What would you do if there was nothing stopping you?

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.

1.  Get scuba certified in Koh Tao
2. Go cage diving with sharks
3. Experience Holi
4. Experience Songkran in Thailand
5. Celebrate the Chinese New Year in Asia
6. Go to the Winter Olympics in 2018
7. Teach in a different country
8. Hike a volcano for sunrise
9. Hike the Triple Crown in Waterton in one summer
10. Hike the West Coast Trail
11. Fly somewhere for a concert
12. Hike the Inca Trail
13. Go to the Gili Island’s  
14. Find Nessy in Scotland
15. Scubadive to the ruins in Alexandria, Egypt
16. Live in Europe
17. Travel the Trans Siberian Railway
18. Go to the Tomatina Festival
19. Ride a camel in the Sahara Desert
20. Hot air balloon over the temples in Burma at sunrise
21. Learn to surf
22. Go to Carnival in Brazil
23. Go to Mardi Gras in New Orleans
24. See a Stanley Cup playoff game
25. Roadtrip across Canada
26. Visit a monastery in Tibet
27. Get tattoo’d by a monk
28. Learn a different language
29. Boat Ha Long Bay, Vietnam
30. Attend a music festival in Europe
31. See the Spice Girls live
32. Play with penguins in South Africa/Antartica
33. Sandboard
34. Go to a Full Moon Party
35. Stay in a tree house
36. Go to the Great Wall of China
37. Visit the Taj Mahal
38. Camp in caves in Vietnam
39. Go to every large roadside attraction in Canada
40. Hike the Grand Canyon on New Years
41. Meet Erik Karlsson
42. Go on a safari in the African Desert
43. Go see the trees in Madagascar
44. Go to the pyramids in Egypt
45. Sky dive over the blue hole in Belize
46. Start a foundation
47. Save the manatees in South America
48. Break into Buckingham Palace
49. Dip into every ocean
50. Scuba dive in the black sea
51. Read a book in the dead sea
52. Go to Harry Potter Warner Bros studio
53. Step foot on every continent
54. Go to the Colosseum in Rome
55. Learn Yoga from a Guru
56. Climb a world famous mountain
57. Run a half marathon
58. Go to Oktoberfest
59. Watch the ball drop in New York City on New Years
60. Go to a hollywood awards show
61. Drive across North America in a van
62. Ride an ostrich
63. Live in Australia
64. Ride the London Eye
65. Go to Las Vegas
66. Go to Northern Canada
67. Experience Carnaval de Quebec
68. Visit Christ the Redeemer in Brazil
69. Throw darts at balloons full of paint
70. Make a London guard laugh
71. Throw a dart at a map and go wherever it lands
72. Visit the Blue Lagoon in Iceland
73. Go to a taping of a talk show
74. Be an extra in a movie
75. Tell a joke to Will Ferrell
76. Feel Zac Efron’s abs
77. Save sea turtles in the Galapagos Islands
78. Help clean up the oceans and beaches around the world
79. Save street dogs in Thailand
80. Experience Amsterdam 😉
81. Go to the pink lake in Australia
82. Eat pizza in Italy
83. Visit doll island in Mexico
84. Hang out with Llamas in Peru
85. Go to Iguassu Falls
86. Go to a popular soccer match
87. Go to a NFL game
88. Go ghost hunting
89. Visit Petra
90. Snorkel in the Great Barrier Reef
91. Learn to play an instrument
92. Have tea with the Queen
93. Go to Athens to meet Zeus and Hercules
94. Go hang gliding
95. Bike to the eiffel tower with a baguette and bottle of wine
96. Stay in a yurt in Mongolia
97. Stay in a house boat in a national park
98. White water raft in the Nile river
99. Hike up a mountain on every continent
100. See a sunset/sunrise on every continent
101. Go to the Amazon Rainforest
102. Climb a frozen waterfall
103. See the Redwood Forest
104. Drive the Oregon Coast highway
105. See a polar bear in it’s natural habitat
106. Visit the Buddha Park in Vientiane
107. Float down a river on a bamboo raft
108. Wander the streets of Prague
109. Hike the Na’Pali coast on Kauai
110. Ring in the Summer Solstice at Stonehenge
111. See the Easter Island heads
112. Trekking in Nepal
113. See pandas in China
114. Find Dracula in Transylvania
115. Drink vodka in Russia
116. Hike Trolltunga
117. Eat brussel sprouts in Brussels
118. Watch the running of the bulls
119. Go to the blue town in Morocco
120. Peggy’s Cove
121. Eat Texas barbecue in Texas
122. Eat a deep dish pizza in Chicago
123. Eat a philly cheesesteak in Philadelphia
124. Eat kentucky fried chicken in Kentucky
125. Eat potatoes in Idaho
126. Salt flats in Bolivia
127. Eat Chili in Chile
128. Eat a sandwich in the Sandwich Islands
129. Eat pizza at the Leaning Tower of Piza
130. See the White House
131. Dance while wearing clogs in Holland
132. Burj Khalifa
133. Visit Mount Rushmore
134. Make a wish in the Trevi Fountain
135. Sing London Bridge is falling down while walking across the London Bridge
136. Pretend the grounds lava in Pompeii
137. Play in the Louvre
138. Hang out on the edge of Victoria Falls
139. Skate on the Rideau Canal
140. See the Northern Lights in a different country
141. Take a boat down the Venice canal
142. Yodel at the top of a mountain in Switzerland
143. Fight with the terracotta soldiers in China
144. Play ice hockey with Vladimir Putin
145. Find aliens at area 51/53
146. Spend the night at the catacombs in Paris
147. Salt mines in Poland
148. Auschwitz
149. Anne Frank’s house
150. Be on the Amazing Race Canada
151. Successfully pretend to be a wax figure in a museum
152. Crash a wedding
153. Day of the dead in Mexico
154. Do stand up
155. Wwoofing
156. 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!