Do You Have a Bucket List?

If you want to stay steady and solid on the path to adventure then never, ever be without a bucket list. Keep that list close to your heart and close at hand so you don’t become side tracked on the adventure of life. Don’t get overwhelmed with it, look at it as an amazing road map for life and do them one at a time. Remember to keep the main thing the main thing.

We recommend also keeping a vision board where you can look at it every day. More on that here.

Looking for some ideas? Here are a hundred to get you started. We used these three criteria for the list below, but use whatever works for you. All of the adventures on the following bucket list have one or more of the following:

• Are epic in scope or history
• Have a physical component
• Have an unsure outcome

Ready For 101 Bucket List Ideas?

1. Photograph the Northern Lights
2. Overnight in a blind during the Platte River sand hill crane migration
3. Snorkel alongside the largest fish in the ocean, the epic whale shark gathering in Isla Mujeres, Mexico
4. Watch the sunrise from the roof of Africa, on the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro
5. Feel the pounding under your feet during the wildebeest migration
6. Up close and personal with elephants and giraffes in the wild
7. Break the sound barrier on a military jet
8. Drive a 747 on the tarmac (one of Carin’s biggest dreams)
9. Dive with whales
10. Scuba Dive the Sardine Run, the greatest shoal on earth
11. Skydive
12. Ski to the South Pole
13. Extended Mendoza, Argentina wine tasting extravaganza
14. Stumble along the Jalisco Tequila trail
15. Overnight in one of the ice hotels
16. Dog sled the Kamchatka Peninsula
17. Come face to face with a polar bear
18. Drive across the USA with your dog and your tent
19. Hike one (or all!) of the great trails, Appalachian, Pacific Crest, Continental Divide
20. Cycle coast to coast
21. Drive the Trans-Canadian Highway
22. See Old Faithful – in the winter
23. Sail across an ocean
24. Scuba dive with sharks (preferably BIG ones)
25. Ride a gondola in Venice (ok, this one is for the romantics)
26. Cross the Sahara (Land Rover or Camel, who cares?)
27. See the Taj Mahal
28. Hear a choir in one of the great cathedrals
29. Drive on a Ferrari Test Track
30. Summit the Grand Teton
31. Raft the Grand Canyon
32. Hike Rim to Rim at the Grand Canyon
33. Walk on the Great Wall (if we only could walk the whole thing)
34. See ancient Egypt
35. Transit the Panama Canal
36. Transit the Suez Canal
37. Walk Trans-Darien in Panama
38. Hike the Annapurna Circuit in Nepal
39. Make a pilgrimage, hike the Camino de Santiago de Compostela in Spain
40. Experience the endemism of the Galapagos Islands
41. Ski (or kite ski!) across Greenland
42. Go to the North Pole
43. Go into Space
44. Ride in a research submarine
45. See the Titanic (not the movie!)
46. Participate in a multi day cattle drive (okay, well, we live in the West)
47. Attend a Pro Sports Camp
48. Attend a Pro Music Camp
49. Take an around the world cruise
50. Take yourself RTW (Round The World)
51. Paddle the Amazon
52. Mountain bike the Continental Divide Trail
53. See Andrea Bocelli in concert at an Italian Palazzo
54. Join the Peace Corps
55. Build an Orphanage
56. Adopt a child from overseas
57. Spend a year working an adventure job
58. Travel for one year with your children
59. Hitchhike for a summer without a plan
60. Camp for a summer without a plan
61. Climb all the 14‘ers in Colorado
62. Live for a month on a deserted island
63. Live in an Ashram in India
64. Dive the Andrea Doria
65. Spend a summer working on a cattle/sheep ranch
66. Live in another country for one year
67. Be a total ski bum for a winter season in Chili
68. Hike Patagonia
69. Ride with a storm chaser
70. Fly an ultralight
71. See a volcano erupting
72. Spend a day with your celebrity crush
73. Be in a movie
74. Climb the Seven Summits
75. Climb all fourteen 8000 meter peaks
76. Swim the English Channel
77. Bag a first ascent
78. Do Peyote with a true Native American (okay, maybe not)
79. Ski a first descent
80. Jump a train
81. Drive with a trucker on the Ice Road
82. Become fluent in a language other than your native tongue
83. Drive a Formula One car
84. Drive a Nascar
85. Hike to Everest Base Camp
86. Publish a book
87. Do a walking safari in Africa
88. Overland London to Cape Town
89. Bicycle from Alaska to Ushuaia
90. Hike the Mother Road (Route 66)
91. Balloon the Masai Mara or Loire Valley
92. Run a Marathon
93. Go to Antarctica (right now….it rocks)
94. Hike the Inca Trail
95. Enter the Rickshaw Run in India (this adventure tops them all!)
96. Break a Guinness World Record
97. Ride the Trans Siberian Train all the way across
98. Go over a waterfall in a barrel (really?)
99. Go to every state in the USA
100. Go to every country in the world
101. oh darn! We forgot…..dive under the ice in Antarctica

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