TRAVEL | This Is My Ultimate Adventure & Travel Bucket List – What’s On Yours?

June 17, 2021 Shell Robshaw-Bryan

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I’ve been considering writing a bucket list post for some time now, and thought now was as good a time as any, so I decided to finally get my list written!

Shell solo snowboarding La Plagne — Solo snowboarding trip to La Plagne in 2019

After getting married a couple of years ago and having an epic honeymoon, we’ve since stuck to smaller trips, including lots of road trips and I’ve developed a bit of an obsession with the Outer Hebrides.

I’m about as optimistic as a person can be, but I’m also a realist. I have limited funds and limited annual leave and these things can often combine to seriously curtail my travel dreams.

Charnwood Forest Alpacas Derbyshire — Trekking with Alpacas 2019

Add to this my dodgy back following my serious snowboarding accident and reality dictates that I’m not going to be making it up to Everest Base Camp any time soon, well, ever really.

Shell diving in Cozumel, Mexico — Completing my final PADI certification dive in Cozumel 2018

For many years I dreamed about visiting the wilds of Patagonia or cruising on an icebreaker in the Arctic, so whilst It’s fair to say I still have lofty dreams and ambitions and a lengthy “If I won the lottery” bucket list, I’ve tried to make this list as realistically attainable as possible.

Me hiking up Snowdon — Hiking up Snowdon

Don’t get me wrong there are still heaps of places I want to see and loads of things I want to do, hundreds probably, but I know full well, that many of them are never going to happen, so for now, I’ll keep those on a separate list in my head, awaiting that lottery win.

To put my bucket list into perspective, I thought I’d also include a list of things I’ve already ticked off the list that until now, had lived exclusively in my imagination.

Travel & Adventure Bucket List Things I’ve Already Done

Snowboard down an Olympic black run
Visit the Isle of Skye and Outer Hebrides
Go sea kayaking
Go white water rafting
Ride a horse on the beach
Dive with sharks
Go on a solo overseas yoga retreat
Hike up a mountain on my own
Camp in the middle of winter
Dive in the Red Sea
Dive in the Indian Ocean
Get PADI certified
Go Alpaca trekking
Walk up Snowdon
Swim with sharks in the wild
Visit Central Park in New York
Naturally encounter a sea turtle in the wild
Visit Tintagel
Drink Champagne in a wood-fired hot tub under the stars
Conquer my fear of heights and learn to climb
Go wild swimming
Travel by seaplane
Go down a zip wire
Kayak in the Ardèche
Go quad biking in the Sahara desert
Ride a camel
Haggle in a souk in Marrakech
Rock up to a ferry terminal with my passport and suitcase and no plan
Dive in a marine nature reserve
Cycle the Monsal Rail Trail in the Peak District
Do a winter open-water swim

Kayaking on a Loch during a solo road trip up to Scotland 2017

27 Travel & Adventure Bucket List Things I Haven’t Done Yet (last updated 03.03.2022)

Go canoeing & wild camping in Canada
Visit the Yukon
Stay in a secluded forest somewhere random in Eastern Europe
Go on a Shamanic journeying retreat
Encounter Orangutans in Borneo
Dive with Manta Rays in the Maldives
Go wild camping in Scotland
Explore the Norwegian Fjords
Hike up a mountain early enough to watch the sunrise from the peak
Return to Whistler in Canada to snowboard on my favourite mountain in the world
Go on a campervan road trip around New Zealand
Visit the Orkney Islands
Photograph a Toucan in the wild
Visit the Shwedagon Pagoda in Burma, where my grandmother grew up
Visit Kingston in Jamaica where my biological father was born
Travel to Scotland on the Caledonian sleeper train
See Aurora Borealis
Dive in a cenote in Mexico
Hike up Cader Idris and swim in Llyn Cau
Go on the Fforest Coaster at Zip World
Go on a yoga retreat somewhere beautiful
Visit a geothermal spa
Take a scenic train journey through the Alps
Go glamping in a treehouse
Visit the Scilly Isles
Visit the Galapagos Islands
Swim with Whale sharks

So there you have it, I’ve finally put my bucket list down in writing and I can’t wait to see how many more adventures I’ll get to check off my list over the coming years!

I’d love to know what’s on your bucket list and whether anything on my list is on yours too! Drop a comment below.