Featured Photo is #20 on my bucket list

“Once a year go some place you have never been before” — Dalai Lama

Full disclosure: I got this idea from Colleen Kinsey — fellow traveler — I told her I was stealing her idea (to make matters worse: some items on the list are Colleen’s). Colleen never acknowledged my request to steal her idea. Sigh!!

Every time I wipe something off my bucket list, another 5 appear. Here is the short list — missing numbers are completed items.

1.Do a lap at Monza
2.See the Northern Lights in Iceland (went to Iceland in 2016 but no Lights)
3.Go to a baseball game in Cuba
4.Go skydiving
5.Visit the treasury in Petra
6.See the volcano lava flow into the sea in Kalapana, Hawaii (Lava Hike)
7.Go dog mushing
8.See baby turtles hatch and run into the ocean
9.Climb to the top of the Corcovado to see Christ the Redeemer (Rio)
10.Hike around the Galapagos
11.Bungee Jump on the South Island of New Zealand
12.Visit Niagara Falls when it is completely frozen
13.Walk across the Capillano Suspension Bridge in (North) Vancouver
14.Take the Star Ferry across Hong Kong Harbour
15.Down a Singapore Sling at the Raffles Long Bar where it was created
16.Walk the Great Wall of China
17.Hike to the bottom of the Grand Canyon
18.Stay in a glass igloo in Finland
19.Go to the Calgary Stampede
20.View Dubai from the tallest building in the world — Burj Khalifa
21.Stand on Kjeragbolten in Norway
22.Witness step dancers outside La Sagrada Familia — actually Plaça Sant Jaume in the middle of Barcelona’s Gothic Quarter
23.Go the the Summer Olympics
24.Climb Adam’s Peak in Sri Lanka — actually Little Adam’s Peak in 2017
25.Visit Everest Base Camp
26.Ride a Bemo in Bali
27.Drive across the Confederation Bridge connecting New Brunswick to Prince Edward Island
28.Ride a Gondola in Venice
29.View Capetown from the top of Table Mountain
30.Ride an elephant in Thailand
31.Go to the Polar Bear Capital of the World just before the Bay freezes over
32.Drink at the Bar Garota de Ipanema where “the Girl from Ipanema” was written
33.Go to the airport not knowing which flight or country I’m going to
34.Climb to the top of the Eiffel Tower
35.Traverse the Northwest passage
36.Ride a Vespa
37.Climb Uluru — Ayers Rock in Australia (apparently not allowed anymore)
38.Hot Air Balloon over Luxor
39.Drive a Ferrari through Maranello
40.Visit platform 9 3/4 at King’s Cross station
41.Go to Provence during lavender season
42.Eat Penang Curry in Penang
43.Drive through the Simplon Pass
44.See a narwhal in Greenland
45.Safari in East Africa (also, Sri Lanka)
46.Climb to the top of the Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacan, Mexico
47.Stay in a thatched hut in Fiji
48.Eat Baked Potato on Prince Edward Island
49.Take a local boat down the Irrawaddy
50.bedding down in one of Cappadocia’s cave hotels (2019)

51. Drive the Dempster Highway during the midnight sun
51.Accomplish everything on this list.