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):

  1. Austria: Hallstatt Museum (Hallstatt), Linz, Mauthausen (Mauthausen), Salzburg, Arnold Schwarzenegger Museum (Thal)

  2. Bosnia and Herzegovina: Stari Most (Mostar)

  3. Brazil: A friend’s wedding

  4. 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

  5. California, USA: Death Valley, Yosemite

  6. China: The Great Wall (Jinshanling), the Terracotta Army

  7. Colorado, USA: Next Conference on World Affairs (Boulder), Cliff Palace (Montezuma County)

  8. Cyprus: The Green Line

  9. The Czech Republic: Königgrätz battlefield guided tour in German (Sadová), Austerlitz battlefield (Slavkov u Brna)

  10. Egypt: The Grand Egyptian Museum (Giza), Avenue of Sphinxes, Karnak (Luxor)

  11. France: Carcassonne, Corsica, Lascaux, The Louvre [2nd time] (Paris)

  12. Germany: Regierungsbunker, Spring 2025 (Ahrweiler), Kulturkaufhaus Dussmann (Berlin), The Reichstag (Berlin), The Eagle’s Nest (Berchtesgaden), Cochem, The Fulda Gap (Fulda), Dokumentationszentrum Obersalzberg (Obersalzberg), Friedensmuseum Brücke von Remagen, Spring 2025 (Remagen), Neuschwanstein Castle (Schwangau), Trier, All Saints’ Church (Wittenberg)

  13. Greece: Mount Lycabettus

  14. Hawaii, USA: USS Arizona

  15. Iceland: Gullfoss Falls

  16. India: Taj Mahal

  17. 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)

  18. Japan: Fukushima, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Mt. Fuji

  19. Mongolia: the Tomb of Genghis Khan

  20. Nebraska, USA: Next Value Investor Conference (Omaha)

  21. New Mexico, USA: Trinity Test Site on 3rd Sunday in October (White Sands Missile Range)

  22. New York, USA: Stepping Stones (Bedford Hills)

  23. North Macedonia: Skopje Full-day Tour (Sofia/Skopje)

  24. Pennsylvania, USA: Pat’s King of Steaks (South Philly), Flight 93 Memorial (Stonycreek Township)

  25. Peru: Machu Pichu, Nazca Lines

  26. Poland: Auschwitz

  27. 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)

  28. South Carolina, USA: Ft. Sumter (Charleston)

  29. South Korea: The DMZ, Inchon

  30. Texas, USA: Franklin Barbecue (Austin)

  31. Turkey: Göbekli Tepe, Trabzon

  32. Ukraine: Chernobyl, Snake Island

  33. UAE: Dubai

  34. United Kingdom: One of four surviving copies of the Magna Carta in Salisbury Cathedral (Salisbury, England)

  35. Vatican City: Sistine Chapel, Vatican Museums

  36. John Brown’s Fort (Harpers Ferry, West Virginia)

  37. Utah, USA: Promontory Summit

  38. Vietnam: Dad’s battlefields, The Ho Chi Minh Trail

  39. West Virginia, USA: John Brown’s Fort (Harpers Ferry)