Before I die, I want to ...

Climb Mt. Everest

Bike across Europe.

Dance at my kids weddings. Hold my grandchildren. Hopefully in that order.

Ride with a storm chaser - see a live tornado
Skydive
Eat fish & chips in London
Go on a cruise
Take a beach vacation solo (scheduled for next month!)
Celebrate New Years Eve in Times Square
Watch Ironman World Championships live in Kona
Live somewhere outside of Kansas
Get a tattoo
Own a big dog
Have a bonfire on the beach

Take a beach vacation solo (scheduled for next month!)

Let me know how that goes!

I have always wanted to do that, just can't work up the nerve

See my children grow up and become successful, by however they define success.

Grow old with my wife, and enjoy every minute of it.

DanielG - 2012-09-05 7:36 PM Since I was a kid I decided I did not want to turn 50 and say, "I wish I had..." anything. I'm 46 and I've done damn near everything I've set my sights to do. I keep having to come up with new stuff.

Hey, hey, HEY - 50 is NOT old! It is a perfectly respectable age. 

I set a goal when I was around 30 that I would try to do something new every year. On average, I have kept up - some years taking up 2 or 3 things, some years not so many. But overall, I hope I never run out of ideas of things to do or try.

So, a couple of years ago, for example, I set a summer goal of seeing the top grossing new release every week from the beginning of May through Labor Day. Last year, I set out to take at least one photograph every year. I've taken up new sports, built things that I never knew how to do before, learned all kinds of new things. Some things end up being a one-time deal (hot air ballooning was too boring; mountaineering was too hard for the pleasure/pain ratio). Others had time limits built in, and taught me new things.

I would still like to go hang-glide, parachute out of a plane, go on a photo safari. I want to see another foreign country with one of my kids as my guide and translator (daughter #2 will be going to Egypt in a year for a special studies program). I want to introduce a grandchild to the outdoors (which, given the current single statuses of my girls, may be a ways off).

This thread reminds me of a joke - three guys are talking about their funerals, and what they hope people will say. The first guy says "I hope they say 'He was a captain of industry, bringing innovation to his field'." The second guy says "I hope they say 'He was a devoted family man, who gave his time to the community as well'." The third guy says "I hope they say 'Hey, wait! He isn't dead!' "

See all 50 states (38 down)

Complete an Ironman

See my kids graduate from college

Get a patent

Ride with a storm chaser - see a live tornado

Ha, I've wanted to chase storms, too.  Maybe this spring I will go do it for a week.

DanielG - 2012-09-05 6:36 PM Since I was a kid I decided I did not want to turn 50 and say, "I wish I had..." anything. I'm 46 and I've done damn near everything I've set my sights to do. I keep having to come up with new stuff.

I am with you.  Now I need to come up with new stuff.  The stuff that I thought was unattainable as a kid (marathon, etc) is now just a part of life.

Marathon - check

Fly fish in New Zealand - check

Ironman - check

Hmm, I've never really given a lot of thought to my bucket list, but here's some things I'd love to do.

go on a two month cruise around the world.
go to the south pole
visit every country in Europe
go to the moon
skydive

 

^^Only one you have an excuse not to do.

Shatner.

I would fight William Shatner.

my degenerate side would get me banned for life.

Dive with great white sharks (as part of my walk all 7 continents, dive all 5 oceans) and I do not want to be in a cage.

Complete the Iditarod with pit bulls (I know I will win... I just need a sponsor for custom pit bull sized gortex and insulated jackets and booties)

Do the Dakar rally or at least ride the course on a BMW F800 GS.

Ride the same motorcycle from Singapore, Malaysia through Chiang Mai, Thailand to Ha Long, Vietnam and finish with drinks at the Ba Hang Bar in Ha Long Bay.

Visit all of the National Parks/ Reserves from South Africa & Namibia up the coast to Kenya & Uganda.

14 day Grand Canyon river trip

Drink a pint of Guiness in Ireland

Run Pike's Peak Marathon

Own/ run a restaurant/pub (in retirement)

Perform a guitar solo for audience (church, local bar, etc...)

Do Kona (even if I have to qualify in the 70+ age division)

One ultramarathon (I'm thinking Leadville)