Bucket List: places to visit in the next five years and why

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Anonymous wrote:I want to ride a hot air balloon at the Albuquerque International Balloon Festival.

+1. I only learned about that festival after last year's one was held, and it looks so cool! A friend lives there and she sent me some amazing pictures of it. If I went, I'd want to take the kids (the Darth Vader balloon was awesome).

Yes, it looks so cool. I love this video. http://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/373877/a-colorful-time-lapse-of-the-worlds-largest-balloon-festival/

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Anonymous wrote:I plan to go west for the 2017 solar eclipse....like idaho or wyoming. Jackson Wyoming that day would be awesome!

+1

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Anonymous wrote:My general bucket list includes Iceland, New Zealand, an African Safari, and Glacier National Park. But as a newly single mom with young kids, I'm probably not tackling those in the next few years (for both budget and chasing 2 kids around alone reasons).

Iceland with a friend might be doable while the kids are with their dad. It's somewhere I've always wanted to go. When I was a kid we used to fly Iceland Air to visit family in Europe and I always wanted to add the stopover and we never did. I went to the photo exhibit about Iceland at the Natural History Museum last week and it really reinforced wanting to go!

My daughter is obsessed with going to the beach this summer, and we have some friends who are planning a beach house, so that will probably be our summer trip.

We'll probably end up at Disney world in the next 5 years too. But that's not really a bucket list thing.

RE: Iceland - I don't know why but this video makes me cry each time I watch it. I am going to watch it again right now. http://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/412288/finding-aurora-iceland-view-of-northern-lights/

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Anonymous wrote:I have a reasonable bucket list. Finances have not been great lately.

Zion/Utah within the next few years

Prague within the next 7 years

Thailand and Vietnam within 10 years.

Been there, done that. Prague was a waste of time.

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Ditto prague. Been there 3 times. Go to Burma, Thailand is just full of tourists.

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Glacier National Park - might be longer than 5 years, because DS won't be old enough to really enjoy/appreciate it yet, but definitely before 10 years out...that sucker is melting fast.

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Cuba
South Korea
Glaciers in Argentina
Safari

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Visit the glaciers--Kilimanjaro and Glacier National Park--they may be gone within a few years

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in the next five years I would like to visit Thailand or Vietnam and South America (leaning towards Peru) as the bigger trips. I also want to do a couple's trip to the USVI. Fortunately I have been able to travel a lot in the last few years so I am happy to go pretty much wherever.

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Cuba- before it's overrun by Americans
South Africa (going this summer)
Chamonix- want to have the experience of being in a hot tub surrounded by the Alps
Lake Tahoe- always wanted to go
Banff- i love mountains and lakes
Philippines- family ties
Montana/Wyoming- want to see big sky country

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Japan
New Zealand
Australia
Switzerland
Denmark/Sweden/Norway
Iceland
Spain
Vancouver and Seattle


Right now I'm working on my moms bucket list by taking her to London and Paris, both places I've visited a few times before.

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I would like to go to Angkor Wat, Cambodia and Halong Bay, Vietnam.

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Florence.

I saw a slide of San Miniato in an architectural history class in college, and have never been able to get it out of my head. Have never been to Italy. When I make it, I hope it lives up.

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Maldives and Seychelles and places like it may be gone in our lifetimes.

Also glaciers as pps have mentioned.

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I've traveled a lot so some of these are repeats:

Sun Valley
Denmark and Norway
Patagonia
Macchu pichu
Galapagos
The four states I haven't been to yet, just to have been to all 50 (Alaska, Idaho, Nevada and South Dakota)

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Anonymous wrote:Florence.

I saw a slide of San Miniato in an architectural history class in college, and have never been able to get it out of my head. Have never been to Italy. When I make it, I hope it lives up.

It will! So much to love in Italy, and so many places. We loved Greece and Turkey as well.