Bucket List

I have a list of countries I want to go to, but I started thinking about the actual things I wanted to do in my life on the plane ride from Lisbon to Miami and came up with these. Some of them I have accomplished, but there are still so many things to do!


Dirigible flight over the Amazon
Camel ride in the desert
Archaeology dig in Egypt
Riverboat (steam or wind) cruise up/down the Nile (see pyramids)
Climb to Everest Base Camp (Nepal)
Ride ponies in Mongolia; stay in a ger
Work as a Miko at a Japanese Temple; go to an onsen
Walk (or work) on Antarctica
Dogsled in Greenland; stay in an igloo
Safari in Africa
Climb Mt. Kilamanjaro
See animals in Madagascar
Hot air balloon in Turkey
Outback trip in Austrailia
Explore Angkor Wat in Cambodia
Ride in a boat in the Vietnamese floating market; drink coffee overlooking the market
Go to Easter Island and the Galapagos Islands
Climb Machu Picchu in Peru
Fly in the Sofia anti-gravity plane
Stay in a Scottish Castle in the Highlands in Winter
Walk the Great Wall of China
Take a submersible underwater; stay in an underwater hotel
Watch a Shakespearean Play in the Globe Theater
See the Pope
✓Go to a training by the Dali Lama
✓Go to Burningman
✓Go to a rave at NASA (Yuri's Night)
✓Work for a Japanese Company
✓Work on Wall Street
✓Work at a museum
✓Work as a teacher (teaching certificate)
✓Live oversees (Netherlands and France)
Work at SpaceX/NASA
✓Go to grad school (MSc Organic Agriculture and MSc Agroecology)
Ride the Orient Express
Ride the Trans Siberian Railway
See Stonehenge
Go to the Azores in Portugal (Where my family is from)
✓Go to Lisboa, Portugal (Where my family is from)
✓Go to Budapest, Hungary (Where my family is from)
✓Participate in a protest rally (Free Tibet-Chinese Olympics)
✓See Sir Derek Jacobi perform live (BAM theater-King Lear)
✓Travel the world (10 countries in EU down!)
Train to work on Mars (Astronaut training)
Get published (scientific article)
See a Mozart Concert in Vienna
See a Bullfight in Spain
Stay in Hobbiton and walk on a glacier
✓Work in a castle
Work on a farm (animals)

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