This is the list of all the random stuff I want to do someday — things I’d just like to experience or places I want to see. Dr. Suess promises, “Oh, the places you’ll go!” and I just can’t wait. The best part is that where I go or what I do next might not even be on the list … because that’s part of life’s unpredictable adventure.
See my other lists: Culinary Adventures | Playing Tourist at Home
Adventures Left to Come
- Ride in a hot air balloon across a landscape
- Go on a whale-watching tour — and actually see a whale.
- Whitewater raft down a river (even if only the fake kind.)
- Go to the Westminster Dog Show in NYC
- Ride on a jet ski
- Go to the Super Bowl
- Go to a game at Wimbledon
- Ride an elephant
- Go on a sand dune “safari” in Dubai
- Write a book; be published
- Spend New Year’s Eve in Sydney
- Take a pottery class
- Be invited to a garden party at Buckingham Palace
- See the Taj Mahal
- Go to a game during the Final Four
- Stay a weekend at the Greenbrier
- Ride horses on the beach
- See Graceland in Memphis
- Make a quilt
- Drive the U.S. coast to coast
- Ride on a dog sled
- Walk on the Great Wall of China
- See the Northern Lights
- Sail the Queen Mary to England from NYC
- Visit (internationally): Greece!, Bermuda, Monaco, Italy, Vancouver, Iceland, Bora Bora, Paris/the vineyards of France, Egypt and the pyramids, Sweden/Scandanavia, the Maldives, Croatia and the Dalmatian coast, Prague, Jordan
- Visit (domestically): Alaska, Maine, Newport, Nashville, Salt Lake City, Hawaii, New Orleans, St. Simon’s Island/Cumberland Island, Sante Fe/Taos, Dallas, Austin, Gulf coast of Florida
Checked off the list:
- Visit Jerusalem, Israel — complete! (May 2014)
- Ride a camel — complete! (May 2014)
- Take a photography class — complete! (April 2014)
- Zipline through a rain forest — complete! (October 2012)
- Travel by myself — complete! (June 2012)
- Join a book club — complete! (March 2012)
- Go on safari in Africa — complete! (May 2011)
- Get a dog — complete! (March 2011)
- Climb the Sydney Harbour Bridge — complete! (August 2010)
- Go to a NASCAR race — complete! (May 2010)
- Parasail in the Caribbean — complete! ( St. Thomas: February 2005)
- Ride in a helicopter — complete! Twice! (Antigua: 2005; Las Vegas: 2006)
- Go to the U.S. Open (tennis) — complete! (2006)
- UK: England, Scotland
- South Africa: Cape Town, Johannesburg, Entabeni
- Australia: Sydney, the Hunter Valley
- Ireland
- Israel
- Germany: Munich, Bavaria | Austria: Salzburg, Innsbruck
- Caribbean: San Juan, St. Thomas, Antigua, Barbados, Montserrat, Grenada
- Canada: Montreal, Victoria
- US: Napa Valley/San Fran, LA, Sedona, Miami/the Keys, Chicago, Seattle, Boston/Cape Cod