What's left on YOUR bucket list? (Page 2)

Minnesota accents are AWESOME!!!.....I have business clients in MN and have a blast when I chat with them on the phone.

backpack europe
colorado (snowboarding)
vermont (snowboarding)
start my quest to do the rock-n-roll series half marathon (all the races)
do a race in every state
scubba cert
take a cruise

thats to name a few.

Edited by momo 2010-09-10 10:13 AM

The only thing that ever has been. 

Be a better person today than you were yesterday. 

The rest of the fun stuff is all just icing. 

You should check out the TriForLife team.  This is their goals as well and I think they are somewhere between 1/8 and 1/4 of the way there in three years.  They came to Iowa to do Hy-Vee last year and we hosted them.  Check them out at http://www.donatelifetriathlon.com/.  Perhaps they could helkp you with some suggestions.  Lon posts on the Michigan board every now and then.   

Hello

1  Go to the Barrett-Jackson & bid on a car.  (69-70 Mustang Mach 1)
2. Sell my company
3.  Try being a bartender
4.  Do an open mike comedy night
5.  Take a motorcycle trip across the country
6.  Visit Germany again  ( US Army sponsored trip 85-89)
7.  Be a good grandfather when I get grandkids.
8. 

Kevin

In all seriousness


Backpack the entire Appalachian Trail

Complete an IM

Go Marlin fishing

Pilots License

Be in a real MMA fight(even if I get my a$$ kicked)

Mountain Bike tour of Ireland and GB

Run for Mayor

Get my PhD

Scuba Dive

of course all the family stuff but that is a given

Edited by Jtiger 2010-09-10 12:43 PM

This is so tough, as I have done almost everything I had ever wanted to do.  I have been under the earth, over the earth, all over the earth, and even eaten the earth.

Even though I am a pilot and have flown my own place across the US several times, I would love to go into outer space, and would volunteer in a heart  beat to give up everything to live on the moon or mars or where ever else we can colonize.  I would also love to be abducted by aliens and live out my days with them.

1) Swim the English channel

2) Climb Kilimanjaro

3) Attend the Olympics

4) Open a restaurant

5) Write a book 

Fun topic:

Sports related list:

1) Ride the annual L'Etape at the Tour de France (where mere mortals are allowed to ride a full stage of the tour the day before the Pro's do).
2) Ride the Paris-Roubaix Cyclosportive (every other year they allow mere mortals to, again, play in the fields of the Gods)
3) Run Western States and finish sub-30 (would love to go sub 24 but let's be realistic).
4) Do an IM.
5) BQ and then run Boston.
6) Thru hike the Appalachian Trail with my wife and any of the kids that want to join us.
7) Climb all 4000 footers in New England with my wife.

Life list:

1) Live in France again for 3 to 6 months.
2) Retire from Army and do free international ophthalmology.
3) Travel with my lovely wife and 5 kids to Europe and back to Nepal again.
4) Be a residency instructor in ophtho.


Man, cannot think of any other goals right now, but fun to think about!

Never made a bucket list.

Not a big fan of guided tours.

I prefer to float the river and partake in what tickles my fancy at the time.

Ill check it out...

IMWI
learn to fly a helicopter
climb mount everest

I don't have a future list, that whole being ADD prevents such preplanning.  So I have my completed bucket list.  Plus, looking at my completed list how would I have ever come up with this kind of a list or understood that these are the memories of the things that I have done or seen that are most important to me.

(in no particular order, except the first one love you dear)
Get Married

Live in Europe (Including seeing Paris, London, Zurich, Geneva.  Eating real Itallian food.  True french bread.   Skiing in the Alps and wind surfing in northern Italy.  Plays in London.)
Get a college degree
Own a house
Learn how to make cabinets
white water raft
complete a triathlon
SCUBA Dive
learn how to play hockey
Visit Washington DC
Road Trips (West Virginia, Custer State Park, Badlands, Mount Rushmore)
Watch a Swan take off from a lake (seriously this is one of the most amazing things in nature in my mind)
Hike the Rockies
Complete a project that saved 5 million gallons of fresh water a year
Visit China
Learn to cook good food, not just cook enough not to starve or get sick.


