Some trips are planned, others just happen. Whether it's an on-a-whim getaway, attending a destination wedding or doing charity work abroad, impromptu trips are fun and exhilarating. Half my trips fall into the planned category, the other half into the impromptu category. There is a time and place for both.
An exercise which can help focus our travel, is to create a bucket list---or list of places we want to see and activities we want to do in our lifetime. Travel planning is a good exercise because it forces us to think about where we want to go and why in advance, so when the opportunity comes up, we can take off!
Here is my Travel Bucket List. What's yours?
- stay in a glass-bottom, over-water hut in french polynesia
snorkel the great barrier reefand visit fraser island in australia [partly done & would do more]- bungee jump and sheer a sheep in new zealand
do a safari in africa[done & would do again]- learn to kite-board in the dominican republic or somewhere hot
take a spontaneous trip: as in decide on fri, leave on sat to hawaii for a weekend[done]- ski in the alps
- go on royal caribbean's oasis or allure of the seas ships: zipline over the top deck and surf on the flowrider
do a jungle trek up machu picchu[done]- sip coffee, learn spanish and dance in buenos aires
- travel everywhere in
italy[partly done, a lot to go] - see brazil's rainforest
- stay at the one&only in mauritius
- go dolphin-watching in the maldives
- island-hop in the seychelles
- rent a scooter in greece
- go on a summer whitewater rafting trek in Northern Canada
- mush a dog sled
climb part of the great wall of china- spend a romantic day in
paris- toasting champagne at the top of the eiffel tower & kissing under bridges on a seine tour [partly done] - tour south east asia
- marvel at the architecture and design & partake in public saunas in scandinavia
- visit wineries in bordeaux
- taste more wine in
napa[done & would like to go back] - visit wineries in BC's okanagan [done, but would like to go back]
- visit wineries in washington and oregon
- skate at rockefeller & watch the rockettes in NYC
- stay in an ice hotel during quebec's carnaval
- sit in a thermal bath in iceland
spend canada day in Ottawa and tour the maritimes[done, but much more to see]- attend the following euro festivals: San Fermin, Tomatina and Oktoberfest
- see the pyramids and sphinx in Egypt
- float in the dead sea
- see alaska
- watch the aurora borealis from canada's north
- visit the following areas in cali: pismo beach, la jolla, coronado beach, mission beach
- storm watch at tofino's wickaninnish inn
- visit these hidden tropical hideaways