Adventures That I Want to Experience This Year

“If you want to do something bad enough, you will find a way, if not, you’ll find an excuse.” – Jim Rohn

This is my all-time favorite quote because it kicks my butt and challenges me to question my priorities and determine if they are really mine, someone else’s, or what I think I should want to do.

We can all say we don’t have time but if someone offered me an opportunity to experience a dream adventure, I would somehow find the time and make a way….and if it is really something that I want to do, what’s getting in the way and how can I change that?

I like to make a running tab of adventures that I want to cross off. I’ve been fortunate to cross many off the list this past year so that means that I keep looking for new ones to add to the list.

This is the start of the running tab. I reserve the right to add to the list as my curiosity continues and as I become aware of new places and experiences to try.

Some are way more ambitious than others, but I figured I might as well go with the quote:

“Shoot for the moon and if you miss you are still among the stars”

2018 Travel & Adventure Highlights

• Hot Air Balloon Ride
• Jeep Off Road Experience
• Slept in a Treehouse
• Rode an Electric Bike
• Nerf Dart Arena
• Rode in a float for the Mardi Gras parade in Lake Charles, LA
• Iowa Chicken Run in Lake Charles
• High Ropes Course with a slide in the air
• Wilmington, NC
• Largest Walkthrough zoo in the world
• Sports Legends Experience in Indy
• Great Wolf Lodge Staycation
• Local Cincinnati Food Tour
• Omaha, Nebraska Food Tour
• El Paso Trip
• Behind the scenes for Coaster Stock at Kings Island
• Ax Throwing
• Donut Trail
• Overnight at Kings Island
• Aqua Adventures Inflatable Waterpark
• Overnight at the Cincinnati Zoo in an African Safari Style Tent
• Overnight in a vintage camper rental
• Beach Day at Muskegon State Park in Michigan
• Boating Day to an island in the Ohio River
• Food tour in Columbus
• New Mexico Roadtrip (Flyfishing, off-road vehicle, hot air balloon ride)
• Gatlinburg (Anakeesta, waterfall hike,etc)
• Frank Lloyd Wright Falling Water House
• Fishing in Oswego, NY
• A boat ride to a private island and a castle tour in Thousand Islands,NY
• Niagara Falls 
• Las Vegas (jumped off the Stratosphere, rode the rides, played with construction equipment)
• Roanoke, Virginia
• Salt Cave Therapy
• Press Junket in LA for Spider-man into the Spider-Verse
• Winterfest at Kings Island
• New Mexico (2nd hot air balloon ride, Flamenco dance show)
• Daytrip to Red River Gorge
• Crystal Cirque du Soliel behind the scenes tour and show
• Combat Archery

Even if I do half of the items on the list below for 2019 it would still make for a pretty incredible year!

Travel wise I would love to go all over the world but I’m willing to start a little smaller. The list could really go on and on…….this is just scratching the surface. So I guess this is my start but I don’t ever want to stop adding.

Adventures with Animals

• Whale watching tour
• Swim with Manatees
• Watch a polo match
• An encounter with dolphins in the wild
• See sloths in the wild
• Watch baby turtles go to the ocean
• Swim with otters
• Dog Powered Scooter 

Classes

•  learn to play polo class
• Aerial Yoga
• Kangoo class
• Learn to Row
• Yoga with Sharks
• Goat Yoga

Experience

• Fowling
• Flyboarding
• Biplane
• Parkour class
• Axe throwing  click the link to read about it
• Play with construction equipment  click the link to read about it
• Overnight Cruise on the Mississippi
• Take a train ride to a destination more than 100 miles away
• Hot Air Balloon Ride click on the link to read about it
• Sleep in a Castle
• Jetfoiler
• Wake surf from a boat
• Sleep in a cave
• Stomp Grapes
• Zero Gravity
• Overnight camping in a cave
• Knockerball
• Beekeeping
• Float Spa
• Salt Cave
• Winter Bobsled 
• Tube down landing hill of a Nordic Ski Jump
• Coal Mine Tour
• Glow SUP in a Cave
• Attend a UK basketball game
• Sleep in a caboose
• Ski Out West
• Ruby Falls
• Acadia National Park
• Canada’s Wonderland
• Pink Jeep tour in Sedona, Arizona
• Stay in an Ice Hotel
• *Jubilee experience at Gulf Shores
• Ride on a Zamboni
• Attend the Kentucky Derby
• Ride in a Gondola in Venice
• Drive a Tank
• Jeep Tour in Sedona
• Float Spa
• Watch Hamilton on Broadway

Outdoor Adventure

• Kayak tour on the Chicago River
• Snuba
• Take a Scuba class
• Ice Climb
• Rappel down a waterfall
• Sand Surf
• Surf Park 
• Surf in one of the Great Lakes
• Via Ferrata
• Explore in a clear kayak
• Hang glide with an instructor
• Attend a learn to row class
• Hike a Volcano
• Take the subway tour at Cincinnati Museum Center
• Group speedboat ride
• Jump on a blob
• Kiteboard
• Windsurf
• Shark cage experience
• Kayak tour where there are alligators
• Surf
• Skydive
• Bridge Climb at New River Gorge
• Scallop fishing
• Destinations
• Go on a cruise to somewhere I’ve never been
• Niagara Falls   click here to read about it
• (Whirlpool Jet Boat Ride)
• City Museum and go up in the arch in St. Louis
• NYC around Christmas
• Visit world’s largest treehouse in TN
• Take pictures with Superman at Metropolis,IL
• Fair Oaks Dairy Adventure
• Sleep in a treehouse at The Mohicans
• Humanitarian trip
• Dude Ranch
• Cadillac Ranch
• Route 66 (visited some)
• International Trip
• Hawaii
• Venice, Italy
• Toronto
• Visit my friend in Perth, Australia
• Go hiking in Arizona
• El Paso click here to read about it
• Key West
• Cemetery tour in New Orleans
• Universal Studios Orlando
• Hike on a glacier
• Visit White Sands National Monument

Dining Adventures

• Ninja -NYC
• Dinner in the Sky
• Dining in the Dark
• Participate in a Spicy Food Challenge
• BBQ in Memphis

 “A Goal is a dream with a deadline.” Don’t let time get away from your dreams!

 

What else should I add to my list?

 

Share your ideas in the comments below.