Our Bucket List

10 pages filled in our passports in less than a year -- we love to explore! On our trip home from Bali last week our hearts were revving thinking about our next adventure. Here's the Bucket List we came up with . . .

What would you add? What will you join us for?

TRAVEL/ADVENTURE

• Fly first class together (and join the mile high club)
• Live abroad for at least a year -- New Zealand for starters; BC next?
•  Take the next flight out
• Obtain dual-citizenship
• Hot air balloon somewhere crazy
• Set foot on every continent
• Prepare a meal for a family in another country
• Take one major, multi-week ride on an old-school luxury train
• Travel like nomads for a year in our pimped out EuroVan
• Stew's additions:
• Spend a night at Everest Base Camp
• Drink tea with a lama
• Visit the Chateau Cathares
• Vist the Alhambra in Sevilla (check for BB)
• Explore the Temples of Angkor (check for BB)
• See the Hagia Sofia mosque in Istanbul, Turkey (check for BB)
• Stand on top of Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe (check for BB)
• Watch a traditional Muy Thai fight in Thailand
• See the Acropolis and Parthenon in Athens, Greece (check for BB)
• See the Sistine Chapel and Vatican City in Rome, Italy (Check for BB)
• Visit the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy (Check for BB)
• Run with the bulls in Pamplona
• Betsy's additions:
• See the abbey of Mont-St-Michel in France (check for Stew)
• Walk the circumference of Uluru, Australia (check for stew)

 Hike

•  Bhutan
• The Overland Track in Tasmania
• Complete a major trail (PCT or AT)
• The Great Wall of China
• The mountains in northern Thailand and Vietnam
• In every US National Park
• Mt. Blanc and Elbruz
• Nepal
• Tibet

Ski

• Japan
• Alaska
• Italian Dolomites
• Out west US (Tetons, New Mexico)
• Off the boat in the Lofotens
• Stryn, Norway @ Fred's place
• Lebanon
• India
• Heleski in Russia

Sail

• Coast of Croatia
• Maine (every summer!)
• Coast of Norway

Surf (Stew)

• Baja
• Costa Rica
• Hawaii

Experience

• Burning Man
• Carnival in Brazil
• Doing nothing for a week on a Greek Island
• White Nights in St. Petersburg, Russia
• Kite-surfing in Brazil
• Snow in Hawaii
• SUPing down the Isar, Munich
• Climbing at Joshua Tree
• Orangutans in the wild
• Swimming in the Great Barrier Reef
• Traveling in outer-space

Explore   

• Easter Island
• Potala Place in Lhasa, Thibet
• Petra, Jordan
• Yemen
• Mayan ruins
• Chile - from top to bottom
• Kazakhstan
• Sri Lanka
• El Salvador and Guatemala
• Bolivia
• Madagascar (northern Madagascar this time for Betsy)
• Choquequirace and Machu Pichu
• Galapagos Islands
• Cpae Verde Islands
• Iceland
• Krak des Chevlaiers in Syria

Drive  

• Highway 1 in a convertible
• Across Mongolia (or ride on horseback)
• Through Ireland
• Through Scotland - picking up Stew's family tartan/kilt along the way
• In Nambia again -- this time with friends and two cars so we can go to places off the map  

Stay

• Japan during the cherry blossom festival
• In a villa in Tuscany (with an Italian chef please)
• Lake Palace - Udaipur, India

Kiss

• On top of the Eiffel Tower
• On top of Corcovado Mountain in Rio de Janeiro

EXPERIENCES

• Getting married
• Becoming parents
• Watching sea turtles hatch and make a run for the ocean
• Hearing the Dali Lama speak
• See a legendary band play 
• See a Red Sox game
• See a big football game at either the Allianz Arena (Munich) or in Marseille
• Sit in the co-pilot's seat of an airborne 747
• Stand in a crowded place wearing a FREE HUGS t-shirt

PERSONAL IMPROVEMENT

• Help at least one person escape extreme poverty
• Donate more than $1K to an important cause
• Inspire someone
• Develop a secret family recipe
• Attend a TED conference
• Get really good at at least one kind of dance -- tango
• Run a marathon
• Be a mentor
• Teach sustainability 
• Learn to take photographs "properly"
• Plant an araucaria tree on our land
• Plant and eat from our own garden

ACHIEVEMENTS

• Writing a book
• Having a library stocked with crazing and intriguing books
• Extending Peter's life on his boat
• Raising our kids on sailboats during the summers
• Making great family dinners on Sundays
• Renovating an old farmhouse in the mountains
• Living off the grid
• Paying for our lifestyle off of passive income
• Working half-time at most
• Having a measurable impact in our industry
• Solving a large waste problem
• Betsy learning to speak another language conversationally