When people think of a “normal” life, many go straight to the 9 to 5 job and having a family. People don’t think that following your dreams is normal and the people that do it are viewed as unconventional and risky. Sure, it may be a risk to give up the perfect 9 to 5 job and leave your family behind, but why not go after the things you love now instead of sitting around fifty years from now wishing you had done things differently.
Whenever my best friend and I would think about our lives, we always knew that travelling and exploring was one of the main things that we wanted to do. But, whenever we told people about these dreams, they would look at us like we were insane. They would start to question us about how our family would feel, about how our nonexistent boyfriends would feel, and what we would even be able to do for work. Hearing this from people didn’t deter us from travelling, in fact it made our resolve stronger. Everyone always ask’s us what we’re going to do when we get back to “real life” but what they don’t understand is that this is real life for us. Real life for us isn’t having a house, or a baby, or a husband, or even a steady job. Reality for us is stepping foot into as many different countries as possible, climbing as many mountains as we can, pulling as many all nighters as our livers can handle and learning about as many different cultures as possible. These people that continuously question our way of life are going to look pretty silly when they’re asked what they wish they would have done differently in their lives.
We’ve compiled a list of things that we want to be able to accomplish. Some of these things may seem a little far fetched, but hey, it’ll be that much better when they can get crossed off the list.
- Get scuba certified in Koh Tao
- Go cage diving with sharks
- Experience Holi
- Experience Songkran in Thailand
- Celebrate the Chinese New Year in Asia
- Go to the Winter Olympics in 2018
Teach in a different country- Hike a volcano for sunrise
- Hike the Triple Crown in Waterton in one summer
- Hike the West Coast Trail
Fly somewhere for a concert- Hike the Inca Trail
Go to the Gili Island’sFind Nessy in Scotland- Scubadive to the ruins in Alexandria, Egypt
- Live in Europe
- Travel the Trans Siberian Railway
- Go to the Tomatina Festival
- Ride a camel in the Sahara Desert
- Hot air balloon over the temples in Burma at sunrise
- Learn to surf
- Go to Carnival in Brazil
- Go to Mardi Gras in New Orleans
See a Stanley Cup playoff game- Roadtrip across Canada
- Visit a monastery in Tibet
- Get tattoo’d by a monk
- Learn a different language
Boat Ha Long Bay, VietnamAttend a music festival in Europe- See the Spice Girls live
- Play with penguins in South Africa/Antartica
- Sandboard
- Go to a Full Moon Party
- Stay in a tree house
- Go to the Great Wall of China
- Visit the Taj Mahal
- Camp in caves in Vietnam
- Go to every large roadside attraction in Canada
- Hike the Grand Canyon on New Years
- Meet Erik Karlsson
- Go on a safari in the African Desert
- Go see the trees in Madagascar
- Go to the pyramids in Egypt
- Sky dive over the blue hole in Belize
- Start a foundation
- Save the manatees in South America
Break into Buckingham Palace- Dip into every ocean
- Scuba dive in the black sea
- Read a book in the dead sea
Go to Harry Potter Warner Bros studio- Step foot on every continent
- Go to the Colosseum in Rome
- Learn Yoga from a Guru
- Climb a world famous mountain
- Run a half marathon
- Go to Oktoberfest
- Watch the ball drop in New York City on New Years
- Go to a hollywood awards show
- Drive across North America in a van
- Ride an ostrich
- Live in Australia
Ride the London Eye- Go to Las Vegas
- Go to Northern Canada
- Experience Carnaval de Quebec
- Visit Christ the Redeemer in Brazil
- Throw darts at balloons full of paint
- Make a London guard laugh
- Throw a dart at a map and go wherever it lands
- Visit the Blue Lagoon in Iceland
- Go to a taping of a talk show
- Be an extra in a movie
- Tell a joke to Will Ferrell
- Feel Zac Efron’s abs
- Save sea turtles in the Galapagos Islands
- Help clean up the oceans and beaches around the world
- Save street dogs in Thailand
Experience Amsterdam 😉- Go to the pink lake in Australia
- Eat pizza in Italy
- Visit doll island in Mexico
- Hang out with Llamas in Peru
- Go to Iguassu Falls
- Go to a popular soccer match
Go to a NFL game- Go ghost hunting
- Visit Petra
- Snorkel in the Great Barrier Reef
- Learn to play an instrument
- Have tea with the Queen
Go to Athens to meet Zeus and Hercules- Go hang gliding
Bike to the eiffel tower with a baguette and bottle of wine- Stay in a yurt in Mongolia
- Stay in a house boat in a national park
- White water raft in the Nile river
- Hike up a mountain on every continent
- See a sunset/sunrise on every continent
- Go to the Amazon Rainforest
- Climb a frozen waterfall
- See the Redwood Forest
Drive the Oregon Coast highway- See a polar bear in it’s natural habitat
- Visit the Buddha Park in Vientiane
- Float down a river on a bamboo raft
- Wander the streets of Prague
- Hike the Na’Pali coast on Kauai
- Ring in the Summer Solstice at Stonehenge
- See the Easter Island heads
- Trekking in Nepal
- See pandas in China
- Find Dracula in Transylvania
- Drink vodka in Russia
- Hike Trolltunga
- Eat brussel sprouts in Brussels
- Watch the running of the bulls
- Go to the blue town in Morocco
- Peggy’s Cove
- Eat Texas barbecue in Texas
- Eat a deep dish pizza in Chicago
- Eat a philly cheesesteak in Philadelphia
- Eat kentucky fried chicken in Kentucky
- Eat potatoes in Idaho
- Salt flats in Bolivia
- Eat Chili in Chile
- Eat a sandwich in the Sandwich Islands
- Eat pizza at the Leaning Tower of Piza
- See the White House
Dance while wearing clogs in Holland- Burj Khalifa
- Visit Mount Rushmore
- Make a wish in the Trevi Fountain
Sing London Bridge is falling down while walking across the London Bridge- Pretend the grounds lava in Pompeii
- Play in the Louvre
- Hang out on the edge of Victoria Falls
- Skate on the Rideau Canal
- See the Northern Lights in a different country
- Take a boat down the Venice canal
- Yodel at the top of a mountain in Switzerland
- Fight with the terracotta soldiers in China
- Play ice hockey with Vladimir Putin
- Find aliens at area 51/53
- Spend the night at the catacombs in Paris
- Salt mines in Poland
- Auschwitz
Anne Frank’s house- Be on the Amazing Race Canada
Successfully pretend to be a wax figure in a museum- Crash a wedding
- Day of the dead in Mexico
- Do stand up
- Wwoofing
- Steer a ship
This is the list so far. What are some of the things that you would want to do before you die? If anyone has anymore ideas, or even wants to share what’s on their list please feel free to do so!
Cool list, you guys are adventurous! Accomplishing even a dozen of these things would be very exciting. How about visiting the equator? Or snorkeling the great barrier reef? You could do that and learn to surf at the same time in Australia maybe. Also Macchu pichu in Peru is an amazing world landmark defiantly worth a visit, if you guys haven’t already. Hope your Journeys are fun and awesome!
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