How's Your Bucket List Coming?

GoodSense said:
I don't have a list yet, but this year has been just amazing.

- Saw Placido Domingo, Renee Fleming, and Susan Graham in concert (not together)
- Went to an opera in Italy
- Sang in an operetta and will be singing a concert (in choir) with Garrison Keillor
- Went on my first cruise to the Caribbean
- Traveled to DC, New York, St. Louis, Chicago, Paris, Rome, Venice, Salzburg, and a few other places in Europe
- Will be going to Miami and Key West for the first time this December
- Quit my j*b and got offered my dream j*b, if there is one

At this speed, when it's time to make my bucket list, I might run out of things to do!
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No kidding! With that résumé, who needs a bucket list?
 
ScottFromUtah said:
No kidding! With that résumé, who needs a bucket list?
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But I've yet to visit Iguazu and Machu Picchu! :blush: Luckily my new j*b will allow me to travel to random places of the world. So I hope it's just a matter of time. :LOL:
 
Since it has been mentioned more than once, I thought I'd toss out a bit of trivia.
Iguazu Falls (more accurately Foz do Iguaçu) can be impressive, but only when conditions are right (lots of recent rainfall).

When I was there (over two decades ago), it was very unimpressive. Rainfall had been sparse, and there were only comparative trickles going over the cliffs. Frankly, I didn't think it could hold a candle to Niagara.
 
braumeister said:
Since it has been mentioned more than once, I thought I'd toss out a bit of trivia.
Iguazu Falls (more accurately Foz do Iguaçu) can be impressive, but only when conditions are right (lots of recent rainfall).

When I was there (over two decades ago), it was very unimpressive. Rainfall had been sparse, and there were only comparative trickles going over the cliffs. Frankly, I didn't think it could hold a candle to Niagara.
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I was at Iguazu during spring flood. It was awesome! Niagara, schmiagara.....
 
braumeister said:
Since it has been mentioned more than once, I thought I'd toss out a bit of trivia.
Iguazu Falls (more accurately Foz do Iguaçu) can be impressive, but only when conditions are right (lots of recent rainfall).

When I was there (over two decades ago), it was very unimpressive. Rainfall had been sparse, and there were only comparative trickles going over the cliffs. Frankly, I didn't think it could hold a candle to Niagara.
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As my sister who lived a year in Brazil said, "Iguazu make Niagara look like a faucet leak." Sorry that you went during a drought. When I was there in 2004, it was beyond gorgeous. Here is one of the 100s of pictures that I took. Just look at the number and size of these falls, and this is only a small section of the falls area.

IguazuFallsHDR_LR.jpg
 
ScottFromUtah said:
In the year 2000, I make a Bucket List with 50 items. Most items on the list are fairly down-to-earth; some are a little more exotic. Examples: Qualify for the Boston Marathon (done), run the Boston Marathon (done), complete an Olympic length (done) and Half Ironman (done) triathlon, visit all 50 states (done), complete the 200-mile one-day bike race LOTOJA (done), visit all seven continents (not done; I'm going to Antarctica in January), see the Great Wall of China (done), see the Pyramids and Egyptian temples (done), visit 15 national parks (done), do 10 pullups (not done :(; I have horrible upper-body strength and am overweight), publish a book (done numerous times), design and carve a chess set (not done), obtain CPR Red Cross certification (done), read 10 books in Spanish (done).

Summary: I have complete 44 of the 50.

How are you coming on yours?
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Wait! You run marathons and triathalons and you're overweight? There is hope for the rest of us!

Sarah in SC said:
Dang, I can't come up with a list like Fuego's, let alone like Scott's! Better get cracking! Congrats to you, though, on finishing such awesome goals.

What will you do when your list is complete?
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Make a new one, of course.

FUEGO said:
That one is on my conscious "things to do before I die" list.
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That's what I call mine. Seems a little more urgent than "bucket list". Kind of motivates you to start ticking off items.

I actually have two lists. One is more grandiose with lots of travel and long term stuff. A few examples:

Visit all the Disney Parks
Hunt geese in Canada
Hike into Evolution Valley
Celebrate Oktober Fest in Germany
Drive Route 66

Then I have more immediate, day to day stuff. Some stuff is on both like writing a book, mainly because it is a long term goal, but something that I can work on right now without a lot of planning or money. Here is some stuff of the other list:

Fly tying
Work on my Jeep
Build a potato gun
Go on Fishing Trips
Surfing

The second list isn't really designed to tick items off, but just a place to dump ideas and it acts as a reminder when i can't think of anything else to do. Been retired about 4 months and have a couple off the first list, but did or started those prior to retirement: nude beach, play guitar, swim in all four oceans (2 down), and visit all the Disney parks (2 down). Since retiring I have begun writing a book. Off the second list I have done maybe half the items to one extent or another.

