Thursday 9 June 2011

Bucket List for USA Trip - updated September 25, 2011


things to see and do in the USA

1)    Go to a music festival
2)    Watch a baseball game
3)    Drive thru the Rocky Mountains
4)    Take a cruise thru the Inside Passage, Alaska
5)    Visit relatives
6)    See the colours of the fall
7)    Check out a rodeo
8)    Take a trip thru Canadian Rockies – Banff, Jasper, Lake Louise
9)    Walk thru Central Park, New York
10) Drive Route 66
11) Take a cable car in San Francisco
12) Eat Gumbo
13) Bryce Canyon
14) Yosemite National Park
15) Monument Valley
16) Niagara Falls
17) Know the way to San Jose
18) Ryman Theatre, Nashville
19) Visit an old friend
20) Charlie Daniels Museum
21) Grand Ol’ Opry
22) Listen to the blues in New Orleans
23) Take a Blues Cruise
24) Taste Clam Chowder
25) Look up Gypsy Carns
26) Yellowstone National Park
27) Go to a grid iron or ice hockey game (maybe both)
28) Walk down Rodeo Drive
29) Celebrate 4 July with the locals
30) Join in Thanksgiving celebrations (hopefully with a local family)
31) Attend gospel church where they sing like the mean it
32) Check out Gibson Guitar Museum
33) Drive Ventura Highway
34) Visit Bethel Church, Redding
35) Drive thru Redwood Forest
36) Get up close to the Glaciers
37) Take a trip down the Mississippi
38) See the Bears, Elk, Whales, Sea Lions
39) Visit San Diego Zoo
40) Grand Canyon
41) See a show in New York
42) Empire State Building
43) Broadway, Times Square, Rockefeller Centre, Trump Tower
44) Take a trip on NY subway
45) Visit the White House
46) Visit Amish Community
47) Learn about Native Americans
48) Smithsonian Institute  
49) Art galleries in New York
50) Sunset at Santa Monica Pier
51) Drive thru Death Valley
52) Shopping - everywhere
53) Take the Staten Island Ferry
54) Sears Tower, Chicago
55) Sit on the dock of the bay – San Francisco
56) Go the markets at Pike Place, Seattle
57) Camp in National Parks
58) Go to Walmart
59) Gaslight Quarter in San Diego
60) Statue of Liberty
61) Buy an RV
62) Shop at Macys
63) Travel around Great Lakes
64) Go to Ole Sac in Sacramento
65) Check out Fern Valley (thanks Ranger Robert)
66) Be entertained at Buskers Festival, Victoria, BC
67) Get up close to glaciers
68) Make new friends
69) Go to the top of Seattle Space Needle
70) Trace history of guitars at EMP
71) Visit the Experience Music Project, Seattle
72) Drink good coffee
73) Take a ferry
74) Eat s’mores
75) Check out Mt Rushmore and Chief Crazy Horse mountain scupltures
76) Share campfires with the locals
77) Investigate Mammoth Cave (largest cave system in the world)
78) Boondock in RV
79) Yuma
80) Boat ride in a swamp
81) BBQ in Memphis
82) See the ducks at Peabody Hotel, Memphis
83) Eat po’boy
84) See a musical
      89 )Check out live music in Austin, Texas

suggestions welcome....

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