While I wrote myself a bucket list post earlier this year, I decided to make a longer list to serve as an actual personal bucket list that I look back at to remember my adventures and look forward to as I plan new ones.

It’s a worldwide bucket list of specific activities and things to see, do, and eat, not just countries because lets be real, I just want to see them all. But visiting every country isn’t on my bucket list. I want to see all the things but it’s not one of the things I need to do or think I would even be able to.

Even though I’m just writing this out now, I’m adding some things I’ve already done (those are the bolded items) that would otherwise be on this list if I hadn’t already done them. There are also a few general life goals that aren’t travel related at the end.

This may be my personal bucket list but I also love making bucket lists (I have so many more in my drafts), which keeps this list constantly growing and changing. You can find all of those right here:

Bucket list posts

Travel bucket list

• Snorkel in the Florida springs
• Learn to free dive
• See whales in the wild
• See polar bears in Churchill, Manitoba
• Kayak with Beluga Whales
• See the Solstice Snake
• See Macaws at Macaw Mountains reserve in Honduras
• Find a Junonia shell
• See a kakapo IRL
• See a kiwi bird IRL
• See the Pyramids
• Go volcano boarding in Nicaragua
• Eat all the pastries in Paris
• See the Big 5 on an African safari
• See the Baobab trees in Madagascar
• See the Dragon Blood trees in Yemen
• Sail from the San Blas Islands to Colombia
• Do an overland trip through Central Asia
• Ride a horse in Mongolia
• Go to all the themed restaurants in Japan
• Visit Nova Scotia
• Visit Prince Edward Island
• See a Florida panther in the wild
• Visit Venezuela
• See a mountain lion in the wild
• Drive the whole Blue Ridge Parkway
• Visit the 63 US National Parks (32/63)
• Camp at Cayo Costa State Park in Florida
• Trek the Himalayas in Nepal
• Visit the Aokigahara Forest
• Eat sushi in Japan
• Learn Italian
• Ride the Transiberian Railway
• Visit Antarctica
• See moose in the wild
• Trek Patagonia
• Fly into Jackson Hole
• Stargaze in the Atacama Desert
• See pink dolphins in the Amazon
• Join a Tamandua Expeditions trip
• Spend the night in a castle in Ireland
• Island hop in the South Pacific
• Stay in an overwater bungalow in the Maldives
• Take the ferry from Ft. Lauderdale to the Bahamas
• Take the seaplane to Dry Tortugas National Park
• Visit Boquillas, Mexico from Big Bend National Park
• Do a fully ghost-themed/haunted road trip
• Do a fall New England road trip
• Read Nordic Noir in Scandanavia
• See lava up close
• Visit the glowworm cave in New Zealand
• See the Darien Gap
• Zipline where it all began, Monteverde, Costa Rica
• Hike the volcanos, see the wildlife, and explore the jungles of Costa Rica
• Experience the vastness (and towns) of Greenland
• Experience midnight sun in Iceland
• Road trip the Ring Road and everything in between in Iceland
• See a lemur in the wild
• Eat olives in Greece
• See Dallol in Ethiopia
• Backpack Central America (again)
• Backpack South America
• Visit Chernobyl
• Visit North Korea
• See puffins in the Faroe Islands
• Trek to Machu Picchu
• Eat everything in Italy
• See cherry blossoms in Japan
• Go on a hot air balloon ride
• Go dog sledding
• Go caving (in a squeezy cave)
• Go to an All Blacks rugby game
• Climb/camp on Volcan Acatenango in Guatemala
• Climb Volcan Telica in Nicaragua
• Eat my way through New Orleans
• Do a ghost tour in Charleston, South Carolina
• Buy a Nancy Drew book at Books on Bay in Savannah, Georgia
• Relax on the beach in the Seychelles
• Eat key lime pie in Florida
• Drive the whole Pacific Coast Highway
• Ride the train through Copper Canyon in Mexico
• Camp at White Sands National Park during a full moon
• Road trip New Zealand in a camper van
• Relax on the beaches of Zanzibar
• Experience the Okavango Delta in Botswana
• Drive the PanAmerican Highway
• Visit all 50 states (33/50)
• Ride a felucca down the Nile
• Visit Mexico City
• See a sunfish in the wild
• Find a horse conch shell
• Read a book in the location it takes place
• See all the great lakes
• Hike to Havasu Falls in Arizona
• Experience the Namibian Desert
• See a saguaro cactus
• Visit the Winchester Mystery House
• Experience Salem, MA in the fall
• See colorful Guanajuato, Mexico
• See Sequoia/Redwood trees
• Hike between villages in Cinque Terre, Italy
• Visit the Galapagos Islands
• See Blue Footed Boobys
• See the Palenque Ruins in Mexico
• Drive Australia’s Great Ocean Road
• Visit the 24 hour bookstore in Taipei
• See a sloth in the wild
• See Quokkas IRL
• Go back to the markets of Guatemala
• See capybaras in the Amazon
• Stay at Giraffe Manor in Kenya
• Visit the Lalibela churches in Ethiopia
• Celebrate Chinese New Year in Taiwan at the Pingxi Lantern Festival
• Climb the Great Wall of China
• Visit Beijing
• See the Mosques of Iran
• Visit Everglades City and Big Cypress in the summer
• Eat stinky tofu in Taiwan
• Visit all seven continents (5/7)

General life bucket list/goals

• Build a house in western North Carolina
• Blog full-time
• Get a pet bird
• Adopt a black cat
• Read every book I own
• Own a monstera plant
• Take a stained glass class
• Take a ceramics class
• Own a pair of Christian Louboutins
• Learn to make perfect macarons
• Learn to knit socks
• Try making soap
• Try making candles
• Start composting
• Live as zero waste as possible
• Try making my own paper
• Make my own watercolor paints
• Have a successful garden
• Pay off all my debt
• Start urban sketching

Have you done any of these things? Which ones? What is on your travel bucket list? What about your personal life goals bucket list?