I have always wanted to go to Canada ever since I was little. Some of my family left the UK a couple of generations back (distant family) and settled in Canada and the idea of visiting the beautiful country was so exciting! We had the most amazing time – Vancouver – Vancouver Island – Vancouver – Train to Banff – Calgary – Toronto and managed to get in a hockey game watching the Leafs play Boston.
So many memories and so many photos!
What places to visit are on your bucket list?
Melissa Dukes
I really want to see rural USA. The real America not the tourist stops.
uli backmund
hi melissa it is enough to go 2-5 km from the main attractions and you will be alone enjoying a fantastic landscape
Rie NATALENKO
You will love Vancouver! I would love to visit Toronto.
John
Would love to visit Canada, it’s on my bucket list, but don’t know if I’ll make it, being in New Zealand, it’s expensive to travel.
uli backmund
hi john, 4 times in new zealand , working extra shifts to make it happen, as it is not cheap from germany, but was worth every $
Kim Bytheway
I have always wanted to go to the Antarctic. I think that would be a really interesting place to see.
Karen Braund
Hope you have a great time in Canada. Our daughter is hope to go Canada on a working holiday in about twelve months so we are thinking it would be a good time to head over for a holiday ourselves. Looking forward to your report so we can decide where to go 😉
Lee Todd
Canada has also been my country of choice for many years – I want to do the Trans-Canadian rail
Bronwyn Heeley
Canada Is the only place I’ve ever wanted to go and have since I was 10 (I wanna see Moose, in the wild)
BJ Williams
I have always wanted to experience the Calgary Stampede!
Also, I have friends on Vancouver Island, that I met in 2009 on holiday in Cuba, I would really like to visit .
So many other places to visit, but I’d be very happy to make it to Canada ?? x? x
Jan
Brazil and south Africa are two on my bucket list I hope to do both
Sharon Etherton
Ive always wanted to go to Egypt. Do a cruise up the Nile and go into the pyramids. My Mum went a few years ago and loved it
Edith
I have always wanted to see Svalbard. I grew up in a place in Norway where everyone has sleddogs (alaska huskies) and it would be fun to go to Svalbard and drive a dogsled.
Susan Elizabeth Rawlings
I want to go to pennsylvania USA. It’s siĺly really but there is a craft shop in Pittsburg I really want to visit. Especially in December when they have a Christmas party. But it’s a twelve hour flight. So on my bucket list it goes.
Helen
I’ve always wanted to visit New Orleans… I’m hoping hubby takes me for a big birthday one year
Elayne
I would love to do the rail tour of either the USA or Canada. I have an aunt that did the USA one and she loved it. Sooo expensive though.
Suze
I went to the London/Toronto to family area in 1980, just after I left school!
First time on a plane at 16 – first to the UK and then Ringway (shows how old) to Toronto
I think it’s about time i went again, would love to do west coast so look forward to,the pics
uli backmund
hi rj, it’s been a long time since I visited western canada, but I am sure you will enjoy it , especially the life style, not so rushed as it is in europe, have a safe trip and a nice holiday. yours uli
my bucket list includes the north west territories and alaska
Claudia
I always wanted to go to Canada, to visit an online friend who lives in Saskatchewan, but when it comes to my bucket-list, the place I still need to visit is Japan. Oh, well, someday! 😛
Kelly
I’ve always wanted to go to British Columbia. My sister got to go and loved it.
JenCW
I’ve wanted to go to seceral places: Ireland, Scotland, New Zealand and Australia. I hope you have a wonderful time in Canada!
Jillian Too
Alaska is at the top of my bucket list.
Chris
I live near Toronto but I would love to travel to all the other provinces. I would have love to come to your signing in Toronto but I am volunteering for our local women’s center that day. Hope you enjoy your trip to Canada. 🙂
Natasha Chesterbrook
Recently visited Montreal for the first time. Lovely city. Amazing time. I hope you have as great a time as I did!
Natasha Chesterbrook
Oh, and I’d love to see a sun rise in New Zealand.
Tracy
Hi RJ, I hope you have a wonderful time in Canada. As a Canadian myself, my dream visits are Hawaii, Ireland & Itlay.
Eve Rae
Enjoy your visit to Canada! The fall colours are nice here in northern Ontario. Visiting England is on my bucket list. My sister brought back some great photos from her visit there a few years ago!
Judy Stone
I’d love to take a leisurely tour of Scotland. I’m keen to take the Jacobite Steam Train Tour and I want to see the historical sites, sightsee, and meet the residents.
Shelley Hastings
I’ve travelled a lot over the years but I would love to see Japan.
Sarina
I’ve been to Canada; it was beautiful! I’d love to see Ireland some day. 🙂
Patricia
I hope you have the best trip!! I’d love to visit Ireland someday and Italy and ohhh so many other places….
Sheri O'Brien
My bucket list includes a tour of lighthouses in North America. I also would like to see Yellowstone and tour the New England coast. Maybe one day!
