150+ Epic Bucket List Adventures

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Earlier this year, I posted 100 epic bucket list adventures to tackle. I have conquered so much of that list already that I decided to share the next 150 items on my bucket list! While not all of these are adventures per se, they are accomplishments I’d love to make in my lifetime!

If you didn’t catch the first blog post, check that out here.

1. Wade in a cranberry bog
2. Climb to Trolltunga
3. Drive the Extraterrestrial Highway
4. Visit Area 51
5. See a Hobbit house
6. Eat durian
7. Eat foie gras
8. See the crypts under Paris
9. Be a New York Time’s best seller
10. Be in the audience for The Today’s Show
11. See Time’s Square
12. Take my kids to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
13. See the Colosseum
14. Do a boudoir photo shoot
15. Get ordained
16. Do a vow renewal (under the Eiffel Tower!)
17. Haggle in the Grand Bazaar
18. Take a selfie with a camel
19. Smoke a hookah
20. Be naked at a nude beach
21. Do an airboat tour with the family
22. Dive in Bonne Terre Mine
23. Watch someone else give birth
24. Go to the Sky Lantern Festival
25. Stay at the Four Seasons in Bora Bora
26. Run a 5k
27. Shoot a machine gun
28. Fly international first class on Emirates
29. Take a shower on an airplane
30. Stay at the Wynn in Las Vegas
31. See Petra at night and in the morning
32. Pan for gold
33. Sleep in a hostel
34. Stay in an underwater hotel
35. See Mayan ruins
36. Visit 100 UNESCO World Heritage sights
37. Go to all 50 states
38. Visit the Grand Bazaar
39. Sing karaoke
40. Host an event with more than 100 people in attendance
41. Visit a voodoo shop in New Orleans
42. Attend Mardi Gras in New Orleans
43. Sell out a retreat
44. Attend the hot air balloon festival in New Mexico
45. Ride in a hot air balloon over Cappadocia
46. Pull off an epic surprise (showed up at a family gathering in another state – they all cried because they hadn’t seen me in years)
47. Stay at a hotel near Niagara Falls
48. Address the UN
49. See Blue Man Group
    
    

    Get your picture taken after the show!

     

50. Have a perfume custom made for me
51. See Cirque de Soleil
52. Fly a plane
53. Eat whale
54. Eat sheep
55. Visit every continent
56. Visit the British Indian Ocean Territory, which is considered the most difficult place to get to (there’s no commercial transportation to it!)
57. Go out on Skydeck, Chicago
58. Right a capsized sailboat
59. See the Indy 500
60. Stay at The Raj for a 3-day spa retreat with my girlfriends
61. Watch vaux’s swifts at Chapman Elementary chimney in Portland, OR
62. Attend Christmas at the Biltmore Estate
63. Visit a real gold souk and get my daughters necklaces with their names in Arabic
64. Have a girl’s retreat in the Hamptons
65. Eat at the top of the Eiffel Tower
66. Skydive Mount Everest
67. Take a train ride through the Rocky Mountains
68. Explore Angkor Wat, Cambodia
69. Hike Mendenhall Glacier
70. See Lion King on Broadway
71. See Hamilton on Broadway
72. See Phantom of the Opera on Broadway
73. Glass Skywalking around Tianmen Mountain, China
74. Snowkiting in Iceland
75. Breathe in the lavender fields in Provence, France
76. Skycoasting at Royal Gorge Bridge, Colorado
77. Sandboarding in Morocco’s Sahara Desert
78. Snorkel between two continents in Iceland
    
    

    I learned that it’s hard to keep your mouth closed around the mouth piece when they’re numb! And, it’s hard not to want to smile when having your picture taken!

