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Last week one of my more popular posts was my 11 year old son’s travel bucket list (READ: My 11 year old son’s travel bucket list – #9 cracks me up). In that post, I talked about how one of the reasons I started getting into travel hacking was to travel more as a family, and to teach my kids that the world is much bigger than their (relatively sheltered) small world.
I think that the concept of an actual “bucket list” of things you want to do someday later (before you kick the bucket) is not that great – I think of my travel bucket list as more of an travel “ideas” list. In fact, in the past year, I’ve marked off the following 9 things on my travel bucket list
- Visit 4 corners
– COMPLETED: March 4, 2015 - See Stonehenge
- See Old Faithful – COMPLETED: June 14, 2015
- Take a ride on the London Underground – part of my recent trip to Europe
- See the Grand Canyon
- See Mt. Rushmore – COMPLETED: June 17, 2015
- Visit the 11/11 11:11:11 themed Veterans Memorial in Anthem, Arizona
- Take an overnight train ride – COMPLETED: June 10, 2015
My 9 year old daughter’s bucket list
Here is my 9 year old daughter’s bucket list
Here’s the list, fixed up for spelling 🙂
- Visit ______ in Utah (I redacted the names of the people she wants to visit on this one and #6)
- Hawaii
- Maine
- Paris
- London
- California
- Scotland
- Ireland
- Istanbul
- 4 corners
- Costa Rica
- Washington
- South Carolina
- Rhode Island
- New York City
- North Carolina
- Mississippi
- Louisiana
- Maryland
- Florida (Harry Potter World or Disney World)
Thankfully there appears to be some overlap between her bucket list and my son’s, and I was interested to see a couple of more “exotic” international destinations in addition to places that maybe aren’t on very many bucket lists (Mississippi anyone?)
Have you ever worked on a bucket list for one of your kids? Let me know in the comments how it worked out!
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Well, of course, I am very happy to see Paris on that list! 🙂
And I see a possible road trip that starts in New Orleans and ends in Orlando. (Do both: Harry Potter at Universal and Disney. P.S. Make sure she takes the train between both Universal HP exhibits. I enjoyed it!)
Good that Scotland (and indeed Harry Potter land) on the list!!
If you haven’t already checked it out, you guys sound like the perfect family for Geocaching! Get started at geocaching.com and you will have hours of fun with the kids and lots more goal-oriented things to shoot for.
I was actually one of the very first people to start Geocaching, back in 2000 – 2001. I did it for awhile but don’t do it very much now
Sounds like a very nice list. I’d like to see Vicksburg in MS so I guess Mississippi is on my list too.