Most common bucket lists

I know a guy that's been to Winslow and been on the Marrakesh Express, and one other odd song place from the 70's. That would be a better way for me to build a bucket list.
I like that idea. My brain is racing with song titles that include places I've never been.

"Never Been to Spain"
"Havana Day Dreamin'"
"Amarillo by Morning"
"Midnight in Montgomery"
"One Night in Bangkok"
"Lodi"

I could go on.

Maybe not a bucket list for me, but I could do worse.

Returning you now... I'm heading over to Youtube for some background music. :cool:
 
Sorry Koolau. My Harvard educated Uncle, and namesake would tease me all the time about my horrible spelling/grammar. He said, " you call yourself a college graduate?" I was just having fun. Can we still do that around here? Or hear? lol
 
Don't have too many things on my bucket list really. I've visited approx 60 countries to date and would like to visit a few more before I'm too old. I fancy a flight on a Spitfire. Also a parachute jump. Ticked off one thing on my list a few months back, I posed at a life drawing class. Quite an off the wall thing to do but I really enjoyed it after the early nerves and I'm doing it again after Christmas!
 
My bucket is list is not even a list per se. We love outdoor so naturally we would like to visit every national park. We have visited a dozen NP so far. Beyond that, any outdoor place with trails is my heaven: state parks, national forests, NP, anything really. I hate going to crowded places but I will put up with people is a place has abundance of natural beauty.

One of the best and most surprising trip was a week we spent south of smokey mountain national park around Bryson City. A hidden gem. This "trip" was an accident because I was just trying find a cheap AirBNB for weekdays since we had back-to-back events on both weekends: One in smokey and one in Atlanta.
 
When we reitired 13 years ago we arranged our respective bucket lists into two seasons. Winter snowbird and spring/fall.

Still working our lists but there have been some 'partial repeats' on the snowbird list.
 
Count me as another person that doesn't get the attraction of Disney. I wouldn't go if it was free.

I only had one item on my bucket list: Retirement. Now that I'm retired I have more time to pursue hobbies and interests and we're able to go somewhere warm in winter.
 
The one big item left is a trip to Australia. But I keep getting hung up on the flight time. We're thinking of either taking a cruise from Hawaii mainly for the time difference changes. Or fly to Hawaii for a couple nights then on to Australia to split up the flight.
 
The one big item left is a trip to Australia. But I keep getting hung up on the flight time. We're thinking of either taking a cruise from Hawaii mainly for the time difference changes. Or fly to Hawaii for a couple nights then on to Australia to split up the flight.
Australia is well worth a visit, been there a few times but it's a long way! I'm the same as you, I like to break my flights up if possible as I don't have the patience for some of these mega non stop flights these days.
 
Australia is well worth a visit, been there a few times but it's a long way! I'm the same as you, I like to break my flights up if possible as I don't have the patience for some of these mega non stop flights these days.

The first time I went, I was single and visiting my best friend, who had emigrated. I ended sitting in economy, between two Australian rugby players, and in front of a crying infant for 14 hours. Oi Oi Oi aussie. Is a wonderful (but huge) country.
 
The last two times we have been to Australia we have flown to Gold Coast from either Krabi,Thailand or Kuala Lumper, Malaysia. An easy ten hour filight. the former through Singapore, the latter direct.

Coming home we stop in HNL for a few days. What we same by using a low cost airline from Sydney often paid for a night or two hotel in HNL.

It is getting harder to do these flights as we age. I suspect that we will have one more visit.
 
The one big item left is a trip to Australia. But I keep getting hung up on the flight time. We're thinking of either taking a cruise from Hawaii mainly for the time difference changes. Or fly to Hawaii for a couple nights then on to Australia to split up the flight.
If I went business class, I'd try to do it in a single flight. But there's merit in planning a trip to catch some sights along the way, like French Polynesia, or something.
 
I agree with that. The funny thing is a lot of people, even long time CA residents never heard of it. I told more than 1 person that I was moving from the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, and when I told them where they said "where is that?" Three stoplights in the whole valley, and all on Lake Isabella Bl. It's a whole different world. :D
And tubing down the Kern was an annual camping trip. Great quiet place.

Last year was Yosemite and Mammoth Lakes. This year was N Cali coast and Mammoth lakes.

Too much in California...
 
Australia is well worth a visit, been there a few times but it's a long way! I'm the same as you, I like to break my flights up if possible as I don't have the patience for some of these mega non stop flights these days.
I've always flown first or business class on "longer" flights so it was tolerable and I didn't have to "hang" out somewhere along the way. However, what always concerned me, is how can something the size/weight of a loaded 747 with 4 huge jet engines, carry enough fuel to make these non stop trips, especially across the Pacific. I mean I've flown between Hong Kong or Tokyo (Narita) and San Francisco a number of times back in the day, and that's a lonnnnnng way. They must be running on fumes by the time they land. Wonder what the safety margin is, especially if they are fighting the jet stream when heading west?
 
