I consider myself very fortunate to have seen so much and to have experienced to much in 40 years of travel. The great thing though is that a bucket list never shortens. Even after visiting a place, I come home and think of all the reasons and why I need to go back!
Here I go.. the past and the future:
Europe:
- Sleep in every county in Ireland! (only 2 out of 32 left – Armagh and Fermanagh!)
- Witness winter solstice in Newgrange
- Buy a Camper Van
- Cornwall
StonehengeSee the Northern LightsMunch’s ‘The Scream’ in OsloThe Mona Lisa- Monet’s Gardens at Giverny
Alhambra in GranadaGo through Checkpoint Charlie into East BerlinFreely travel into East Berlin!- Glastonbury Festival
Venice canals in a gondolaPompii and HerculaneumThe Amalfi CoastPaestumThe sights of Rome and the VaticanSpend a summer in Tuscany- Cinque Terre
Palio in Siena- Puglia – the heel of Italy
- Walk the Camino de Santiago
Spend a summer in the Greek IslandsHaigh Sophia and the Blue Mosque in IstanbulEphesusThe Normandy BeachesSample Belgian Beers (in Belgium!)The Black Forest- Oktoberfest in Munich
Charles Bridge, PragueSee the Tulips of AmsterdamSee the DanubeDubrovnik- Bosnia and Herzegovina
San SebastianGaudi’s work in BarcelonaThe Gugenheim in Bilbao- Norway’s fiords in an RV
Visit a Christmas marketAgrigento in SicilyThe Acropolis in Athens- Red Square in Moscow
- Hermitage in St Petersburg
Africa
The PyramidsAbu Symbal -EgyptSail on a felucca on the NileCarthageSleep in an OasisRide a Camel- Ethiopia
Fez MedinaDrink mint tea in CasablancaJamaa El Fna in MarrakeshSit outside the cafes in Tangier and watch the world go by- The Gambia
Go on a safariHot Air Balloon over the SerengetiDrink tea with a Masai familySee the Snows of KilmanjeroZanzibarMauritius- South Africa
Self drive in Namibia- Rwanda
- Mozambique
- Madagascar
Asia
PetraThe Red SeaThe Dead SeaJerusalemThe Golan Heights- Afternoon tea in Burg Al Arab (well …will never afford an actual room!)
- Travel by train from home to Mongolia (Yes ok.. Will need to get a boat from Dublin to Wales!.. but after that….)
- Visit some of the ‘Stans’
- Myanmar
Killing fields of CambodiaAngkor WatTubing in Laos(Yes I know – should have more sense!)- Vietnam
Bangkok- Thai Islands
Sri LankaTaj MahalVaranasi and the GangesSleep on an overnight train in India- Sleep on a houseboat in Kashmir
- Nepal
- Walk the Great Wall
HongKong- Borneo
- See a Komodo Dragon – In Komodo (Saw one in Sydney Zoo though!)
- Self Drive from Singapore up through Malasia
Bali
Australasia
UluruAlice springsSydney Opera House- Great Barrier Reef
- New Zealand in an RV
- Cook Islands
Sleep in an over water bungalow- Fiji
- Easter Island
TahitiBoraBora
America
- Canadian Rockies in an RV
NewfoundlandNiagara Falls- New England in the Fall
New York CityNew Years Eve in Time SquareSee a Broadway ShowBlue Ridge Mountains of VirginiaDisneyworldFlorida KeysNew OrleansSee a Movie at a drive-in TheatreGo to a RodeoDrive all of Route 66Grand CanyonMonument ValleyBryce CanyonCasinos in Las VegasYellowstone National ParkHawaiiChichen ItzaSwim in the cenotes in YucatanTikal- Copan
Birding in Costa RicaSnorkeling in the CaribbeanThe Virgin IslandsOld city San Juan- Cuba
- Aruba (Because I like the name!)
- See the Panama Canal
- Galapaos
- Machu Picu
- Nazca Lines
- Bolivian salt flats
- Iguazu falls
- Carnival in Rio
- See penguins
And Finally …. Somewhere or Anywhere!!!!……..
- Fly First Class
Hot Air Balloon(Serengeti Sunrise 2006)- Zipline over rainforest (Chickened out in Costa Rica!!!)
Helicopter Ride(Grand Canyon 2007)- See Bruce Springsteen anywhere outside Ireland!!
What great lists you have compiled for each major area. I’m totally impressed by how many you have been able to check off. Here is one right here in the U.S. that you might consider adding to your list.
Since I saw that you rode in a hot air balloon over the Serengeti, I would suggest considering a visit here to Albuquerque. I crew for a hot air balloon and I am also a docent at our International Balloon Museum. During the first two weeks in October, we host what is known as Balloon Fiesta. It is the largest gathering of lighter than air balloons in the world (both hot air and gas). Although we had 1000 balloons register in the year 2000, we have now capped registrations at around 650. Still, there is nothing quite like seeing hundreds of hot air balloons in the air all at one time. We get balloons from all over the world and this past year we had over 100 special shapes as well. If you would like to see some pictures of Balloon Fiesta, you are welcome to visit my blog. Not sure if you can click the link from here, but here is the post ….
https://pearlsnmblog.wordpress.com/2017/12/16/albuquerques-annual-balloon-fiesta/
Thanks again for following my blog. I don’t see Scotland on your list. We just visited there for 3 weeks and had one of our best vacations ever. I have numerous other posts about that trip in addition to the Harry Potter one that you just saw. if you are a fan of Outlander, you might like my post on the Scottish connections to that as well.
Never met anyone who crewed a balloon – that’s so different!!! We were in Albuquerque a number of years ago – but in August. The Fiesta sounds great – and the photos on your site are amazing!
We’ve had a few short trips to Scotland over the years – Edinburgh of course and driving in the highlands… we always intended returning and spending more time in the highlands and maybe a few islands.
You’ve prompted me to go back annd have a look at that list!! haven’t updated it in ages!!
A great list for sure. Allan
Thank you – it never seems to shorten!!
Love this list. It’s true, the more you travel the longer your list grows…
And you’ve just reminded me that it needs updating!!! I din’t know WHEN I last looked at it!!! XXXMarie