Bill’s Bucket List
“What’s a bucket list?” you ask.
A bucket list is a list of items you want to do (typically fun and enjoyable in nature) before you die (or “kick the bucket”).
(And, yes, I’ve also started my own book and movie bucket lists.)
Here’s the current list of one hardcore American digital nomad (i.e., me, Bill Hammons) updated with crossouts as I visit these places (also feel free to visit my main Digital Nomad page with the list of nations I’ve visited to-date, lest you think this page is merely full of the musings of some armchair traveler):
Austria: Hallstatt Museum (Hallstatt), Linz, Mauthausen (Mauthausen), Salzburg, Arnold Schwarzenegger Museum (Thal)
Bosnia and Herzegovina: Stari Most (Mostar)
Bulgaria: Sofia Plovdiv Full-day Tour from Sofia (Plovdiv), Battenberg Mausoleum (Sofia), St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral (Sofia), Archaeological exhibition "Ancient Serdika" (Sofia), Communism-themed Walking Tour of Sofia (Sofia), Earth and Man National Museum (Sofia), National Museum of Military History (Sofia), Museum of Paleontology and Historical Geology, Museum of Sofia University (Sofia), Museum of Sport(Sofia), Rila Monastery and St. Ivan Cave Day Trip from Sofia
China: The Great Wall (Jinshanling), the Terracotta Army
Cyprus: The Green Line
The Czech Republic: Königgrätz battlefield guided tour in German (Sadová), Austerlitz battlefield (Slavkov u Brna)
Egypt: The Grand Egyptian Museum (Giza), Avenue of Sphinxes, Karnak (Luxor)
France: Carcassonne, Corsica, Lascaux, The Louvre [2nd time] (Paris)
Germany: Kulturkaufhaus Dussmann, The Reichstag (Berlin), The Eagle’s Nest (Berchtesgaden), Cochem, The Fulda Gap (Fulda), Neuschwanstein Castle (Schwangau), Trier, All Saints’ Church (Wittenberg)
Greece: Mount Lycabettus
Iceland: Gullfoss Falls
India: Taj Mahal
Italy: Villa Jovis (Capri), Herculaneum, The Last Supper (Milan), the Villa of the Mysteries (Pompeii), The Capitoline Museums (Rome), Museo Ninfeo (Rome), the Sistine Chapel (Rome), The Vatican Museum (Rome), the Catacombs of St. John (Syracuse), the Ear of Dionysius (Syracuse), the Greek Temple of Apollo (Syracuse), Italy's third-largest Roman amphitheater (Syracuse)
Japan: Fukushima, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Mt. Fuji
Mongolia: the Tomb of Genghis Khan
North Macedonia: Skopje Full-day Tour (Sofia/Skopje)
Peru: Machu Pichu, Nazca Lines
Poland: Auschwitz
Romania: Bran Castle (Bran), Brașov, Cărturești Carusel, Grigore Antipa National Museum of Natural History, The House of Ceaușescu, Museum of Communist Totalitarianism, Palace of the Parliament, National History Museum of Romania, Romanian Athenaeum (Bucharest), Peleș Castle (Sinaia)
South Korea: The DMZ, Inchon
Turkey: Göbekli Tepe, Trabzon
Ukraine: Chernobyl
UAE: Dubai
United Kingdom: One of four surviving copies of the Magna Carta in Salisbury Cathedral (Salisbury, England)
United States: Death Valley, Yosemite (California), next Conference on World Affairs (Boulder, Colorado), Cliff Palace (Montezuma County, Colorado), USS Arizona (Hawaii), next Value Investor Conference (Omaha, Nebraska), Stepping Stones (Bedford Hills, NY), Pat’s King of Steaks (South Philly, Pennsylvania), Flight 93 Memorial (Stonycreek Township, Pennsylvania), Ft. Sumter (Charleston, South Carlina), Franklin Barbecue (Austin, Texas), Promontory Summit (Utah), John Brown’s Fort (Harpers Ferry, West Virginia)
Vatican City: Sistine Chapel, Vatican Museums
Vietnam: The Ho Chi Minh Trail