Travel Favorites and Still to Do (to-do and ta-dah!)

“Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.”

Max Ehrmann, Desiderata

The world is filled with such variety that is impossible to see it all. We each have to choose what’s important to us -what resonates with our interests. And what is within our reach – financially and physically. We’ve been fortunate to be able to enjoy active, (occasionally) luxury travel as we enter retirement years but there are still a few items on our travel bucket list.

Somehow our “to-do” keeps growing, so I like to reflect back on all the special adventures we’ve already had. Our “ta-da!” list.

This is our list of ‘favorites’ and ‘still to dos’. Your list will be different.

Trips of a Lifetime

Our All-Time Favorite Trips

Still to Do!

  • New Zealand
  • Amazon in Brazil (booked!)
  • Tahiti (booked!)
  • Namibia
  • Southeast Asia
  • River Cruise in Europe
  • Alaska


Our Favorite Destinations

Favorite Parks & Wildlife Refuges

Looking forward to!

  • Denali National Park

Top 10 UNESCO Sites

On our travel bucket list

  • Mont-Saint-Michel, France
  • Angkor Wat, Cambodia
  • Great Wall of China, Summer Palace, etc., Beijing, China
  • Ha Long Bay, Vietnam

Favorite Cities

Looking forward to exploring

  • Budapest
  • Kyoto
  • Prague
  • Singapore
  • Sydney

Experiences We Recommend

Favorite Museums

  • 9/11 Museum, NYC
  • Acropolis Museum, Athens
  • Anne Frank House and Museum, Amsterdam
  • Egyptian Museum, Cairo
  • Field Museum, Chicago
  • Louvre, Paris
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
  • Musée d’Orsay, Paris
  • Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
  • Smithsonian Museums, Washington
  • Vatican Museum, Vatican City

Hoping to Visit

  • Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial, Poland
  • Terracotta Warriors, China

Top 12 Travel Activities

We are ready to try

  • River cruise – in Europe

Do you have a travel bucket list? Does it motivate you to travel?


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