Your travel bucket list
Jan 24, 2013, 10:44 am
#1
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Your travel bucket list
So what is everyones bucket list of places to visit, and things to do? Here are mine.
1) I have always wanted to but am currently have a trip planned for Italy in August
2) Scuba dive the Great Barrier Reef
3) Visit Hong Kong- I would love to try all the unique foods
4) Japan- Want to go and would still enjoy it even w/o amusement parks
5) Bali, Indonesia- Looks beautiful and so peaceful
6) Stay in Dubai at the Burj Al Arab
7) See Machu Picchu in Peru
8) Stay at a hotel on the water on stilts
9) Do an Alaska Cruise
10) Visit the places from LOTR and The Hobbit in New Zealand.
1) I have always wanted to but am currently have a trip planned for Italy in August
2) Scuba dive the Great Barrier Reef
3) Visit Hong Kong- I would love to try all the unique foods
4) Japan- Want to go and would still enjoy it even w/o amusement parks
5) Bali, Indonesia- Looks beautiful and so peaceful
6) Stay in Dubai at the Burj Al Arab
7) See Machu Picchu in Peru
8) Stay at a hotel on the water on stilts
9) Do an Alaska Cruise
10) Visit the places from LOTR and The Hobbit in New Zealand.
Jan 24, 2013, 2:00 pm
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So what is everyones bucket list of places to visit, and things to do? Here are mine.
1) I have always wanted to but am currently have a trip planned for Italy in August
2) Scuba dive the Great Barrier Reef
3) Visit Hong Kong- I would love to try all the unique foods
4) Japan- Want to go and would still enjoy it even w/o amusement parks
5) Bali, Indonesia- Looks beautiful and so peaceful
6) Stay in Dubai at the Burj Al Arab
7) See Machu Picchu in Peru
8) Stay at a hotel on the water on stilts
9) Do an Alaska Cruise
10) Visit the places from LOTR and The Hobbit in New Zealand.
1) I have always wanted to but am currently have a trip planned for Italy in August
2) Scuba dive the Great Barrier Reef
3) Visit Hong Kong- I would love to try all the unique foods
4) Japan- Want to go and would still enjoy it even w/o amusement parks
5) Bali, Indonesia- Looks beautiful and so peaceful
6) Stay in Dubai at the Burj Al Arab
7) See Machu Picchu in Peru
8) Stay at a hotel on the water on stilts
9) Do an Alaska Cruise
10) Visit the places from LOTR and The Hobbit in New Zealand.
Jan 24, 2013, 2:09 pm
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Greenland - kayaking and hiking
Galapagos
Artic Circle - see polar bears and walrus
Bhutan
Russia - St. Petersburg and Kamchatka
Mongolia
New Zealand
Tasmania (snorkel with the giant cuttlefish, backpack)
South Georgia (Antarctica)
Tristan da Cunha (just because I remember the cool postage stamps)
Amazon and the Pantanal
Galapagos
Artic Circle - see polar bears and walrus
Bhutan
Russia - St. Petersburg and Kamchatka
Mongolia
New Zealand
Tasmania (snorkel with the giant cuttlefish, backpack)
South Georgia (Antarctica)
Tristan da Cunha (just because I remember the cool postage stamps)
Amazon and the Pantanal
Jan 24, 2013, 8:48 pm
#7
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I want to repeat so many trips that I've already taken but my must sees that I haven't been to are:
Visit my heritage countries: Denmark (never been), Iceland (never been), Belgium (visited 40 years ago without knowledge of family history to explore my Dad's roots).
Next: A few exotic areas: Bali, Maldives, Easter Island
South America: Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands (hopefully planning for 2014)
And the list grows day by day.
Visit my heritage countries: Denmark (never been), Iceland (never been), Belgium (visited 40 years ago without knowledge of family history to explore my Dad's roots).
Next: A few exotic areas: Bali, Maldives, Easter Island
South America: Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands (hopefully planning for 2014)
And the list grows day by day.
Jan 25, 2013, 7:46 am
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My bucket list is immense and ever-growing. Unfortunately, regular life gets in the way of me taking more than a couple international trips per year. Stupid job...
These are just a few. I have a fascination, as of late, with remote Arctic destinations. I honestly can't wait to retire so I can blow all of my savings on constant travel.
- Iceland and Greenland (Tentatively set for June)
- South Georgia
- Patagonia
- Vietnam
- Bhutan
- Kerguelen
- Svalbard
- Northern Canada (Ellesmere, Baffin, etc...)
These are just a few. I have a fascination, as of late, with remote Arctic destinations. I honestly can't wait to retire so I can blow all of my savings on constant travel.
Jan 25, 2013, 7:52 am
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My bucket list is to visit every country in the world. To actually spend some time in each, not just to land and take off again. At 67 and not taking just taking off and going it's probably not gonna be possible. Off Wednesday to the Maldives and Sri Lanka (with repeat stop in Bangkok for cooking school at Blue Elephant). So far I'm close to 90 of the 194 sovereign (and counting) countries.
Hoped for destinations this year: Armenia, Georgia, Azerbijian; west Africa (though those destinations are narrowing), High Sierra camps in Yosemite (repeat).
Hoped for destinations this year: Armenia, Georgia, Azerbijian; west Africa (though those destinations are narrowing), High Sierra camps in Yosemite (repeat).
Jan 25, 2013, 8:16 am
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I don't really have a bucket list...it's just a constantly evolving list of priorities.
Some ones in mind for the next few years:
- We've been pretty focused on international travel for the past few years, so now I'm starting to get an itch to do some of the great American/Canadian roadtrips, mostly in the Northwest but potentially a good Northeastern one as well... Kids are almost the right age for this: I imagine we will do a few of these in the coming years.
