My Travel Plans

I know it's completely insane! But I just can't turn off the switch in my head that is dragging me towards travelling. I want to see everything, everywhere. Actually, lately it has become less of a want and more of a need. It's like an addiction, something that I got a small taste of in Hawaii and Jamaica and now, well I can't stop thinking about it!

To begin my travels, first thing I want to do is work on a cruise ship. I know that's not a very conventional job, in any way shape or form, but I don't care. It's still a job that allows me to experience different cultures and see other places of the world before I take off for my REAL big trip that will begin in Europe.

I have been reading a lot of blogs and some books about Europe to help me narrows down my destinations of travel... Yeah like that was a good idea, instead of helping me minimize I found out about all these cool places, festivals and journeys you can go on in places I had never even heard of before.. I am no where near done my research and my list has doubled at least. When it is complete I will add a new bucket list, one just for all the places I want to see in Europe. Who knows, maybe it will be even bigger than my regular , non-travelling one. At this point it wouldn't surprise me. 

But I have to be realistic about it. Pay off debts and save a lot of money. Which is one reason I think a cruise ship would be great.. You work, you get paid and you get accommodations. So how do you spend money out there, at sea? You don't, only when you are off the ship is when you would have an opportunity to do so. And as long as you stay away from souvenirs you should be okay, or maybe I'm just being too optomistic about my venture, I guess there is only one way to find out. Believe me when I say, I will and I will enjoy every second of it :)

Until next time. 

Where it all began.

The idea of a Bucket List was always lost on me. I thought, why would I want to make a list of all the things in life I want to do, but realistically, probably never will. I mean, Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman made it look so easy, but that was just a movie, and in the movie, Jack Nicholson was rich.. A luxury not all of us have. That's when I decided I would make one still, it would just not have as many items that require large sums of money (of course the ones that do, need quiet a bit).

By age 16 I had made a mock up of my first list (and 5 others exactly like it), but had yet to complete one thing on my list. Eventually, I had forgotten all about them. But once I was our of high school, I figured I would give it a real shot. Since I was taking a year off school, or make that 3... There was no time like the present. My end result was a large list full of opportunity, I couldn't wait to begin. 


THE LIST:

1. Go rock climbing
2. Go bungee jumping
3. Stand in 2 places at once
4. Read the Bible 
5. Go snowboarding/skiing
6. Read ALL the books I own
7. Go on a spontaneous trip with no destination in mind
8. Join a volunteer group in a foreign country
9. Make my own wine
10. Go on a hike
11. Fly a plane
12. Kiss a famous person
13. Get a tattoo
14. Kiss a stranger
15. Move out of Winnipeg
16. Go ice fishing
17. Buy a house
18. Secret 
19. Skate on a river
20. Stay up all night looking at the stars
21. Witness a solar eclipse
22. Witness a lunar eclipse
23. Witness a meteor shower
24. Learn to salsa dance
25. Go on a safari trip
26. Climb a pyramid
27. Sponsor a child
28. Watch casablanca
29. Ride a camel
30. Ride an elephant 
31. Ride a giraffe (do people do that...)
32. Spend a summer working on a farm in a foreign country
33. Get my career started
34. Get a pen pal
35. Break into the old drive-in movie theatre for a night
36. Witness a miracle
37. Dye all my hair pink
38. write something in wet cement
39. Join a gym
40. Scream as loud as I can
41. Make a complete fool of myself
42. Forgive someone I’ve held a grudge with
43. Drive all night
44. Slow dance in the middle of the street
45. Move out
46. Save $10, 000
47. Swim in an ocean
48. See an ocean 
49. Make a relationship last
50. Make a difference
51. Cut my hair REALLY short. 
52. Back pack through Europe
53. Go on a Gondola in Venice, Italy
54. Visit Pompeii
55. Witness a natural disaster
56. Teach english as a second language
57. Learn an instrument 
58. take singing lessons
59. Take cooking classes
60. Buy a great camera to document my travels
61. Skinny dip in the ocean

And more to come.... :) 

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