while looking for something else on my ancient LiveJournal, I found this “travel itinerary” from August 18, 2004.
Nearly ten years on, time to revisit it.
Walk El Camino de Santiago in Spain.
Still on the list, although I’m not as passionate about doing it as I once was. It’s now more of a curiosity than a priority/bucket list item. Interesting that it was then atop my list.
Visit Uluru – Kata Tjuta National Park and Great Barrier Reef.
Done and done. While I didn’t end up working near the Reef, I snorkeled it twice. By far I preferred the snorkeling off Port Douglas to Cairns. The latter was just too crowded and too cloudy. Prior to my move, the Bungle Bungles weren’t even on my radar and they awed me as much/more than Uluru/Kata Tjuta probable because I hadn’t been over exposed to them.
Table Mountain Aerial Cableway … Also really want to do Cape Point and Cape Peninsula National Park.
This didn’t end up happening because I went back to Japan vs. continuing on to Africa. But it’s still atop the bucket list. The cultural history even within my lifetime with the fall of apartheid fascinates me.
Like Santiago de Compostela, this has somewhat wandered off my bucket list. I like the idea of it, but boats and I don’t get along. At this point I’m more fascinated by a friend’s pictures of her trip to Macchu Picchu than I am of Galapagos.
and then I had the less well defined. The more less well defined “dreams”….
Middle East; specifically Jordan, Isreal and Egypt. Also Greece and Rome because the whole idea of visiting areas that have seen so much history amazes me. Regardless of what religion/gods you believe in, these regions have so much living history.
So somehow I managed to think that Greece and Rome were the Middle East. I did Israel for my 30th birthday and we saw Wadi Rum and Petra. Sometimes a place you’ve dreamed about lets you down… that was not the case with Israel and Jordan. I spent our time there in awe. I did Rome in 2007 while in Prague and it was amazing. A perfect example of “if these buildings could talk”. Living history. Greece is still vaguely on the bucket list.
Orient Express; would love to travel SE Asia.
Over two stints in Japan, I never visited any part of SE Asia besides transiting through Singapore. I don’t know why. I think this is now unlikely given travel time, but we’ll see.
St. Petersburg
This almost happened. I wanted to come home from Japan the second time via the Trans Siberian but then life happened. Life is good at that. Russia is still something I really want to see.
Misc Europe: Poland/Krakow (almost made it there when I was in Prague, in the end it fell through), Bosnia/Sarajevo—inner history buff again, Italy
I finally made it to Auschwitz/Birkenau in summer 2007 and it remains one of the most poignant moments. Awe inspiring. Haven’t made it to the former Yugoslavia (yet) but doing Poland and Germany within a week? Wow.
US: Mt. Rushmore, Drive Route 66, Grand Canyon, Badlands of South Dakota, Painted Desert, Las Vegas…
Well I did Vegas. And now I have a giant US Bucket List map and a goal to see all 50 states before I turn 50.
To be revisited in 2024