Everyone should have a bucket list, things you want to see or do in your lifetime. Even if it’s just a visit to a local attraction you’ve always wanted to see, summiting a mountain that’s practically in your back yard, or planning that long forgotten vacation you’re always too busy to take – make time, do it!

Here are a few things on our bucket list that we’d most like to do, and we’re ticking them off whenever we can.

If it’s in green italics, we’ve accomplished it, but it doesn’t mean we don’t want to do it again.  That’s the problem with travel; once you get a taste for it, it’s a hard habit to give up.

1 – Snorkel in the warm waves with sea turtles

2 – Sky dive before I die (without it being the cause of my death)

3 – Buy Oru kayaks

4 – Ride horses through Idaho’s Sawtooth Range

5 – Hike the Annapurna Circuit over Thorung La Pass in the Himalayas

6 – Camp beneath the shadow of the Matterhorn

7 – Wave to musher Jeff King during Alaska’s 1100+ mile Iditarod Sled Dog Race

8 – Stand in the pounding spray of Argentina & Brazil’s Iguazú Falls

9 – Tour Mayan ruins under the watchful eye of machine-gun-toting guards

10 – Survive a fierce summer thunderstorm in our tiny tent in Romania’s Carpathian mountains

11 – Ride an Icelandic pony because it would be really, really fun

12 – Backpack through the Australian Outback

13 – See a Patagonian puma in the wild

14 – Ice fish with adorable local school children in the Arctic

15 – Float in the Black Sea

16 – Go on a solo camping trip by myself – nobody to save my hide if I forget the gas canister for the camp stove or read the map upside down and get lost.

17 – Ride a camel in the desert

18 – Sip fancy cocktails from a sky-rise along Shanghai’s Bund District

19 – Spend a night in the Hoia Baciu Haunted Forest of Romania

20 – Kayak the coast of Kauai in the Hawaiian Islands

21 – Fly in a glider

22 – Float the Danube River from Germany to the Black Sea

23 – Tour Germany’s Neuschwanstein Castle, the original Disney castle

24 – Stand next to live lava anywhere we can find it

25 – Snorkel the Great Barrier Reef in Australia

26- Summit South Sister in Oregon’s Cascade Mountain Range

27 – Fly in a helicopter (Trav still needs to do this one though)

28 – Kayak a Norwegian fjord

29 – Hike through an ice cave inside France’s Mer de Glace Glacier

30 – Convince Trav that he wants to hike the famous Pacific Crest Trail (I figure I’m 1/3 of the way there.)

31 – Hike the Pacific Crest Trail, whining through all of southern California

32 – Zip-line off the Great Wall of China at Simatai

33 – Soak in Iceland’s geothermal Blue Lagoon

34 – Drive the entire Alaska Highway

35 – Marry the love of my life and my best friend – a funny, smart, and very sweet guy I’ve known since the 5th grade

36 – Fall asleep in an ice dome beneath the Northern Lights

37 – Spend a weekend in Paris visiting the Eiffel Tower and following in the footsteps of Carrie’s favorite author, Victor Hugo

38 – Feast on sumptuous barracuda from the Caribbean on Belize’s Caye Caulker

39 – Sleep in a glass-bottomed hut in Mo’orea, French Polynesia

40 – Hike among the ice-blue lakes of Plitvice National Park in Croatia

41 – Stand beneath the jagged peaks of Chile’s Torres del Paine

42 – Watch the sun set at a beach bonfire on the Pacific Coast

43 – Stand on top of the Kjeragbolten in Norway

44 – Walk the legendary halls of Bran Castle, Vlad the Impaler’s home (aka “Dracula”)

45 – Learn how to actually roll a whitewater kayak

46 – Be a kid again at Disneyland

47 – Sleep in a treehouse in Oregon (Out ‘n’ About Treehouse Treesort)

48 – Visit with a friendly, chirping Harpy eagle in the rainforest

49 – Hike Italy’s colorful Cinque Terre and kayak the Amalfi Coast

50 – Visit every national park in the United States.  This is actually probably #1 on our bucket list.  We’ve visited the ones marked with blue pins but still need to visit the yellow ones.

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