Continental Travels

I have a few goals for traveling in my life. One is to get to all 50 states. I don't know how many I've already been to... (that's for another day). Another is to set foot on every continent. Yes that includes Antarctica. Don't know how I'm going to get there, but someday I hope to, if only for a short time.


This summer I get to check another continent off my list by going to Australia. So I can check three off my list. North America (crazy I know), Europe, and now Australia.


Over the past year, my desire to travel has increased exponentially. I've always enjoyed traveling, but I just want to see the world. There is so much to see and so many ways to go about seeing the world. You can travel to each continent, try traveling to every country, or take one of the many lists of Seven Wonders of the World and see where they used to be and see the ones that are still standing.

Of the seven wonders of the ancient world only one still remains standing: the Great Pyramid of Giza, but the sites for the other six are mostly still visible. Now a new list recently came out and I've actually seen one of them: The Coliseum in Rome. It was incredible! One of the coolest things I've ever seen.

Seeing it from the outside is one thing, but  until you've walked through and around it and seen the old structure, you haven't truly appreciated this amazing structure! Many people know the Coliseum from history and  some people know it from Gladiator, the best picture and best actor winner of 2000. Being where so many people fought and watched people fight to the death was really cool, but pretty eerie at the same time.

We were able to walk pretty much anywhere in this enormous place. From the lower levels, to the upper levels, and all the way around the bowl. Just spectacular. One of the many awesome places I was able to go to during a Mediterranean cruise I took after my senior year of high school. It's a lot bigger than it first seems from the outside and I had to catch my parents' eyes to get the picture below.

So while I still can I want to try and see as many of the seven as I can. Here's a list of the "New Seven Wonders of the World":

The Great Wall of China

Petra in Jordan

Christ The Redeemer (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

Machu Picchu (Peru)

Chichen Itza (Mexico)

Taj Mahal (India)

The Coliseum (Italy)

Honorary member to the list:

The Great Pyramid of Giza.

It'll take some time, but I'm going to cross each one of these off my list of place to travel to at some point in my life. My personal favorite way to travel to all of these would be to get a ticket around the world, which allows you to stop at 12 different airports and travel anywhere for one year. I better start saving!