Linda Jones
I want to take my daughter-in-law and only grandchildren to NYC at Christmas time!
Khs
I am so disappointed that I can’t make the Toronto signing☹️ I would have loved to meet you guys. I’m really hoping it can become a regular thing.
As for places to visit on my bucket list. I want to see the northern lights in all their glory. I used to think I’d have to go to Iceland to see the full effect but recently I’ve been following an artist in the Yukon who posts the most beautiful pictures that he takes there and the sky is beautiful, dancing with colours. So now the Yukon is on the top of my list.
Glad you are enjoying our beautiful country RJ. I’ve never been west of Ontario. The north and the east coasts are truly amazing though, if you make it back to this side of the pond again.
Safe travels to you and your family
Terri Grooms
My family would like to go to Alaska.
Lisa Sullivan
I have always wanted to visit Great Britain, and Switzerland.?
cadkitten
My bucket list of places: Japan, Italy, New York, Vermont, and Oregon.
Linda A.
I’d like to go to Lake Louise, near Banff.
Trix
The Maritimes have always appealed to me, and Montreal and Quebec City are part of the plan, too. I’m also very intrigued by Miquelon!
Fadheelah Rahmtoola
I would love to visit Scotland, especially the Highlands.
Kathy J in Ellicott City
Alaska and lots of places in Europe!
Pei
Would love to visit Spain and Iceland someday!!
Kathy J in Ellicott City
Alaska!
Cassie
I’d love to go to Ireland some day!
Lori MacNabb
I live in Canada and would love to visit Newfoundland. Have a great visit.
Tamara M.
Scotland is definitely on my Bucket List! Big fan of any romance featuring hot guys in kilts:)
Kristin
Most definitely Ireland.
Kendra Patterson
Scotland and Ireland. It’s where my Grand-Dad’s family came from. It also looks so green and beautiful in pics.
Rachel
Europe
Jennifer Shannon
Welcome to Canada! I took the train from Vancouver to Calgary once when I was a kid. I’d love to do it again! Paris is on my bucket list, but so is travelling across Canada, as I think it is for most Canadians. It’s not easy to see more than your corner of this very large country.
James Hammontree
Always wanted to see the Grand Canyon in person … never seems to be any time for it.
Linda C
I have always loved British history so I wish I could go to England and visit EVERYTHING!!
ButtonsMom2003
I’ve been fortunate to do two things on my bucket list already: Hawaii in 2016 and Alaska in 2018. One thing on my bucket list isn’t a place, it’s you, RJ, I want to meet you in person. I really wanted to come see you in Toronto but it just wasn’t in the stars this year.
Diane Fair
My husband and I have been able to see lots of Canada. It is an amazing country! We’ve driven up to Montreal and to the Canadian side of the Niagara Falls. We’ve been able to drive up to Toronto, Banff, through British Columbia (which is probably our favorite place so far.) We’ve driven to Vancouver and next summer we’re planning on driving up to Victoria.
Places on my list…everywhere outside the continental US. I’d like to see a glacier before we lose them all.
Tina J @ Happily Ever Chapter
I’ll bet Canada is beautiful with the changing colors of the leaves right now!
I really want to go to Alaska, probably via cruise, so I can see the pure blue glacial ice before it’s gone. I’d love to see wolf, bear, etc in their natural environment while I’m there, too. I’d love to see a convocation of eagles stalking on a fishing boat, looking for scraps!!
The PNW is another place I’d like to visit. No particular city, just the lush green of it.
Lastly, I really do want to go to the San Diego Zoo.
Outside of the US? I don’t know… I honestly don’t allow myself to dream that big. If I did, White Island (NZ) or New Calendonia.
Ginger Connatser
Would love to go to Scotland and Hawaii.
Jodi marinich
I would love to take the family to italy
LaurieP
I want to visit the British Isle.
And if you get the chance to go to the CN Tower 360 restaurant, do it. It is so amazing. I love Toronto. Of course, I was there for a hockey tournament with my son.
Pat
Canada and Alaska have always been on my bucket list and being from Australia that is hard to achieve. One day I will get there.
Joscelyn Smith
Scotland and Japan are the top destinations on my bucket list.
Paige Leichner
I love Vancouver. My son is named Van and they sell bottled water there that just says Van on the label. Ireland is in my bucket list!
Mandy Mills
I’ve been to Toronto (albeit in 1976, when I was in the 5th grade, for a class trip), and I would love to go back. And I’ve been to Windsor, because I live in Metro Detroit and they are right across the river. But I think my Canada bucket list visit would have to be in the Pacific Northwest – I really want to go to Vancouver!
Sadonna
Well damn. My comment didn’t get saved. UGH!
