20 Ideas for Your Summer Bucket List

Summer is just around the corner, make sure you enjoy every minute of it with these bucket list ideas: 1. ATTEND AN OUTDOOR CONCERT In the United States, 40 to 50 million people attend outdoor concerts each year. Find the perfect venue in your area, bring a lawn chair and spend a bucket list worthy evening listening [...]

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Traveling by Tuk Tuk in Thailand & Other Transportation

One of my least favorite parts about traveling is when you first land in a foreign country, after a dozen hours of flying, and have to find transport to your lodging. In a perfect world a limo driver would just be waiting for me holding a “Princess Annette” sign and a glass of red wine. But, since [...]

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Bucket List of 17 Things to do in Hong Kong

While traveling to Hong Kong, in Asia, I knocked quite a few items off my Bucket List. And found quite a few more to add to yours. Bucket List of 17 Things to do in Hong Kong 1. RIDE THE LONGEST ESCALATOR IN THE WORLD Rest your weary feet from Hong Kong’s hilly streets and get [...]

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Bathing Elephants in Thailand & a Big Butt Montage

In a recent interview with Life Listed, I claimed that my favorite bucket list adventure was swimming with stingrays in the Grand Caymen. But, that was before bathing elephants in Thailand. Elephants trump stingrays. The one thing I was looking forward to most about traveling to Chiang Mai was an experience hanging out with elephants in Thailand. Nope. We will not [...]

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Eating Squid Jerky in Hong Kong’s Tai O Fishing Village

After painfully climbing the 268 steps to see Hong Kong’s Tian Tan Buddha, Peter and I took a short bus ride to visit Tai O Fishing Village, also known as the Venice of Hong Kong. Since Venice, Italy is one of my favorite cities in the world, I had high hopes for this Asian-style water town. On the Western [...]

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The Ultimate Bucket List Resource Guide

Welcome to The Ultimate Bucket List Resource Guide. The following are the tips, tricks and resources that I have acquired and used in my several years as an avid bucket lister and new experience collector. It is my hope that this guide will give you the inspiration (aka: big fat kick in the butt) to make a your own bucket [...]

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Burning Incense at Po Lin Monastery in Hong Kong

There was a lot of burning incense wafting through the streets of Hong Kong. And I wasn't sure why. Not only were the fragrant sticks seen sporadically on the stoops of businesses, but when we visited the Man Mo Temple a layer of smoke filled the room. Coiled incense hung from the ceiling, as well as random incense burning throughout the room. Peter [...]

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Riding the Longest Escalator in the World. Mid-Levels in Hong Kong.

I have formed a new love. A love that gives me the extra push when needed, allows me the rest when exhausted and takes me to places that I may have never been otherwise. My new amore is the Central Mid-Level escalator in Hong Kong, the longest escalator in the world. The central mid-level escalator in Hong Kong is the longest [...]

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Slurping Chinese Snake Soup in Hong Kong

It is snake season. That would be a really bad thing if you are hiking the Dragon’s Back trail at Hong Kong’s Shek O Country Park, but it is a really good thing if you are dining within the cities urban area. For myself, it meant that in addition to the adventure of eating chicken feet, there [...]

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A Cable Car & 268 steps to Tian Tan. Big Buddha.

It was 463 stairs to the top of the Duomo in Florence, 129 steps to the peak of the St. Simons Lighthouse in Georgia and now there are 268 stairs to reach Hong Kong's Tian Tan, the Big Buddha. Isn't Hong Kong known for the longest outdoor escalator in the World? Couldn't they figure this one out? Fine. [...]

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