The Bucket List
There are many dreams that I want to bring to life. What I did was create a bucket list to remind myself of the experiences I’d like to live through as I create them into my own realities. Once I complete each experience, I will cheerfully cross it off of my bucket list and make a post to help continue to write my life story.
Here we go, let the challenge begin:
- Backpack around the world, specifically Europe, Asia, South Africa, and Australia.
- Learn how to make homemade pasta from a grandmother in Italy.
- Work on a vineyard and understand the process of growing grapes and making wines.
- Learn how to bake bread in an Austrian bakery.
- Stage at NOMA in Denmark.
- Stage at Alinea in Chicago.
- Learn how to make cheese in France.
- Understand curing foods in Iceland.
- Make chocolate in Switzerland.
- Learn about Spain’s cuisine.
- Drink snake blood in Thailand.
- Learn about knife cuts, sushi making, and the art of ramen in Japan.
- Learn more about my Filipino heritage and cuisine in the Philippines.
- Eat a scorpion in China.
- Drink cobra wine.
- Work on a farm in Europe.
- Milk a cow.
- Write a book about my travels, experiences, and food.
- Open a restaurant.
- Start a restaurant group.
- Return to Peru and learn about the agriculture.
- Start a non-profit organization for starving children.
- Go to the spice market in India.
- Eat fresh seafood in Greece.
- Stage at Momofuku in Austrailia.
- Go boar hunting in New Zealand.
- Eat a bat.
- Learn about olive growing and pressing oil.
- Learn about the process of making balsamic vinegar.
- Go lobster diving.
- Forage for mushrooms in Denmark.
- Skydive
- Go to all seven wonders of the world.
- Swim with sharks.
- Do the Pacific Coast Trail.
- Do the Mt. Everest base camp trek.
- Do the Camino De Santiago trail in Spain and France.
- Go to all 50 US States.
- Go to all 7 continents.
- Travel to every country.
- Ride a camel.
- Ride an elephant.
- Pet a tiger.
aspirational & inspirational ! how many did you tick so far
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Thank you for stopping by my blog. I’m just starting! I’m going to be in Beijing in a couple hours so hopefully I get to eat a scorpion!
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I love this idea! Number 2 is on my bucket list as well, I’m hoping to cross that one off next week in Italy 🍝
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That is so awesome! You’ll have to tell me about it if you do! By the way, thank you by stoping by and reading my blog! 🙂
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Great bucket list
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Thank you for stopping by. A great list, but a hard one to accomplish!
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Thanks for stopping by by blog. Your list is impressive. I will be back to read of your accomplishments!
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I love a good bucket list! I think mine has 150 items and counting… better get cracking! I don’t think I have enough food items on there, though. I may need to make a separate one just for all the food-related dreams!
All the best to you in your adventures! And thanks for stopping by my blog!
xo Molly
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Thank you for stopping by mine! I know! I need to get on it so I can start writing about them! Only through time right?!
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Incredible bucket list! It might be time to type one up…
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Love the list, don’t see any ticked off yet though? 😉
Let me know if you get to South Africa, can give you some places to visit there!
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That would be wonderful. I’ll get there eventually! Haha. I have too many on the list I don’t know where to start. Thank you for stopping by.
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Start with the smallest one and work your way up 🙂
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Ah, I’ll get there. Eventually. 🙂
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Heyy girl ! Thanks a ton for the first like for the rookie 😀 Honestly I was soo glad that my blog was finally discovered by someone in the blogosphere . Thank youu ❤ And I got to say your bucket list is awesome and so is your blog B-) You have one more follower now 🙂
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Keep up the good work! Thanks for stopping by. 🙂
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Hi! That is one incredible list! I hope you get to do everything on it. I share a lot of the same wishes for the food/agricultural experiences (but not the weird food…,) 🙂
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Thank you for stopping by! I love food!
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Hi! That’s an amazing bucket list. I’d like to do some of those things, too! Good luck!
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Hi, it looks from your bucket list that you’d really enjoy listening to Rene Redzepi’s Desert Island Disc. I think you’d find it really interesting. Katie 😊 TheEclecticity.org
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Thank you for stopping by! I’ll have to check it out! 🙂
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Great list! Thanks for the recent like on my Art in Bloom post! Love your blog, so inspirational. Follow for follow?
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Thank you for stopping by also! And yes!
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Wow that’s some list.You’re a brave fork. Bat? Gulp.
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What a great list – I honestly think writing down your dreams is another step towards making them happen. However I did notice that you have ‘ride an elephant’ on your list and I just wanted to ask if you would consider volunteering with them instead? Only because I have volunteered at an amazing elephant park in Thailand which has a no ride policy because the amount of abuse and suffering the elephants go through to be trained for riding. Obviously I don’t want to preach or anything, I just want to pass the message on about this and hopefully live in a world where elephants aren’t used for tourism. 🙂
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You know what? I wrote this list pre travel, that by the time I got to Thailand, I realized the abuse of these beautiful animals and I decided to go to a sanctuary instead with a no ride policy. Same with going to tiger kingdom. I didn’t even bother going because of the unethical practices they use.
Will I ever ride an elephant? Possibly not, but I deff learned something about what I find acceptable or not and you never really find that out until you’re in the position where you have to make a decision based on the facts that are put in front of you.
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Yes I agree, I found that a lot in Thailand. One day I went on a tour that I didn’t know included a stop on the side of a road to pay to feed a baby elephant. I refused to pay money and have a picture with that poor animal (it was chained up by its leg and could see the hook that the trainer was using behind his/her ear – I found it really upsetting. It’s great to hear that you decided to do something different :-).
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Absolutely! And it really changes the way I viewed tourism with animals! It’s really sad quite frankly that when people ask me about Thailand, I tell people the exact same thing because I refuse to support it.
If you haven’t been yet, check out Africa! The southern countries really take care of the safari animals down there. Granted you can’t take pictures with them, but seeing them in their natural habitat was worth more than that!
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