My Ultimate Bucketlist! - Schimiggy Reviews

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Having a bucketlist is important. It helps me keep track of my life goals and ensure I’m living my life to its fullest!

Here is a list of things I plan to experience at least once in my lifetime!

The ✔️ denotes a bucketlist item I’ve completed!

Do you have any of these on your bucketlist?

Schimiggy’s Bucketlists

Professional/Self

Star in a scary movie! I LOVE watching horror films.
Write a successful screenplay.
Learn to fly a drone confidently.
Paint a mural!
Build a successful retail brand.
Learn how to film and edit a short or movie professionally.
Sew an entire outfit!
Design my own home!
Learn American Sign Language (ASL)
Learn how to drive a stick shift car.
Live in a tiny home.
Live abroad in Vietnam, Spain, Malaysia, and Mexico.
Learn to play guitar. ✔️
Own a dog. RIP Bebot, one of the best good girls in the world. ✔️

Star in a commercial. I’ve done one for Blendtec and Virginia Mason. ✔️
Learn to surf in Santa Monica, California! ✔️
Shoot an AK-47 rifle. RIP Yee Yang, my brother. ✔️
Learn how to be a photographer and get paid for it. See all the camera equipment I use! ✔️
Drive a motorcycle. ✔️
Live in different US cities. So far I’ve lived in Houston, Orange County, Seattle, and now Nashville! ✔️
Graduate with my Bachelor’s Degree. ✔️
Graduate with my Master’s Degree. ✔️
Become a yoga teacher. Been a yoga instructor since 2015! ✔️

Food

Learn how to make tiramisu.
Eat a beignet at Café Du Monde. ✔️
Shuck an oyster at Taylor Shellfish Farms! ✔️
Make mille feuille nabe hot pot. YUM! ✔️
Have Omakase in Japan.
Have Kaiseki in Japan.
Try Mantis shrimp! I ate it at a restaurant in Burano, Italy. ✔️
Eat at the world’s oldest restaurant in Madrid, Spain – Sobrino de Botín.
Make my own kombucha. ✔️
Eat balut in the Phillippines.
Drink REAL absinthe! Did so at the Green Devil in Prague. ✔️
Eat brain! I had brain in a hot pot in Seattle. ✔️
Eat a still-moving octopus at the Gwangjang market in Seoul.
Learn to cook over a campfire and create a fire with sticks. You know, in case I go on a season of Naked and Afraid or Survivor.
Learn how to make kimchi! ✔️

Learn how to make sushi properly.
Stomp on grapes to make wine.
Eat horse sashimi in Fukuoka, Japan.
Eat fugu (poison puffer fish) in Japan.
Go fruit picking and make a dessert/dish.
Attend an afternoon tea in London.
Eat at Mechoui Alley in Marrakech.
Go crabbing for Dungeness crab.
Visit the Noodle Cup museum in Yokohama.
Watch ALL the Disney movies.
Create a food and recipe blog. Seasoned with Spice ✔️
Create a cocktail and beverage blog. We Drink A Lot ✔️
Milk a cow! I also milked a goat! Yay for Uncle Rudy and pajaretes. ✔️
Drink unpasteurized milk. ✔️
Dine at a Michelin restaurant. ✔️

Beauty

Maintain my ideal weight for a year (140 lbs).
Get my eyebrows tattooed. ✔️
Learn how to style my hair. ✔️
Learn how to do Dutch braids. ✔️
Let my hair grow out gray naturally. ✔️

Travel

Visit all 7 continents.
See an amazing northern lights/Aurora Borealis display anywhere. I’ve tried to see it in Alaska and Iceland and sadly missed the Seattle display!
Visit the Baobab trees in Madagascar!
Fly First Class! I booked a First Class flight with points with Japan Airlines through their partner, Alaska Airlines. ✔️

Climb up the 708 steps to the top of Piedra del Penol. ✔️
Attend the Olympics.
Ride a camel in the desert.
Cross the Capilano Suspension Bridge. ✔️

