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Your most outrageous bucket list item fulfilled?
01-26-2014, 09:02 PM
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Your most outrageous bucket list item fulfilled?
What was your most outrageous bucket list item which you completed?
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01-26-2014, 09:08 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jun 2002
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You go first...
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Numbers is hard
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01-26-2014, 09:44 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
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Own a Class A motorhome before retirement. Been a great experience while having all the kids around.
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01-26-2014, 09:46 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
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Most outrageous would be more like playing in a rock band and drag racing down quarter mile tracks.
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01-26-2014, 10:10 PM
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Being able to live the remainder of my life without working. At least everybody told me it was outrageous.
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01-26-2014, 10:47 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by REWahoo
You go first...
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I don't have much which is why I wanted to hear from others. I took an air balloon ride once.
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01-26-2014, 11:17 PM
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Had an EP up on iTunes and Amazon mp3 a few yrs back. Didn't sell many but it was a practical stab at showbiz
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01-27-2014, 05:27 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
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I have several, but outrageous is 'in the eye of the beholder.'
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01-27-2014, 06:58 AM
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Moderator Emeritus
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Top secret.
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01-27-2014, 07:14 AM
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Moderator Emeritus
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Jumped out of a perfectly good airplane
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01-27-2014, 07:19 AM
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I bought a 2 month "Bus Ameripass" from Greyhound a few weeks after graduating from high school and took off with a friend to travel the US and Canada.
I went sky diving while in college.
I think my most frightening experience was realizing I was gay back in the 1970s.
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01-27-2014, 08:02 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
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Haha, let's see...
In progress: circumnavigate the world in a short bus. Just 3k miles short of completion.
Drive a mototaxi 1200 miles across the Andes Mountains and 3 deserts of Peru--did that in 2012.
Next up: drive the Pan-American Highway from North America to Ushuaia, Argentina in 2015.
Also plan to hike the Lycian Way and maybe the Camino de Santiago, before I get too old.
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01-27-2014, 08:07 AM
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Of my three big goals I have been stalled for a good while (I have young kids).
Go to all 7 continents (South America and Antarctica remain)
Go to all 50 states (Alaska and N. Dakota remain)
But two years ago I filled the coin jug I started (and periodically raided) when I was 16.
They said it couldn't be done:
The grand total, not including "rare" and foreign coins, nor smurf magnets or wedding rings (no divorce yet, I just tend to lose them) is $1,719.68 comprised of 22,844 coins (12,638 pennies, 2,226 nickels, 3,770 dimes, 4,140 quarters and 70 dollar coins). Spent the money on a projector for the basement.
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01-27-2014, 08:41 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
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Only one question: What did it weigh?
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01-27-2014, 09:27 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
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Outrageous things(that I remember):
Did the hot air balloon thing, took off from our front yard, great time. We scared a lot of cows.
Helicopter tour of Grand Canyon. Going over the rim was incredible.
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.
Oh yea the FIRE thing.
MRG
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01-27-2014, 09:52 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Sarah in SC
Only one question: What did it weigh?
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More than my digital scale would compute. I got an error code when I tried.
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01-27-2014, 09:58 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Ronstar
Jumped out of a perfectly good airplane
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This.
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01-27-2014, 10:07 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Ronstar
Jumped out of a perfectly good airplane
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Whuffo you do that !?
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01-27-2014, 10:16 AM
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Quote:
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.
MRG
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You win!!!! How cool to be a part of that.
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01-27-2014, 10:50 AM
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'Surfed' on the hood of a car.
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