To me the lists are important. You can say you want to do something, but writing it down is a big deal. It's real, you can look at the list and sometimes it begs you to get moving. Many of my "Things to do Before I Die" items can be accomplished with single trips to Europe or Asia. I have no idea how much those trips would cost, but if I begin planning i then have a goal, such as save X amount of dollars.

Like W2R, I would be content if I died tomorrow. No, I won't have done everything I wanted, but I haven't put things off either. I had my own brush with death and since then I have learned that just appreciating each day and the people in your life is way more important than seeing some site or experiencing some activity. Ticking off items on my bucket list is just icing.

That's good stuff, I gotta go blog now.:D
 
ScottFromUtah said:
As my sister who lived a year in Brazil said, "Iguazu make Niagara look like a faucet leak." Sorry that you went during a drought. When I was there in 2004, it was beyond gorgeous. Here is one of the 100s of pictures that I took. Just look at the number and size of these falls, and this is only a small section of the falls area.

IguazuFallsHDR_LR.jpg
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By the way, are there fish in there?
 
Mine keeps growing all the time, but I added "take a balloon ride in one of those huge balloons where you ride in the small wicker basket" to the list this week. Looks so cool!
 
Orchidflower said:
Mine keeps growing all the time, but I added "take a balloon ride in one of those huge balloons where you ride in the small wicker basket" to the list this week. Looks so cool!
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Orchid, you can shorten that to "Take a ride in a hot air balloon".

I've been up twice and really enjoyed both rides - and for the record, no I didn't furnish my own hot air...
 
68 goals/experiences completed, several to go but I am always adding to mine. I don't ever intend to finish my bucket list...
 
I had a list I started before I retired 5 1/2 years ago. I accomplished a number of items on the list and then must have tossed the list. Guess it's time for a 'phase 2' level of list.
 
flyfishnevada said:
Wait! You run marathons and triathalons and you're overweight? There is hope for the rest of us!
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Yep. I'm 25 pounds heavier than when I ran Boston in 2004, but I still ran a marathon this year--very slowly, but I did it. At least I'm down 22 pounds from my high two years ago and down 35 pounds from my highest lifetime weight (February 2000). I was plump as a kid and I've battle my weight since age 20.

flyfishnevada said:
Like W2R, I would be content if I died tomorrow. No, I won't have done everything I wanted, but I haven't put things off either. I had my own brush with death and since then I have learned that just appreciating each day and the people in your life is way more important than seeing some site or experiencing some activity. Ticking off items on my bucket list is just icing.
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Couldn't have said it better myself.
 
I don't have a bucket list and don't really feel the need for one. Maybe later after I enjoy a few years of just being retired.
 
No bucket list for me either. I take it one day at a time and do what moves me as the occasion arises. I find that I don't need the "highs" if I can suppress the "lows".
 
I don't really have a list, but I've done a few things I always wanted to:

  • Sunbathe under the midnight sun (at 21C, only 30 miles inland from the Arctic Ocean).
  • Caribbean winter holiday (actually 2 but one was W*rk, had to retire after mega-corp sent me to the Islands on a private jet, can't get better).
  • 3,000 mile trip in my 50 year old LBC, no breakdowns.
  • Attended a Barrett- Jackson auction.

Other things I'd like to do:

  • Winter in OZ.
  • Buy something at a BJ auction.
  • Stand in the eye of a hurricane.
  • Drive an F1 car.
  • Go through a whole week without DW getting PO'd for some trivial reason (such as leaving the seat of the john up).
 
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flyfishnevada said:
... I have learned that just appreciating each day and the people in your life is way more important than seeing some site or experiencing some activity.
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I wholeheartedly agree. I have no bucket list and don't plan on having one either.
 
Bestwifeever said:
Pretty soon you're going to need to write Bucket List II, Scott. you've been busy since 2000!

Here's mine:
(1) Create bucket list. (not done) :)
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Ditto. I got exhausted just reading.

:D

heh heh heh - I did get the ole chloresterol down from 400 to 172, lost 30 lbs and hit the gym 2-3 times a week - no list just nagging by my doctor. :ROFLMAO::rolleyes: :flowers:
 
unclemick said:
Ditto. I got exhausted just reading.

:D

heh heh heh - I did get the ole chloresterol down from 400 to 172, lost 30 lbs and hit the gym 2-3 times a week - no list just nagging by my doctor. :ROFLMAO::rolleyes: :flowers:
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Pretty cool Mick! Congrats. Good to hear from you.

Audrey
 
kumquat said:
Other things I'd like to do:
Stand in the eye of a hurricane.
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After two of those "opportunities" I think they may be highly overrated, especially considering what comes before & after.
 
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