USA Bucket List
The USA section of our travel blog We present the experiences and things that make our trips truly epicurean and gourmet. We've personally tested, visited, and tasted the things suggested and recommended here, and we particularly enjoyed them. Here's what we're looking for in detail for our personal bucket list in the USA:
1. Enjoy America
North America, meaning Canada and the USA, offers a whole lot that makes traveling a special pleasure: These are places that have something magical about them – like certain coastal or mountainous regions, but also anything that promotes one's well-being, such as good food, outstanding service, or a particularly wonderful experience. In Canada, these are collectively known as Signature Experiences. Our bucket list experience in the USA is one of them.
2. Discover the luxurious America
In addition to the most luxurious and beautiful hotels in these two countries, these include outstanding gourmet restaurants, as well as exclusive shopping opportunities that don't necessarily offer expensive brand-name items, but rather typical local items, antiques, and exceptionally high-quality handicrafts. These experiences are a must on our bucket list for traveling to the USA.
3. Get to know American lifestyle and lifestyle
The people of North America come from a wide variety of countries around the world, and they have brought with them many customs and traditions from their ancestral homelands. These characterize the various regions of the USA and Canada. We want to explore how this influence manifests itself and where visitors can see and experience it – be it at typical festivals, in museums dedicated to different ethnic groups, in ethnic boutiques, or at the German bakery on St. Lawrence Street, all part of the USA bucket list.
4. Shops, Markets and Antique Stores
This topic overlaps somewhat with the previous one, but here we're looking for shops, markets, and businesses where travelers can get a taste of the uniqueness of a particular region. These might be art galleries, antique shops, flea markets, farmers' markets, or even a Christmas shop with regional Christmas decorations—simply anything that showcases the characteristics of a region. Such experiences significantly enrich our US bucket list.
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We're always looking for new destinations, attractions, and travel tips for people planning their own USA trips. These can be trips for singles, couples, or families, fly-and-drives, RV tours, train trips, or cruises. We're interested in all of them and would love to share them here. This is our current wish list for USA trips:
1. Destinations on our USA bucket list
It's difficult to pick specific destinations because the US offers so many worthwhile destinations, but the following regions are currently of most interest to us: Florida, New England, California, the Southwest, Alaska, Hawaii, and New York. These places are therefore particularly interesting for our US bucket list.
2. Discover insider tips of American cuisine
Anyone traveling independently in the USA discovers fast food and chain restaurants. However, it's a different story with truly good restaurants offering "fine dining." You have to know them. We want to help with this and try restaurants on our travels that locals like to go to. Therefore, we look for restaurants that offer special specialties or are simply particularly popular. An important item for our USA bucket list.
3. Get to know the wine regions of the USA in detail
We've already driven through Napa Valley. We've also tasted wine there. But to truly get to know a wine region, you need to spend more time there, talk to winemakers, help with the grape harvest, or learn the secrets of local viticulture. This definitely belongs on our USA bucket list.
4. Learn how to make American Bourbon
In keeping with our blog about European travel, we'd love to learn more about how American bourbon is produced. We're interested in the history behind it, the methods used in its production, and anything else that's interesting about it. Such explorations are a highlight of our USA bucket list.
5. Visiting the national parks of the USA is one point on our USA bucket list
This goes without saying, since America's most beautiful regions are grouped together in the National Parks system. We want to explore them better, so they're definitely on our USA bucket list.
6. Exploring the big American cities
For our USA Bucket List we are not only interested in New York, Miami, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, or Los Angeles. We also want to explore other cities like New Orleans, Houston, San Antonio, Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Las Vegas, Seattle, and more.
7. Discovering America's Scenic Byways belongs on our USA bucket list
Scenic routes in the USA are often designated as scenic byways. However, these routes lead through lesser-known areas of the United States, which is precisely why we want to take a closer look at them, as they're perfect for our USA bucket list.
8. Get to know America's ethnic groups
Be it the Wasps in the Northeast, the Cajuns in Louisiana, the Mexicans in New Mexico, or the Navajo in the Southwest – each of these groups has its own way of life, and we'd love to explore it in more detail. Such discoveries are part of our USA bucket list.
9. Meeting interesting Americans is high on our USA bucket list
Similar to Canada, we're also interested in individuals who have achieved something special. We like to introduce them to our readers. These encounters are therefore an important part of our USA bucket list.
10. Find the most beautiful hotels in the USA
We are looking for the best Hotels in the USA* (advertisement) that we can introduce to our readers. These include hotels steeped in tradition such as the Mount Washington Hotel in New Hampshire, the Biltmore Hotel in Miami, and the Coronado Hotel in San Diego, as well as hotels that offer something special. Be it beautiful surroundings, outstanding cuisine, or excellent service.
