You might want to hit that.....at least it is on AllenS bucket list.
Michael H wanted a thread for people to relist their bucket lists so here it is.
My bucket list:
Getting to the Superbowl, World Series and NBA championship with my teams winning in the same year.
Going to every baseball stadium in one year and having a hot dog and beer in every one.
Spending month in Italy in my grandmothers old village.
A pub crawl of Ireland for a month.
Visiting some great sites of Western history like the OK Corral and Deadwood.
Going on the view and telling those bitches that they are worthless cunts.
Getting a yacht and sailing up and down the coast with my buddies like John Ford used to do.
Writing a novel or three.
Directing a movie.
And that's just a start.
How about youse guys.
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Ride a paddlewheel riverboat from St. Louis to New Orleans.
Cross the Atlantic on a luxury steamship.
Ride in a hot air balloon.
Pilot a Fokker Dr.1.
Shoot a Vickers machine gun.
Publish a paper in Science or Nature.
A pub crawl of Ireland for a month.
I once did a pub crawl of Southern England. This was with three Germans and I pretended to be German just like the guy who pretended to be black in that novel. It was interesting to be despised.
Which part of Italy was your nonna from?
Damn, looks like Christie has a headache.
My bucket list has been downsized lately. I've done a few things that were on the list, taken the ridiculous or impossible things off the list, and added a few others.
Some I can't talk about. Here are the ones that I can:
Drive the length of Highway 1 along the Pacific coast in a convertible.
One month in Tuscany.
Watch the Yankees play the Sox at Fenway, and again at Yankee Stadium.
A motorcycle ride through Ireland and Scotland, stopping at every old, obscure distillery for a sip.
Watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade in NYC.
A month in Alaska.
Motorcycle through the 48 states without travelling on an interstate highway.
Dinner in Morimoto's restaurant.
Punch Jane Fonda in the nose. Twice.
One week at Black's Beach.
A pizza at Lombardi's in Brooklyn with Jim and Lisa.
One week at Black's Beach.
You mean the one in La Jolla?
Why not just go the WI River by Spring Green?
Black's Beach in LaJolla. We spent time there when we were 35 and promised we'd do it again when we are 80.
Ischia!
Troop is an ischial tuberosity!
Hungry now for stromboli.
I spent a vacation on Elba once which is about as close as I got to Ischia living.
Capri is the more famous of Napoli islands. There's even a pizza named after it--pizza caprese. Titus would love it there. Fredrick Krupp about died there from all the boys. They even have grottos for trysts.
We spent time there when we were 35 and promised we'd do it again when we are 80.
Well that is a lovely thought and beautiful promise to keep...but were you looking at 80-year-olds when you made the promise? :)
Yes. We saw an elderly couple strolling the beach, hand in hand.
Are you guys nudists?
I want to drive a Ferrari from Nice to Venice.
Oh, and I'd appreciate it if Valeria Golina would come along.
No, I'm typing this in my underwear.
My bucket list would include swimming in a huge pool surrounded by floating tits.
Ecstasy.
Tits.
I did the pub crawl of Ireland when I was 19/20. 1969/70 Took a flight to Ireland with a friend who sang with me in SF. We were doing traditional Irish music at several places like the Abby Tavern and the Little Shamrock. Yes. I know, underage. It didn't seem to matter.
Went with a group of St Patrick Fathers who had a few extra seats on their charter flight. The St. Patrick Fathers were a kick in the pants. Hard drinking, good humour, some of them had been in Japanese prison camps in WWII and others were in Vietnam and Cambodia during the 60's. (Vietnam has/had a rather large Catholic following at one time.) Many of the Fathers had come to the bars where we were performing.....on a mission or something (or so they said...wink wink.)
We stayed for 4 weeks traveling pretty much all over. One thing that was a shock to us was the country pubs where the women had a separate entrance and a separate smaller bar. Pub apartheid. Being from SF we were a novelty and excused from not knowing this.
Ireland is the BEST. Friendly people. Maybe not so good foodwise but who cares. I highly recommend that you go. You will have a blast.
Bucket list:
Windjammer cruise around the Caribbean swimming on private coves with beautiful clear water and sandy beaches where no one else is around...well except for the crew of the ship of course.
Take an RV or 5th wheel and go for months around the back roads of America with absolutely no itinerary, shopping at little antique and second hand stores all along the way.
Ride in a 1949 Buick Roadmaster Convertible. Better yet. Own the damned thing!!
Spend several days at the Smithsonian Museum.
I wouldn't mind shooting the machine gun either :-)
I would also be interested in seeing the biggest hog in the world.
tits.
I have done most everything I have wanted and traveled everywhere.