My spouse and I had/have slightly different bucket lists. We try to combine them. I know that if there is somewhere in Europe that I want to go and she is not keen on all I have to do is make certain I include some time in Italy! Then is it a go!

When we retired, sold up, and traveled extensively/spontaneously for nine months the one firm plan I made to was to knock off DW's desire to spend time in Africa and do a safari. I was OK with it. But, after doing the safari, spending time in Cape Town, and doing a self drive it quickly became one of my all time favorites.

OTOH, DW had no desire to vistit Thailand or Vietnam. An incredible fare to Bangkok came to my inbox one January morning. DW reluctantly said 'why not', book it. We had no plans at the time. Six days later we were on a flight to Bangkok. Since that time we have spent five snowbird winters in Thailand/Vietnam/Malaysia with two add ons to Australia. More often than these have become DW's first choice for snowbird travel.

You just never know. I wanted to visit the Philippines one winter so we did....high on my list. Cut the visit short, changed plans, and flew to Thailand. Did not like really like it.
 
I've always flown first or business class on "longer" flights so it was tolerable and I didn't have to "hang" out somewhere along the way. However, what always concerned me, is how can something the size/weight of a loaded 747 with 4 huge jet engines, carry enough fuel to make these non stop trips, especially across the Pacific. I mean I've flown between Hong Kong or Tokyo (Narita) and San Francisco a number of times back in the day, and that's a lonnnnnng way. They must be running on fumes by the time they land. Wonder what the safety margin is, especially if they are fighting the jet stream when heading west?
I have made numerous Atlanta to Tokyo and Shanghai non-stops. Fuel management is a science and planned to the nth degree.

Flieger
 
I flew nonstop from JFK to Tokyo and back last month- over 14 hours in flight. Never once worried about the fuel.
 
I flew nonstop from JFK to Tokyo and back last month- over 14 hours in flight. Never once worried about the fuel.
Maybe you would have if you could have seen the fuel gauges. :) OTOH, I think the Jumbo Jet's today are much more fuel efficient than they were 20 to 25+ years ago when I was making these flights.
 
I've been to Bali a few times when doing oil & gas work in Indonesia. I've been to places in Indonesia where humans aren't supposed to go (cannibals, etc).:ermm:

And I have flown the Concorde from Orly, France to JFK a couple of times.

Now, I just stay in the U.S. and do driving trips.
 
Maybe you would have if you could have seen the fuel gauges. :)
Not to worry, really. The flight crew is the ones getting paid the big bucks to worry about stuff like that, and if you read aviation magazines, they frequently do. As the saying goes "The pilot is always the first one at the scene of the crash".
 
We have a Hispanic neighbor with a young family who is very helpful to our elderly neighbors. I offered to cut up a fallen tree branch on a neighbor's lawn a couple of months ago. The older neighbor accepted my offer, and noted that the young father would be cutting the tree down shortly. A few weeks later, he did, removing the wood.

I've been to Bali a few times when doing oil & gas work in Indonesia. I've been to places in Indonesia where humans aren't supposed to go (cannibals, etc).:ermm:

And I have flown the Concorde from Orly, France to JFK a couple of times.

Now, I just stay in the U.S. and do driving trips.
I'm beginning to have the same opinion of just staying in the US and doing driving trips. I have been to many countries, and I thought I wanted to travel abroad before I retired. There is so much to see in the US, I don't think I'll ever exhaust the places to go. I also like that I can pop into a Walmart if I forget something.

Airports and long flights in a plane have lost its appeal.
 
Not to worry, really. The flight crew is the ones getting paid the big bucks to worry about stuff like that, and if you read aviation magazines, they frequently do. As the saying goes "The pilot is always the first one at the scene of the crash".
That gives me about .01 seconds to cuss him out.
 
I'm beginning to have the same opinion of just staying in the US and doing driving trips. I have been to many countries, and I thought I wanted to travel abroad before I retired. There is so much to see in the US, I don't think I'll ever exhaust the places to go. I also like that I can pop into a Walmart if I forget something.

Airports and long flights in a plane have lost its appeal.
+1000...that's where I am now.
 
I visited Winslow about 4 years ago on a road trip. Some of it was fine to see, some not so much. I avoided the crowds and ate at a little restaurant by the airport.
My wife and I were there in October, on a random weekday. It's a good-natured tourist trap:cool:.
 
Not my experience of the Grand Canyon at all.
In a fairly recent visit to the Grand Canyon (South Rim), I thought that the Park Service managed the crowds effectively. There were a few Disney-like elements, like multiple named parking lots and shuttle buses, but it was pleasant and quite well-managed.
 
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