1. Live like a local for a month. The experience of visiting native peoples will give you way more insight into another way of life than two years hopping from one backpacker ghetto to the next.
5. Follow in the footsteps of your favorite travel book. What better guide than a book that inspired you to travel in the first place? (check via Maui Revealed)
7. Attend the Olympics. Whatever you say about the commercialism of the Olympic Games, they are one of the biggest events on the planet.
8. Go to Oktoberfest. The meeting of over 6 million beer afficionados and drinking song singers is one of the biggest parties in Europe.
9. Partake in a Japanese Tea Ceremony. This timeless tradition is at the heart of Japanese culture.
10. Take an African safari.
11. Visit the gravesite of Jim Morrison in Paris, France.
12. Skydive. (check)
13. Run a half-marathon.
14. Do a triathlon.
15. Try water skiing again and stay up this time!!!
16. Join a rowing club.
17. Learn to say, “I love you” in 50 different languages.
18. Choose a country and learn not only the language that is spoken there, but also study its customs, its cuisine, its art, and its history.
19. Go to an Andrea Bocelli opera concert.
20. Go to a Broadway Show in New York.
21. Learn to Belly Dance.
22. Jump from a cliff into deep water. (check, sort of)
23. Go white water rafting.
24. Go snorkeling in a shipwreck.
25. Go ziplining. (check)
26. Go parasailing. (check)
27. Fly in a cub (open-cockpit airplane).
28. Land in a lake with a seaplane.
29. Glide in a glider.
30. Go bungee jumping (haven’t made up my mind whether I really want to do this or not but I put in on my list just in case).
31. Ride a mechanical bull (like Sissy).
32. Hike UP and down a mountain in Colorado.
33. Hike to base camp on Mount Everest.
34. Go Zorbing. (Giant hamster ball).
35. Ride the world’s largest Ferris Wheel.
36. Bathe in the Ganges River in India.
37. Ride the largest roller coaster in the world.
38. Go whale watching.
39. Visit the San Diego Zoo.
40. See gorillas in the wild.
41. See the Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis) in real life.
42. Visit the top ten National Parks.
43. Take a wine-tasting class.
44. Attend the Cannes Film Festival.
45. Meet a President of the United States.
46. Go on an ancestry vacation.
47. Pay for all of my son’s college and university expenses so that he has zero debt when he graduates.
48. Build a dream home.
49. Witness the birth of a baby (probably will never happen, though). Maybe in another country?
50. On my death bed, which hopefully won’t be for at least another 50 years, tell a random person my life story (sparing no details). This is the scariest bucket item of all.
