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Five Extreme Adventures for Your Bucket List

Posted on May 8, 2018 by Lesley | 10 Comments

Living life on the edge and plummeting off the other side of it is a lifestyle choice. Extreme bucket list travel is about testing your limits, whether it’s swimming with sharks or manning the helm of a tall ship. Either way, you’re bound to return home with exhilarating memories and life-changing experiences. In the last few years, I participated in…

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Swimming With Whale Sharks – A Huge Bucketlist Item Complete

Posted on August 19, 2015 by Lesley | 34 Comments

Five years ago, I saw a basking shark in the water while I was swimming at Black Brook Beach, along the Cabot Trail in Ingonish, Nova Scotia. It scared the crap out of me. I was petrified. I swam out of the water as quickly as possible and I couldn’t figure out why everyone wasn’t running and screaming. It was a…

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Trekking Chimpanzees in Uganda’s Kibale National Park

Posted on May 14, 2015 by Lesley | 21 Comments

A community of wild chimpanzees surrounded me in Uganda’s Kibale National Park. The leader, an elderly looking male, had one eye and silvery, grey hair on his back. Don’t mistake that for weakness though. He was powerful and the rest of the community respected him and protected him when they sensed danger. Another community of chimpanzees was close by and…

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Experience is the Greatest Gift

Posted on April 15, 2015 by Lesley | 0 Comments

Whenever someone asks me what I want as a gift for any occasion, my mind always goes directly to flights, travel, and experience gifts. Experience is the greatest gift; I’ll take it over “things” any day. Being able to explore new countries, cultures, and adventures is a dream come true. At 34, I’ve visited more than 50 countries and participated in…

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7 Trips to Take Before You Have Kids

Posted on March 27, 2015 by Lesley | 22 Comments

I’m a huge advocate for traveling with kids, obviously. I’ve taken my toddler to more than a handful of countries already. There are some trips to take before you have kids though. Get out there and get these ones in before you plan a family because they become increasingly difficult to accomplish with a baby in tow. These seven places…

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5 Favorite Moments in Antarctica with Bark Europa

Posted on February 11, 2015 by Lesley | 15 Comments

Antarctica is one of the greatest adventures that anyone could have. It is the final frontier, the dream of a lifetime, and an incredible journey. It will remain a top five travel experience in my life. From sailing through 1,000m high mountains of ice that tower over the ship to taking a polar plunge, Antarctica was full of dreamland experiences that are…

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How Adventurous Would Your Bonaire Vacation Be?

Posted on May 17, 2014 by Lesley | 1 Comments

I thought Bonaire was a quiet diver’s paradise with little more to offer than a few diving properties and some turquoise waters. Scarcely enough for passionate divers, a Bonaire vacation didn’t grab my attention. Visiting most of the islands in the Caribbean, and recently both Aruba and Curacao, two other Dutch islands, it seemed time to at least look at…

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Bucket List Item: Bobsledding – ✓

Posted on March 23, 2014 by Lesley | 12 Comments

The thought of actually accomplishing some items on my bucket list scares me to my very core. One of them is bobsledding. In Sigulda, Latvia the track is 1420 m; it features 16 curves and allows for a maximum speed of 125 km/h. That’s insane. Who says, “I want to get into an open-aired vehicle and zoom down an ice…

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Bucket List Experiences from Marriott’s Newport Coast Villas

Posted on February 15, 2014 by Lesley | 4 Comments

We were picked up at our doorstep in a luxury SUV, transported to Hollywood, given a private tour of Disney’s El Capitan theatre and a behind the scenes tour of Extra, and provided VIP passes to Universal Studios for lunch. Have Fun Tours made Athena and I feel like the celebrities. The owners, Lou and Jill, personally escorted us to…

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Hiking Mount Indefatigable in Kananaskis, Alberta

Posted on December 10, 2013 by Lesley | 2 Comments

Mount Indefatigable. I can’t remember when I learned about this hike, but ever since I was informed of its epic-ness, I’ve wanted to conquer it. That was a couple of years ago. I remember saying to Dan last year that I had a good hike in mind, but winning the Big Mountain Challenge in Alberta introduced other mountains to climb. Fast forward…

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