Starting a new year (after two pretty uneventful years during the pandemic) got me thinking about the many fun things to do that I’ve experienced so far in life – my completed bucket list. I’m working on a fun things to do list for next year now, too, and a rest-of-life bucket list!
You might want to try some of the ideas below, if you haven’t done them yet. Click the links to see a full blog post about some of them, too.
- Ride on the Maid of the Mist under Niagara Falls
- Swim with stingrays
- See a legendary musician
- Get featured in media for something you’re proud of
- Do dragon boating
- Snorkle
- Snuba (mixture of scuba diving and snorkeling)
- Milk a goat
- Ride on a zip line
- Do an adult trampoline class
- Stomp grapes
- Go on a bicycle tour weekend in another state
- Win a contest
- Go to a wave pool
- Date a much younger man
- See a glacier
- Start a business
- Smash a pie in someone’s face
- Act in a play
- Go waterskiing
- Go on a road trip with a friend
- Shop at an Amazon outlet store (Bargain Binz, etc.)
- Experience acupuncture
- Ride a bike on the beach
- Protest something
- Stand in the Sistine Chapel
- Follow through on a big idea
- Start a mother’s group
- Sew your own clothing
- Go glamping
- Climb a volcano
- Go sailing
- Do online dating
- Witness a solar eclipse
- Find an exercise type you like and stick with it
- Join a Big Talk group
- Ride 100 miles on a bike in one day
- Change your hair color
- Write a book
- Fall in love
- Have a child
- Join a walking club
- Learn calligraphy
- Read 50 books a year
- Play in a tennis league
- Do line dancing
- Have a job that you love
- Ride in a military C17
- Eat fondue
- Go to a Break Room/Rage Room and break lots of stuff
- Appear on a TV show
- Invent something
- Experience eyebrow threading
- Meet someone famous (Vanna White from Wheel of Fortune)
- Host a cookie exchange
- Take a shag dancing class
- Try a salt therapy session
- Play in a pingpong tournament
- Go to a drive-through festival of Christmas lights
- Have a girlfriends wreath-making party for Christmas
- Jump into the ocean on a polar plunge
- Participate in a sand castle contest
- Belt out your favorite songs on a long solo road trip
- Ride in a dump truck and watch the load being dumped
- Go kayaking
- Form a book club
- Do stand up paddleboarding
- Take a pole dancing class
- Do axe throwing
- Ride a camel
- Write an e-book
- Go on a cruise with a friend and cruise solo
- Ride on a train
- Sleep overnight in an airport (this did NOT turn out to be fun but I thought it would be)
- Go to the French Riviera
- Visit a mosque
- Hike to the summit of a (small) mountain
- Hold a community yard sale for charity
- Go ice skating
- Cut down your own live Christmas tree
- Live in a place you love
- Rappel down a climbing wall
- Climb to the top of a climbing wall
- Go to a penguin rookery
- Do stand-up paddleboard yoga
- Have your “15 minutes of fame”
- Go on a women’s hiking and kayaking weekend
- Go to a weekend scrapbooking retreat at the beach
- Record a song at a “do-it-yourself” recording studio
- Experience a sensory deprivation tank/flotation tank
- Do aerial yoga
- Walk on a labyrinth
- Do Polga (combination of pole dancing and yoga)
- Watch a live NASCAR race/Daytona 500
- Cruise solo
- Create a blog and get over half a million hits
- Stay in a tiny house
- Do aerial yoga
- Write a guest post on someone else’s blog
- Do goat yoga
- Take a photo every day for a year showing what you did/what happened to you
- Go to an aerial adventure park
- Play frisbee/disk golf
- Take an exotic chair dancing class
- Do line dancing
- Take a belly dancing class
- Take a ballet class
- Take a Zumba class
- Go to an escape room
- Go to a UFO welcome center (Bowman, South Carolina)
- See the Sistine Chapel
- Visit New Orleans and Bourbon Street
- See Parc Guell and La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona
- See the Palace of Versailles in France
- See the Acropolis in Athens
- Go to Myrtle Beach
- See the Sydney Opera House
- Go to Australia
- Visit a mosque
- See Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris
- Climb the Eiffel Tower
- Go to Patagonia, South America
- See the Coliseum in Rome
- Visit the Mona Lisa in The Louvre
- See changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace
- See the fjords in Norway
- Go to the Falkland Islands
- Walk up Lombard Street in San Francisco
- Go to Zion national park
- Visit Hell on the Cayman Islands
- Go to Bryce Canyon
- Go to the Grand Canyon
- See the fall foliage in New England
- Go to Key West
- Visit plantations in Charleston, SC
- Go to Trevi Fountain, Rome
- Sunbathe on the French Riviera
- See the Leaning Tower of Pisa
- Visit Cinque Terre, Italy
- Visit Venice
- Get photo sketched by a sidewalk artist in Montmartre, Paris
- Go to Bora Bora
- Go to Hawaii
- Go to a yard sale in a foreign country
- Cruise around Cape Horn and circumnavigate the tip of South America
- Go to the “end of the world” – Ushuaia, South America
- Go to Las Vegas and stay at the Bellagio Hotel
- Go to the botanical garden in Phoenix, AZ
- Go to Spain
- Go to Italy and see the Amalfi Coast and Capri
- Go to Montenegro
- Go to France
- Go to Greece
- Go to Morocco and Tangiers in Africa