My favorite thing to do is swim in waterfalls off beaten paths around Vermont. With my husband, natch.
I would also be interested in seeing the biggest hog in the world.
Well, then.....here you go
:-)
My realistic bucket list would be pretty simple. I wish I could travel extensively, but I can't see it as likely. If I could dream it though, my bucket list would definitely include traveling to attend Roland Garros, the Aussie Open and Wimbledon. If I could only do one, it would be the AO. Aussies just seem like my kind of people.
Realistic bucket list:
Go sailing.
See the Pacific Ocean - preferably by spending some time on the beach.
Go camping outside somewhere under really gorgeous nighttime skies.
Run the steps at Red Rocks.
Hike up a mountain.
Have lobster in Maine or Boston, but just seeing either would be lovely.
See as many of the states as I can. I haven't been in near half, I'm sure.
I would also love to go back to Secret Harbour Resort in St. Thomas.
I only spent a day there, but would have loved to spend a couple of days more.
Greek Islands.
Go back to Colombia.
Northern Italy[We almost went to Ischia when we took the ferry to Capri].
Entire year in Alaska[been there in summer twice].
See polar bears in the wild.
Visit all 50 states[I'm 7 short].
Alps in the summer.
It's interesting that the items on most of the bucket lists are places (and means to get to places) rather than things.
Beach houses, private jets, swimming pools,etc. aren't on the list. The lists are mostly destinations, places to see.
I don't know what to make of it other than thinking that being anchored most of our lives gives us is a desire to be free to go to...wherever we want.
Having been almost everywhere that I want to go, there are very few destinations that would make me eager to leave home. Yeah, I would like to go to the beach again, but since that's a couple of hours away, I'll probably die without making that journey.
A true bucket list of mine would be much more personal, and to sum it up in a few words, it would be "Fall in love again".
That's it. Once again, I would probably have to leave home for that to occur, so my guess is that it's not going to happen.
Set that bucket up, I am about to go all Charlie Brown on that mofo.
I added a visit to Sable Island to my bucket list.
Well, I probably take a different view from most regarding bucket lists.
I don't really need to go anywhere. (Remember, wherever you go, there you are.)
If I think about what really has meant the most to me, it's being there for loved ones. I hope I have the chance to be there for my mother in her last years, and to not leave my children too soon.
It's not much of a list, really.
I'd like some more space to live in. That's kind of a thing, like, a bigger house. Mostly, it'd be empty, kind of ironically. I have decreasing patience for "stuff" over time.
I dunno.
I need to record some music, too. I've got several things that might be worth listening to.
Aww, Sixty. That's adorbs. :)
Strangely, I don't really care if I ever fall in love again.
I had that and I don't think It could be replicated. I've had mostly casual relationships since my husband died, had a couple of pretty intense relationships, but never was able to feel the same way toward that person as I did with my husband.
I wonder if it was a once in a lifetime thing.
There were a couple that I would never have come back not my life on any terms.
It would be on my bucket list to have an interesting male companion to see Africa with, if that won't happen I have a few good women friends that would be willing travel buddies, travel without benefits though.
In my life
We know travel, at least by boat of aircraft, is not on a bucket list @ TOP.
*Hugs Allie*
I wouldn't be me if I didn't add that a boob job is on the list. On the "you're dreaming" list, though. :-/
I wonder why, she's scared to fly or be a passenger on a ship. Boring, which she says she hates so much.
I absolutely love flying and when theres turbulence it's even more exciting, that is weird. T love storms, ah another thing for my bucket list Tornado Chasing! But it would have to be with some very interesting conversationalists, because I bet there are hours of boredom in between tornados.
Hi Darcie! Hugs back, it's so interesting to hear what's on everyone's bucket lists.
*Hugs Darcy and Allie while they are hugging each other. Scratches that off bucket list.*
Ha!! I LOL'd. ;-)
Allie, my sister Moira and I flew over what we learned later was a tornado below. The turbulence caused us to be brought to our feet in our seats and then the plane felt like it was going to roll. We did think we were going to die. Everything on laps, tray tables, etc. went flying.
My sister and I held hands the rest of the way. I don't think I will ever fly enough to get used to that.
A three way!
To be honest Darcie, that does sound terrifying, I've never experienced turbulence that severe.
Ok, here's something called a drop in the bucket list. The carburator on my 1984 Chev pick-up started to flood out. Today I ordered a rebuild kit. I hope everything goes smoothly rebuilding it.
Allie, I'm w/ you on tornado chasing. I've always been fascinated w/ weather. Saw an F1 not far from my house back in the 90's. It mostly looked like a swirling cloud on the ground. I would love to see one of those big mofo's
I never saw a tornado on the ground, but seeing that distinct shape and rotation of the clouds. The color of the sky, the smell, the heaviness in the air, then feeling cooler winds going one direction, then the other, it is awesome.
