My Bucket List (updated and still subject to change)

Hope you enjoyed reliving the top five posts of Adventure Patches from its first five years.

For my second celebratory post, I am sharing my updated bucket list. When I first posted it in 2010, I said it was subject to change, and it has. Since then some things have fallen off the list and others have climbed the list. This updated version is 100 items long. When I wrote my bucket list the first time, I had already had some amazing adventures that probably would have been on the list had I not already done them such as flying in a hot air balloon, visiting Australia and climbing to the crown of the Statue of Liberty. So, I’ve added them to this.

As before this list is subject to change, and I’m sure I’ve left things off. I ask for your suggestions for how to accomplish these things, especially if you have done them. Anyway, here is my updated bucket list in no particular order of importance:

Step foot on all 7 continents
Be mesmerized in Alhambra
Visit all 50 states
Walk on Antarctica
Witness the Aurora Borealis
Australia!
Visit the Crocodile Hunter’s wildlife park in Queensland, Australia
Ascend to the top of Ayers Rock
Experience the sights and sounds of Bali
Go through Checkpoint Charlie, under the Brandenburg Gate and see Berlin united
Write a book
Follow the Freedom Trail and explore Boston
Look down from the Burj Khalifa
Take a camel trek
Fly through the trees on a canopy tour in the Amazon or Costa Rica
Examine the details of China’s 4 major Buddhist grottoes
Experience Cuba
Take a river cruise down the Danube
Trek through Denali National Park and take a whale cruise through Alaskan Waters
Gaze into the blank stare of the Maoi on Easter Island
Ride and elephant through the wilderness of India
Be overshadowed by Mount Everest
Experience the Everglades
Explore by land and sea Fiordland National Park in New Zealand
Visit the Forbidden City
Be Surrounded by the Walls of Fujian Tulou
Explore the Galapagos Islands
Gawk at Gaudi’s Architecture
Attend General Conference in the Conference Center
Walk the Giant’s Causeway
Explore the great pyramids of Giza and other Egyptian wonders
Hike into the Grand Canyon
Walk on the Great Wall of China
Be edified at Hagia Sophia
See Buddha in heroic form throughout Asia
Participate in the Hill Cumorah Pageant with my family
Experience the Holy Land including Mount Sinai, Jerusalem, the River Jordan and Sea of Galilee
Get immersed in Hong Kong
Fly in a hot air balloon
Revisit the land of my mission, Hungary, and see old friends and explore
Explore Iceland
Feel the spray of Iguazu Falls
Stand in awe of the beauty of Tehran and Iran
See the crack in the Liberty Bell
Stand in reverence in Independence Hall
Wander London
Hike through Machu Picchu
Explore the Mayan temples of Central America
Smile back at the Mona Lisa
Visit the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve in Mexico
Explore Morocco
Climb Mount Kilauea and visit lava flows and see a black sand beach
Have at least one of my photos published in National Geographic
Look down on the Nazca Lines
Get intimate with NYC
Go to the Olympics, summer and winter, and attend the opening and closing ceremonies or help plan them
Visit One WTC and 9/11 Memorial
Be educated at Oxford and walk the corridors of Cambridge
Gaze upon “Paradise Falls” at Mount Roraima
Gaze upon Paris from the top of the Eiffel Tower and while I’m at it visit Notre Dame
Ponder the great philosophers of Greece at the Parthenon
Prance through Patagonia
Visit Petra in Jordan
Publish a collection of poetry
Explore Prague
Watch a president’s inauguration from close enough to the Capitol Building that I can see their faces
Walk through Red Square in Moscow
Explore the architectural wonders of Rome
Take a safari in Kenya and see Mount Kilimanjaro in nearby Tanzania and maybe hike it
Visit Salzburg, Austria and maybe sing at the top of my lungs in a green meadow in the Alps
See San Fran from the Golden Gate and explore the hilly city
Gaze up at the mighty sequoias and redwoods
Take in Singapore
Investigate all of the Smithsonian museums
Visit South Africa and maybe go in a shark cage with great whites all around
Visit Southeast Asia and see beautiful remnants of ages past
Explore St. Petersburg
Climb to the crown of the statue of Liberty
Walk amongst the monoliths of Stonehenge
Tour the Sydney Opera House
Be amazed by the Taj Mahal
Visit all LDS temples
Visit the Terracotta Warriors
Experience the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade from the grandstand
Show reverence at Thorvaldsen’s original Christus and 12 apostles
Visit Tibet and the Potala Palace
See a lowland gorilla, chimpanzee and tiger in the wild
Ride the Trans-Siberian Railroad from Vladivostok to Moscow
Hike in Utah’s National Parks
Visit the Vatican and maybe see the Pope
Ride a gondola through the canals of Venice
See and opera in the coliseum in Verona, Italy
Go inside the White House and see the Oval Office
Visit the most significant historical, cultural and natural sites in the world inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List
Appreciate the works of America’s greatest architect, Frank Lloyd Wright
Walk the steps of my ancestors at Historic Pioneer Sites in Wyoming
Explore the wonders of the world’s first national park
Say a prayer in Muir’s cathedral – Yosemite Valley
See the “Floating Mountains” of ZhangJiaJie
Be mesmerized by the colorful Zhangye Danxia Landform Geological Park in China