While making my 40 Before 40 List, I brainstormed some additional life experiences I wanted to have but knew I would never fit into the available three years. Hence I made a second list, my 40+ After 40, which I’ll share with you today. It’s a collection of life and travel experiences I want to have sometime during this lifetime:
Life Experiences for My After 40 List
- Adopt a pet – check! November 23, 2019
- Restart Latin dance lessons
- Enter a ballroom competition
- Learn a martial art
- Ride in a horse-drawn carriage
- Attend a ball – check! LA Edwardian Ball on February 9, 2019
- Fly first class – check! To Hawaii June 2019
- Be a movie extra
- Take a Segway for a spin
- Buy or build my dream home
- Try SCUBA – check! September 2018
- Write an 80K word novel
- Publish a book
- Make mead
- Make wine
- Attend an NBA game – check! LA Clippers v. Washington Wizards December 9, 2017
- Attend an NHL playoff game
- Take a sculpture workshop
- See Misty Copeland perform live
- Go parasailing – check! In Cabo San Lucas Spring Break 2018
- Jump out of a plane
- Do a mud run
- Participate in a flash mob
- Have a 5-minute conversation in Spanish
- Have a 5-minute conversation in French
- Grow my family
Create Your Own Visited States Map
Travel Experiences for My After 40 List
- Travel to all 50 states (16 to go!)
- Visit David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust
- Stay at a 5-star resort – check! We stayed in a 5-star South African safari camp in September 2022
- Attend Mardi Gras
- Visit all seven continents (two to go!)
- Live in Europe for 6+ months—again
- Live in another overseas location for 3+ months
- Visit South Africa – check! September 2022
- Visit an aboriginal art center in Australia
- Cruise the Mediterranean
- Cruise and set foot on Antarctica
- Visit the Galapagos
- Play tourist in Washington, DC – see cherry blossoms, visit museums – check! August 2018
- Sleep in a castle
- Sleep in an overwater bungalow
- Visit Alaska – check! September 2019
- Take a small or private cruise
- Visit Caisteal Maol on the Isle of Skye, Scotland
- Italy! – Take a gondola ride in Venice, see the Amalfi Coast, visit Sicily, and stand inside the Sistine Chapel
- Ride the Rocky Mountaineer scenic train
- See the Northern Lights – booked for March 2023
- Attend the Winter Olympics
- See the Earth from space
What would you put on your bucket list?
Cheers,
Photo Credit: NASA Earth Observatory image by Robert Simmon, using Suomi NPP VIIRS data provided courtesy of Chris Elvidge (NOAA National Geophysical Data Center). Suomi NPP is the result of a partnership between NASA, NOAA, and the Department of Defense. Caption by Mike Carlowicz.