Travel Bucket List
Q: What’s a Bucket List?
A: It’s a list of things you want to do before you “kick the bucket.”
Q: So what the heck is a TRAVEL Bucket List?
A: It’s a list of travel-related things you want to do before you “kick the bucket.”
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. I live to travel. So, naturally, I have a Travel Bucket List. There is a lot I want to accomplish before I leave this world, and I’d love to share my goals with you as I journey through life.
My Travel Bucket List
- Visit every Major League ballpark
- Visit all 50 U.S. states
- Fly in a two-seater plane
- Sing karaoke in Japan
- Take on the craziness of Bourbon Street in New Orleans
- Stay in an ice hotel
- Go ziplining through the jungle
- Collect a shot glass from every major city I visit
- Find family living in the vast, rolling hills of Ireland
- Visit Krakow, Warsaw, Gda?sk, Lublin, ?ód? and Szczecin in Poland
- Dine on lobster in Maine…even though I don’t like lobster
- Attend a Chicago White Sox or Blackhawks playoff game…at their opponents’ stadium/arena
- See a play at Shakespeare’s Globe in London
- Ride a camel in Egypt
- Listen to lots of Euro-metal at Wacken Open Air in Germany
- Hold a koala in Australia
- Visit Harry’s New York Bar in Paris (a pub frequented by author Ernest Hemingway)
- Attend one major event in NYC: New Year’s Eve at Times Square, Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, etc
- Run a marathon in another city
- Go to any event at the Olympic Games (wherever they may be when I choose to go)
- Attend a Civil War reenactment in a Southern state
- See major works of art like the Mona Lisa and the David statue
- Eat a fresh peach in Georgia
- Visit the Louisville Slugger Museum in Kentucky
- See a show at the Sidney Opera House
- Take a road trip through 4+ U.S. states
- Capture photos of penguins in Antarctica
- Throw tomatoes at strangers at La Tomatina in Valencia, Spain
- Climb the 284 steps to the top of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris
- Deal with the stifling summer heat in Mexico (Summer heat and I don’t mix well)
- Ride an elephant in Thailand
- Indulge in the “signature drink” of each city (312 in Chicago, Sam Adams in Boston, Guinness in Dublin, Sangria in Barcelona, etc
- Eat a Fenway Frank in the middle of winter (provided the Winter Classic go back to Fenway Park after 2010)
- See a professional hockey game outdoors
- Meet professional athletes in another city
- Make a real phone call from a London phone booth
- Explore the Ya Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem
- Visit Auschwitz in O?wi?cim, Poland
- Ride the trolley in San Francisco
- Walk around the campuses of Harvard, Yale and Princeton and pretend I’m a student
- Learn about the Witch Trials firsthand in Salem, Massachusetts
- Attend a futbol game anywhere in Europe/UK
- Enjoy the magic of Disney World and Disneyland
- Attend the Rio de Janeiro Carnival
- Get “leid” in Hawaii
- Make a sandcastle in the beaches of Sri Lanka
- Ride a vespa in Italy
- Visit a Christmas Market in Germany
- Take funny pictures in a photobooth on the Atlantic City Boardwalk or at Coney Island
- Eat spaghetti, buy an ornate mask and ride a gondola in Venice
- Take a tour of Tolkien’s/Jackson’s Hobbiton in New Zealand
- Tour Charm City Cakes and meet the infamous Duff (Ace of Cakes) in Baltimore, Maryland
- Try on wedding dresses at Kleinfeld’s in New York City
- Visit the Canterbury Tales Museum
- See the burial place of Chaucer, Dickens, Kipling, Spenser and Tennyson at Westminster Abbey
- Tour the White House in Washington, DC
- Attend a taping of any talk show
- Get caught in a downpour in Seattle, Washington
- Spend the night in a haunted hotel
- Prove that there is a lot to do in small states like Rhode Island and Vermont
** More goals will be added as they pop into my head