My kids and I used to watch storms coming I over the lake, the neighbors probably though I was an irresponsible mom, but three of them are storm lovers now too. My grandkids are not as enthusiastic, will have to wait to get some from the storm lovers.
I have flown a lot, and have experienced a lot of rough rides in aircraft large and small.
While I think the movie "Cast Away" is terrible, one thing they got right was the sound an aluminum airframe makes when a fuselage is being torqued in a storm. I have heard that, didn't like it. If you have heard it you know what I am talking about. Discomforting, at a minimum. I never needed to be told to keep my seatbelt fastened while flying - I know stuff happens fast up there.
I flew to Hawaii not long after the Aloha Airlines flight 243 incident. We were joking about "convertible planes" and the like, but it was gallows humor, to be sure.
Ah man, now I am rambling for sure - when I was a child we used to fly to Mississippi to visit relatives. This was before passenger jets had entered service. The planes we flew in were 4 engine prop planes, DC 4 and 5, as I recall.
As a child seeing flames shooting out of the exhaust, and having seen William Shatner battle a gremlin, I knew we were going to die. We didn't.
We have severe weather here all the time. I have less interest in tornadoes than in flying these days.
Did I ever mention the time the eye of Hurricane Fran passed over my house? That was interesting. I went all Lt. Dan that night "Come and get me, you bastard!"
"You know, Gump, I never thanked you for saving my life." Splash.
Oh! Allie, I was just trying to say that if you like turbulence, you are badass. =)
Also, I am pretty sure my account is candyass compared to the turbulence really frequent fliers like Sixty and others have ridden through.
I do have a slight fear of flying - mostly taking off - where I pray like crazy, but it has never kept me from booking a flight to be where I want to be. I'm thankful for that.
I was a paratrooper when I was in the Army. Out of my first 21 airplane flights, I only landed in the plane twice. Now when I fly, landing seems dangerous. Out of the ordinary.
The worse plane back then was the C-119 Flying Boxcar. They were old, old, old. Once the C-119 that we were in shook so bad that we wanted to jump NOW!
I have no fear of flying when I have a parachute on. However, it's impossible to get by the screeners when you have one on though.
St. Thomas is nice. I really liked Carnivale there.
But back to flying stories... a good pilot can make even a passenger jet do amazing things - once, due to a union "action" we had a flight held on the ground for a couple of hours. The pilot, a member of a different union, was not pleased. When finally released, he got the plane in line for take off, and when our turn came, he lit the fuse on that sucker. It was awesome to experience a takeoff with that much power and angle of attack. A fellow frequent flier was amazed. When we got off we kind of acknowledged the captain as we deplaned - good job, dude, you made up a lot of time and boy did we have fun.
I used to watch the U2 used by NASA take off from Moffett Naval Air Station - it would get a nose up attitude and fly out of sight, still at what seemed like a 50 or 60 degree angle. Had a very distinct sound, too. Could always tell when a C5A was landing too, by the sound. Even viewing it through a telescope I could never see it level off - it just kept climbing until you couldn't see it.
Biggest thing I ever saw land was the giant Russian transport plane - we were having a meeting at the Portland OR airport and what do you know - something the size of a freakin' skyscraper flew by. Very impressive that an object that large could get airborne.
Was also in a meeting once in Rockville Maryland when the Concord took off overhead - even though we were a few miles as the SST flies from Dulles, that sumbitch shook the building, gonna tell you what. Our customers, who were there for a demo, were ducking and about to hit the floor. I just kept my sales pitch going - trained professional here.
Yeah, I'm good stayin' home now...
LOL, Darcie, not nearly as much as a badass, I think I am:)
I flew on the Concorde back in 1980 something. Amazing !
The turbulence caused us to be brought to our feet in our seats and then the plane felt like it was going to roll.
Sounds like y'awl pitched some roll!
Sorry Darcy, not Darcie.
I'm late to the party. Had to go out of town unexpectedly and just got back.
No bucket list.
Don't know why that is. Plenty of things amuse, entertain, and interest me. I just don't have a burning desire to do anything. That lack of passion is what kept me from pursuing a doctorate in history. The grad students I hung out with ate, slept, drank, lived, argued, analyzed, over-analyed their fields of interest. I realized that I didn't have that passion and would not make a good candidate for a doctorate program. They're all professors now.
Lazy? Depressed? Psychotic? I don't know.
John Lennon summed it up nicely for me here.
This, my friends, is a top-quality bucket list!
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