*********
After checking off so many things during the last year alone, I decided to finally put my bucket list “on paper” and share it here. Both as inspiration – and – I’d love to hear what’s on yours!
Please share in the comments.
In no particular order:
ADVENTURE
Multi Day Horse Trek through Yellowstone Natl. Park
Visit wild Gorillas in Uganda or Ruanda
Treck to Everest Base Camp
Take the Rovos Train from Pretoria to Zanzibar
Horse Safari in the Okavango Delta
Rock Climbing in Moab
Mule Ride to the bottom of Grand Canyon
Fly a helicopter (not as a passenger, but flying one myself!)
Shark Cage Diving in Shark Alley (South Africa) & Port Augusta, Australia & New Zealand
Visit “Sue” from “Life Below Zero” in Kavik, Alaska
Visit a Dolphin Therapy facility in Florida (dolphins helping patients with PTSD etc)
Ziplining anywhere….
Volunteer at Elephant Rescue Camp in Thailand
Drive a Ferrari on a Race Track
Cruise around the South Pacific in a small yacht or sail boat
Road Trip up the Australian West Coast from Perth to Kimberley and over to Darwin
Trans Siberian Railway from Siberia to Moscow
Road Trip along the Queensland Coast
Take The Ghan Train from Darwin to Adelaide
Dive in the Great Barrier Reef
Visit Nome, Alaska
Take the Ferry all the way from the Aleutians, Alaska to Bellingham, WA
Visit the Serengeti
Climb Mt. Kilimanjaro
Visit Finch Hatton’s Grave (Out of Africa)
Attend Training with the Horse Whisperer
Visit the Whale Coast Route in South Africa during Whale Season
Take the Orient Express from Bangkok to Singapore
Attend a “Classico” at Bernabeu Stadium – Real Madrid vs. Barcelona
Attend the Summer Olympics
Attend a Football World Cup (Soccer)
Road Trip along the Cote d’Azur / Monte Carlo to La Provence – September 2018
Road Trip all over South Africa – January 2016
Desert Dunes in Namibia – December 2015
Desert Safari – Dune Ride in Dubai – September 2016
Swim with wild dolphins – September 2011 Gulf of Mexico
Road Trip along the Mae Hong Song Loop through the Northern Thai Mountains – August 2016
Road Trip along the “Great Ocean Road” in Australia – June 2016
Meet a Cheetah (NOT in a petting zoo!) – December 2015 (Na’ankuse Wildlife Sanctuary, Namibia)
Visit all 50 US States – completed in 2015
Road Trip all around New Zealand (both North & South Island) – May 2016
Walk with Lions (in a conservation program) – March 2016 (Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe)
Visit Angkor Wat in Cambodia – December 2016
Safari at Kruger National Park – December 2015
Road Trip to Uluru/Ayers Rock – March 2016
Skydiving – September 2011 (Key West, Florida)
Visit the Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe – March 2016
Road trip along the Garden Route in South Africa – January 2016
Biplane Acrobatics – September 2011 (Cape Cannaveral, Florida)
White Water Rafting – September 2011 (Okonowee River, Tennessee)
Boat ride on the Zambezi River – March 2016
Ride a Camel – March 2016 (Alice Springs, Australia)
Scuba Dive – October 2016 (Amed, Bali)
Road Trip from Queenstown to Glenorchy NZ – May 2016
Airboat through the Everglades – September 2011
Boatride through the Bayou Swamps – September 2011
Safari and Boat Ride in Chobe National Park & River – March 2016
Visit Robben Island (Nelson Mandela’s prison island) – January 2016
Take the Indian Pacific Train from Perth to Sydney – May 2016
Meet an Elephant – December 2015
Visit Hobbiton in New Zealand – May 2016
Drive from California to Alaska via the Alaska Highway – completed July 2013
Drive the Dalton Highway (“Ice Truckers”) all the way to the Arctic Sea – July 2013
Get pulled over by an Alaska State Trooper – July 2013
Road Trip along the Blue Ridge Parkway – May 2015
Fly in a Helicopter over the Okavango Delta – February 2016
Visit the Bluebird Cafe & Grand Ole Opry in Nashville – September 2011
Visit Yellowstone National Park – September 2012
Road Trip from Sunshine Coast, via Gold Coast and Byron Bay to Sydney – April 2016
Visit Key West – September 2011
Road Trip along the Pacific Coast Highway from LA to Seattle – September 2012
Visit Grand Canyon & the Parks of Southern Utah – October 2012
Visit Monument Valley & Moab – October 2012
Drive through Montana – September 2012
