Bucket List – 100 places I want to see

I’ve been thinking for quite some time that there are just SO many places I want to see for myself, I can’t even think of an organized way in which to attack my wish list. Being a Virgo, I am left with the option of making a list and crossing things off. Maybe if you’ve been to some of these places you could offer me tips, or maybe this will inspire you to make your own list, which could be fun. I’m all about cross-referencing 🙂 Who knows, maybe we’ll even end up in a tour group together! Anyway, in no particular order:

  1. The Shiloh battlefield
  2. Atlanta – in general
  3. New Orleans, especially the Garden District
  4. Venice
  5. Savannah, Georgia
  6. Rome
  7. Paris
  8. Versailles
  9. Hampton Court in England
  10. Mark Twain’s House in Connecticut
  11. Gettysburg – I’ve been there before but the trip was short and marred by car problems
  12. Portland
  13. Seattle
  14. Salem, Massachusetts
  15. The Grand Canyon
  16. The Black Hills
  17. Laura Ingalls Wilder’s house in DeSmet, South Dakota
  18. Charleston, South Carolina
  19. Dublin
  20. Belfast
  21. Glasgow
  22. San Diego Comic Con, especially if Benedict Cumberbatch is gonna be there again
  23. New York City. I know, it’s crazy. I’ve never been there.
  24. Miami – my cousin lives there 🙂
  25. The White House – I’ve seen it from a distance but never got a tour
  26. New Salem, Illinois, where Lincoln “grew up”
  27. Vicksburg
  28. Santa Fe, New Mexico
  29. Albequerque, New Mexico (Maybe I’ll run into Saul Goodman)
  30. Alaska in general
  31. Puerto Rico to take up my friend RaĂşl’s invitation
  32. Harper’s Ferry
  33. Arlington Mansion (I should retour the cemetery as well. I was a kid the last time I was there)
  34. Andersonville Prison
  35. the James A. Garfield home
  36. Vienna (especially where Mozart lived)
  37. Van Gogh’s home (any of them)
  38. A Broadway play
  39. Stratford on Avon
  40. Hadrian’s Wall
  41. The Great Wall of China
  42. The Holocaust Museum
  43. Monticello
  44. Independence Hall (and Philly in general)
  45. Edison’s lab in New Jersey
  46. Where Emily Dickinson lived, if any of that is still around
  47. Memphis, Tennessee
  48. The Alamo
  49. Mexico City
  50. the hobbit village in New Zealand (amongst other sites)
  51. Sydney, Australia
  52. Ghana, to see my friends the Federwitz family
  53. Montreal
  54. The Galapagos Islands
  55. The Great Barrier Reef (while it still exists)
  56. The Charleston Tea Plantation (I love their tea)
  57. Yorkshire
  58. Cardiff, Wales so I can look for Doctor Who
  59. Barcelona
  60. Madrid
  61. Seville
  62. Salamanca
  63. The Rock of Gibraltar
  64. Morocco
  65. Cairo
  66. The Great Pyramid
  67. Athens and the Acropolis
  68. Buenos Aires
  69. Guatemala to visit my friend Nic Wirtz (boy would that shock him) 🙂
  70. SXSW – I would like to go some time. Just because.
  71. Los Angeles – I feel like I should see it. Ya know?
  72. Vancouver
  73. Yellowstone
  74. Mount Rushmore
  75. Ocean City, New Jersey – I want to see the hubub all of my friends are making about this place!
  76. Baltimore – I was only a kid when I was there and it was a very brief stay
  77. Tokyo – although I would want  a very experienced tour guide who could deal with my crowd aversion 🙂
  78. Jerusalem (if peace ever gets there)
  79. Amsterdam
  80. Odessa, Russia – ancestral home for at least part of my family
  81. the old Czarist palace, or whatever is left of those places
  82. Helsinki
  83. Zurich
  84. Ground Zero – I am not sure I will ever be able to gather up the strength to do this, but I feel I should
  85. Berlin
  86. Bombay
  87. Vatican City
  88. Nepal
  89. Lisbon
  90. Boulder, Colorado (and a trip to see the Vickery family)
  91. Kauai
  92. Costa Rica
  93.  Moscow
  94. the fjords of Norway
  95. Copenhagen
  96. Florence
  97. the painted caves – wherever those are in France
  98. the Anasazi ruins out west
  99. Old Faithful
  100. Switzerland, where my great grandfather came from

Boy, that 100 goes fast. I could go on forever 🙂

Now it’s your turn.

2 Comments

  1. ImMarkBernhardt on August 1, 2016 at 2:00 am

    I’ve been to many of these, including Ground Zero in December 2011. NYPD officers were posted around the fenced perimeter and most I met were willing to talk. I thanked each one I saw. That was a harrowing and moving site visit, after which I walked in quiet thought all the way back to my hotel on the Upper East Side. I returned a few years later with one of my brothers. NYC became like a second home in the couple years before 9/11, and I still return on business or to visit friends. I once sat behind Michael Chang at a US Open match, once stood at the curb as Al Gore’s motorcade passed on the street and once flew out to see a friend perform at Lincoln Center.

    It’s cliche—but for good reason—to claim a seat and order beignets and coffee at Cafe du Monde in New Orleans. Buy a po’ boy sandwich at Parkway or Guy’s. Do visit the Garden District. Soak up some jazz one night at Preservation Hall. Or go sometime between the end of April and beginning of May for the annual Jazz Festival. And then get drenched in jazz. Or maybe that was the guy next to you spilling his beer. Try Preservation Hall, first.

    When you go to Boulder, also head up to Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park. Keep an eye out on the right side as you go along Hwy 36 or 34 (I forget which, 22 years later) from Boulder, for a house that has a veranda on the first floor and a balcony on the second—both of which wrap around the house. I confess to having coveted that house.

    As for Sevilla, I recommend you go in April or October, during one of the festivals. There are several reasons I want to go there, but one in particular: Flamenco. Stay at a place with some character, like Casa No. 7, and consider taking a train from there to Madrid so you can check off another bucket list stop.

    I’ll be happy to give you tips for NYC, LA or San Diego. Or maybe I’ll be there to give you a tour. (FYI, I make my escape from the Wisconsin winter each January/February to go to SoCal. Best time to go… IMHO.)

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