Edited by MNGopher 2010-09-13 1:38 PM

Everyone should.........................

Bali's very close by! Hello! *waving*

It's where Australians go to visit.

This might come out the wrong way, but looking at other people's list makes me realize how much I've accomplished. 

At any rate, my list at this point is:
- Badwater
- Ultraman
- Get my MBA
- Get my CMA and CPA certifications
- Watch both my girls grow up, go to college, get married and have families of their own

A few things I'd like to do but if I didn't it wouldn't be a big deal:
- Finish another IM
- Thru-hike the AT
- Get my DBA/PhD

Here's mine -

- Hike the Appalachian trail
- Bike across the United States
- Backpack through Europe
- Write a screenplay
- See screenplay actually get made into a film
- Go to Anarctica
- Climb a mountain
- Bungee Jump
- Go skydiving
- Get an RV, and drive to every MLB stadium to watch a game during a summer -I see myself doing this sometime in my 60's.

Hmm lets see:

- Compete in an IM
- Complete my solo trail run from San Bernardino to Big Bear
- Compete in the Everest Challenge
- Go to South America
- Ride the Alpe de Huez
- Ride the Passo de Stelvio
- Hike Mt. Whitney
- Hike accross the Sierras


Edited by furiousferret 2010-09-14 11:09 AM

I wondered who that was.

Lose my virginity.

have another child-work in progress
move to The Farm with said child and wife-wheels are in motion on this one
marathon-work in progress
ultra-running-have done some ultra cycling in the past
An Ironman (or iron distance)-in progress with intermediate goals
Instrument/multi engine ratings-in progress-delayed a little
own my own airplane-hmm maybe, one time I really wanted my own boat-now I really want to sell it
skydiving
my own successful business
figure out what I'm good enough at to turn into a business
To ride in all 50 states (14 down)
to live long enough to see the Tri-centenial-July 4 2076 (I picked this goal in 1976)
Build my own boat or airplane
Build more of my own furniture (chipping away at this)
Try adventure racing
Being as self sufficient as possible-"off grid" etc
Die on my own terms
 Don't care too much about traveling except in the pursuit of other goals.
A pretty good list some of it based on my whims at the moment..maybe I could simplify it to "being able to pursue my whims for as long as possible"

Just a few in no particular order:


Complete the Death Race in Pittsfield, VT.
Finish a 100 miler
Complete an IM (will be in Kona in less than 3 weeks!!!)
Shark Dive - DONE
Handle hot (venemous) reptiles - DONE
Learn to play the guitar or piano
Chase a Tornado (hopefully with storm savvy peeps)
Learn how to vermicompost
Run a 5K in under 20 min (21:50 is PR)
Beat the Train, Iron Horse Bicycle Classic, Durango, CO




A few of these were mentioned in Outside Magazine but they are still pretty cool =)

Timely thread as I was just updating my last week. Here is a sampling of mine:

5. Stay in a Tuscan villa

7. Climb all 50 US state highpoints (14 down!)

11. Celebrate 50 years of marriage

13. Visit Metz, France, and attend their annual Liberation Celebration. (My dad helped liberate the town in WWII.)

14. Play the Old Course at St. Andrews (Pebble and Pinehurst #2 are also on my list)

17. Watch the Kona Ironman live

22. Fly in a Helicopter (DanielG - any help?, LOL)

25. Shoot a machine gun 


I also have a "things I have done" list that I refer to when I want to "count my blessings".  I have had a very fortunate life to date and consider myself very lucky.....

Edited by ejshowers 2010-09-15 9:19 AM

Beat cancer.

You'll make it. Cancer doesn't stand a chance...