You will love Canada. It’s the place I’ve lived outside the US that I would live again if I had the chance. I was lucky enough to work there twice! Toronto and Vancouver are fantastic. Vancouver Island is one of my favorite places – Butchart Gardens and Victoria are so beautiful. I’ve been many places, but have LOADS more on the bucket list: Angkor Wat, Ha Long Bay, Petra, Giza, Kruger game reserve, Mauritius, Madagascar, Seychelles, Goa, Spain,, Portugal, Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand, Maldives, Iceland, Ireland, Scotland, Alaska, Patagonia, Galapagos, Machu Picchu, Cost Rica, etc. etc. etc. I will need to live a long time and save a lot of money to do all that 😉
Lisa Klemmensen
Greece. Especially the Greek cats LOL
P.K. 'Ken' Pabor a.k.a. pk
Enjoyed many of your books since discovering you last year. I’m retired now and my health such that I cannot travel anymore but if I could there are three places I would love to see. Calgary, Canada; York, England and Belfast, Ireland.
Maude Allen
Always wanted to see Vancouver and Calgary.
Rugby8
Went to college 40 miles from Montreal, so I saw a Lot of it? . Have also been to Niagara, Toronto, and Vancouver.
Bucket list right end includes driving around the middle of England and Scotland.
Spent 4 weeks a few years ago driving around southern England and parts of Wales — 4 weeks, 10 towns/cities
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Melisha Bonnette
I’d love to visit Australia, England, and Ireland someday. I hope you enjoy your vacation!
Laurel
San Antonio, Texas. My daddy was stationed there when he was in the Air Force.
Didi
I’ve never been to Canada but I’d love to visit there and gorge on food there, especially poutine. 😀
Marianne Boutet
I have always wanted to go to Japan. To Tokyo, to be sure, but also to Kobe, which is sister city to Seattle where I lived for several years. I envy you your trip to Canada. I have been to Victoria and Vancouver several times and I know you will enjoy your time there.
Christine LaCombe
Australia is on my bucket list.
kp
My dream vacation is to Ireland!
Amy Moore
I would love to go to Alaska and do a whale watching tour.
Kushalrani Gulab
Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and other countries of Central Asia. I once flew to London from Delhi with a stopover at Tashkent. I’m an Indian and I was amazed to see and experience the similarities between Uzbekistan and and India – of course, I shouldn’t have been because the Mughals who ruled India for centuries were originally from this part of the world. But I loved it and I want to explore more of it than I could on my stopover.
Also, the flight from Delhi to Tashkent was stunning. We flew low over the cruel peaks of the Karakoram mountains, the Pamir Knot and everything I had read about in my geography texts at school was gloriously alive. And immediately after the mountains came the Steppes, so flat that I could see individual pebbles. It is one of my best memories and I will definitely go there some day.
Liz C.
I would love to do a UK trip. I’ve read so many books of the years that take place in England, Wales and Scotland and I’d love to see the places I’ve only read about. I’d also like to visit Ireland my dad’s side of the family is from there. Now I just need to win the lottery. ?
Inca Bisso
The list is endles, butt in Canada I’d like to see Prince Edward Island. I love Anne of Avonlea books.
Kara Donovan-Guido
The only time I’ve been to Canada is when I went to Niagra Falls. I liked the Canadian side more than the American side. There are so many places I’d like to explore.I hope to go to Costa Rica next year.
Serena
Ever since I read A Town like Alice i’ve wanted to visit Alice Springs in Australia and Tasmania makes my list too.
Linda C.
I was born and raised in Montana, but moved to Italy almost 4 decades ago (yeah, I’m that old). I’ve been across the US, almost to the Canadian border, and over a lot of Europe, so I pretty much don’t have a bucket list for travel. I missed that you were in Rome!! We live about an hour and a half to the south! Could’ve dropped in! Oh well! Glad you had fun.
Porcelaine
We’re the exact opposite! I am from Canada and wish to visit the UK eventually 🙂 I hope you’ll like your Hockey game and our pretty forests!
Bernice C
On my list of places to visit are Hawaii, Canada, and the Bahamas. I have crossed off quite a few of the rest of my must see destinations so these are next up on my list.
susana
I’ve always wanted to go to Finland…. something about that country really appeals to me. I hope I will be able to go one day
Jack S
I’ve been to Montreal, but never really done any sight-seeing in Canada (my mother has friends in the area that we would visit in the summers).
I’ve traveled to Europe though, and around the US. Never made it out to the Grand Canyon though, or the redwoods national park. I’d really love to see them!
Angela
Top of my bucket list is to go to Finland and stay in a thermal glass igloo at Hotel Kakslauttanen and (hopefully) see an amazing display of the Northern Lights.
Katy McKee
Scottland
Bobbi
New Orleans is on my bucket list! Excited to say I am finally going in January. Can’t wait.
Masja
I’d like to see Niagara falls! I’ve been twice to Vancouver and loved it! Would love to go again and see ore of it! And New Zealand is on my bucket list. Probably won’t be able to, ever! 🙁