My Travel Bucket List

+ Dive the under water sculpture park in Grenada
+ Publish a photo in National Geographic
+ Hike to Machu Picchu
+ Travel Egypt
+ Learn to Tango in Buenos Aries
+ Join an Archaeological dig 
+ Stand on The Equator
+ Ride a camel through the desert
+ Learn how to meditate
+ Ride a zip-line through the jungle
+ Repel down a waterfall
+ Learn wine/beer appreciation
+ Learn a foreign language
+ Cross the Nile
+ Visit Stonehenge
+ Go on an African Safari
+ Become a travel writer - published
+ Meet Philippa Gregory (my literary idol)
+ Step foot in Antarctica
+ See an opera in Sydney opera house
+ Go to Carnival in Spain/Portugal
+ Go to Carnival in Brazil
+ See the festival of color in India
+ Learn how to surf
+ Write a book and get it published
+ Dive the Red Sea
+ Drive the west Coast of Australia
+ Hike the Pacific Crest Trail
+ Kayak in Alaska
+ Great American Road Trip!
+ Visit Myanmar before it gets too touristy
+ Visit Cuba before it gets too Americanized  
+ Dive with Mola Molas
+ Dive the Galapagos 
​+ Hike to Everest Base Camp
+ Hike Kilimanjaro
​+ Dive with whales

Accomplishments

+ Quit my job and travel the world
+ Hike the Himalaya Mountains
+ Visit Thailand
+ See Laos while its still pure, before it becomes a tourist trap
+ Ride an elephant through the jungle (Nepal & Thailand)
+ Get up close and personal with a big cat
+ Try a home stay (with the Karen Hill Tribes in Thailand)
+ Ride a long boat on the Mekong River (in Laos)
+ Jump off of a waterfall
+ Experience the Thai New Year (Songkran Festival in Chiang Mai)
+ See Angkor Wat in Cambodia
+ PADI cert in Thailand (Open Water & Advanced at Ban's in Koh Tao)
+ Have my future told by a real medicine man/woman in Asia (Bali)
+ Dive the Great Barrier Reef in Australia
+ Cuddle a koala!
+ See the Sydney Opera House
+Visit my homeland Sicily/Lipari
+ Vitsit Pompeii and Climb Mt. Vesuvius
+ See the Leaning Tower of Pisa
+ Learn to cook in Italy
+ Stay in a farmhouse in the Tuscan hillside
+ See the Palio Horse Lottery in Siena
+ Cliff Jumping (Split, Croatia)
+ Party it up at Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany
+ See an Opera in Europe (Carmen in the Vienna Opera House)
+ See Neuschwanstein Castle, the one that inspired the Disney Cinderella Castle
+ See the Eiffel Tower
+ Visit Disneyland Paris
+ Eat space cake in Amsetrdam
+ Get TESOL certification and teach in another country (Thailand)
​+ Dive with a whale shark
​+ Volunteer in a developing country
​+ Dive with a giant manta ray
​+ Dive with wild dolphins
​+ Dive with Sharks
​+ Work as a dive instructor  (St. Croix)