things you want to do before you die [BUCKET LIST]

[runt13]

Runt here. we all have things we want to do, and not enough time to do them all. recently [about a year ago] i hired my son, since we now spend more time togather then we ever thought we could stand, we have developed a better then cool relationship.

so the other day the subject started with...hey dad what would you do if you won the lottery. oddly i had no instant answer. after we talked about everything we would buy, and who would be a little better off with money, the discussion went to what do you want to do before you die? THE BUCKET LIST!

we gave ourselves 1 week to think it threw and gave ourselves a 10 item limit. in no perticular order

myself
1. hike the AT, all 2200 miles of it!
2. do 200 miles per hour at the bonnieville salt flats, on an american motorcycle! [i am actually building the bike as we speak].
3. start and run my own business.
4. catch and release a giant marlin.
5. fly an airplane [preferably a corsair F4U].
6. compete at camp perry in the 1000yard rifle match...and place!
7. get a deer while bowhunting.
8. canoe the allagash wilderness waterway.
9. go to alaska.
10. take my grandchildren to all 50 states on a travel trailer adventure.

[4shot]

hiking the AT was always at the top of my list. Now that I have done that I'm not quite sure what's next as that was always the goal, sort of like the Captain and his white whale...I've done 7 and 9 on your list, Alaska salmon fishing is incredible. Hope to land a blue marlin one day and may get a chance this summer on a vacation I'm taking.

If I had to give you two or three here goes...a Cape buffalo hunt in Africa, golf at St. Andrews and a tour of the scotch distilleries, and touring Portugal and Spain.I also would like to do laundry without losing socks but I believe the others I mentioned are more realistic.

[4eyedbuzzard]

1) Climb Everest (even though I know I can't due to several prior bouts of HAPE - and no amount of money can fix that)
2) Travel extensively: See the pyramids, Greek and Roman ruins, the camps in Germany, safari in Africa, cruise to Antarctica, etc, etc, etc. I don't think I would ever run out of places I'd like to see. I think that would consume a lot of time
3) Write - whatever comes out.
4) Get my PhD so that I could teach at the college level.

Competeing at Camp Perry is a cool one. I competed there as part of a junior rifle team in the '60's. We took 3rd nationally in smallbore as a team (and our best marksman was a girl!).

[Juice]

One of these days I'm going to wake up and chug a half gallon of prune juice. Then wait.

[4eyedbuzzard]

One of these days I'm going to wake up and chug a half gallon of prune juice. Then wait.

Well, that is one way to fill that bucket.

[jtower47]

1. Ride a bicycle across the United States, preferably with one of my kids.
2. Hit a hole-in-one in golf.
3. Learn to box.
4. Kayak the Erie Canal.
5. Win the lottery.
6. Spend a spring at Red Sox spring training.
7. Hike the AT.
8. Learn to cook.

[Lone Wolf]

die with a clear concience. goals are selfish

[Juice]

die with a clear concience. goals are selfish

Why wait til then, you could always live a clear conscience instead. Or so I'm told.

[Sierra Echo]

Summit Everest.

[Tabasco]

Jennifer Anniston.

[4shot]

1. Ride a bicycle across the United States, preferably with one of my kids.

apropos of absolutely nothing, i was at a road crossing somewhere in Pa. I believe it was Windy Gap or Winding Gap or whatever north of Palmerton. A guy pulls up on his bicycle and we get to talking, turns out he was cycling from Cali to somewhere in Mass. I felt like the odds of two people travelling the US from N to S on foot and E to W on a bicycle meeting at that exact spot had to be incredibly small. i was envious as he had only travelled 90 days or so iirc.

[4eyedbuzzard]

Jennifer Anniston.

Let's be honest, you probably have a better chance of summitting all fourteen 8000 meter peaks w/o O's. Though your breathing and heart would would likely be about the same.

[BlackCloud]

Kill my boss

[Rasty]

1) Walk/Ski across the Brooks Range Alaska
2) AT
3) Live in New Zealand (My profession is on the long term needs list)
4) Learn a new language
5) Learn to spell
6) Live a year in the wilderness
7) Retire before I die at work
8) Watch my kids become successfull at what they wish to be
9) PCT or CDT
10) Climb something big (Not Everest).

[Rasty]

My "Not Everest" was not a slight to you. I would just rather do a smaller peak without oxygen and Sherpas. Something like Denali would be my choice.

Summit Everest.

[Storm]

Drink scotch at Dot's with Lone Wolf

[Jim Adams]

Let's be honest, you probably have a better chance of summitting all fourteen 8000 meter peaks w/o O's. Though your breathing and heart would would likely be about the same.

LMAO!!!

geek

[Jim Adams]

I had a list of things to do before I was 50 years old...accomplished them all except skydiving.

geek

[Jeffrey Scott Wise]

1. Thru Hike AT
2. Blow up the Death Star
3. Open a Fishing guide service in Alaska

[Tabasco]

obviously, you've never met me before.......