"I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list."

Susan Sontag

My (travel) bucket list

Banff National Park
India's Golden Triangle
Eat momo in Katmandu, Nepal
Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
Earn enough Hyatt Rewards points for a free stay at the Park Hyatt Maldives
Highclere Castle (of Downton Abbey fame)
Cartagena, Colombia- DONE (2024)
Budapest-DONE (2022)
Go on a Sound of Music tour in Salzburg, Austria
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Panama Canal cruise
Bali
Visit all 50 United States (28 down, 22 to go!)
Experience Francophone culture in Dakar, Senegal
Take a Danube River cruise at Christmas
Mont-Saint-Michel, France
D-Day landing beaches, France
Edinburgh and the Scottish highlands
Visit Provence during the summer months, specifically to see the lavender fields in bloom
Visit my great-grandmother’s village in Poland and find out more about her family and siblings
Visit the Hawaiian island of Moloka’i
Get over my fear of altitude sickness and travel to Peru-DONE (2014)
Have a mojito in Cuba
Revisit my former haunts in Spain, Costa Rica-DONE (2018), and South Korea-the three countries I studied abroad in during college
Rent a convertible and drive down the Overseas Highway to Key West
Stay at the Chateau de la Chèvre d’or Eze, a 5 star hotel that is located on the French Riviera
Fly in business or first class…at least once-DONE (British Airways flight from Pittsburgh to London-2019, Singapore Airlines flight from San Francisco to Singapore-2020)
Visit the Library of Congress-DONE (2013)
See Victoria Falls and stay at the historic Victoria Falls hotel in Zimbabwe
See Iguazú Falls in Argentina/Brasil
Take a mother-daughter trip.-DONE (2016, 2018, 2024)
Visit Monet’s house and garden at Giverny in France. I have wanted to go there ever since I read the book Linnea in Monet’s Garden as a child.
Oradour-sur-Glane, France
Visit all of the Disney theme parks-still to do are Hong Kong Disney, Tokyo Disneyland and Shanghai Disney
Istanbul-DONE (2019)
Take a balloon ride in the Cappadocia region of Turkey-DONE (2019)
Swim in the Dead Sea-DONE (2024)
Chase the Northern Lights, preferably in Iceland or see the Midnight Sun there (either or)
Barbados
Visit the World War I battlefield Gallipoli in Turkey. Here would be to you Dr. Rosensweig-DONE (2019)
Visit Petra in Jordan- DONE (2024)
Do the whole nine yards in Egypt-museums, pyramids, a Nile River cruise-DONE (2022)
Auschwitz concentration camp
Tour the Yad Vashem in Israel
Visit the Galápagos Islands, swim with sea lions
Go on an Alaskan cruise-DONE (2017)
Take a cooking class abroad-DONE (2020-Hanoi, Vietnam)
Walk/drive/bike some of the Camino de Santiago
Go on a safari in Africa-any country with prime wildlife will do
Play with pandas in Chengdu, China
Prince Edward Island (huge Anne of Green Gables fan)
Do the Kentucky Bourbon Trail-DONE (2013)
The Grand Canyon
Visit the famed antebellum mansions in Natchez, Mississippi
Anne Frank House-DONE (2019)
San Francisco-DONE (2021)
See fjords in Norway-DONE (2015)
Acadia National Park
Guatemala-specifically Antigua, Tikal, and Lake Atitlan
Palenque Maya ruins in Mexico
Charleston, South Carolina-DONE (2016)
Patagonia
Indochina (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia-any of the above will do)-DONE (2020-visited Vietnam and Cambodia)
The 12 Apostles-Great Ocean Road
Leaning Tower of Pisa (cheesy and touristy but it would be for Pop Pop)
Santorini
St. Petersburg, Russia-DONE (2018)
Georgia (the country)-specifically to eat myself silly as I simply adore Georgian cuisine
Azores
Rio de Janeiro

Angkor Wat (Cambodia)-March 2020

Standing beneath the city of Istanbul (Turkey) inside the ancient Basilica Cistern (it dates from the 6th century)-September 2019

Machu Picchu (Peru)-September 2014

Inaugural mother-daughter trip to

Charleston, South Carolina (USA)-April 2016

At the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg (Russia)-August 2018

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"I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list."

