This Bucket List is ever-evolving so check back frequently for updates! Learn to write your own here.
Ashley’s Bucket List (as of January 25, 2012)
- Explore Angkor Wat
- Memorize Poe’s “The Raven”
Be a valedictorianSee the Eiffel Tower- Own a farm
- See St. Paul’s Cathedral
Discover nutellaLearn to love earl grey teaRead all of Harry Potter- Write my personal fashion style guide
- Memorize at least one new recipe every year
- Visit Lyon, France at least twice
Run a 5K- Become a beekeeper
Train a dog from a puppyChop off all of my hair (or at least 10 inches)- Never dye my hair in my 20s or when I turn gray
- Run a 5K when I’m 50
- Explore the English countryside
- Grow a flower garden
- See King Lear performed live
- Go to a book signing
- Give birth to my child
Learn to do a French manicure- Get married
- Never get divorced (and stay true to my family)
Eat at Avec in ChicagoEat at Gibsons in ChicagoDo a traditional british afternoon tea serviceGo on the Jack the Ripper walk in London- Give a large donation to a charity (animal rescue or an arboretum)
- Go to New York Fashion Week
- Read every work by Charlotte Bronte and Jane Austen
- See every film version of Jane Eyre (as available)
- Collect Department 56 Dickens Village houses
- Collect old books and 1st editions
- Keep up Dad’s travel pin map (put a pin on every part of the map you have visited)
Be the sole photographer for a weddingPerfect my postureGraduate college (magna cum laude)- Pay off student loans
- Have a zero-energy home
- Visit Salem, MA
- See every episode of The Office (US Edition)
- See every episode of Mad Men
See Buffalo Springfield from the concert pit- Wear a fascinator
See Bizet’s Carmen at the Lyric Opera- Learn to bake at least ten different Christmas cookies
- Write a novel
See Lady Jane Grey’s grave at the Tower of London- Learn to make felt food
Read Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children- Meet Patrick Stewart (Love him!)
- Visit Tokyo and see the cherry blossoms
- Do dim sum in Hong Kong
- See a temple in Bali
Start a charm braceletRead Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange LandRead Heinlein’s The Moon is a Harsh MistressSee Dyck’s The Arnolfini PortraitSee every episode of Battlestar Galactica- Read Byatt’s Possession
Read Byatt’s Little Black Book of Stories- Own an embosser
- Visit Iceland
- Collect vintage absinthe spoons
See the Taj Mahal and buy a marble souvenirLearn to love Indian foodMake the 1905 salad from The Columbia RestarauntRead Barbery’s The Elegance of the Hedgehog- Drive an Aston Martin
Date someone not of U.S.nationalityRead Marquez’s One Hundred Years of SolitudeVisit Buckingham PalaceVisit Versailles- Visit Belgium and eat at least ten different types of chocolate
- See Positano, Italy
- Visit South Africa
- Go on a cruise
- Climb up to Macchu Picchu
- Do a cart-wheel in the South American salt plains
- Go zip-lining
- Visit China and stand on the Great Wall
- See Stonehedge and other Neolithic buildings in England including a stone with a hole
Visit Paris during the springtime when it rainsRide the TGV through France and see Roman ruins- See the Parthenon and take a cruise through the Greek Isles
- Take a cruise down the Nile
- Go on a yoga/meditation retreat
- Go on a mountain trek
- Buy a house in the woods with lots of trees
- Make homemade French onion soup
- Have lots of pets
- Eat at a café in Venice while it rains
- Eat food off a large leaf
- Sleep in a treehouse
- Memorize an entire Bollywood song
- Memorize grandpa’s biscuit recipe
- Don’t eat beef for 50 years (haven’t since 2003)
- Get a custom coat made
- Learn to fire a handgun
Study abroad in IndiaLearn to make pumpkin pieSave up money and buy myself a designer dress
That is quite the list! Good luck with everything 🙂
Thanks for the little boost of motivation I needed today! This list is great. Can’t wait to write my own.
What an amazing list! You’ve inspired me to write one too!
You should! I’d love to see it (maybe you’ll give me more ideas for mine).
So much fun! I’ve done a lot of these things. I should post my list on my blog! Oh, and Iceland is totally next on my list of places to travel!
So much to do and so little time! Maybe I should have started one years ago….but its never too late is it?
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Hi Ashley! What a great list! Any chance of an update? I’d love to hear what things you’ve crossed off your list! Also I’m really tickled that you want to memorize a Bollywood song!
I’d recommend the Kal Ho Na Ho song becos it’s very memorable and easy to rmb! (I say this as a Tamil speaker, which means I don’t speak or understand Hindi but I was still able to memorize the lyrics after awhile!) Also, the movie is incredible and will have you crying buckets! And it’s a Shah Rukh Khan film – always a plus! 🙂
Kal Ho Na Ho is one of my favorite films! I have almost memorized Om Shanti Om but mostly because it is very repetitive and was playing the entire time I lived in India. Thanks for your sweet comment.
Oh that’s great! You can cross it off your list then! And you lived in India? That’s really cool – India’s not easy to travel in, let alone live in so you have my full and complete respect! 😀