Bucket List Events Blog

The Global Ambassadors – MLB in Tokyo

#13: Major League Baseball in Tokyo: March 2025 As any Bucket Lister can surely attest, the need to be opportunistic when considering events is vitally important. It was in this vein that we bid sayonara to Osaka and Kon’nichiwa to Tokyo, where Major League Baseball would open its 2025 season

The Global Ambassadors – Grand Sumo Wrestling Championship

#12: Grand Sumo Wrestling Championship: March 2025 For the first, and likely only, time during our Bucket List globetrotting, it was our Kōunwoinoruto pull off the much coveted “Double” – attending two events in the same country on the same trip. Having not attended wrestling at the Paris Olympics heading

The Global Ambassadors – Paris Summer Games

#11 The Paris Summer Olympics: July 2024 Given the Olympics’ rich history and tradition, as well as the 100th anniversary return of the Summer Olympics to Paris, attending the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad was quintessential Bucket List material. Add to this that we believed the Olympic motto, “Citius, Altius,

The Global Ambassadors – Wimbledon

#10 Wimbledon: July 2023 The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, aka the All England Club, which opened in 1868, hosted its inaugural Lawn Tennis Championship in 1877. The Club, whose membership totals just 565, reinforces its exclusivity among and beyond the full/life (375), temporary (120), and honorary (70)

The Global Ambassadors – The Iron Bowl – Auburn vs. Alabama

#9 The Iron Bowl: November 2022 Over Thanksgiving weekend that same year the two of us returned to the South – Tuscaloosa, via Atlanta, to be precise – for what is arguably the country’s most prolific college football rivalry, the Auburn Tigers vs. the Alabama Crimson Tide. Dating back to

The Global Ambassadors – The Masters

#8 – The Masters: April 2022 Our ability to witness, firsthand, “A tradition unlike any other” was delayed two years so that we would not find ourselves attending, “An unlikely event lacking tradition.” If, as the saying goes, “Good things come to those who wait,” then how long are great

The Global Ambassadors – Kentucky Derby

#7 The Kentucky Derby: May 2021 “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.” Historically applied to beloved letter couriers, a variation of this motto necessarily applied to us, as we continued our global journey as couriers

The Global Ambassadors – Ironman World Championship

#6 Ironman World Championship: October 2019 Much like how our bucket list requires extensive training, discipline, and endurance, so too does the Ironman World Championship in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. Held annually, this championship consists of a 2.4-mile swim, a 112-mile bicycle ride and a 26.2-mile marathon, raced in that order and

The Global Ambassadors – Sport Fishing in Panama

5 Sport Fishing Panama: February 2019 A late but compelling update to our overall bucket list was the inclusion of a deep-sea fishing trip; with any luck, marlin fishing to be more precise. But not just any marlin fishing opportunity would suffice. As with the rest of our completed and

The Global Ambassadors – FIFA World Cup Final

#4 World Cup Final in Moscow: July 2018 The months leading up to the World Cup’s kickoff in June were marked by so many extraordinary storylines that we were left to wonder if we would somehow be Red Menaced while meeting and mingling with Muscovites over shots of vodka and

The Global Ambassadors – Monday Night Football at Lambeau Field

#3 Monday Night Football at Lambeau Field: November 2017 Initially considered an opportunistic and convenient (wedge) event to attend, the Monday Night Football game featuring the Packers at Lambeau Field, proved to be anything but that. Approximately five months prior to the game, I was diagnosed with a rare sarcoma

The Global Ambassadors – The Iditarod

#2 The Iditarod: March 2017 The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, self-proclaimed as the “The Last Great Race on Earth,” is Alaska’s most iconic winter event, with a traditional route from Anchorage to Nome – a distance which varies but is frequently referenced as 1,049 miles. The festivities begin with