Our Tiny Adventure Bucket List

Travel
Written By Nicole Elmore

If you know us, we talk a lot about the importance of having a bucket list, so you can be intentional with your plans and choices in life to live a life that you can look back on and smile about. Here is Our Tiny Adventure Bucket List. We hope it will inspire YOU!

 

TO DO:

  • Watch a fireworks show from a plane (looking down)

  • Zorbing in New Zealand

  • Visit 6 continents of the world (currently Antarctica is not on our list)

  • Take a hot air balloon ride above the Serengeti National Park

  • Float in the Dead Sea

  • See the Northern Lights

  • Visit the Treasury (al-Khazha) and the Monastery (al Dayr) in Petra, Jordan

  • Take a tour of Chernobyl and the town Pripyat

  • Visit Papua New Guinea and meet a local tribe

  • See Silverbacks in the wild (Bwindi National Park, Uganda)

  • Volunteer in a wildlife sanctuary and work with cheetahs (Negev Desert in Israel or Namibia Desert)

  • Live for 1+ week in a house boat

  • Bungee jump in Queenstown, New Zealand (Nevis Highwire)

  • Visit the Auschwitz concentration camp

  • Skydive into the Blue Hole in Belize

  • Tour Pompeii and see Mount Vesuvius

  • Attend Loy Krathong in Chiang Mai

  • Spend a day in Varanasi, India and visit the main cremation grounds

  • Attend the New Year’s Eve fireworks show in Sydney, Australia

  • Fly somewhere with no luggage or carry-on

  • See a lion in the wild

  • Volunteer in a lemur sanctuary in Madagascar

  • Participate in a Ari Muyang Festival with the Mah Meri tribe in Malaysia

  • See a Bollywood move in the making

  • Attend an arranged marriage wedding ceremony

  • Spend 24 hours in complete silence in a Buddhist temple

  • Rappel down a cliff

  • Stay at an ice hotel

  • Go down into the underground discharge channel facility in Kasukabe City, Japan

  • Go whale watching

  • Swim with sharks

  • Touch a Mola Mola in Bali

  • Kayak down the Colorado River

  • See lava from an active volcano

  • Visit Hobbiton in Matamata, New Zealand

  • Go ice skating on a frozen river

  • Soak in the natural hot springs in Pamukkale (Turkey)

  • Take a trip on a submarine

  • Go storm chasing

  • Couchsurf in a stranger’s home

  • Attend a medieval renaissance festival at a castle

  • Visit a bio-luminescent site

  • Spend a day at the tiger temple (Wat Pha Luang Ta Bua) in Thailand

 

ACCOMMODATION BUCKET LIST

  • Ice Hotel

  • House Boat

  • Tent Hammock

  • Shipping Container Home

  • Tiny House (<200 square feet)

  • Glass House

  • Underground Cave

  • Igloo

  • Castle

  • Jade Screen Hotel, China

  • Night Train

  • Bamboo Bungalow

  • Huge Luxury Villa

 

COMPLETED

  • Spend a day with the Masaai tribe in Tanzania (2014)

  • Sky dive (2014)

  • Move to a different country (from Germany to the U.S. 2008)

  • Complete a High School exchange year (2006/2007)

  • Camp for 2 weeks (in the hills of Spain, 2005)

  • See monkeys in the wild (Tanzania, 2014)

  • Visit a castle (Malbork castle in Poland, 2001)

  • Go zip lining (Florida, 2013)

  • Stay in a tree house (Costa Rica, 2015)

  • Volunteer at an orphanage (2014)

  • Go on safari (Tarangire National Park in Tanzania, 2014)

  • Go parasailing (Florida, 2006)

  • Touch a dolphin (2010)

  • See a sperm whale (2014, stranded on the beach in Boca Raton, Florida)

  • Feed a kangaroo (2012)

  • Fly on a helicopter (2012)

  • Move across the country (from Fargo, ND to Boca Raton, FL, 2011)

  • Hang gliding (2020)


What are some of your Bucket List activities or destinations? 

Nicole Elmore
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