The Bucket List~ Things to do before you die
 

As requested a Bucket List. Things you want to do before you die.

Me

Fall madly in love with my soulmate
Learn how to properly ride a horse
Feel totally free- independent of electric, government, etc.

More coming soon

Rent a house on the coast of Spain for a month.

Stay at LlaoLLao in Bariloche, Argentina.

Take a train across the Canadian Rockies and stay by Lake Louise.

Tour all of the UK and Ireland.

Visit the Checkerboard/Four Corners area out West.

Will think of more...
great thread!

Would you provide your own electricity or live without?

wow awesome answer. I am looking forward to others. This will be great.

I would make my own. My man will build me power and together we will be powerful.

That is cool. Not my city girl cup of tea, but cool! I totally understand wanting to feel free. I am working on being entirely debt free, all I have left is the house. :)

Thats cool honey. It is freeing not to worry about bills, for sure. That is a precursor to your bucket list. End the madness and start living. If you can't pay cash, dont but it.

I don't! :)

No holds bar. You can want whatever you want.

Hey , you did it ! Thank you :)

So, I've spent so much of my life doing things alone that its absolutely ridiculous. There are so many things on my list...but what first comes to mind is turning to the one I love and saying:

"Can you believe we did that!"

and "that" could be a sunrise on the Serengeti, or the Sunday paper in bed...I yearn to build those memories.


I'd like to see how high I can climb, literally.
I'd like to write my mother that letter...you know... "You've been such an inspiration ..."
Make amends with my sister,, but she still bugs the everlovin shit out of me...still working on that one.

There are more buckets to list...I'll have to come back to do it.

There are things on your list you can do now. I think you should. How can I help? Write the letter. Time is short. Love your family. Even when you dont like them they are still your blood. Do what makes YOU happy, brings YOU peace and then go add more shit to that list.

I want to learn pottery.
I want to grow ginger in my greenhouse fast.
I want to windsurf

My Bucket List
 

I like this thread too...but I'm gonna take it slow.
 

-"white-picket-fence" it
-bum around Europe
-train ride through Canada
-see Fuz all grown up
-write that great American novel

Very interesting. Much of your list is on my list. I have ridden the Orient Express, with a band called Miss Hollywood and the BiSexuals. I've been to a Concentration Camp. (really life altering experience) I've been to Rome and have been to the Vatican. As a matter of fact I was at Christmas Eve Mass on 12/24/1978. The Pope touched me as he exited St. Peter's Basillica. I've traveled Europe and England but did not go to Ireland, as the Troubles were in full effect when I was there. I promise you, all of these things will enrich your life, excellent choices for your bucket list!

I posted my bucket list on my blog back in June, I'm sure a missed some, but here it is:

• Be published.
• Complete a triathlon
• run a marathon
• Meet the Governer
• Shake a sitting President's hand
• See Wimbledon
• Go to the Kentucky Derby
• Go to the Masters
• See a Super Bowl live
• Go to the Olympics
• Spend a month surfing the North Shore
• Hit a hole in one

There's probably a few more, but I like Andrew's list.

*Become Superhuman.

*Enslave Humanity.

*Cheat Death.

Before you die? who's gonna die????? not me !!!

(not you either BTW)
but......

I would like to bunch George Bush in the face and

Id love to meet Whoopie

oh yeah...Jennifer Tilly.......even a whiff....any thing !!!!

and.......really fly around town on my broomstick......

Okay .. I meant PUNCH PUNCH PUNCH

get over my fear of heights.
which would be nice since I will be moving into an apartment with a balcony way up high :eyebrow:

Since one of my items is:
Know I have made her as happy as she has made me...

http://www.newrivergorgecanopytour.com/

I have a feeling our lists will become kind of combined, or at least overlap, as my greatest feelings of accomplishment come in checking off "the list".

Will add some more later!
Great thread!

Diavolo,

What Concentration Camp did you go to? I have been told it is life changing. I would like to place a stone ontop of Mr. Schindler's grave as well. He is in Paradise feasting with God for what he tried to do. I have relatives who were in various Camps, but mainly Auschwicz (sp??).

Jess,

I think that place sounds like a rip-roaring good time! You must share your adventures there with us afterwards.

I really enjoy seeing everyone's lists here. I don't have much of a list of my own and have been trying to figure out where I want to go from here.

Here's my list, as it is:

* Get both kids prepared to be independent and launched out into the world (nearing the finish line on that one)
* Experience living alone (nearly there, see above)
* Find a mate to make the rest of my life with (might be nearing the finish line on that one, too, but only time will tell)
* Own my own home (done) and make it my comfy sanctuary (working on it)
* Be debt-free (nearly there) and prepared for retirement (working on it)
* Decide what I want to be when I grow up

I never really had the money or freedom to travel much and have had to do a lot of focusing on the here-and-now, so things like "see the Grand Canyon" or "visit a concentration camp" have never really been on my radar screen as things I could do. Time to start looking at things from a different perspective.

lol when you're done punching him I'm next.

OMG I want to do this but in the jungles of Costa Rica. We should all go to this place. Then next year Costa Rica

Do it! Its already started.

I went to Dachau. You can feel the sorrow of the souls there. They recreated some of the beds where they housed the prisoners. You look at them and think "that's not too bad" then you find out they put six people in each one. We thought we'd hit a "museum" in the morning and the HBH that afternoon. Stupid college kids. That was the most somber afternoon of beer drinking of my life. A couple of kids in our group were Jewish and they were even more affected than we were. I'm German and I knew a great Uncle was a member of the SS. Very sobering to know someone in your line could be involved in such atrocities.

One of the things I forgot to mention is getting an RV so I can take my furkids along too. But I want to travel to Alaska via RV. Then sell it. And take a train across Alaska, and cruise back. I want to see the glaciers. Meet the National Geographic skin divers who are documenting the global warming effects on the animals.


Diavolo,

I understand. I have family members who were in the Holocaust and in Poland at the time. One member is still living, and tells us stories about it. Other family members stayed in Europe to live, and never left. We hear from them often, but they never speak of the horrors. It just is an unwritten rule to talk about.

Rosie's step father was in WW2. He helped liberate a concentration camp. Then he was given a leave because he was Jewish. To this day he has violent flashbacks of what he saw. Just horrible.

He was honored at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC when it first opened. We could only make it thru the first level (there are 3). It is just that realistic so nobody forgets what happened. We have gone back since then, and still cannot make it past the first level. It is way too painful. How people can do that to other human beings is beyond me. It makes my heart very sad.

Andrew

MY list!!! :) :)
 

Backpack through France, drink some wine on the way and find out more about my heritage. Both by myself and when my daughter gets older.
Go back to school for what I originally went for-graphics design
Find my soulmate
Somehow lose some weight again....3rd time has to be a charm, right?
Go to Kings Island with my daughter, need to lose the weight first.
Bungee jump again and skydive
Move out of my small town and into a place of my own besides me parents
Finally be able to speak up to my parents and be able to talk to them.

I am sure I will add more...but this is okay for now

That is very cool. Very few people will admit to knowing or even being related to someone who was in the SS, but I think it is important. It's important for me to say "Yes it happened" to invalidate the holocaust denial wingnuts.

Diavolo,

Rosie's step father was in the US Army. He was in the infantry. He sat on the back of jeeps and shot a machine gun.

Relatives that I speak of were prisoners of the SS.

I just am not sure how anyone can deny the Holocaust. It blows my mind.

Andrew