Visit the Dead Sea and float in it!
Visit the 4 corners (US intersection of 4 states).
Ascend the tallest building, the Burj Khalifa, in Dubai.
Visit an animal cafe in Japan and Korea. I went to an awesome Owl cafe in Akihabara. ✔️
Attend the Yi Peng Lantern Festival in Thailand.
Kiss the Blarney Stone in Ireland. ✔️
See the 60-foot palm trees in Cocoro Valley in Colombia. ✔️

See elephants in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
See the Thuy Son Cave in Vietnam.
Trek the Dolomites in Italy.
Visit Costco in every country.
Kayak and see the Marble Caves in Chile.
Feed the deers in Nara.
Stand before the “Door To Hell” in Turkmenistan.
Stay overnight at a Jimilbang (spa) in Korea.
See the Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy.

Release baby turtles into the ocean.
Go on a cruise. I went on a 14-day cruise with Holland America to Iceland and Scotland. LOVED IT! ✔️
Drive the entire Route 66!
Ascended the Duomo di Milano in Italy. ✔️

See the sunrise over Wadi Rum in Jordan.
Walk through the Valle de la Luna in Chile.
9 Bathhouses in Shibu Onsen Japan
Go down the narrowest alley in Venice, Italy! ✔️

Ride The Bernina Express from Switzerland to Italy
See the Catacombs under Paris. I also saw the catacombs of the Monastery of San Francisco in Lima, Peru. Would love to see the Brno Ossuary in Brno, Czech Republic. ✔️
Fly on a seaplane.
Visit the Pamukkale Thermal Spring in Turkey.
Visit and touch glaciers in Alaska! We ended up taking snowmobiles to the glaciers in Alaska! ✔️

glacier snowmobile tours in Girdwood Alaska Schimiggy Alex Tran

Glacier snowmobile tour in Alaska to see the glaciers.

Explore the Namib Desert.
Own a Mexico vacation home.
Swim with whale sharks in Baja California. ✔️
Go to Tomorrowland in Belgium.
Go to Burning Man. ✔️

Spin fire poi at Burning Man.
See the Balloon launch at the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta.
Visit the Széchenyi Thermal Bath in Budapest.
Visit Seychelles.
Hike Havasu Falls.
See the Cherry Blossoms in Washington DC and Japan. I’ve only seen them in Seattle.
See the iconic Monument Valley.
Get into Berghain in Berlin, Germany. Seriously, it was overrated and dirty. ✔️
Get lost in the Medina in Marrakech.
Ride a hot air balloon over Cappadocia, Turkey. ✔️

Pet and snuggle a panda in China (hopefully)!
Cross the Rakotzbrucke bridge in Gablenz, Germany.
See Petra in Jordan.
Attend a Holi festival in India.
Go to an Indian wedding in India. I’ve been to weddings in Mumbai and Kerala. ✔️
See the Taj Mahal. ✔️

Visit the Hawa Mahal (pink building) in Jaipur.
Ascend Machu Picchu. I ended up doing this twice! ✔️

Fly a private jet!
Fly a private plane. I flew in a private small plane with my friends Landon in Seattle and Charles at Burning Man. ✔️

See the Moi heads on Easter Island.
Visit the Maldives.
Walk along the Great Wall of China.
Stay in a pod hotel.
See the sunsets in Santorini. ✔️
Visit Yellowstone National Park in the summer and winter.
Swim with pigs in the Bahamas.
Dog sled in Alaska! ✔️
Visit the 7 Natural Wonders of the World:
- Grand Canyon in Arizona. Check out our Arizona travel guide to plan your trip. ✔️
- Great Barrier Reef
- Rio de Janeiro Harbor
- Mount Everest
- Northern Lights
- Paricutin Volcano
- Victoria Falls
Visit the New Wonders of the World
- Machu Picchu ✔️
- Great Wall of China
- Christ the Redeemer
- Chichen Itza ✔️
- Roman Colosseum ✔️
- Taj Mahal ✔️
- Petra
Hike through Antelope Canyon. ✔️

Antelope Canyon

Get a permit to see the Wave in Arizona!
See the sunrise at Haleakala in Maui, Hawaii. ✔️

