Dream List
UPDATE: Following our controversial “Why I want to tear up your Bucket List” post, we decided to change the title to “Dream List”. We don’t want to be guided by a list of things we need to do before we literally kick the bucket.
Instead we have come up with a list that we will add to from time to time, about dream places, or activities we want to do. Offer us some suggestions too on Facebook!
Some of these have been in the back of my mind for years, and that’s why I have added them. Even if they have been completed, while others in the list continue to evolve.
Some are just reminders and/or tips to ourselves to make sure we get the best out of every trip. I also don’t think that you should have a set number of items in your bucket dream list. It should continue to grow as you learn about new experiences that you want to see or do, and get the desire to try new travel adventures.
Fingers crossed we see them all and having a list will help us plan our next couples adventure travel trip.
- Swim with whale sharks
- Visit the Taj Mahal
- Teach English somewhere in Asia
- Cycle the Euro Velo 6 route
- Climb the Eiffel Tower – Done – Can read about that here
- Visit 10 Greek Islands
- Drive across the United States of America – Done – Can read about that here
- Surf in every continent
- Volunteer work with turtles
- Travel to AND enjoy 100 countries
- Dine on the delicacies of the worlds cuisine
- Sail around the Whitsundays
- Travel the width of China
- Hike to Machu Picchu
- Start travel writing/blogging Done – you are reading about it (thanks)!
- Become a successful travel writer
Earn money travel writing so we can explore the world!– Read Why we Quit our Jobs.- Snowboard in waist-deep powder – Snowboarding at Marmot Basin (sort of).
- Whitewater raft a class 5 river
- Mountain bike in Utah
- Live in back to back summers
- Live in back to back winters
- Travel the width of Russia
- Visit Alaska
Visit the Grand Canyon– Done- Ski Lake Tahoe
- See Polar Bears
- Visit the 50 states of America
- Speak another language fluently
- Make lifelong buddies throughout the world – Working on it.
- Try the local beer or drink of choice in every Country we visit
- Never stop experiencing new cultures
- Take timeout for me to explore. Or just chillax
- Slow down when visiting places (everyone, including us, has a nasty habit of running around like a headless chicken not really “seeing” the sites)
- Scooter the length of Vietnam
- Snorkel the most beautiful reef in the world
- Dive World War 2 wrecks in the Pacific
- Whitewater raft the Grand Canyon
Attend Oktoberfest– Nailed it. Check out our experience here.- Full moon party in Koh Phangan
- See the Big 5 in Africa
- Walk the Fjords in Norway
Kayak tour along a coast/group of Islands– Kayaking in Naples.- Go to the site of the Chernobyl disaster
And…
Explore our own backyard (this will stay at the bottom of the list as a constant reminder that it is important that everyone always forgets to do it)
As requested, if you had to limit your list to a top 5 what would they be? (Add more than 5 if you want!)
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bronwen burmester
September 23, 2011 at 10:32 PM
Great bucket list. I have some too…..
* Swim the English Channel (too late for this now I think!)
* Stay in a lighthouse
* Be in Time Square for a New Year’s Eve
* Dive in The Maldives
* Go back to Greece and discover more about this fabulous country and people.
Cole and Adela (fourjandals)
September 24, 2011 at 5:39 PM
Thanks Mum!
Never too late to do your bucket list while you are still alive! I will support you 🙂 Lighthouse one and Times Square would be easy. And love to meet you guys in the Maldives too. And still waiting for you to visit us here so we can go to Greece.
bronwen burmester
September 25, 2011 at 10:10 PM
Ok!! We will do sometime………………….
Sophie
September 25, 2011 at 11:00 PM
That’s quite an impressive bucket list! Best of luck with your travels 🙂
Cole and Adela (fourjandals)
September 26, 2011 at 7:47 AM
Thanks Sophie. It’s really a bit of a wish list more than anything. But I guess that’s what bucket lists are for!
Kate
October 3, 2011 at 9:18 AM
This is tough cause there’s a lot to do out there, but I’d say my bucket list off the top of my head is (in no particular order):
-explore all 50 states in the US
-visit every American Civil War battlefield
-sail to Hawaii from California
-visit New Zealand (done!, but I’m definitely going back for longer sometime)
-go skydiving
-go bungee jumping (done!)
-backpack through Central and South America, especially wanting to see Angel Falls, the Amazon River Basin, and Machu Picchu
-live in a Latin American country long enough to become fairly fluent in Spanish
-spend a significant amount of time in the UK and Ireland
-view the Norwegian fjords firsthand
-visit Russia, especially Moscow, St. Petersburg and Siberia
Cole and Adela (fourjandals)
October 3, 2011 at 9:55 AM
Thanks for your ideas Kate. The 50 states in US would be very cool as well as sailing between Hawaii and California. I would love to spend a few weeks / months sailing across the sea hopping between islands. You are a bit more adventurous than me though as I am not sure I can willingly throw myself off a bridge to go bungee jumping!
Julian
November 1, 2011 at 9:48 PM
1) Be in the water with a great white, ideally one will just show up while I’m diving, if not I’ll fork out for a cage dive.
2) Ski Alaska
3) Live in Japan for a year
4) Travel the silk road
5) Architecture travel…too many buildings to list
Nice blog mate, J
Cole and Adela (fourjandals)
November 2, 2011 at 9:22 AM
Cheers mate. We are going to hit up Japan probably at the end of next year – the snow there looks EPIC!
Definitely want to visit Alaska as well, some pretty heavy mountains up there though.
I would settle for the cage diving or going with Whale Sharks, not so keen on just a close encounter with Jaws when we are free-diving.