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Bucket List

I can’t promise the list will not change but this is the list of the places I hope to have seen (and a couple of events) at some point in this so called life.  They are in no particular order (I am not THAT organized) and they are split into those I have checked off, those I partially have checked off, and those pending.

CHECKED OFF

1. Stepping on the murder ground of Tiannamen Square
2. Visiting the tomb of the last Russian imperial family
3. Seeing the Grand Canyon
4. Seeing the Smoky Mountains
5. Hiking in the Rocky Mountains
6. Walking among the giant redwoods in California
7. Partying in New Orleans during Mardi Gras
8. Seeing royal Granada, Spain
9. Visiting the Mezquita de Córdoba in Spain
10. Getting to the tip of the continental US in Key West
11. Visiting Sevilla’s cathedral and La Giralda
12. Enjoying a world expo
13. Eating Cuban food in the heart of Miami
14. Exploring the capital of the U.S.:  Washington DC
15. Riding up the St. Louis Arch
16. Seeing Rio from the Corcovado, Brazil
17. Riding a feluca down the Nile, Egypt
18. Walking on the Great Wall of China
19. Admiring the Parthenon
20. Stepping into the Roman Colosseum
21. Walking into the basilica in El Valle de los Caidos, Spain
22. Remembering in the shores of Normandy
23. Admiring Mt. St. Michel, France
24. Experiencing Amsterdam – the PG-13 version!
25. Walking up the Eiffel Tower
26. Sipping wine at Paris cafés
27. Seeing Sydney harbour and the Opera
28. Enjoying a massage in Hong Kong
29. Watching a ship cross the Panama Canal
30. Sipping a gin & tonic by Lake Victoria
31. Going to Zanzibar
32. Skiing in the Andes
33. Admiring colonial and colossal Lima
34. Walking around Old San Juan
35. Going up the Empire State Building
36. Honoring victims of the Nazis at a concentration camp
37. Sampling wine country in California
38. Sampling wine country in Mendoza
39. Sampling wine country in South Africa
40. Exploring and enjoying wine and food in Tuscany
41. Seeing Florence
42. Gambling in the casino in Monaco
43. Sitting at the beach in the Cote d’Azur
44. Driving around Switzerland
45. Driving around the Austrian Alps
46. One third of the great falls:  Niagara Falls
47. Eating a great meal and gelato in Eternal Rome
48. Seeing the World Trade Center in NYC
49. Living in unique Paris
50. Walking around historical London
51. Exploring the Atacama desert
52. Drinking a glass of wine at night in front of St. Mark’s cathedral in Venice and riding a gondola
53. Visiting Scandinavia:  Finland, Sweden and Norway
54. Walking around imperial Vienna
55. Seeing Salzburg
56. Seeing where Pope John Paul II was born and historic Krakow
57. Eating steak and fries paired by a glass of wine in Buenos Aires
58. Touching the Great Pyramids
59. Riding a camel in Egypt
60. Seeing King Tut’s tomb’s riches
61. Drinking beers in Heidelberg
62. Seeing the Treasury in Petra
63. Visiting the Hagia Sophia and the mosques of Istanbul
64. Getting to Alaska
65. Sipping tea at the grand bazaar in Cairo
66. Seeing St. Catherine’s monastery and the burning bush in the Sinai
67. Stepping on Gibraltar
68. Watching the botafumeiro at Santiago de Compostela’s medieval cathedral
69. Hearing Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome
70. Seeing the Scavi under St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome
71. Visiting the chateaux in the Loire Valley
72. Seeing the wine making areas of Bordeaux
73. Doing language immersion somewhere in Europe
74. Admiring La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona
75. Seeing the 12 Apostles by helicopter in Australia
76. Getting to Tasmania
77. Gawking in awe at Machu Picchu
78. Exploring New Zealand
79. Going to Patagonia
80. Visiting El Escorial in Spain
81. Visiting Versailles in France
82. Visiting the Hermitage/Winter Palace in St. Petersburg
83. Spectating at a Summer Olympics
84. Walking the streets of San Francisco
85. Walking around colonial Philadelphia and Boston
86. Seeing colonial Williamsburg and Jamestown, VA
87. Going to a World Series game
88. Driving to the Cape of Good Hope and going up Table Mountain in SA
89. Cruising off the coast of Alaska
90. Driving the Amalfi Coast
91. Seeing history around Mt Vesuvius & Pompeii
92. Trying not to rush through the Sistine Chapel
93. Skiing Vail

PARTIALLY CHECKED OFF

1. Seeing the ex-Baltic SSRs:  Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania
2. Checking off tiny Andorra, San Marino &  Liechtenstein
3. Sunning in the Greek Isles (Hydra, Mykonos, Santorini)
4. Going around the former Yugoslavia: Belgrade, Sarajevo, Zagreb, Lubjlana & Slovenian Alps, Split, Dubrovnik, Mostar, Kotor, Macedonia

PENDING

1. Skiing in the Alps
2. Skiing in the Canadian Rockies
3. Skiing in Iran
4. Enjoying the cuisine at San Sebastian and Bilbao in Spain
5. Visiting all the places in Cuba where family lived
6. Experiencing the Holy Land
7. Seeing Prague
8. Seeing Moscow’s St. Basil Cathedral and the Kremlin
9. Going up the Statue of Liberty
10. Seeing an ex-SSR ”Stan”
11. Checking out Greenland
12. Crossing Siberia by train
13. Sampling wine country in Oregon
14. Enjoying the Ice Wine  Festival in Niagara-by-the-Falls
15. Attending a Green Bay Packer’s game while it is snowing
16. Visiting the White House (NOT living there)
17. Seeing Mongolia’s vastness
18. Seeing ancient ruins in Syria
19. Seeing ancient ruins in Libya
20. Checking out one of the oddest countries during the Cold War:  Albania
21. Seeing the DMZ between the Koreas (from a distance, I suppose!)
22. Trekking around Romania’s Transylvanian hills & countryside
23. Living the wildlife in Botswana’s Okavango delta
24. Seeing Namibia’s coastal deserts
25. Driving around Western Cape, SA
26. Being photographed at the Taj Mahal
27. Visiting Brugge, Belgium
28. One third of the great falls:  Victoria Falls
29. One third of the great falls:  Iguazu Falls
30. Checking out northeast coastal Brazil
31. Stepping into the Cologne Cathedral
32. Seeing imperial Aachen, Germany
33. Entering the happy kingdom of Bhutan
34. Going up to Nepal
35. Seeing the length of Vietnam
36. Driving around Iceland
37. Seeing Mt Athos, even if from afar
38. Visiting Lhasa, Tibet
39. Seeing Meteora, Greece
40. Exploring Mali
41. Exploring Ethiopia
42. Navigating the fjords of Norway and coastal towns
43. Northern forests in Sweden
44. Driving around Ireland
45. Driving around Portugal
46. Walking part of the Camino in NW Spain
47. Getting to know the Basque  country
48. Visiting the Canary Islands
49. Living the life in the lake district  in northern Italy
50. Checking out Quebec City
51. Relaxing in Hawaii
52. Touching Antarctica

You more of a visual type?  Well here is my still-to-do bucket list in pictures!  http://pinterest.com/ilivetotravel/bucket-list/