Andi’s Bucket List
I created this Bucket List in 2010, long before they became a trend. Back then, it was simply a way to hold myself accountable to my dreams — a quiet promise to myself that I would live boldly, love deeply, and see as much of the world as I could.
Today, this list is so much more. This Bucket List has now inspired over 100,000 readers around the world — something I could have never imagined when I first wrote it.
It is a living record of a life I have actually lived. A collection of moments that once felt impossible… and somehow became memories.
Some dreams have been checked off. Some have evolved. And some are still waiting patiently for their moment.
But every single one has shaped the woman I am today.
✈️ Travel Dreams
- Visit all 7 continents (6 down… Antarctica, I am coming for you!)
- Ride the Trans-Siberian Railway
- Float in the Dead Sea
- Visit the Taj Mahal ✔️Completed
- See the Northern Lights
- Go on an African safari ✔️Completed
- Trek through the Amazon ✔️Completed
- Visit the Great Wall of China ✔️Completed
- Visit Machu Picchu ✔️Completed
- Walk through the Colosseum ✔️Completed
- Travel abroad with my brother ✔️Completed
- Visit the Potala Palace in Tibet ✔️Completed
- Drive through the Outback of Australia ✔️Completed
- Visit Cuba without getting caught ✔️Completed
- Travel abroad with my son ✔️Completed
- Go on a coffee tour around the world
- Travel to outer space
- Drive from the USA to Argentina
- Visit all 7 modern Wonders of the World
- Travel solo in a country where I do not speak the language ✔️Completed
- Take a RTW trip with my husband and son
- Visit Salar de Uyuni and drive throughout the desert of Bolivia ✔️Completed
- Spend the night in the Presidential Suite anywhere in the world ✔️Completed
- Visit a foreign country at least 3X in 1 year ✔️Completed (Argentina 2006, Australia 2008)
- Sleep in a villa in Tuscany ✔️Completed
💫 Wild & Adventurous
- Sky dive ✔️Completed
- Bungee jump ✔️Completed
- Learn how to scuba dive ✔️Completed
- Surf and dive in the ocean around the most remote island in the world ✔️Completed
- Hang glide in Rio
- Cage dive with Great White sharks ✔️Completed
- Swim with dolphins ✔️Completed
- Swim with whales in an aquarium ✔️Completed
- Swim with whales in the wild
- Ride an elephant ✔️Completed
- Ride a camel in the Sahara Dessert
- Ride in a hot air balloon ✔️Completed
- Learn how to surf ✔️Completed
- Go zip-lining through a jungle ✔️Completed
- Ride in a helicopter ✔️Completed
- Ride in a helicopter with my family ✔️Completed
- Get a tattoo in a foreign country ✔️Completed
- Fly on a private jet
- Take a sailboating trip throughout the Caribbean
- Skinny dip in the Amazon River ✔️Completed
- Climb an active volcano ✔️Completed
- Go topless at a crowded beach ✔️Completed
- Attend a World Cup match
- Celebrate New Year’s Eve on Copacabana Beach dressed in white ✔️Completed
- Celebrate Carnival in Brasil
- Get a travel-theme tattoo
- Hold a wild sloth ✔️Completed
- Dive with stingrays in Stingray City ✔️Completed
- Go swimming in the Pink Lake Retba in Senegal
- Slice off the top of a bottle of champagne in public ✔️Completed
❤️ Love & Life
- Get married in a foreign country ✔️Completed
- Have the honeymoon of my wildest dreams ✔️Completed
- Fall in love with a foreigner ✔️Completed (and still living it)
- Have a baby ✔️Completed (my greatest adventure of all)
- Create my own business ✔️Completed (on a sabbatical)
- Build a life centered around travel ✔️Completed
- Create a career doing what I love ✔️Completed
- Become a dog mom ✔️Completed (my second greatest adventure of all)
- Show up at the airport with my bag and passport and take the first available international flight
🌿 Soul & Growth
- Hear the Dalai Lama speak ✔️Completed
- Read a Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel in Spanish without a dictionary
- Attend an Indian wedding in India
- Have a boudoir session with an international photographer in a foreign country ✔️Completed
- Live in another country
- Soak in a Japanese onsen ✔️Completed
- Visit Japan during sakura season ✔️Completed
- Have a travel story published in a magazine ✔️Completed
- Have my photo published on the cover of a magazine ✔️Completed
- Take a cooking class abroad ✔️Completed
- Go on a solo yoga and/or surf retreat in Bali
- Walk on a pink sand beach and bring some sand home with me ✔️Completed
- See a U2 concert anywhere ✔️Completed
- Spend a week doing absolutely nothing but eating and drinking in Mallorca ✔️Completed
- Play with peacocks at the Peacock Pavilion
- Learn to fully trust my intuition (a work in progress)
- Find peace in every season of life (still learning, still growing)
💖 The Ones That Changed Me
Some dreams are bigger than experiences. They change you.
These are the ones that shaped my life in ways I never could have imagined:
- Getting married in Argentina
- Becoming a mother to Joaquín
- Traveling solo and finding my independence
- Turning my love for travel into a career
- Learning that sometimes the most beautiful adventures are the ones you never planned
✨ What This List Means Now
This list used to be about chasing dreams. Now, it is about honoring them.
It reminds me that even in seasons of heartbreak, uncertainty, or stillness… life is still unfolding exactly as it should.
And that the girl who wrote this list all those years ago?
She would be really proud.
💌 What’s On Your Bucket List?
I would love to hear your dreams.
Because while this list started as mine, it has always been about something bigger — inspiring you to believe that your dreams are possible too.
Tell me one thing on your bucket list in the comments… I might just add it to mine 💕
