The Travel and Adventure List
As I was reading Destinations of a Lifetime: 225 of the World’s Most Amazing Places
, I got inspired to do a travel and adventure list as a goal for me & Peter to complete (well, mostly me, but Peter’s up for the ride sometimes). This post aims to hold us accountable to the things we want to do and we’ll scratch them off once we’re done with it. As our life is constantly changing and giving us more motivation to do more things, we’ll continuously add (or remove) from the list. We also included some financial goals as well, as this is a travel, adventure, leisure & finance blog! Feel free to suggest more things that we can do in the comments below and we may just add it to our list!
The Travel & Adventure List
- Learn how to ride a bicycle (Ruby)
- Swim with sharks (Ruby)
Get PADI certified (Ruby)(June 2016)Skydive(Palatka, Florida, 2015). Indoor Skydive (iFly Orlando January 2016) (Ruby)Hang gliding(Ruby) (May 2016)Swim with Manatees(Crystal River, Florida, 2015) – (Peter & Ruby)Feed a kangaroo(Busch Gardens, 2015) – (Ruby)Feed a giraffe(July 17, 2016) – (Ruby)Feed a goat(Bojnice Zoo, April 2016) – (Ruby)- Swim with pigs in the (Big Major Cay) Bahamas (Ruby)
- Go to All Disney Parks: (Ruby)
Walt Disney World’s Epcot, Magic Kingdom, Animal Kingdom, Hollywood Studios,(2014 Florida season passholder)Hong Kong Disneyland (2009, 2010)- Disneyland California
- Euro Disney (Paris)
- Tokyo Disneyland & Disney Sea
- Shanghai Disneyland
- Write for an established magazine or newspaper, online or offline
- Easter Island
- Galapagos Islands
- See the Military Tattoo in Edinburgh
- Hogmanay, Scotland
New Years in Times Square (January 1, 2014)(Ruby)- Bungee Jump
Trapeze Lessons (2015)(Ruby)Got Engaged in a Castle(Bratislava, Devin Castle April 2015)- Iceland
- Greenland
- New Zealand
- Bolivia Salt Flats (Salar de Uyuni)
- Machu Picchu, Peru
- Great Wall of China, Beijing
- Pyramids of Egypt
- African Safari
- Go on a cruise
- Grow our net worth (excluding the house)
$100,000 Net Worth$250,000 Net Worth (Sept 2017)- $500,000 Net Worth
- $1,000,000 Net Worth
- $1,250,000 Net Worth (Financially Independent!!)
- See humpback whales in Hawaii
- See the seals/sea lions in California (not sure what they are) – (Ruby). Peter can already safely scratch this off his list.
- Drive through the Great Pacific Highway (Ruby) — Peter already scratched this off his list but willing to do it again with me
- Paraglide
- See the mountain gorillas in Uganda
Cuba before it gets too commercialized(February 2017)- North Korea before it opens up to the world
- Hang Son Doong, Vietnam
- Great Barrier Reef
- The Whitsundays
- Coney Island
Drive across the 7 mile bridge in the Florida Keys(Sept 2016)Sunset at Mallory Square, Key West(Sept 2016)- See the Olympics
World Cup(Brazil June 2014)Euros(June 2016)Go to an all-inclusive resort(Hyatt Zilara Montego Bay February 2016)- Visit all 7 continents
- Visit all 50 US States
Snowboard(Korea February 2013)See Snow(South Korea February 2013, New York City 2015 & 2016)- Ski
- Snowshoe
- Watch a space launch at Cape Canaveral
- Day of the Dead in Mexico
- Sleep in a castle/palace
- Visit at least 70% of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites
- Go to the Amazon River & see piranhas & pink dolphins
- Go up a hot air balloon
Climb up the Statue of Liberty’s Crown(January 17, 2016)Climb up the Washington Monument(May 2015)- Do a Route 66 roadtrip
- Go to Rabbit (Okunoshima) Island, Japan
- Komodo Island, Indonesia
- Laos & Myanmar: to complete Ruby’s South East Asia list (exception of East Timor)
Swim with dolphins(Marineland February 2016)- Ride a helicopter
Ride a horse(Amelia Island Sept 2015)Everglades(Airboat May 2016)- Antarctica Cruise
- Arctic Circle
Journey through Alaska (especially Denali National Park)Own a home(July 17, 2015); Owned Second Home aka rental property (October 14, 2016)Grand Canyon(May 2015)- Carnival in Rio de Janeiro/Brazil
Mardi Gras – New Orleans(February 2014)Chichen Itza, Mexico(February 2015) *this was a dream of Ruby’s as a kid- Coba & Tulum, Mexico
Swim in a cenote(February 2015)Stonehenge(June 2008)Angkor Wat/Killing Fields, Cambodia(February 2013)- Read a certain number of books (based on my Goodreads account): digital, audio, or print copies suffice
- 500 books
- 1,000 books
- 2,500 books
- 5,000 books
- 10,000 books
- Cinque Terre, Italy
Neuschwanstein & Hohenschwangau, Germany(April 2015)- Go to Vatican City & see the Pope
- Tibet
- Nepal
- Bhutan
- St Petersburg & Moscow, Russia
- Loire Valley, France
- Visit all the castles/national monuments in Slovakia
- Visit all the castles/national monuments in Czech Republic
- Scenic train through Canada
- Sandboard
- Transylvania, Romania
- Gondola ride in Venice
- Patagonia
Set foot on a glacier(Mer de Glace, Switzerland, June 2016)- See the terra cotta warriors in Xian, China
- Bora-Bora, Seychelles, Maldives, Tahiti, Fiji, Mauritius
- Build our own travel company netting
- $100/month
- $200/month
- $500/month
- $1,000/month
- $5,000/month
- $10,000/month
- Jerusalem Pilgrimage
Swim & interact with stingrays in Cayman Islands(September 2017)- See the pink sand beaches of Bermuda
- Visit 80% of the US National Parks
- Swim in the Dead Sea
- Boat tour at Seal Island, South Africa (if it’s even possible)
- Interact with wild horses at Assateague Island, USA (Maryland/Virginia)
- Aoshima Island Japan (so.many.cats)
- Northern Lights
24 Hour Sunlight(Alaska 2017)- Swim with whales in Tonga
- See the brown bears of Katmai National Park, Alaska
- See the polar bears in Barrow, Alaska
If you’ve made it through this far, thanks for sticking with us! As we said, this list will just keep growing and growing as we keep scratching things off one by one (slowly but surely). Thank you for sticking with us, and hopefully we’ll all make our dreams & goals come true! If you see a link in a crossed out goal, it will lead you to a blog post of that particular experience or related to it. Feel free to tell us any new ideas or what your goals are in the comments below!