Whats on your 'bucket list'?

[Jimbob]

There has been a few posts lately mentioning personal bucket lists, originally inspired perhaps by the movie, ‘the Bucket List’, meaning things to do before ‘kicking the bucket' and beyond the mid life crisis list-too late for that.

This year I expect to retire and with a personal tragedy early this year this has triggered assembling such a bucket list. I have travelled widely and probably done more the average person.
I am also curious about other peoples’ bucket list particularly from Baby Boomers

Here's Jimbob’s Bucket List
• Spend a week in a monastery, Buddhist or Christian, hopefully a mentally cathartic experience
• Take a ship cruise that loops around the Asian ports, expensive as a single guy
• Visit Siem Reip-an easy one to do.
• Get a licence to ride a motorbike- no never rode on the wild side, just been a pillion pillock
• Visit Kamachatka Peninsula in Russia
• Visit Buenos Aires and move onto Machu icchu
• Drive if not own a Caterham sports car (yes I have had sports cars previously,
• Speak another language fluently, (my ambition is to keep on learning mandarin).

(Baa Baa and Johan should have no interest in this topic as they still have their youth to waste. )

[Siani]

There has been a few posts lately mentioning personal bucket lists, originally inspired perhaps by the movie, ‘the Bucket List’, meaning things to do before ‘kicking the bucket' and beyond the mid life crisis list-too late for that.

This year I expect to retire and with a personal tragedy early this year this has triggered assembling such a bucket list. I have travelled widely and probably done more the average person.
I am also curious about other peoples’ bucket list particularly from Baby Boomers

Here's Jimbob’s Bucket List
• Spend a week in a monastery, Buddhist or Christian, hopefully a mentally cathartic experience
• Take a ship cruise that loops around the Asian ports, expensive as a single guy
• Visit Siem Reip-an easy one to do.
• - no never rode on the wild side, just been a pillion pillock
• Visit Kamachatka Peninsula in Russia
• Visit Buenos Aires and move onto Machu icchu
• Drive if not own a Caterham sports car (yes I have had sports cars previously,
• Speak another language fluently, (my ambition is to keep on learning mandarin).

(Baa Baa and Johan should have no interest in this topic as they still have their youth to waste. )

Such a lot to do Jimbob, think it is wonderful to feel this way. I think a little caution with the motorbike I always worry about things like that...the rest of the list is fine ?I will think over night of my list, will let you know in the morning!

[PeteC]

1) Stay alive long enough to see my now 5 year old daughter graduate university. Hopefully at age 21-22 and not 35.

The following will probably never be unless I strike out on my own. Tough to do with a school age child.

2) An extended 3 month driving tour of Europe, the UK and Ireland with emphasis on trying to find my Irish-English and German roots.
3) Take the Trans-Siberian train full route east to west.
4) Visit Cuba.

Pete

[Jimbob]

4) Visit Cuba.

Pete

Damn! I forgot to mention the workers time warp paradise: Cuba. I am sure Mr. Plum would go with you. Are Americanos welcome?

[PeteC]

4) Visit Cuba.

Pete

Damn! I forgot to mention the workers time warp paradise: Cuba. I am sure Mr. Plum would go with you. Are Americanos welcome?

I don't think so, not yet, but the rules seem to be loosening all the time. I grew up with all of that; the Bay of Pigs, the missile crisis, and found 3 stunning Cuban girls in my 5th grade class one morning as the refugees flooded in when Castro took over. Pete

[STEVE G]

The primary thing I would like to try and do before I die is be able to afford to retire which is not such an easy feat these days.

[buksida]

Most of mine are travel related also ... Cuba, Venezuela, South Africa, Riding east coast to west across the US on a Harley, Doing a 100 meter scuba dive, A parachute jump ... and plenty more reckless activities ...

[hhfarang]

Jimbob wrote:

prcscct wrote:
4) Visit Cuba.

Pete

Damn! I forgot to mention the workers time warp paradise: Cuba. I am sure Mr. Plum would go with you. Are Americanos welcome?


I don't think so, not yet, but the rules seem to be loosening all the time.

I don't think it's a issue of Americans not being welcome in Cuba, it's an issue of the U.S. government making it illegal for it's citizens to travel to Cuba. I know lots of people who have gone by flying to Canada first, then to Cuba and having a loose-leaf visa page instead of a travel revealing stamp in the passport. Israel will also do the same thing, allowing people living in middle eastern countries that forbid return travel to Israel (like Saudi Arabia).

As far as a bucket list goes, I've pretty much completed mine (at least all of it that there is any realistic chance of) and am now just awaiting death.

[lomuamart]

A parachute jump would certainly be a thrill. I've done a bungee jump and the caterpault version as well.
Traveling a bit more would also be on my agenda especially in SE Asia as I havn't done as much as I should have over the years I've been in Thailand.
Oh yes - just let me hit level par or better one more time in my life. Unfortunately, that isn't realistically going to happen any time soon or ever.

[Huahinian]

At my advanced age, my list is simple:

1. Sleep well tonight.
2 Wake up tomorrow.
3. Sleep well tomorrow night.
4. Wake up the next day.
5. Repeat 1 to 4.

[Homer]

... Riding east coast to west across the US on a Harley ...

Curious why east to west rather than west to east. So you can watch the sun set into the Pacific on the last day of the trip?

[richard]

Done most things (some crazy) but now at my time of life I just want to understand and apply ........


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[GLCQuantum]

Well, with having a further 40 good years left, 10 with alzheimers and the rest a vegatable I would like to add my 'bucket list'.

* Go to Disneyland
* Meet an honest woman
* Meet an honest woman at disneyland
* Take Minnie Mouse to be my future...
* Convince Mickey that it's 'all for the best'.
* Stop touching the keys of the keyboard when I'm drunk.

[richard]

GLCQ

You're not Ken Livingstone are you? He turned London into a Disney circus

[MrPlum]

I've done everything I wish to, travel and adventure-wise... spending the first part of my life thinking about me, albeit without really realizing it. I'd like to spend the latter half, thinking about others.

My list would be boring if I just said 'be satisfied with who I am and what I have'. So..

1. Seek out and spend time with the world's greatest spiritual masters.
2. Finish my own natural medical/spiritual education.
3. Set up a healing/spiritual retreat .
4. Make myself my first customer.
5. When no-one comes, gradually withdraw and brick myself up in a cave in a forest, surviving on pieces of fruit dropped from the beaks of doves.
6. Learn astral projection.



7. Become the master of my mind and not its slave.
8. Travel the world within.
9. Be able to putt from 3 feet.
10. Get my g/f to dress more conservatively on the golf course..




11. Having achieved no.10, I believe no.9 will happen automatically.