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01-28-2014, 11:35 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Lawn chair in Texas
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Originally Posted by DFW_M5
Would love to take some laps at the Ring in a ZR1 vette or GT3 Porsche.
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Ride/Drive a NASCAR Race Car - NASCAR Racing Experience
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01-28-2014, 12:03 PM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Punta Gorda, FL
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I bought a plane, and then got my pilots license.
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01-28-2014, 01:32 PM
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gone traveling
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: DFW
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01-28-2014, 03:05 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Leeward Oahu
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Guess I've done enough scary stuff for one life time including, but not limited to a balloon crash and a forced landing in a single engine plane (described elsewhere). But, I'm sort of with W2R but perhaps from a different angle. I always HAD a home. In fact, have lived in the old "home stead" perhaps 10 different times since my birth (always coming back - university days, first married days, before kids, after raising kids, summer vacations from Hawaii, etc.). What was on my bucket list, though, was to move to the Islands and establish my home there. That I have now done. Don't know how "outrageous" that is, but after spending most of my life on the prairies of the midwest, It seemed sort of outrageous at the time. YMMV
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01-28-2014, 03:13 PM
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#46
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Leeward Oahu
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Originally Posted by MRG
Deep sea fishing off of Marathon key with FIL/DF. We caught a few fish, the catch of the day was 9 Cuban refugees, 22 miles off shore. I've never seen such happy people. Their engine had died, no food, 1 liter of water they were saving for a 3 year old. Coast Gaurd told us they would probably have hit land in Iceland, in a couple months. At that time they got a free pass into the US. Often wondered where they are today. The refugees really did the outrageous thing, we just got to watch.
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This may be the coolest thing I've read in this forum! What a wonderful memory to have, MRG. You are so blessed (by blessing others).
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01-28-2014, 08:38 PM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Dec 2012
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Build my own house. No matter how small, it's something I've always wanted to do. Since building tree-forts as a kid, to taking library construction books home for the last 40 years, it's always been a dream.
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01-29-2014, 12:33 AM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Jan 2009
Posts: 471
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Dang, that was mine!
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01-29-2014, 05:23 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Texas: No Country for Old Men
Posts: 50,022
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I knew you looked familiar...
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01-29-2014, 08:45 AM
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gone traveling
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: DFW
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Nice, since I wanted to fly, after college I tried to join the Navy to be a navigator, but couldn't get past the color blindness and depth perception tests. They offered me a direct commission as a Lt in the Seabee's since I was an engineer. I prompty said "no thanks". That was several years after my stint in the USAF during late 60s.
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01-29-2014, 06:42 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Jan 2014
Posts: 277
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Quote:
Originally Posted by DFW_M5
Would love to take some laps at the Ring in a ZR1 vette or GT3 Porsche.
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Right on!
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01-30-2014, 05:42 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Rio Grande Valley
Posts: 38,154
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Hey, I made it to 187 mph (300 kph) land speed without even trying - that was pretty good!
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01-30-2014, 01:07 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Charleston, SC
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Originally Posted by DFW_M5
Here you go: Usfra home page although for 57 MPH, you can probably find someplace closer to home
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She wrote back to me promptly, very nice lady. Unfortunately our timing is all wrong, it will be too wet in May to do a speed test. Maybe we'll make it back there in the summer sometime. Thanks for the help, though!
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01-30-2014, 01:28 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Silicon Valley
Posts: 226
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Quote:
Originally Posted by audreyh1
Hey, I made it to 187 mph (300 kph) land speed without even trying - that was pretty good!
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This sounds like a very interesting story, would you mind sharing more details please... sorry if I missed an earlier post.
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01-30-2014, 06:14 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Bossier City
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You flew Recce's at Bergstrom AFB, with the 67th? What years? I was a weapons technician
there with the 924th Wing (AFRES/AFRC) between 1981 & 1996. I worked F-4D, F-4E & F-16's. I got a backseat ride in a D model F-4 once, it was great! I loved the Austin area & really didn't want to leave, but the base & my unit got BRAC'd & I had to relocate.
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01-30-2014, 08:11 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 7,733
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Retiring to Hawaii at 40.
Flying to Oshkosh, (during the annual airshow it is the busiest airport in the world).
I am only one state short of going to all 50. I just can't get enthused about Mississippi.
Top of my bucket list
Is flying in space.
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01-30-2014, 08:42 PM
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#57
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Mar 2003
Posts: 18,085
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I dunno, bucket list seems so morbid. After 20 years of dealing with life actuaries, I have had enough morbid.
I purposely did not set any stretch goals early in ESR. I figure quitting my job at age 40 was good enough. The most exotic thing I can come up with at the moment is to go hog hunting for wild boar. The are not where I am (although I understand the nasty buggers are now in southeast CO, ugh), and I think it would be a challenge. And then there is elk hunting, but that will require the right tag and a guide.
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01-30-2014, 09:09 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: USA
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Outrageous... not sure but, reached reasonable FI via rentals a few years ago in the Midwest.
Moved to CA last year, higher cost of living to experience more life and higher technology job for OMJ (one more job) syndrome.
Seriously looking at buying a 2014 Corvette Stingray, close to pulling the trigger =) Not sure if this is a midlife issue turning 45 this year, but always wanted one when I was younger and I think I'll enjoy it. Dealers are asking over MSRP, so frugal self is waiting.
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01-30-2014, 10:14 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Kerrville,Tx
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Quote:
Originally Posted by audreyh1
Hey, I made it to 187 mph (300 kph) land speed without even trying - that was pretty good!
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Was that in France on the TGV or Channel Tunnel. They do that every day. Now once you get to England things slow down greatly. (They don't have a dedicated track like the French have built).
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01-30-2014, 10:29 PM
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 12,901
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Reaching FIRE in my 30s has been my most "outrageous" accomplishment so far.
My next "outrageous" goal is to buy a piece of property in California.
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