Travel Bucket List
A collection of places I want to go, things I want to experience, and adventures I want to remember.
✔️ = completed and blogged (or in progress)
Big Travel Goals
- Travel Abroad for an Entire Year
- Fly First Class at least once
- Visit every National Park in the United States
Once-in-a-Lifetime Experiences
- Ride in a hot air balloon
- ✔️ Get married in another country – Scotland!
- Go parasailing
- Go hang-gliding
- Go to a lantern festival
- See a circus
- ✔️ Stargaze at several International Dark Sky Parks
- Watch turtles hatch and go to the Ocean
United States Adventures
- Visit every state park in California
- ✔️ See Orcas in the Wild
- ✔️ See the Firefalls in Yosemite
- ✔️ See Bryce and Zion National Parks
- Visit the “Wave” in Arizona
- See millions of bats in Texas
- Swim with the Manatees in Florida
- ✔️ See the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco
Road Trips
- ✔️ Road Trip through Oregon and Washington to Canada
- ✔️ Road Trip to Yellowstone National Park
- ✔️ Road Trip from California to New York
- Road Trip to Washington, D.C.
- ✔️ Road trip through the Scottish Highlands
Europe Highlights
- ✔️ See the view from the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
- ✔️ Visit the Louvre
- ✔️ Visit the Colosseum and Pantheon in Rome
- ✔️ Stand in the Sistine Chapel in Rome
- ✔️ Eat pizza where pizza was invented
- ✔️ View the masterpieces in the Uffizi, Bargello, and Vatican Museums
- ✔️ Visit Venice and island hop
- Visit the Acropolis in Athens
- ✔️ Visit Germany and see the Berlin Wall
- Visit a concentration camp
- Visit Slovakia, Slovenia, and Hungary
- Visit Belgium & the Netherlands
- Visit Ireland
- ✔️ Visit the United Kingdom
- ✔️ Visit the Christmas Markets in Europe
Islands, Oceans & Rivers
- See the volcanoes in Hawaii and watch the lava flow
- Go Surfing and a Luau in Hawaii
- Relax in the Maldives
- Go snorkeling in the Great Barrier Reef
- Go on a River Cruise
Asia & the Middle East
- Visit Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam
- Visit Japan
- Visit a fun-themed café in Japan
- Visit Bunny (Ōkunoshima), Fox (Miyagi prefecture), and Cat Islands (Tashirojima)
- See the Pyramids, The Sphinx, Luxor, the Temple of Hatsheput, and Beni Hassan in Egypt
- Visit the Hagia Sophia in Turkey
Central & South America
- Visit Mexico
- Climb the steps of the Mayan ruins
- Visit Chile & Argentina
- Hike the Rainbow Mountains of Peru
- Visit the Salt Flats of Bolivia
- Visit Ecuador and the Galápagos Islands
Unique Places to Stay
- Sleep in a tree house
- ✔️ Sleep on a houseboat
- Spend the night in a castle
- Spend the night in an aquarium
- Sleep in an open-roofed igloo or ice castle
- Spend the night in the desert
- Sleep in an over-water bungalow
- Sleep in a hammock on the beach
- Sleep in an Salt Hotel
Adventure & Wilderness
- Hike in the Swiss Alps
- Cruise or kayak the fjords of Norway
- ✔️ See the Northern Lights
- Hike/Camp in the Highlands of Iceland
- See the glowworm caves in New Zealand
The Ends of the Earth
- Visit Norway, Sweden, and Finland
- Explore Greenland
- Visit Antarctica
- See penguins and polar bear in the wild
- Visit Alaska
- Visit Australia, New Zealand, and Tahiti