I’ve been mulling over my Bucket List for awhile, and have decided to post it, for inspiration and for accountability.

This list is still a baby, and will be a work in progress for a long time to come.

A few things have been pointed out to me. First, this list is extremely travel and event oriented, but lacks many personal goals. That’s because currently I’m at a place where I’m fairly short sighted in terms of personal goals. I don’t know what I want yet, when it comes to a career or a family. So those types of goals will have to wait till I’ve figured a few things out. Second,  to do half the things on here would be a fuller life than most live. That’s true! But the list is only going to get longer. The higher I set my sights, the more things I’ll accomplish (well, that's the hope!). So yes, it’s going to be a long list. But I want it to be.

Right, so, here’s my bucket list. It will continue to grow and change, both as I accomplish things, and as I find new and exciting things to add to it:

LEARNING

• Get a Master’s degree
• Become tri-lingual
• Learn to surf
• Learn to play the piano
• Learn to fly a plane
• Take a self-defense class
• Take a cooking class

LONG TERM

• Visit every continent at least once
• Live in 10 different countries
• 7 Medieval Wonders of the World

EXPERIENCES

• Complete a 10 day Vipassana meditation course
• Spend a month+ on a foreign beach
• Experience zero gravity
• Ride in a hot air balloon
• Go sky-diving
• Live on a sailboat
• Take a wilderness camping trip
• Swim with dolphins
• Build a house
• Spend a month in a monastery
• Attend the World Expo
• Learn to paraglide

AFRICA

• See the Big 5 on an African safari
• Ride a camel through the Sahara

ASIA

• Ride an elephant in S.E. Asia
  
• Visit the ruins of Angkor Wat
• Walk the Great Wall of China
• Make it to Base Camp on Everest
• Spend a month on a kungfu retreat
• Celebrate the Holi Festival in India
• Watch the Symphony of Lights in Hong Kong
• Ride the Singapore Flyer
• Watch the floating lantern festival in Taiwan
• Road trip across Nepal
• Road trip across India
• Ride the Transiberian Rail across Russia
• Ride horses across the Mongolian Steppe

AUSTRALIA and OCEANIA

• Scuba dive the Great Barrier Reef
• Drive the Great Ocean Road
• Stay in a bungalow on Bora Bora

EUROPE

• See Monet’s work in Paris
• Go to Oktoberfest in Germany
• Kiss the Blarney Stone
• Canyon Interlaken
• Tobaggan Run in Grindelwald
• Relax in Santorini, Greece
• Wander the canals of Venice
• Visit the Colosseum in Rome
• Take a stupid picture pushing the Tower of Pisa

NORTH AMERICA

• Whitewater raft the Grand Canyon
• Attend the Oscars
• Road trip across USA coast to coast
• See the aurora borealis
• Buy an RV and travel N. America
• Explore Washington, D.C.

MIDDLE EAST

• See Petra, Jordan
• See the Pyramids
• Float in the Dead Sea
• Explore Jerusalem’s Old City

SOUTH AMERICA

• Visit Machu Picchu in Peru
• Climb Pacaya Mountain
• Hang glide (or paraglide!) over Rio de Janeiro
• Kayak the Bioluminescent Bay in Puerto Rico