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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.
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