We all have life goals and dreams that we want to accomplish before we no longer have the chance to achieve them. I personally have more than I can count on my two hands – ten times over. From places I want to visit, to things I want to experience, I’ve been recording everything that interests me over the past 5 years and have managed to create quite the hefty bucket list.
The only problem is, I add things far more frequently than I cross off, which means there’s a lot of stuff on there that I’m not entirely sure I want to do anymore. I’ve changed so much over the years that certain priorities once important to me, don’t particularly matter now, and the more I look at these un-inspiring goals, the less I acknowledge the one’s I actually want to cross off.
In an attempt to bring back passion for my bucket list, I’ve given it a bit of a re-vamp to reflect who I am as a person today, and in true Geeky Tourist fashion, it’s full of quirky, nerdy, random things that will help fuel my love of travel, and hopefully push back that anxious feeling I get when I’m not living life to its fullest.
Have you got a bucket list? Is there anything you’d recommend? I have no intention to stop adding to mine, so if there’s anything you think I’d love, let me know.
- Search for UFO’s at Roswell
- Visit Area 51
- See a meteor crater
- Witness a live space shuttle launch
- Take a tour of NASA
- Experience weightlessness
- Gawp at the Large Hadron Collider
- Explore the Lego Headquarters
- Stay in a Lego Hotel
- Build a 1000+ piece Lego set
- Check out the largest Star Wars collection in the world at Rancho Obi Wan
- See the Yoda Fountain at Lucas Films
Attend a Comic ConCosplay at a Comic Con- Watch the top 100 science fiction movies of all time
- Read the top 100 science fiction novels of all time
- Visit Gotham
- Visit Metropolis – Superman’s hometown
- Check out the future birth place of Captain James T Kirk
Visit the childhood home of Luke Skywalker- Visit Sherlock’s home at Baker Street
Sing the Ghostbusters theme tune at the Ghostbusters HQ- Visit the House on the Rock
- Explore Jurassic Park
- Visit Kings Landing
Visit HobbitonHike through Mordor- Go to the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party
- Attend a Labyrinth Masquerade Ball
- Attend a Yule Ball
- Buy school supplies from Diagon Alley
- Buy sweets from Hogsmede
- Visit Hogwarts
- Walk through walls at Platform 9 ¾
- Ride the Hogwarts Express
Go on the Harry Potter Studio Tour- Go on the Studio Ghibli Tour
Go to the Doctor Who ExperienceHunt vampires in Whitby- Search for Dracula at his castle in Transylvania
- Have a Star Wars marathon
- Have a Hobbit/LOTR marathon
- Search for the Holy Grail in the Ruins of Petra
- Look for The Mummy at the Pyramids of Giza
- Send ET home at Redwood National Park
- Raid tombs at Angkor Wat
- Fight Gladiators at the Colosseum
Do an Angels and Demons tour of Rome- Dress up like a Geisha in Kyoto
- Go ‘Into the wild’ in Alaska
- Get a ‘Hangover’ in Las Vegas
Solve a Rubik’s cube- Build a Rube Goldberg machine
- Follow in Darwin’s footprints at the Galapagos Islands
Hike the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu- Walk on Water in Bolivia
- Kayak in the Sea of Stars
Hunt for glow worms in the Waitomo Caves- Climb the Stairway to Heaven
- Cross the Bridge of the Immortals
- See the Waterfall of Gods
- Swim in Devils Pool
- Stand on the center of the Earth
Stand on the Eastern and Western hemispheres at the same time- Ride a hoverboard like Marty Mcfly
- Ride a jetpack like the Jetsons
- Drive a Chevy Impala across America
Be part of a zombie survival game- Escape an Escape Room
- Solve a murder mystery
- Go on a Bigfoot expedition
- Search for the Loch Ness Monster
- Track down El Dorado
- Dig for dinosaur remains
- Hunt witches in Salem
- Stay a night in Alcatraz
- Go on a Jack the Ripper tour around London
Go on a superhero tour around New York- Attend a Premiere
Go to a midnight screening in costume- Watch a movie at a drive in theater
- Visit a film set
- Be an extra in a film/TV series
Be part of a live audience- Go to a live Ted Talk
- Spend the night in a museum
- Go on every ride at Disney World
- Visit every Disney park
- Go to a Star Wars weekend
- Explore the Avatar Mountains
Stargaze from a glass igloo- Stargaze at a dark sky reserve
See the Aurora BorealisHave a star named after me- Become a Jedi Knight
- Become a Pokemon Master
- Catch every Pokemon
- Become a comic book character
- Try Larping
- Go to a Renaissance fair
