What do you seek?

The reason I keep a bucket list is so I can track the number of experiences or achievements I want to have in my lifetime. The ones in bold have been completed with a short description beneath. The items not in bold are on my to do list. 

Life Goals:

• Go to college and get a degree

  • June 2011 - Graduated and got my bachelor of arts in communication and minor in sociology from University of California, Davis.

• Take a photography class
• Change someones life for the better
• Road trip across the US

• VISIT 25 COUNTRIES BY 25 YEARS OLD

  • DECEMBER 14, 2012 - COMPLETED THIS GOAL A MONTH BEFORE MY 25TH BIRTHDAY. 

• 10 day Silent Retreat
• Get a Master's Degree
• Become my fittest self
• Live on a beach

• Backpack through multiple countries

  • November-December 2011- Backpacked through Central America with my Dad. 7 countries in 7 weeks. Check out the blog here. 

• Be in Oprah Winfrey's presence

  • November 2014 - Attended Oprah's Life You Want Tour with Kelsey and Cole. THe trailblazers that inspired us were Deepak Choppa, MD, Elizabeth Gilbert, Rob Bell, & Iyanla vanzant. 

• Become a Yoga Teacher (Obtained my 200hour)

  • February - March 2015 - I completed my 200hour YTT at Rishikesh Yog Peeth in India. 

• Get my 300 hour yoga certification

• CREATE A BLOG

  • October 2011 - CREATED a blog for the backpacking trip with my dad through central america. CHeck it out here.

  • December 2011 - Made my first personal blog, a travel through life.

• Find my soul mate and have a relationship like my parents
• Have a family
• Donate an entire paycheck to someone in need
• Have my own garden
• Work a ski season in a different country
• Buy a house

• Live in a city

  • Moved to San Francisco March 2014 - June 2015.

• Travel Solo in another country

  • February 2012 -Traveled solo through Singapore and Malaysia.

  • December 2015- Traveled to Colombia and started my year long trip around the world.

• Live in another country
• Stay in every continent for at least 1 month

• Take cooking classes

  • August 2010 - Took a cooking class in Chiang Mai, Thailand

  • March 2015 - took a cooking class in Rishikesh, India

  • may 2016 - took a cooking class in hoi An, Vietnam

• Meet the Dali Lama
• Work for a nonprofit

• Teach yoga at a wellness retreat

  • June 2015 - One of my soul sisters and I always talked about leading a retreat and we finally did in Mammoth. Lean in & Lift off

• Lead an international yoga retreat
• See the green flash of a sunrise or sunset
• Master another language

• Go to India for a spiritual awakening

  • February-March 2015 - Scratched the surface of this one during my YTT. I can't wait to explore more of India.

• Learn to french braid my own hair
• Go to the airport and buy a ticket to an unexpected place
• Spend summer solstice in Sweden

• Rent a van and go on a road trip

  • March 2016: Two of my friends and i got lucky and our friends gave us there van so we drove up the coast of australia. we started in sydney and drove up to brisbane over 12 days.

• Learn to code
• Ride a camel in the desert

• Swim with sharks

  • november 2000 - Swam with them in Tahiti

  • April 2016 - Swam with a whale shark in Cebu, Philippines

• Go in a hot air balloon 

• Paragliding

  • December 2015, Went paragliding in Cartago, Colombia. Check out the video here.

• Go kitesurfing

• Volunteer Internationally

  • August 2010, Volunteered with International Student Volunteer for a month in Thailand. Volunteered for two weeks at Baan Unrak Children's home then spent two weeks adventuring around Thailand. 

  • February 2012, Volunteered with Cisco Medi's  Developing Local Talent in Technology (DLTT) workshop. Check out the video here.

  • July 2013, Volunteered with CISV for a month in Denmark as the leader of a US Delegation. I took four 11 year olds to a peace camp with thirteen other countries and taught peace education. 

• Visit 57 countries by the time I'm 57

• Road trip in a van

  • march 2016 - road tripped up the east coast of australia from sydney to brisbane in a van. this was one of the biggest highlights of my life.

• Be the change I wish to see in the world

• Have breakfast, lunch, and dinner in a different country

  • April 2016: Started in Darwin, Australia where I had breakfast, Flew to Singapore for a layover and had lunch, ended the day in the philippines where i had dinner.

• Be successful doing what I love

Places to See:

• Half Dome in Yosemite

  • 2000 - Hiked to the top of Half Dome.

• Go on a Safari in Africa
• Barcelona, Spain
• Lake Havasu Falls, Arizona
• Grand Canyon, Arizona

• Multnomah Falls in Oregon

  • July 2015 - Took a road trip to Seattle with my parents for a family reunion and stopped in Portland along the way. 

• Visit the Taj Mahal

  • March 16, 2015 - Once my yoga teacher training was completed, I went to the Taj Mahal with Lindsay who I met during my course. 

• Visit the White House in Washington D.C.
• Niagara Falls, New York

• Angkor Wat, Cambodia

  • July 6, 2016 - Visited Angkor Thom with Kayla and a few friends I met along the journey (Carly, Freddie, Kristen). What an architectural masterpiece. All of angkor thom was incredible.

• The Blue Lagoon in Iceland
• Galapagos Islands, Ecuador 
• Milford Sound in New Zealand
• Hot Air Ballooning in Cappadocia, Turkey
• The Shilin Stone Forest in China
• The Great Wall of China, China

• Kawasan Falls in Cebu, Philippines

  • April 30, 2016 - Went Canyoneering into the And ended at kawasan falls. This was a magical experience and I faced my fears of heights and jumped off all 5 waterfalls ranging from 35-50 feet. 

• Petra, Jordan

• Hike Peru's Inca trail to Machu Picchu 

  • May 3, 2018 - Took the train from Cusco then the bus to machu picchu. hike rainbow mountain and laguna humantay for my hiking fix this trip.

• Kjerag, Norway

  • September 17, 2016 - Met five solo travelers and completed the 6 mile hike to kjeragbolten. It was terrifying & accomplishing standing on the rock. 

• Trolltunga, Norway

  • September 20, 2016 - Rented a car from Bergen with another traveler and woke up at 3am to drive 3.5 hours to odda then hiked for 9 hours. Hiking to the trolls tounge was 11 kilometers one way. it was the most incredible view.

• Preikestolen, Norway

  • September 16, 2016 - The shortest hike I did in Norway. It only took an hour to get to Pulpit Rock. It was a windy day, being by the edge was scary. 

• The Northern Lights, Scandinavia

• The Eiffel Tower, Paris

  • June 206 - Went with my mom and the Heitzman's for a senior graduation trip.

• Cape of Good Hope in South Africa
• Zion National Park in Utah
• Arches National Park in Utah

• Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming

  • August 2015 - Went on a girls trip for a week to Montana and spent a day in Yellowstone. Watched Old Faithful erupt. 

• Go snowboarding in Wengen, Switzerland
• Ionian islands, Greece
• The Pyramids of Giza, Egypt
• Iguazu Falls, Argentina 
• Victoria Falls in Zambia and Zimbabwe

• The Statue of Liberty in New York

  • July 2009 - Visited my cousin while she was living in New York.

• Maldives
• Bali, Indonesia 
• Kashmir, India

• Sydney Opera House, Australia

  • February 2016 - Visited my friend Kayla whose been living in Sydney and went on a walk in the botanical gardens next to the Opera house.

• The Great Barrier Reef, Australia 
• Patagonia, Argentina
• The North Pole

• The Gibbon Experience in Laos

  • July 2016 - Kayla and i did the 3 day classic gibbon tour. Although we didn't see any gibbons, we heard them and had the most magical time.