Bucket List
Have a baby(January 5, 2015)- Visit all 7 continents
Start my own business(November 2009)- Live abroad for at least 1 year
Have a travel story published in a magazine(July 2011,Travelhost)- Have a photo published in a magazine (Año 2 – N°4 de 2008, Madero First)
Have my photo published on the cover of a magazine(January 2014, Today’s Charlotte Woman)- Get a tattoo in a foreign country (March 1996: Nassau, The Bahamas)
- Learn to scuba dive (May 2008: Great Barrier Reef, Australia)
- Get my advanced scuba license
- Travel abroad with my brother (June 2010: the Netherlands and Spain)
- Go on an African safari (May 2006: Kruger National Park, South Africa)
- Sky dive (May 2008: Great Barrier Reef, Australia)
- Go on a road trip through the Australian Outback (December 2007)
- Read a Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel in Spanish without a dictionary
- Visit Cuba without getting caught (July 2007)
- Swim with dolphins (July 2007: Vadadero, Cuba)
- Swim with whales in an aquarium (April 2009: Atlanta, Georgia)
- Swim with whales in the wild
- Ride an elephant (August 2007: Pattaya, Thailand)
- Hang glide in Rio de Janeiro
- Visit Japan during sakura (April 2006: Tokyo, Japan)
- Learn how to surf (June 2007: Jaco, Costa Rica)
- See my photos displayed in an art gallery
- Go on a solo yoga and/or surf retreat in Bali
Take a cooking class abroad(November 2011, Florence, Italy)Zip line(July 2007: Las Terrazas, Cuba)- Learn how to fly a plane
- Fly on a private jet
- Learn how to sail
- Take a sailboating trip throughout the Caribbean
- Trek through the Amazon Rain Forest (January 2010: Manaus, Brasil)
- Skinny dip in the Amazon River (January 2010: Manaus, Brasil)
Climb an active volcano(June 2006: Arenal, Costa Rica)- Visit all 7 modern Wonders of the World
- Travel solo in a country where I do not speak the language (December 2009: Brasil)
- Show up at the airport with my bag and passport and take the first available international flight
Bungee jump(April 2012: Macau)- Learn how to drive a stick shift
- Drive from the USA to Argentina
- Attend an Indian wedding in India
- Take a RTW trip with my son
- Go topless at a crowded beach (October 2007: Noumea, New Caledonia)
- Visit Salar de Uyuni and drive throughout the desert of Bolivia (January 2009)
- Take a hot air balloon ride (December 2008: Alice Springs, Australia)
- Hear the Dalai Lama speak (November 2005: Washington, D.C.)
- Celebrate New Year’s Eve on Copacabana Beach dressed in white (December 2009/10)
- Celebrate Carnival in Brasil
- Travel to outer space
- Visit the Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet (August 2008)
- Soak in a Japanese onsen (April 2006: Hakone, Japan)
- Ride on the Trans-Siberian railway
- Smoke pot in a cafe in Amsterdam (June 2010)
- Attend a World Cup match
- Fall in love with a foreigner (too many times to count!)
- Bathe in the Ganges River
- Float in the Dead Sea
- Go on a escorted tour of the Grand Canyon
- Go on a coffee tour around the world
- Surf and dive in the ocean around the most remote island in the world (October 2010: Easter Island, Chile)
- Have a boudoir session with an international photographer in a foreign country (October 2010: Santiago, Chile)
- Visit a foreign country at least 3X in 1 year (Argentina 2006, Australia 2008)
- Ride on the top of a moving train
Get married in a foreign country(May 2011: Buenos Aires, Argentina)Have the honeymoon of my wildest dreams(May 2011: Brasil)Sleep in a villa in Tuscany(November 2011)- Play with peacocks at the Peacock Pavilion
- Spend a week doing absolutely nothing but eating and drinking in the village of Gordes, France
Spend the night in the Presidential Suite anywhere in the world(December 2011: Chicago, Illinois)Slice off the top of a bottle of champagne in public(April 2012: Macau)- Go swimming in the Pink Lake Retba in Senegal
Walk on a pink sand beach and bring some sand home with me(March 2013: Bermuda)Dive with stingrays in Stingray City(February, 2013: Cayman Islands)- Get a travel-theme tattoo
- Ride a camel in the Sahara Dessert
- See a wild sloth with my husband