- Play a full game of Dungeons and Dragons
- Stay in a themed room
- Stay in a themed hotel
Track down a Geocache- Go treasure hunting
- Spend a night on a deserted Island
- Explore a shipwreck
- Read 52 books in one year
- Read the entire works of Shakespeare
- Watch a Shakespearian play at the Globe Theater
- Find all the Space Invaders in Paris
- Dance all night at Mardis Gras
- Dress up as a skeleton at Dias de los Muertas
- Celebrate the Summer Solstice at Stonehenge
Celebrate Oktoberfest in Germany- Celebrate Something every day for a year
- Say yes every day for a month – like Yes Man
- Go on a ghost walk
- Visit a haunted house
- Stay in a haunted house
- Survive the Bermuda Triangle
- Survive a trip to Chernobyl
- Chase a tornado
- Watch a volcano erupt
- Learn a second language
- Learn sign language
- Learn how to code
- Learn how to pick a lock
- Watch my favourite band live
See 100 different bands in one year- See 500 different bands
- Go to 10 different music festivals
- Unplug for 24 hours
- Create the ultimate nerd room
- Meet a geek icon
- Make a time capsule
- Time Travel
Time capsules are fun. When I was in 8th grade, my teacher made us all write a letter and fill it with pictures. He then gave it to us as we graduated from high school. It was cute reading what I wrote and what mattered to me then versus 5 years later.
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That’s a really great idea. I’d like to do something similar, maybe looking in the time capsule when I’m an old lady to remind me how much the world has changed.
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I highly recommend visiting Jurassic Park! I took a tour of the ranch when I was in Hawaii a few years back and it’s just a beautiful location! I hope you’re able to make it there one day!
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I’ve wanted to go to Hawaii for like, well, forever, and seeing the Jurassic Park set has always been my main goal there, along with the hotel in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, haha. I can’t believe you actually got to go. I bet it was amazing. Did you get to drive around in a jeep?
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These are fantastic! I came here to recommend the Doctor Who Experience (which I see is on your list) but sadly it’s closed! I really missed out on going. Fingers crossed they decided to open it back up one day.
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Ah, that’s a shame. I actually managed to visit a couple of years ago – coincided it with a gig in Cardiff – but my camera broke so I didn’t get to take any photos and wanted to go again. Hopefully they will bring it to London or something.
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Wow that is quite the list!! We definitely share some things, mostly the Harry Potter ones.
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There’s probably even more HP stuff I could add as I want to do EVERYTHING but I think I at least covered the most important things.
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I have my own geeky bucket list I’ve been growing for a solid 1.5 years now. I’ll make it into a post someday. Haha. It’s cool to see how different your list is from mine. I think it would be very neat and humbling to see a volcano exploding.
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Yeah, you definitely should, it would be cool to compare. I always love snooping at other bucket lists in case there’s something amazing I just never though of.
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I’ve only done a couple of these things, which makes me feel so unaccomplished. lol. I’ve never really had a full bucket list before — maybe I should make one. :)
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You should! Compiling it was so much fun, and then when you cross things off it feels amazing. But I guess that’s a personal thing as I bloody love lists. Haha, also, I’ve only managed to cross off about 10 things so fan so know how you feel!
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WOW GIRL!! You have so many cool things on your list. I definitely also want take a tour of NASA. Take me with youuuu!!!!!
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Definitely! If I’m ever over your way, I’ll hit you up and we can go on the ultimate nerdy adventure / geeky bucket list crossing off
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