My Bucket List

This is my bucket list. Fifty things I’ve wanted to experience, not just see, and the ones that have mattered enough for me to actually make happen.

Travel has always been a priority for me, even when it probably didn’t make the most financial sense. I’ve chosen flights over other things more times than I can count, planned trips when life felt busy or uncertain, and said yes to going alone when it would have been easier not to.

A lot of this list wasn’t easy. Some of it took real effort, saving, planning, and pushing myself outside of what felt comfortable. Some of it I did completely on my own, figuring things out as I went, which is something I’m really proud of. Not just where I’ve been, but how I got there.

Because that is what travel is to me. Not just landmarks or photos, but memories.

Some of these once felt so far away they barely seemed real, and now they are done. Others are still waiting, which I also love, because having things to look forward to is part of the fun.

1
Feed the monkeys in Gibraltar
✔ DONE
2
Fly First Class
○ NOT DONE
3
Stay at the Hotel de France, Le Mans
✔ DONE
4
Visit Antarctica
○ NOT DONE
5
See the Eiffel Tower sparkle
✔ DONE
6
Hot air balloon over Cappadocia
○ NOT DONE
7
Visit Footdee, Aberdeen
✔ DONE
8
Visit the Galápagos Islands
○ NOT DONE
9
Stand in two countries at once
✔ DONE
10
Walk the Great Wall of China
○ NOT DONE
11
Fly cumulatively to the moon
✔ DONE
12
Visit Easter Island
○ NOT DONE
13
See the Edinburgh Military Tattoo
✔ DONE
14
See a polar bear in the wild
○ NOT DONE
15
Climb the Arc de Triomphe
✔ DONE
16
Visit Lapland and Santa Claus Village
○ NOT DONE
17
Stay overnight at Mont Saint-Michel
✔ DONE
18
Walk through Pompeii
○ NOT DONE
19
Visit Holy Island and cross the causeway
✔ DONE
20
Visit Deadvlei, Namibia
○ NOT DONE
21
See the Mona Lisa at the Louvre
✔ DONE
22
Float in the Dead Sea
○ NOT DONE
23
Visit Portmeirion
✔ DONE
24
Visit the Sagrada Família
○ NOT DONE
25
Drive Route 66
✔ DONE
26
Take the Glacier Express
○ NOT DONE
27
Visit Jekyll Island turtles
✔ DONE
28
Go to the Faroe Islands
○ NOT DONE
29
Eat Belgian waffles in Bruges
✔ DONE
30
See Petra at sunrise
○ NOT DONE
31
See Uluru at sunset
✔ DONE
32
Machu Picchu
○ NOT DONE
33
Solo trip no language
✔ DONE
34
Visit the Roman Baths
✔ DONE
35
Take the Jacobite Steam Train
✔ DONE
36
Stay in a glass igloo
○ NOT DONE
37
See the Northern Lights
✔ DONE
38
See the Colosseum
○ NOT DONE
39
Stay in an overwater bungalow
✔ DONE
40
Visit the Acropolis
○ NOT DONE
41
Stay in a castle in Scotland
✔ DONE
42
See the Pyramids of Giza
○ NOT DONE
43
Do a Cotswolds road trip
✔ DONE
44
Visit Colmar, France at Christmas
○ NOT DONE
45
Go somewhere completely random
✔ DONE
46
Take the Snowdonia Railway to the top
✔ DONE
47
Spend a month in another country
✔ DONE
48
Visit Claude Monet’s gardens
✔ DONE
49
Visit Stonehenge
✔ DONE
50
Visit Graceland
✔ DONE