- Ride a camel
- Go to Mexico
- Eat fish and chips in London
- Go to England
- Go to Switzerland
- Go to Chile, South America
- Go on a weekend bicycling trip to New England
- Hike in the rain forest in Costa Rica
- Go to Belize
- Visit every major Caribbean island
- Go see the Rock of Gibraltar
- Go to Copenhagen and Tivoli Gardens
- Visit St. Petersburg, Russia
- Go to Sweden
- Visit Los Angeles and see the Walk of Fame and the Hollywood sign
Related blog posts:
- Polga (Yoga and Pole Dancing) Awesomeness
- Flotation Tank Experience: A One-Hour Relaxing Float in a Tub of Buoyant Water
- Aerial Adventure Park: A Unique and Exciting Fitness Experience
- Yoga Doesn’t Have to Be Dull: Amazingly Unique Yoga Classes
- Walking Clubs: Great Way to Exercise, Enjoy the Outdoors, Meet New People
- Second Women’s Hiking and Kayaking Weekend in Brevard: Wonderful Except for the Near-Death Experience
- Escape Room: A Unique and Interesting Adventure with Friends
- Aerial Adventure Park: A Unique and Exciting Fitness Experience
- Goat Yoga is Great: Unique Fitness Fun on a Farm
- Exotic Chair Dancing: Not Your Grandma’s Exercise Routine
- A Unique Workout: High Intensity Adult Trampoline Class
- Aerial Yoga: A Fun and Uplifting Experience
- Dragon Boating: A Unique and Fun Team Sport
- First Acupuncture Experience: It Didn’t Hurt
- Ping Pong: Not Ready for the Olympics
- Sports and Hobbies: How Many Can You Squeeze into a Lifetime? 79 So Far…
- Confessions of an Adult Learning to Swim
- Nothing Makes You Feel Better than a BODY PUMP Workout
- Stand-up Paddleboarding: Testing the Water
- Zumba is Exhilarating
- Dating a Much Younger Man
- Boost Happiness: Bring Back Fun Activities that Fell Along the Wayside
- Second Women’s Hiking and Kayaking Weekend in Brevard: Wonderful Except for the Near-Death Experience
- Fall Fun at a Women’s Adventure Weekend in Brevard, North Carolina
- Fun New Fitness Activity: Disc Golfing
- How to Host a Fun Girlfriends Wreath-Making Party
- Starting a Mothers Group Transformed My Life
- Weird Solo Travel Experiences
- Vacationing on Your Own: Pleasures and Perils of Solo Travel
- Traveling Solo: Why I Love Princess Cruise Lines
- Weird Vacation Incidents on My South America Cruise
- Traveling Solo: Why I Love Princess Cruise Lines
- Rock of Gilbraltar: A Fun Shore Excursion on a Mediterranean Cruise
- Mediterranean Cruise: Lost Luggage Second Year in a Row
- Mediterranean Cruise: An Adventure in Montenegro
- Mediterranean Cruise: A Day in Santorini, Greece, Climbing a Volcano and Exploring a Mountaintop Village
- Mediterranean Cruise: A Day at the Beach in Katakolon, Greece
- Mediterranean Cruise: Touring Athens
- Mediterranean Cruise: Fabulous Venice
- Mediterranean Cruise: The $847 Hotel Room
- Mediterranean Cruise: Weird Incidents
- Mediterranean Cruise: Souvenirs from Italy and Greece
- Mediterranean Cruise: Palma de Majorca
- Mediterranean Cruise to Malta
- Mediterranean Cruise to the Greek Islands and Venice: Off to a Bumpy Start
- Riding Camels in Tangier, Africa on a Norwegian Mediterranean Cruise
- Casablanca Shore Excursion on Norwegian Mediterranean Cruise
- Norwegian Cruise to Spain and Africa: Day One
- Bid on Room Upgrades on Norwegian Cruise Line; You Might Win Big
- Weird Vacation Incidents on My South American Cruise
- South America Cruise: Ushuaia, Argentina the End of the World
- South America Cruise: Adventures in Punta Del Este, Uruguay
- South American Cruise: A Day in the Falkland Islands
- South American Cruise: Penguin Rookery at Punto Tombo National Reserve, Argentina
- Crown Princess Review: South America Cruise
- South America Cruise: Buenos Aires Shore Excursion
How long did it take you to make this list???? You have really travelled! This list is phenomenal.
Hi Elisa! Just saw your comment – thanks! It took a couple weeks to think of all these things, and I did most of them the last 10 years or so (travels) and the last 5 years (activities). One was from childhood, though (under Niagara Falls)! Am lucky to have done a lot of cruises before the pandemic – and am dying to do more!
To be honest, by the time I got to my thirties, I was more focused on writing and having fun together than making big goals. The years past, I’m realizing this, and I wanted to share them with you. So here are 17 things I know that nobody has done yet:
— Have a vacation plan at least 4 months ahead of travel
— Read or watch/listen to several audiobooks on different topics a week: something non-fiction, fiction or biography. If you don’t know what they are, there’s plenty of great free resources here. (And a couple of book recommendations) Read an author’s interviews or read their books for something unrelated. Then pick one, read it, and listen to more books about a different topic from the same writer or just related ones. You start building your mind around the world from every angle — travel, history, philosophy, food, etc. That is a brilliant idea!
I actually started following these three suggestions because of listening to Bill Bryson’s audio book series while writing/trying out his ideas about how we humans do travel around the globe or some other thing he was into in those days. And I had…
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