     

79. EdgeWalking at CN Tower in Toronto
80. Become a trained storm spotter
81. Crossing the Trift Suspension Bridge in the Swiss Alps
82. Ride a Hot-Air Balloon over the Serengeti
83. Go to Sturgis Motorcycle Rally
84. Boating in Caddo Lake
85. Stargaze at Arches National Park
86. Explore the ice caves at Apostle Islands
87. Spend a day as a real cowgirl at a dude ranch in Wyoming
88. Take a cruise in Hạ Long Bay, Vietnam
89. Swing at the “end of the world” in Ecuador
90. Walk through the Sagano Bamboo Forest in Japan
91. Walk through Plitvice Lakes in Croatia
92. Hike Machu Picchu
93. Meet wildlife at Galápagos Islands
94. Play poker in Deadwood (I’m a blood descendent of Wild Bill Hickok!)
95. Stay in the Skylodge Adventure Suites in Peru
96. Visit the Shwedagon Pagoda in Burma
97. Cage dive with crocodiles at the Cango Wildlife Ranch in Oudtshoorn, South Africa
98. Swing at the End of the World in Baños, Ecuador
99. See the great wildebeest migration via safari
100. Walk on water at the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia
101. Sandboard in the Atacama Desert
102. Release a candle at Yi Peng Festival in Thailand
103. Drive through the Badlands
104. Hike in Torres del Paine, Chilean Patagonia
105. See Bolivian salt flats
106. Hike Antelope Canyon
107. Swim in Iceland’s Blue Lagoon
108. Fly the Wright Experience in North Carolina
109. Board down an active volcano in Nicaragua
110. Go vertical caving in Yogyakarta, Indonesia
111. Attend Space Camp
112. See ancient Mayan ruins
113. Swim in a cenote
114. Hug a redwood tree
115. Stroll through the markets of Marrakech
116. Hike Monument Valley, Utah
117. Swim in Jellyfish Lake, Palau
118. Surpass 100,000 monthly pageviews on my blog
119. Surpass 500,000 monthly pageviews on my blog
120. Surpass 750,000 monthly pageviews on my blog
121. Surpass 1,000,000 pageviews on my blog
122. Sequence my genome
123. Sleep in a castle
124. Own an island
125. Be on Enterpreneurs on Fire Podcast
126. Win an affiliate competition
127. Have $100,000/mo in passive income
128. Give $100,000 to charity
129. Dig a well
130. Dig a grave
131. Drink a mint julep
132. Take salsa lessons in Havana
133. Visit an authentic Cuban cigar factory
134. Smoke a real Cuban cigar
135. Have a shot of rum in Cuba
136. Do a photoshoot with an old car in Cuba
137. Visit every country in the world
138. Discover a new species
139. Be published in National Geographic
140. Dance in the carnival in Rio
141. Eat rolled ice cream
142. See the Tulum ruins
143. Meet Matt Damon and take a selfie with him
144. Be an extra in a movie
145. Stay at an all-inclusive resort
146. Be in a music video
147. Rent a condo in Maui
148. Own a vacation home in Norway
149. Own a vacation home in Iceland
150. Own a castle
151. Work with NatGeo as an influencer or blogger
152. Take a trip on the Venice Simplon-Orient
153. Be verified on Facebook
154. Be verified on Instagram
155. Be verified on Twitter
156. Surpass 3 million monthly Pinterest views
157. ATV through the jungle
158. Be a UN Peace Ambassador
159. Have a 7-figure launch
160. Have a movie done of my life
161. Stay at Prince Charles’ Zalanpatak
162. Stay at the castle in Zabola
163. Do a thru-hike on each continent
164. Hike the Pacific Crest Trail
165. Hike the Appalachian Trail
166. Be in a documentary 
167. Hike the American Discovery Trail
168. Hike the North Country Trail
169. Hike the Continental Divide Trail
170. Hike the Pacific Northwest National Scenic Trail
171. Hike the Superior Hiking Trail
172. Hike the John Muir Trail
173. Hike the Loyalsock Trail
174. Hike the Toiyabe Crest Trail
175. Hike the Resurrection Pass Trail
176. Hike the West Maroon Pass, Colorado
177. Overland the Mongol Rally
178. Overland through {almost} every country in Africa
179. Walk Spain’s Camino de Santiago
180. Go ziplining 
181. Go on a real scientific expedition
182. Become a #1 bestselling author

Share which ones you’ve done below and what you think should be on this list!

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