- The Galapagos has always been on my list, although as I understand it at the current time there's really no way to use miles/points for this. This one will probably wait a few years.
- At some point, I want to go back to Nepal and do some serious trekking. High altitude, Everest region. We did a short trek this fall (lower altitude) and talked to several people on their way out to a 21-28 day trek. Finding time for this will always be the biggest challenge. Probably mix Bhutan and (if it's politically possible) Tibet into this trip as well.
- One of these years, I need to grab one of those Icelandair long-weekend special offers. Could take the whole family for this one, the fares are sometimes so low. Seems like a cool place to go, even if it's just for 4 nights...
- Namibia, Tanzania, South Africa, Kenya, Kilimanjaro, Zambia/Victoria Falls, etc. Another one it's going to be tough to find the necessary 4 to 6 weeks to properly do...
- Antarctica. Would like to run the Antarctica Marathon one of these years...
Some ones in mind for the next few years:
- We've been pretty focused on international travel for the past few years, so now I'm starting to get an itch to do some of the great American/Canadian roadtrips, mostly in the Northwest but potentially a good Northeastern one as well... Kids are almost the right age for this: I imagine we will do a few of these in the coming years.
- The Galapagos has always been on my list, although as I understand it at the current time there's really no way to use miles/points for this. This one will probably wait a few years.
- At some point, I want to go back to Nepal and do some serious trekking. High altitude, Everest region. We did a short trek this fall (lower altitude) and talked to several people on their way out to a 21-28 day trek. Finding time for this will always be the biggest challenge. Probably mix Bhutan and (if it's politically possible) Tibet into this trip as well.
- One of these years, I need to grab one of those Icelandair long-weekend special offers. Could take the whole family for this one, the fares are sometimes so low. Seems like a cool place to go, even if it's just for 4 nights...
- Namibia, Tanzania, South Africa, Kenya, Kilimanjaro, Zambia/Victoria Falls, etc. Another one it's going to be tough to find the necessary 4 to 6 weeks to properly do...
- Antarctica. Would like to run the Antarctica Marathon one of these years...
Apr 4, 2014, 10:34 am
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what's on your bucket list?
i've made some rather random travel decisions to go to a place and figure out what i'm going to do there later - which usually involves a lot of browsing on tripadvisor. recently i just happened to be in kuala lumpur during thaipusam, which was quite an interesting experience, and certainly not something i'd find on there.
i'd much rather prefer to try and attend or see or do some kind of travel experience whether small to large - and i'm wondering what kind of cool experiences and bucket list items you guys may have done or plan to do so that i can collect more fun things to add to my own bucket list.
my own rather randomly ordered BL is here:
http://www.igobyplane.com/bucket-list/
and i'm looking for fun things to add to it.
i would say as a car guy a trip to the nurburgring is an absolute must!
i'd much rather prefer to try and attend or see or do some kind of travel experience whether small to large - and i'm wondering what kind of cool experiences and bucket list items you guys may have done or plan to do so that i can collect more fun things to add to my own bucket list.
my own rather randomly ordered BL is here:
http://www.igobyplane.com/bucket-list/
and i'm looking for fun things to add to it.
i would say as a car guy a trip to the nurburgring is an absolute must!
Apr 4, 2014, 4:18 pm
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It's great to see someone else having dream destinations based on postage stamps. I collected stamps as a kid and that probably has something to do with some of my wanderlust.
A couple places with unique stamps that inspired me as a kid to make me want to visit someday are:
Bhutan (awesome big metal foil stamps)
Sharjah (lots of cool triangular stamps)
Anybody else with stamp-collecting as travel inspiration?
A couple places with unique stamps that inspired me as a kid to make me want to visit someday are:
Bhutan (awesome big metal foil stamps)
Sharjah (lots of cool triangular stamps)
Anybody else with stamp-collecting as travel inspiration?
Apr 4, 2014, 4:31 pm
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It's great to see someone else having dream destinations based on postage stamps. I collected stamps as a kid and that probably has something to do with some of my wanderlust.
A couple places with unique stamps that inspired me as a kid to make me want to visit someday are:
Bhutan (awesome big metal foil stamps)
Sharjah (lots of cool triangular stamps)
Anybody else with stamp-collecting as travel inspiration?
A couple places with unique stamps that inspired me as a kid to make me want to visit someday are:
Bhutan (awesome big metal foil stamps)
Sharjah (lots of cool triangular stamps)
Anybody else with stamp-collecting as travel inspiration?
Apr 4, 2014, 6:08 pm
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I have toned mine down substantially, and yet I still find myself slipping further and further behind. Ironically it has more to do with aircraft and flying than with the destinations themselves.
1) Fly Singapore Air in at least Business Class
2) Fly on a A380
3) Fly in a 747 nose seat
4) Fly in a suite (doesn't even need to be overnight)
5) Get back to either the Big Island or Maui
6) See a real German Christmas Market
7) Once more watch a nice evening thunderstorm from a plane
8) See a United Visual Artists installation
9) See the Turkish Airlines Lounge
10) See a World's Fair
Everything else is really just added bonus. Fortunately I think I can knock off several of those with one nice trip if I can manage to save up enough. Alas with my life and pay, that does not seem to be happening quick enough.
1) Fly Singapore Air in at least Business Class
2) Fly on a A380
3) Fly in a 747 nose seat
4) Fly in a suite (doesn't even need to be overnight)
5) Get back to either the Big Island or Maui
6) See a real German Christmas Market
7) Once more watch a nice evening thunderstorm from a plane
8) See a United Visual Artists installation
9) See the Turkish Airlines Lounge
10) See a World's Fair
Everything else is really just added bonus. Fortunately I think I can knock off several of those with one nice trip if I can manage to save up enough. Alas with my life and pay, that does not seem to be happening quick enough.