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, Linz, Mauthausen (Mauthausen), Salzburg, Arnold Schwarzenegger Museum (Thal)

  2. Bosnia and Herzegovina: Stari Most (Mostar)

  3. 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

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

  5. Cyprus: The Green Line

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

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

  8. France: Corsica, The Louvre [2nd time] (Paris)

  9. Germany: Kulturkaufhaus Dussmann, The Reichstag (Berlin), The Eagle’s Nest (Berchtesgaden), Cochem, The Fulda Gap (Fulda), Neuschwanstein Castle (Schwangau), Trier, All Saints’ Church (Wittenberg)

  10. Greece: Mount Lycabettus

  11. Iceland: Gullfoss Falls

  12. India: Taj Mahal

  13. 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)

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

  15. Mongolia: the Tomb of Genghis Khan

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

  17. Peru: Machu Pichu, Nazca Lines

  18. Poland: Auschwitz

  19. 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)

  20. South Korea: The DMZ, Inchon

  21. Turkey: Göbekli Tepe, Trabzon

  22. Ukraine: Chernobyl

  23. UAE: Dubai

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

  25. 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)

  26. Vatican City: Sistine Chapel, Vatican Museums

  27. Vietnam: The Ho Chi Minh Trail