Visit the Louisiana Bayou – September 2011 (and many times more…)
Visit the Bridge on the River Kwai – August 2016
Visit Charleston, Savannah & New Orleans – September 2011
DESTINATIONS
South Pacific – Vanuatu, Tahiti, Bora Bora, Fiji
Maldives
Seychelles
Antarctica
Greenland
Nepal/Himalayas & Everest Base Camp
Fireland – Argentina
Easter Islands
Laos
Caribbean – Barbados, Bahamas, Caymans, St. Thomas
Oman
Tanzania
Kenya
India – Kerala, Rishikesh, Himalayas
Egypt
Istanbul
Iceland
Prague & Cracow
Moscow & St. Petersburg
Hong Kong
Kuala Lumpur – January 2017
Spain – June 2017 & 2018
Madeira & the Azores – September 2017
Bali – October 2016
Dubai – September 2016
Thailand – August 2016
India – Calcutta (Mother Teresa’s House), Holy City of Puri, Kriya Yoga Ashram, Balighai Kriya Ahsram – January 2008
Mauritius – March 2016
Kruger, Cape Peninsula & Garden Route/South Africa – December 2015-January 2016
Namib Desert & Swakopmund/Namibia – December 2015
Kalahari & Okcavango Delta/Botswana – February/March 2016
Victoria Falls/Zimbabwe – March 2016
Alice Springs & Uluru/Australia – March-June 2016
Sydney, Melbourne and Perth– March/April 2016/Australia
Road Trip around New Zealand – May 2016
Visit the Holy Sites in Israel – June 2012
Visit Cambodia & Vietnam – November 2016
Visit Singapore – July 2016
Buenos Aires & Rio de Janeiro, Uruguay & Chile – October 1997
Visit the Golden Triangle (Thailand/Laos/Myanmar) – August 2016
Visit Vancouver, Canada – September 2012
Road Trip through Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark – August 1990
Live in Vienna for a summer – Summer 2008
Visit Mozart House in Salzburg – Summer 2009
Visit Italy – Rome/Venice/Florence/Capri/Tuscany/Umbria – numerous times since 1991
Road Trip through Greece – October 1989
Visit London – October 2000
Visit Paris, Normandie and Alsace – numerous times since 1989
LUXURY TRAVEL
Stay in an over-water villa on the Maldives & Bora Bora
Stay on Richard Branson’s Island – Necker Island
Stay at Emirate Palace Hotel in Abu Dhabi
Stay at the Royal Livingstone (Zambia)
Stay at Burj Al-Arab in Dubai
Drive a Maserati, Ferrari, Buggati & Lamborghini (September 2018)
Stay at the Victoria Falls Hotel in Zimbabwe – March 2016
Take the Indian Pacific Train from Perth to Sydney – May 2016
Cruise on a Yacht around Dubai Marina and Palm Jumeirah – September 2016
Stay at the Kahala in Hawaii – March 2013
Stay at the Beverly Hills Hotel during Oscar Week – February 2013
Stay at the Bellagio Hotel in Vegas in a Fountain View Suite – September 2013
Stay at The Menjangan in Bali – October 2016
Stay at Tugu Hotel in Bali – October 2016
16 thoughts on “My Travel BUCKET LIST….”
I bought one of your books for my mother for Christmas, and then decided to do some research on you. Your story is fascinating. I love your free spirited life style. In so many ways you are a female version of myself.
… – glad to hear it and thanks for gifting my book to your Mom!
Wow Gundi. So many places on your list. I crossed off half marathon just this year. I still have run a marathon, see the wild mustangs in the wild, hike part of the Pacific Crest trail, attend summer Olympics, visit key west, all presidential libraries. I’m still working on the rest
sounds awesome – good for you!
Awesome list!!! gave me some great new ideas!!
can’t wait to see yours….;-)
Great Selection!! – my biggest dream is New Zealand at the moment – it must be absolutely amazing!!
it truly is – one of my absolute favorite countries!
Great list – you gave me some new ideas…..
look forward to seeing yours…;-)
Great Bucket List! – I definitely share Antarctica and the Poles, also Easter Islands and Galapagos and the Rovos Train – and some more great ideas you have there….
sounds awesome!
wow – all the things you have already done! – so amazing! – you inspired me now to write my own travel bucket list – great idea!!
Great – can’t wait to see yours!
Amazing! – Love all the things you have already done! – I definitely want to travel to Africa and see Victoria Falls, also Machu Piccu in Peru and Rio – but so much else, too….. will sit down and write my list now – you inspired me….;-)
Thanks….;-) – Rio is amazing (though a bit dangerous with all the crime there) – Machu Piccu is on my list, too!
Comments are closed.