Travel Bucket List: things to see before I die

So I've been working on some Galavanting destination stuff and realized it's been years since I've updated my own Travel Bucket List. The places I must see before I die -- and the things I've just gotta learn, which only locations other than my home can teach me.

As a travel writer, a web series host, and just plain journey junkie, I've done a lot of awesome stuff, but there's so much more to see! No better time than now to update my list...

1. Visit every region of France [2 to go!]
2. Hike the Cinque Terre in Italy
3. (all photos by Kim Mance)Overnight camel trek through a desert
4. Take surfing lessons in WARM water [Costa Rica]
5. Go 4x4ing through Morocco's Atlas mountains & stay in a Berber village
6. Horseback riding in Mongolia
7. Visit a French Christmas Market
8. Pastry-making class in Paris
9. Visit the Earthships Headquarters
10. Volunteer in Ethiopia
11. Navigate China's Yangtze River in a boat
12. Find Diane Lane's house from the "Under the Tuscan Sun" movie
13. Have an original Bellini at Harry's Bar in Venice
14. Go "Glamping" in Chile
15. Visit the world's only pub inside a tree [in South Africa]
16. Stay in a hotel that can only be reached by hiking
17. Visit all quarters of Jerusalem, the West Bank and a Jewish settlement
18. Visit the Australian outback
19. Learn skydiving in Australia
20. Go waterfall rappelling [Costa Rica]
21. Sleep in a Yurt
22. Go trekking in Bhutan
23. Hike to Mayan ruins
24. Go ice climbing
25. Take at completely carbon-neutral trip
26. Play life-size chess in Salzburg, Austria
27. Go dog-sledding
28. Cross the Arctic Circle
29. Stay in an ice hotel
30. Hike the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu
31. Swim with dolphins
32. Attend Fashion Week in NYC
33. Visit a Shinto shrine
34. Stay in a New Zealand treehouse hotel
35. Visit ancient ruins in Iran
36. See the pyramids of Giza
37. Eat a Danish in Denmark
38. Learn pottery-making from a rural artist
39. Stay on a working Dude Ranch
40. Take a glassblowing lesson [Japan]
41. See a traditional Chinese opera
42. Visit the Solomon Islands
43. Climb a glacier in Iceland
44. Go camping in the Bavarian Alps
    
45. Go on a remote African safari
46. Go spelunking in a real bat cave [Malaysia]
47. Walk on the Great Wall of China
48. Hold a Barbary Ape in Gibraltar
49. See Cambodia's Angkor Wat
50. Go parasailing [Bahamas]
51. Attend a Bedouin wedding
52. See a real live snake-charmer [Morocco]
53. Visit North Korea

What's on your Travel Bucket List?

New Article: Visiting the Real Rome

Just a heads up that I have a new article up over in Huffington Post's Living section about getting off the beaten path while on a visit to Rome. 

It accompanies our brand-spanking new Rome episode just released this week!

Grab a cup of coffe and have a look...you just may end up searching fares to Rome :).

or watch it on Galavanting.tv >>

What He Said

Loving this interview with Brad Pitt and Bill Maher where they discuss religion and health care in America (and pot).

Since I've been wanting to write about exactly what Brad says in this video, but haven't had the time, I'm posting this for your viewing pleasure (yes, pun intended ladies, ahem ;)...).

(h/t Huffington Post)

Wedding prep...please vote! (Updated)

UPDATE: Thanks for voting, helped me quickly realize B&W was the way to go... I took down the poll, and here's how it turned out...  I'll post a short wedding vlog post next week. Getting excited!

Okay, so I wrote the other day about mixing work and pleasure. Today I'm trying to get out the vote. We took some fun pics of Mr. Galavanting and me while in Paris and I need your help in choosing the best version of one of them.

Why? Well, I haven't really posted about it, but we're finally going to make it "official" and having a wedding in Toronto next week -- hence the abnormally gushy phase I'm going through (bear with me...). The wedding will be a pretty small affair at the Toronot Hunt Club -- just enough to keep the (deleriously excited) kiddos happy :).

So, this is where you come in. We're having one of those picture frame guestbook thingies where the attendees sign all around the matting. Problem is, I can't decide what version of a kissi-face picture to put inside it. Which one do you think looks kinda cool & romantic? The frame is pictured right and is black, with a big white mat. Feel free to leave a comment on why if you're so inclined... Thanks!