GABBY'S BUCKET LIST!

Welcome to my incomplete and forever updated Travel Bucket List!

 

The check-marked items (✓) are the ones I’ve already accomplished, and the empty boxes (◻︎) are things I've yet to do.

 

(Pssst… If you're a brand that wants to help me check some of these off… call me!)

BUCKET LIST EXPERIENCES 🪂

General Bucket List

New Year’s Eve is my favorite holiday to be abroad for, so that has it’s own special list…

✓ Take a solo trip, Iceland (Aug 2013) 
✓ Go on a backpacking trip, Iceland (Aug 2013) 
✓ Go skydiving, Australia (Jan 2014)
✓ Drive to the airport and “take the first flight somewhere interesting” U.S. Virgin Islands (Aug 2018) 
✓ Travel as a digital nomad for a full year (2021)
✓ Go paragliding, South Africa (2022)
◻︎ Go kitesurfing
◻︎ Walk on a red carpet

Sailing in Croatia (2021)

 

🗺️ BY CONTINENT

Africa

✓ Go on Safari, Kenya (May, 2015)
✓ Visit South Africa (Oct, 2022)

◻︎ See the Pyramids of Giza + Cruise the Nile, Egypt
◻︎ Do a 2-4 week pre-vet hands-on internship, South Africa
◻︎ See the mountain gorillas, Rwanda
◻︎ See the Danakil Depression, Ethiopia

The Danakil Depression, Ethopia 🇪🇹 
(photo by Jorge Tung on Unsplash)

The Danakil Depression, Ethopia 🇪🇹(photo by Jorge Tung on Unsplash)

Asia

✓ Tokyo Disney, Japan (2002)
✓ Mario Kart race the streets of Tokyo, Japan (Sep 2018)
✓ Dubai, UAE (2016)
✓ Thailand (Dec 2016)
✓ Float in the Dead Sea, Jordan (Sept 2021)
◻︎ Walk the Great Wall of China, China
◻︎ Visit the Taj Mahal; Holi Festival, India
◻︎ Visit the beautiful waterfall town of Furong Zhen, China 
◻︎ Go skiing and stay at an onsen in Hokkaido, Japan
◻︎ Stay at the Komandoo Island Resort, Maldives
◻︎ Kakku “Forest of Temples”, Myanmar
◻︎ Hong Kong Disneyland Resort, China
◻︎ Shanghai Disney Resort, China

Australia

✓ Hold a koala and kangaroo, Australia (Jan 2014) 
✓ Snorkel the Great Barrier Reef, Australia (Jan 2014)

The Great Barrier Reef (photo by Shaun Low on Unsplash)

 

Aurora Borealis over Iceland (photo by Benjamin Suter on Unsplash)

Europe

✓ Eiffel Tower, France (2000)
✓ Disneyland Paris, Paris (2000)
✓ See Stone Henge, England (Mar 2015)
✓ Eye of London, England (Mar 2015)
✓ Visit the Harry Potter Movie Set Tour, England (Mar 2015)
✓ See the Blue Mosque and Grand Bazaar, Turkey (May 2015)
✓ Visit Sweden (Jul 2016)
✓  Visit Norway (Jul 2016)
✓ Visit Finland (Jul 2016)
✓ Eat authentic Italian food in Italy; Visit Cinque Terre, Italy (May 2018)
◻︎ Camp under the Aurora Borealis, Iceland
◻︎ Participate in La Tomatina, Spain
◻︎ Stay at the Villa Hinegg in Enmettburgen, Switzerland
◻︎ Do the alpine rollercoaster Gelmerbahn, Switzerland
◻︎Chateau de Vaux-le-Vicomte, France
◻︎Attend the Grand Masquerade Ball at the Palace of Versailles, France
◻︎ Jane Austen Festival in Bath (September), England

North America

✓ Disneyland Resort, California, USA (2000)
✓ Grand Canyon, USA (2001)
✓ Walt Disney World Resort, Florida, USA (2001)
✓  Scuba dive an underwater museum, Mexico (Sep 2017)
✓  Attend the Billboard Music Awards + arty in Vegas, Nevada, USA (Apr 2019)
◻︎ Attend the Annual Veuve Clicquot Polo Classic and dress up, New York City, NY
◻︎ Attend the Kentucky Derby, Kentucky, USA
◻︎ Attend PopSugar Playground, New York, USA
◻︎ Bioluminescent Bay, Puerto Rico
◻︎ Carnival, Trinidad and Tobago
◻︎ See active volcanos in Hawaii, USA
◻︎ Mardi Gras Festival, Louisiana, USA
◻︎ Go to Florida Forever and ride the zipline roller coasters, USA
◻︎ International Loto-Quebec Fireworks, viewed from the Parc Au Pied du Corant in June, Quebec, CA
◻︎ Go to SXSW, USA
◻︎ See the Great Monarch Butterfly Migration, Mexico 🦋
◻︎ Naucalpan de Juarez, Mexico 

Grand Canyon, Arizona

 

🎆 NEW YEARS EVE IN...

New Years Eve at the W Seattle (2022)

New Years Eve in:

New Year’s Eve is my favorite holiday to be abroad for, so that has it’s own special list…

✓ Sydney Harbour, Australia (2013)
✓ Seattle, USA (2015)
✓ Dubai, UAE (2016)
✓ Cartagena, Colombia (2018)
◻︎ Washington D.C., USA
◻︎ London, England
◻︎ Singapore, Singapore
◻︎ Copacabana, Brazil
◻︎ New York City, USA
◻︎ Accra, Ghana
◻︎ Foxy's, British Virgin Islands