French Polynesia
- Angel Falls – Venezuela
- Uruguay
- Argentina
- Peru
- Berlin, Germany
- Frankfurt, Germany
- Zurich, Switzerland
- Cozumel, Mexico
- Niagara Falls
Paris, France- Canary Islands, Spain
Phuket, Thailand- Koh Samui, Thailand
Bangkok, Thailand- Taipei, Taiwan
- Antigua, Guatemala
- Lake Atitlan, Guatemala
- Tikal, Guatemala
- Barcelona, Spain
- Madrid, Spain
- Pamplona, Spain
NYC, NY- Boston, MA
Seattle, WA- San Jose, CA
- Carmel, CA
San Francisco, CA- Beirut, Lebanon
Savannah, GAGrand Tetons, WyomingOrlando, FL- Morocco
- Belgium
- Ireland
Kyoto, JapanLondon, UK- Rome, Italy
- Florence, Italy
- Venice, Italy
- Tuscany, Italy
Nice, FranceNormandy, FranceAlsace, FranceCordes Sur Ciel and Montsegur in France- Norway
- Sweden
- Portugal
- Stonehenge in England
- Holland
- Machu Pichu, Peru
- Nepal
- Croatia
- South Africa
- Madagascar
- Indonesia
- Malaysia
India – north- India – south
- Philippines
- Chile
- Tibet
- Burma
- China (again)
- Hong Kong
- Russia
- Damascus, Syria
- Israel
- Tunisia
- Ethiopia
- Tanzania
- Brazil
- Costa Rica
- Alaska
- Prague, Czech Republic (Prague’s Astronomical Clock)
Singapore- Laos
Siem Reap, CambodiaPhnom Penh, Cambodia- More of Japan
- Utah deserts
- Big Bend, Texas
- Santa Fe, New Mexico
- Faroe Islands, Denmark (Edge of the World ~ Faroe Islands, Denmark)
- Zanzibar
- Sri Lanka
- Southern India (Goa, Kerala)
- Kenya
Learn
Take quilting classes and make artsy quiltsTake jewelry-making classes and make jewelryCommunicate with someone without sharing a common spoken language- Learn to Belly Dance
- Take photography classes
- Get Scuba certified
Take creative writing classes
Relationships
- Find True Love ~ a fellow adventurer through life
- Go back to the USA when my kids get married and start their families
Big Ideas…
- Write a book of my travels
- Finish my novel, publish it, and then write another
- Become a travel journalist
Contribution
Teach English in a foreign country- Volunteer abroad for a month.
- Make a major difference in the life of a complete stranger
- Save someone’s life
- Work on democracy-building and freedom of the press in the Middle East (someday)
Self-Development
- Become fluent in 2 other languages (Arabic and French).
- Get an article about my travels published.
- Practice yoga.
Keep a current blog- Practice meditation
- Pray
- Read the Bible and the Quran to educate myself about world religions
- Start running again
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Cathy….I believe you’ve done #61 many times….several times with me!!
Haha, Louise! You are so right….we’ve done so many things we should regret yet don’t. I wonder if I will ever cross that one off though. Because I’d like to hope we still do many more regrettable things that we simply DON’T regret!! I’m leaving that one open-ended. 🙂
Interesting list… have done some and hope to do some more.. too lazy to make my own list.. Can I please borrow yours 😉
Hi Dr. Deepti, Of course you’re welcome to borrow mine. I found a similar list somewhere and then added and subtracted. It was a good starting point!! There are still so many things to do in this life!!
I agree..started making my own list …felt a lil guilty abt being sooo lazy as to borrow… but i’m amazed at how fast the pages are filling up.. and just how much joy n positivity this exercise is bringing .. thanks..u started it fr me 🙂
You should not feel guilty about borrowing. Whatever gets us thinking about our dreams is a good thing! Beg, borrow or steal, but then make it your own. As you will, of course!! Go with it and fly!!! It is a really positive thing to make a list of all you want to do, then visualize it and make it happen. I really believe this. I can’t wait to read your list… 🙂
Your list is amazing and so comprehensive. Best of luck to you on working through that list. You’ve obviously thought much about it. And thank you so much for the link to my article about the Underground River!
Thank you Donna! Yes, I think I read your blog on Bucket List Publications and so I had to add it to my list. Your life sounds very interesting!!
Thank you! My sister is comtemplating a new direction in ESL teaching overseas. I shall point her to your blog for your perspective.
You should definitely point her to my blog. She can also read about my time in Korea, where I started my ESL teaching at . I also have some more information about my job search in America this past summer:
Wow! That is some list! No harm trying 🙂
Thanks for the pingback.
Great list….have fun getting the all done!
Amazing List !!
Thank you LeTalib. Let’s see how many I can get done in my lifetime!
all of them, for sure….. my best wishes 🙂
That list as as long as my arm, Cathy. I can tick off quite a few, but I also have so many places to visit and things to do. I think I’ll skip the hang gliding and jumping out of a plane. Parasailing was as daring as I am willing to go. 🙂
I should probably remove that parachuting thing. But still. In the back of my mind, I think… MAYBE!
Never say,”never.” 🙂
loving the list … & all the crosses ; )
Thanks Caroline. The list is always evolving and I’m sure it will always be doing so! I’m too much of a dreamer for it ever to be static. 🙂
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To me it is interested to see people’s bucket list and Your is great indeed. I was delighted that You have done jewelry making class. Last Friday I posted beading work shop post because my wife is beading. I do not know how similar jewelry course is.
If You come some winter to Finland You can see in Lapland Northern lights. Good starting point could be the small town of Kemi where is
World’s Biggest Snow Castle.
From there You could continue to
Arctic Circle.
There is life still further North.
Have a nice week-end!
Thank you for posting these links and for your comment, Sartenada. I’m sorry I never saw this comment until now! I would love to come to Finland one day! I used to do beading and still have all the supplies, but i haven’t done it in a long time. Hopefully I’ll get back to it at some point!
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