Susan Sontag

My (travel) bucket list

Banff National Park

India's Golden Triangle

Eat momo in Katmandu, Nepal

Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado

Earn enough Hyatt Rewards points for a free stay at the Park Hyatt Maldives

Highclere Castle (of Downton Abbey fame)

Cartagena, Colombia- DONE (2024)

Budapest-DONE (2022)

Go on a Sound of Music tour in Salzburg, Austria

Santa Fe, New Mexico

Panama Canal cruise

Bali

Visit all 50 United States (28 down, 22 to go!)

Experience Francophone culture in Dakar, Senegal

Take a Danube River cruise at Christmas

Mont-Saint-Michel, France

D-Day landing beaches, France

Edinburgh and the Scottish highlands

Visit Provence during the summer months, specifically to see the lavender fields in bloom

Visit my great-grandmother’s village in Poland and find out more about her family and siblings

Visit the Hawaiian island of Moloka’i

Get over my fear of altitude sickness and travel to Peru-DONE (2014)

Have a mojito in Cuba

Revisit my former haunts in Spain, Costa Rica-DONE (2018), and South Korea-the three countries I studied abroad in during college

Rent a convertible and drive down the Overseas Highway to Key West

Stay at the Chateau de la Chèvre d’or Eze, a 5 star hotel that is located on the French Riviera

Fly in business or first class…at least once-DONE (British Airways flight from Pittsburgh to London-2019, Singapore Airlines flight from San Francisco to Singapore-2020)

Visit the Library of Congress-DONE (2013)

See Victoria Falls and stay at the historic Victoria Falls hotel in Zimbabwe

See Iguazú Falls in Argentina/Brasil

Take a mother-daughter trip.-DONE (2016, 2018, 2024)

Visit Monet’s house and garden at Giverny in France. I have wanted to go there ever since I read the book Linnea in Monet’s Garden as a child.

Oradour-sur-Glane, France

Visit all of the Disney theme parks-still to do are Hong Kong Disney, Tokyo Disneyland and Shanghai Disney

Istanbul-DONE (2019)

Take a balloon ride in the Cappadocia region of Turkey-DONE (2019)

Swim in the Dead Sea-DONE (2024)

Chase the Northern Lights, preferably in Iceland or see the Midnight Sun there (either or)

Barbados

Visit the World War I battlefield Gallipoli in Turkey. Here would be to you Dr. Rosensweig-DONE (2019)

Visit Petra in Jordan- DONE (2024)

Do the whole nine yards in Egypt-museums, pyramids, a Nile River cruise-DONE (2022)

Auschwitz concentration camp

Tour the Yad Vashem in Israel

Visit the Galápagos Islands, swim with sea lions

Go on an Alaskan cruise-DONE (2017)

Take a cooking class abroad-DONE (2020-Hanoi, Vietnam)

Walk/drive/bike some of the Camino de Santiago

Go on a safari in Africa-any country with prime wildlife will do

Play with pandas in Chengdu, China

Prince Edward Island (huge Anne of Green Gables fan)

Do the Kentucky Bourbon Trail-DONE (2013)

The Grand Canyon

Visit the famed antebellum mansions in Natchez, Mississippi

Anne Frank House-DONE (2019)

San Francisco-DONE (2021)

See fjords in Norway-DONE (2015)

Acadia National Park

Guatemala-specifically Antigua, Tikal, and Lake Atitlan

Palenque Maya ruins in Mexico

Charleston, South Carolina-DONE (2016)

Patagonia

Indochina (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia-any of the above will do)-DONE (2020-visited Vietnam and Cambodia)

The 12 Apostles-Great Ocean Road

Leaning Tower of Pisa (cheesy and touristy but it would be for Pop Pop)

Santorini

St. Petersburg, Russia-DONE (2018)

Georgia (the country)-specifically to eat myself silly as I simply adore Georgian cuisine

Azores

Rio de Janeiro

Angkor Wat (Cambodia)-March 2020

Standing beneath the city of Istanbul (Turkey) inside the ancient Basilica Cistern (it dates from the 6th century)-September 2019

Machu Picchu (Peru)-September 2014

Inaugural mother-daughter trip to

Charleston, South Carolina (USA)-April 2016

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