My Bucket List

Big-Picture Adventures

  1. Visit all seven continents – North America, Asia (2011), Europe (2014), Oceania (2017)
  2. Visit all 50 states – 34 + DC so far
  3. Go “around” the world/circumnavigate – completed in 2014 with the Trans-Siberian Railroad
  4. Visit all of the Disneylands – visited 5 of 6 – Disneyland, Disneyworld, Hong Kong Disneyland, Tokyo DisneySea, Shanghai Disneyland
  5. Visit 50+ US National Parks – currently ???

Experiences in Places

  1. Eat ramen in Japan – completed in 2017
  2. Eat sushi in Japan – completed in 2013 with Sharon
  3. Visit Base Camp on Mount Everest
  4. Hike Mt Kilimanjaro, Mt Fuji, and others – Mt Fuji completed in 2017 with dad
  5. Roadtrip across Canada, visit all 13 provinces
  6. Visit the North Pole
  7. Attend Buddhist service in Tibet
  8. Visit Angkor Wat in Cambodia – completed in 2014
  9. Scuba dive the Great Barrier Reef in Australia
  10. Ride the Trans-Siberian Railroad – completed in 2014
  11. Follow the Silk Road from start to finish
  12. Ride a double-decker bus in London, England
  13. Eat a croissant in France – completed in 2017 with Sharon
  14. Watch the Olympics live
  15. See Machu Picchu, Peru
  16. See the Great Pyramids of Giza, Egypt
  17. See a Broadway musical on Broadway – completed 2014 with Aubrey
  18. Go to the Mall of America – completed 2013
  19. Have pizza, gelato, and wine in Venice, Italy
  20. Go to Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  21. Lose money in Las Vegas/Macau – completed 2015 (Las Vegas) with my family, 2011 (Macau) with Zhengxue
  22. Kiss the Blarney Stone
  23. Eat Belgium chocolate in Belgium
  24. Eat Swiss chocolate in Switzerland
  25. Walk the Berlin Wall in Berlin, Germany
  26. Visit a Holocaust site in Germany
  27. Drink at Octoberfest in Germany
  28. Watch the Mass Games in North Korea
  29. Drink wine in Napa Valley – completed 2016 with Mark
  30. See the Gobi Desert – completed 2014
  31. See the Sahara Desert
  32. See the Amazon Rainforest
  33. Safely visit a not-quite-country (ie: Kosovo, South Ossetia, Transnistria, etc.)

More Experiences

  1. Get a massage
  2. Get a boyfriend
  3. Wear a kimono, yukata, qipao, and hanbok – hanbok in 2012?, bought a yukata in 2017, wore a kimono for a day in 2018
  4. Go to a J-Pop concert – accidentally completed in 2015
  5. Go to a K-Pop concert – completed in 2013 and again in 2015
  6. Go to a Chinese opera
  7. Go to an Italian opera
  8. Publish a book
  9. Get nail art
  10. Graduate with honors
  11. Live in a major city – completed in 2011 (Hong Kong) and again in 2014 (New York City) and again in 2018 (Osaka and Shanghai)
  12. Buy or have made a multi-piece professional suit
  13. Design and have made/make my own outfit
  14. Long-term backpacking – completed in 2014
  15. Solo travel – completed in 2014
  16. Swim with a dolphin
  17. Swim with stingrays
  18. Have my portrait painted
  19. Go skinny-dipping
  20. Pull an all-nighter
  21. Be arrested
  22. Be a movie extra
  23. See the aurora borealis or aurora australis
  24. Join Habitat for Humanity
  25. Hike a glacier
  26. Go hang-gliding
  27. Try stand up paddle boarding
  28. Teach English abroad
  29. Work abroad
  30. Sell a photograph
  31. Catch and cook a meal
  32. Feel like a local expert somewhere
  33. Host a friend from abroad
  34. Run through a field of fireflies
  35. Catch a firefly in a jar
  36. Design and 3D print something awesome
  37. Watch the Olympics live

Skills

  1. Snorkel – completed in 2014 (in Thailand) and properly in 2016
  2. Scuba dive – completed in 2016
  3. Ballroom dance
  4. Sing
  5. Surf – completed in 2007? in Hawaii
  6. Skateboard
  7. Appreciate jazz music
  8. Photography
  9. Yoga
  10. Memorize a full poem
  11. Mixology

Foods

  1. Be less picky – started in 2013 and going strong
  2. Have a sublime food experience
  3. Have a surprising food experience
  4. Go on a food tour – completed in NYC 2014 and Kuala Lumpur 2018
  5. Take a cooking class – completed in Feb 2019
  6. Attend culinary school
  7. Make a cooking/baking bucket list and start completing it – started in 2019

Languages

  1. Become fluent (again?) in Spanish
  2. Become fluent in Mandarin – take the HSK 4 (or 5?!)
  3. Learn Japanese – passed JLPT N5 in Dec 2017
  4. Learn a 5th language