My Overflowing Travel Bucketlist

Behold my overflowing, ever-changing, updated travel bucket list (and anything in between). What’s yours? Share your link in the comments below.

1. See the icebergs of Antarctica, either through an expedition or via Patagonia crossing
2. See the Northern Lights (aurora borealis) from Norway or Alaska (January 2016)
3. Travel the World – every continent, every city. Experience at least one city or country every year – (half a tick as this is a work in progress)
4. Visit all UNESCO World Heritage Sites
5. See the Seven Wonders of the World (old and new)
6. Stay in a glass igloo at Kakslauttanen, Finland (Bonus: watch the dancing Aurora Borealis) (January 2016)
7. Trek the 42km Camino Inka (Inca Trail) to reach Machu Picchu, Peru – (December 2012)
8. Stay in the Ice Hotel, Sweden
9. Have a White Christmas (December 2016)
10. Relocate to a Scandinavian country
11. Visit the equator line, Ecuador
12. Hike the Norwegian Fjords
13. Do the hot air balloon thing at Cappadocia, Turkey
14. Walk the W Trail in Patagonia
15. Take a travel photography class
16. See the Duke & Duchess of Cambridge – (April 2014)
17. Make it on the news – (April 2014)
18. Backpack South America – (half a tick as the continent is too big!)
19. Trail the Cinque Terre, Italy
20. Go ‘Off the Grid’ even for a few days
21. Selfie with the Duke & Duchess of Cambridge
22. Meet the Queen Majesty herself (Bonus: to have tea with HRH)
23. Make a wish at the Fontana di Trevi (Trevi Fountain), Italy – (October 2007, September 2011)
24. Look up at the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel – (October 2007)
25. See the current Pope – (October 2007)
26. Go to the top of the Eiffel Tower, France – (October 2007, September 2011)
27. Touristy pose at the leaning Tower of Pisa, Italy – (October 2007)
28. See the Ancient Mayan ruins in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras or Belize
29. Visit Australia’s “Big Things“. So far:
    • The Big Merino, Goulburn NSW (2011, 2012, 2014)
    • The Big Prawn, Ballina NSW (February 2015)
    • The Big Banana, Coffs Harbour NSW (February 2015)
30. Drive through the Italian countryside
31. Fly First Class on any airline, to any destination
32. Negotiate/bargain to get a free upgrade to First Class on any airline
33. Visit more Abandoned Wonders of the world
34. Go to Fiji (Bonus: visit Castaway Island) – (February 2008)
35. Sample ‘weed’ for the first (and only) time in Amsterdam – (October 2007)
36. Have a serving of ‘hoppers’ and escargots – (September 2007)
37. Make a Queen’s Guard at Buckingham Palace crack a smile
38. Make and take hilarious photos at Salar de Uyuni (Salt Flats), Bolivia – (December 2012)
39. Watch the Grand Prix de Monaco
40. See the Pyramids of Giza, Egypt
41. Master the Spanish language
42. Master the French language
43. Learn to snowboard
44. Snowboard in the French Alps
45. Have my first taste of beer by celebrating Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany (Bonus: Lowenbrau tent) – October 2007
46. Float in the Dead Sea
47. Drink German Eiswein (ice wine) along the Rhine River, Germany – (October 2007)
48. Run with the bulls in Spain
49. Knee deep in tomatoes at La Tomatina, Spain
50. Drive along the Great Ocean Road VIC, Australia – (June 2014)
51. Skydive at 15,000 feet – (November 2014)
52. Do the Sydney Harbour Bridge climb
53. Get published online, magazine or book – (1995, 2005 -2012)
54. Ride a hot air balloon – (2005)
55. Go to Flemington Racecourse for the Melbourne Cup (Bonus: get an exclusive invite to the Emirates marquee)
56. Revel in the Rio Carnivale atmosphere – (February 2013)
57. Hire a car and road trip across Western and Eastern Europe
58. Zipline
59. Make a snowman and snowangel (December 2015-January 2016)
60. Visit a concentration camp – (October 2007, October 2011)
61. Stay at the Burj Al Arab, Dubai UAE
62. Eat authentic crepe in Paris – (September 2007, September 2011)
63. Attach a padlock on the ‘Love Lock Bridge’ in Paris, France
64. Watch the Grand Prix de Monaco
65. Experience caravan or RV travel
66. Purchase my first leather journal from Florence, Italy – (September 2007)
67. Visit the Vatican City, Italy – (September 2007, September 2011)
68. Ride a Segway – (October 2011)
69. Get married to the love of my life in an intimate ceremony – (September 2011)
70. Start a travel blog and maintain it – (half a tick as it’s still a WIP)
71. Trek to Mt Everest Base Camp, Nepal
72. Trek Mt Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
73. See the gigantic stone heads of Easter Island, Chile
74. Participate in either a half marathon
75. Participate in the Sydney City to Surf
76. Take at least one cooking class – (December 2012)
77. Utter the phrase “F*cking Brugge” (from the movie In Brugges) in Brugge, Belgium – (October 2011)
78. See Wiltshire’s Stonehenge, UK – (July 2009)
79. Spend New Years Eve/Day in another timezone – (January 2013)
80. Walk the Great Wall of China
81. Photograph the East Gallery (former Berlin Wall), Germany – (October 2011)
82. See/experience snow in Switzerland – (October 2007)
83. Visit Iguazu Falls from the Argentinian and Brazilian sides – (February 2013)
84. Throw away the map and get ‘lost’ in a city – (September 2007 and all the time)
85. Visit the ruins of City of Pompeii, Italy (Bonus: spot the p*nis symbols etched on the pavement) – (October 2007)
86. Write a letter to Juliet and stick it with a piece of gum on the wall in Venice – (October 2007, September 2011)
87. Gamble in Las Vegas, USA – (February 2013)
88. Start my own business – Permanently quit the 9to5 grind to follow my passion (Bonus: earn money while doing it)
89. Walk a Red Carpet event
90. Dine at Heston Blumenthals’ Fat Duck Restaurant either in the UK or Australia (launch 2015)
91. Try at least one new and unusual dish every year – (half a tick as this will be a neverending feat)
92. Sponsor a child
93. Go back to my birth country of Philippines and explore
94. Donate my hair for cancer to be made as wigs – (November 2012)
95. Be a tourist in my own home town – (December 2009)
96. Retire early
97. Travel until I die!
98. Keep adding to this bucketlist

 

(Featured Image: Me atop Huayna Picchu overlooking the beauty that is Machu Picchu or Machu Pikchu, a 15th-century Inca site)