My travel bucket list includes a few dozen travel experiences I hope to accomplish in my lifetime:
- Climb Mt. Kilimanjaro.
- Travel overland through eastern Africa (Victoria Falls to Nairobi).
- Take the Trans-Siberian Railway.
- Experience the Tibet train—the world’s highest railway—on a breathtaking journey from China to Lhasa.
- Take the 2-day, mountain bus ride from McLeod Ganj to Leh, India.
- Bicycle down Corocio, the "world's most dangerous" road in Bolivia.
- Handglide in Rio de Janeiro.
- Trek to Machu Picchu.
- Play Indiana Jones in Petra, Jordan.
- Recite lines from Casablanca in Casablanca.
- Trek in Patagonia.
- Climb a 6,000-meter peak.
- Live in Medellin again.
- Visit the motherland - Russia.
- Push my comfort boundaries with a jaunt to Damascus.
- Take a Zen meditation course in Japan.
- Eat cobra heart in Vietnam (just like Bourdain).
- Drive the Pacific Coast Highway in California.
- Trek to Everest Base Camp.
- Spot wild moose in Alaska.
- Oktoberfest in Munich (yes, I know it is for the tourists!).
- Go ice climbing.
- Take a wilderness survival course.
- Swim with a dolphin.
- Go whitewater rafting on the Zambezi River (Class V).
- See the US Men's National team play in the World Cup abroad.