Explore the Road to Hana. I’ve done this twice! Check out my Maui travel guide for inspiration! ✔️

Visit and go into the White House.
Meet the president!
Visit El Nido Palawan.
Visit the Whitsundays in Australia.
Hike up to the top of the Acropolis in Athens, Greece. ✔️

Attend the Day of the Dead festival in Mexico.
Go to a lavender field.
Go to a sunflower field.
Go snowboarding along the Patagonia. I snowboarded in Bariloche, Argentina. ✔️
Hike the southern Patagonia trails (O Circuit, Torres del Paine National Park, Chile).
See Angkor Wat in Cambodia.
Attend the Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Dive the blue hole in Belize.
See the Giant’s Causeway in Ireland. See amazing photos from our Ireland trip! ✔️

See the colorful homes in Cuba.
See the Statue of Liberty up close in NYC.
Cross the Brooklyn Bridge in NYC.
Snorkel in Sri Lanka, India.
Hike throughout Cinque Terre in Italy.
Check out the red light district in Amsterdam. ✔️
Walk the Las Vegas strip. ✔️
Check out Meow Wolf exhibits in Las Vegas, New Mexico, and more.
Hike Rainbow Mountain in Peru. ✔️

See the tulip fields in the Netherlands.
Visit Lake Tahoe in the summer!
Check out the Cuyahoga Valley National Park in Ohio.
Check out the inside of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, Spain.
Live in Spain for a few years (either in Madrid or Barcelona).
See the Black Sand Beach in Vik Iceland.
See the Blue Lagoon spa in Iceland. Check out my Blue Lagoon guide! ✔️
See Niagara Falls in the USA or Canada.
See Iguazu Falls in Brazil or Argentina.
See the Red Square in Moscow, Russia.
See pink flamingos on the beach in Aruba.
See the colorful 7 Magic Mountains in Las Vegas, Nevada. ✔️

Explore the Rocky Mountain National Park.
Swim at the Bondi Icebergs in Australia.
See the Fall foliage in New England.
See the blue hues of Potash Pond at Canyonlands National Park in Utah.
Travel across America in an RV.
Visit all the Disney parks (Orlando, Orange County, Tokyo, Paris)
See the pyramids along the Nile in Giza, Egypt.
Visit all the PINK beaches in the world! So far I’ve only seen Elafonissi in Crete, Greece. ✔️

Live in Vietnam for a few years.
Go to the top of the Space Needle. I know, how have I not done this one?
Go to the top of the Eiffel Tower.
See a show at the Moulin Rouge in Paris, France.
Fly a helicopter over Hawaii and the Philippines.
Visit all 50 USA states!
Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany!
Learn to rollerskate and do tricks!
Go to yacht week in Croatia.
Attend the Running of the Bulls near Pamplona, Spain.
Visit McDonald’s restaurants around the world! Check out all my McDonald’s Happy Meals from around the world! ✔️
Live life as a nomad for a few years.
Learn how to play Mahjong.
Learn how to play Poker. ✔️
Have a scavenger hunt birthday party!
Relax in an authentic Japanese onsen.
Enjoy a flower bath in Bali.
Fill an entire passport with stamps!
Check out Stonehenge in England.
Visit the salt flats in Bolivia (Salar de Uyuni), ~~Peru (Maras)~~, Utah (Bonneville), Colombia (Manaure), and Argentina (Salinas Grandes). ✔️

Attend Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Check out the Carnival of Venice.
Attend the La Tomatina tomato fight near Valencia, Spain.
Become a Couchsurfer! I’ve been a Couchsurfer for over 10 years now! I love meeting new people and sharing my culture and lifestyle with others. ✔️

Concerts

Paul McCartney
Beyonce
Gypsy Kings
Galantis
Megan Thee Stallion
Post Malone
Sam Smith ✔️
Infected Mushroom ✔️
Above & Beyond ✔️
Seven Lions ✔️
Karol G ✔️
BBNO$ ✔️
Fiona Apple ✔️
John Legend ✔️
Rauw Alejandro ✔️

This wraps up my bucketlist! If you have anything I should add or want to join me to check off any of what is left, please let me know in the comments or message me.

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