the ultimate travel bucket list items for every wanderluster

I am both super excited and super anxious to share this article of bucket list items for travel. Why? I’m excited because I LOVE to travel and I love dreaming of new places to explore, cultures to experience, and trips to plan. (Planning really gets my heart racing. Weird but sue me.) I’m anxious because life is so short and I worry I won’t get to all these places!! Do you ever get anxious about not reaching your life’s dream? Yikes, this just got really deep. Moving on…

These are my personal bucket list items and I plan to add to it as I learn of new places and mark off things as they are accomplished. Hopefully, it can also be an inspiration to you! My goal is to share my experiences and how much travel we’re able to accomplish even while we have full time jobs.

This list was started in the Spring of 2021 to give you an idea of where we started and what we’ve accomplished!

Here are a few things we’ve already done that were on my bucket list:

Yellowstone National Park
Visiting Normandy and the site of the D-Day invasion in France
Visiting the Louvre

Having a beer in Ireland
Studying abroad (I went to Salamanca, Spain)
Swim with sea turtles (St. Maarten, 2017)

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north america

Go leaf peeping in New England
Visit all 63 National Parks (6/63)
Visit Vancouver + road trip to Banff, Jasper, and Kootenai National Parks
Swim with the Manatees in Crystal River in Florida
Experience the culture of Mexico City
Relax on a beach in Tulum, Mexico

Swim in a cenote in Mexico
Go zip lining through the rain forest in Costa Rica
Learn to ski at a ski resort (because I suck really bad at snowboarding, haha)
Visit all 50 states (NC, SC, Georgia, Florida, Virginia, Tennessee, West Virginia, New York, Massachusetts, Maryland, Wyoming, Utah, Montana, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, New Jersey, Alabama, Washington) 22/50
Hike in Hawaii
Snowmobile through Yellowstone National Park in the winter
Visit some major cities: Boston (check), New York (check), San Francisco, Austin (check), Seattle, Portland, Chicago (check), Miami, Nashville (check)
Go whale watching (in Seattle, British Columbia, or Alaska… doesn’t matter to me where!)
Cruise or road trip through Alaska