Southern Hemisphere

  • Australia (Great Barrier Reef, bioluminescent algae in Tasmania, quokkas)
  • Sydney, Australia (Figure 8 pools, wedding cake rock, Bradleys Head, Giles Baths, Spring Cove cliff diving, Rose Bay Beach, Evans Lookout, Blue Mountains, eat gelato at Messina!, Crystal Castle/Shambhala Gardens - amethyst caves)
  • Port Douglas & Daintree, Aus
  • South Island, New Zealand - Milford Sound, Mt Cook, The Caitlins (Nugget Point, Roaring Bay Penguin Colony, Purakaunui Falls, Cathedral Caves, McLean Falls, Slope Point, Waipapa Lighthouse)
  • Mauritius
  • Tahiti & Bora Bora (French Polynesia)
  • Antarctica

Europe

  • Aurora Borealis somewhere -- Scandinavia? Greenland?
  • Isle of Skye, Scotland (Old Man of Storr)
  • Moselle River Valley, France
  • Verdon Gorge, France
  • Reunion Island
  • Azores (for real this time)
  • Sylt, Germany (island)
  • Switzerland (Grindelwald, Lauterbrunnen, Montreux, Iseltwald)
  • Lanzarote, Canary Islands
  • Norway (fjords! Bergen/Oslo, Tromso in 2025 for Northern Lights, Faroe Islands)
  • Gole Dell'alcantara (Siciliy)
  • Turkey (Pamukkale, Cappadocia)
  • Wadi Rum & Petra, Jordan (+martian dome)
  • Finland (winter) - in a glass igloo
  • Finland ice breaker
  • Stockholm, Sweden

Asia

  • Go to Japan in late-April/early May (for: cherry blossoms, Fukuoka Kawachi Fuji wisteria tunnel, Toyama firefly squid spawn, Fuji, Kobe, ryokan somewhere, Art Islands)
  • China: Zhangjiajie, Zhangye Danxia rainbow mountains
  • Myanmar (Bagan hot air balloons)
  • Maldives (Sea of Stars!)
  • Socotra, Yemen

North America

  • Alberta (West Edmonton Mall, Jasper)
  • Foresta Lumina, Quebec
  • New Haven, Connecticut
  • Bayfield, Wisconsin
  • Richmond, Virginia (L'Opossum for Beef Swellington)
  • Detroit, Michigan
  • Honokohau Falls, Maui
  • Katmai, Alaska
  • Texas (Houston, El Paso?)
  • Oregon Coast (Portland!)
  • Seattle, Washington
  • Tahoe
  • Sedona, Arizona
  • Arizona/Utah: The Wave (need permits), monument valley, arches national park, cathedral gorge, Mesa arch, Sedona, Tucson
  • Colorado: Denver, Boulder, Aspen, Colorado Springs, Mesa Verde, Black Canyon of the Gunnison
  • White sands in New Mexico
  • Valley of Fire State Park, Nevada
  • Jackson Hole
  • Savannah, Georgia
  • Chattanooga, Tennessee (autumn - lookout mountain and Ruby Falls)
  • Sarasota, Florida
  • Rehoboth Beach, Delaware
  • Yellowstone National Park
  • Veloroute gourmande, QC (150 mi bicycle route between MTL and Quebec City with food through eastern townships)
  • Pan-American highway from Alaska to Argentina: drive through at least 14 countries including the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina. There’s surfing, jungles, swimming, birding, colonial towns, the history, the culture, glaciers, caves, blue lakes, beaches, hot springs in Mexico — it gives you everything

Central/South America

  • Costa Rica/somewhere in South America. With a jungle. (Amazon rainforest!)
  • Rio de Janeiro
  • Manaus, Brazil(Amazon rainforest - Indigenous-owned Biatüwi, Lisboa market, Restaurants Banzeiro and Moquém do Banzeiro, Caxiri bistro) - 3 days there + 1 day each to travel there and back
  • Ilha Grande, Brazil
  • Iguazu Falls (Argentina / Brazil)
  • Coco Plum Beach, Bahamas
  • Atacama Desert & Elqui Valley, Chile
  • Vieques Island - Bioluminescent Bay (Puerto Rico)
  • Salar de Uyuni - Bolivia salt flats
  • Galapagos
  • Ecuador
  • Rainbow Mountain, Peru
  • Macchu Picchu, Peru
  • Los Coloradas, Mexico
  • Grand Cayman
  • Cuba

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