Bucket lists ??

Well ya can always move to Tx. That's where I probably will end up in a couple of year.
 
I'd definitely second the African safari trip and do some shooting (with my camera) while there. Maybe a South Africa + Tansania  + Seychelles combo while there. Would love to climb Kilimanjaro, but I don't think my knees are in shape to do that anymore (snow boarding accident)

Another one is to do another round the world trip this time going South America with a route something like Finland -> Mexico (Aztec ruins) -> Equador (Galapagos) -> Peru (Lake Salinas & Machu Pikchu) and then come back island hopping through the Asian Pasific -> Easter Island -> Fiji -> Vanuatu -> Find an island to rent for a month somewhere around there with great snorkeling -> Jakarta -> Hong Kong -> Home.

Also would like to find a suitable summer cabin close to home on a nice lake to actually have the space for a workshop to build stuff in.

I guess there is a longer list of smaller things, but I guess those would not qualify as bucket list items.

++ R
 
Hi
....may sound a bit corny -  for me coast to coast in the U.S. and to finally get aboard a Jumbo 747  [big grin] (love flying  [thumbs up])
RG
Phil
 
Phil Beckley said:
Hi
....may sound a bit corny -  for me coast to coast in the U.S. and to finally get aboard a Jumbo 747  [big grin] (love flying  [thumbs up])
RG
Phil

Not corny at all. I've done both. Even the boring part in the middle has stuff to look at.
 
Phil Beckley said:
Hi
....may sound a bit corny -  for me coast to coast in the U.S. and to finally get aboard a Jumbo 747  [big grin] (love flying  [thumbs up])
RG
Phil

Phil I hope you make it here!  I too would love to fly on a 747 before they go away.

Now for a true story - sorry it will be long.

When I travelled as a Construction Project Manager the company I worked for had a policy that all tickets booked would be fully refundable (full fare) tickets.  After the first year year of traveling I was in one of the highest classes of the frequent traveller programs for a particular airline.  It was possible at that time for me to earn three free tickets a month.

I used my freebies to send families and friends on vacations.  My wife had a fabulous experience on a trip with her friend (I staid home to take care of the pups) and when she came home she told me about it and asked me to look for a flight attendant by the name of Alice and described her looks.

I spent the next two years traveling and looking for Alice.

My last business trip was to Portland, OR.  On the return trip I was in First Class and got onto a jet that was only two weeks old and the leather smell was like in a new car.  My day was done and a flight attendant came to take my drink order and holy cow her name was Alice.  Everything fit - the name and the description.  I apologized for the lame comment that was coming and then told her I had been looking for her for two years  [eek].  I explained what had happened and she repeated details of my wife and her companion and the trip that only I knew.

I was shocked.  I also noticed that there were only three people in first class and there were about 24 empty seats.  I told here this was my last trip and I would like to fill up first class with passengers of her choosing from the back that she thought would never fly first class.  I had more than enough upgrades on me to make that happen for 24+ passengers.  She asked me if I was certain and then talked to the pilot.

It couldn't happen because they didn't have enough booze and first class food on the plane.  I enjoyed my flight - I had found Alice despite all the odds and could tell my wife I said thank you.

Peter
 
Phil Beckley said:
Hi
....may sound a bit corny -  for me coast to coast in the U.S. and to finally get aboard a Jumbo 747  [big grin] (love flying  [thumbs up])
RG
Phil

Well bud I know a yank who will be returning to Sunny Southern Calif,  Orange County in a year....rumour has it he has a lot of festools and the wife  cook some awesome BBQ
 
jobsworth said:
Phil Beckley said:
Hi
....may sound a bit corny -  for me coast to coast in the U.S. and to finally get aboard a Jumbo 747  [big grin] (love flying  [thumbs up])
RG
Phil

Well bud I know a yank who will be returning to Sunny Southern Calif,  Orange County in a year....rumour has it he has a lot of festools and the wife  cook some awesome BBQ

......will book my ticket  [wink]
 
Thank you Kev for prodding me into thinking a bit harder about my next few years!

bobfog said:
(....) For me I just try to take each day/week/month/year as it comes, try to find some form of joy in each as they arise. (....)

I've held this same "take each day as it comes" point of view Bob for most of my life, and I've had some wonderful adventures and successes by riding along with the opportunities that came my way ... but now in my relatively comfy retirement, with relatively good health (so far) and a few pennies to spare, I'm getting very itchy feet, and thinking I should now create a few 'opportunities' of my own to chase while I can.

Like you Bob, I always felt 'bucket lists' were too similar to 'to-do' lists (and I've been known to make a to-do list of my guilt-inducing, not-yet-finished to-do lists), but maybe now I should write a nice, short, stress-free, smile-inducing bucket list ...

... attend a Mardi Gras ...
... take a hike in those Bavarian hills ...
... visit a Welsh Eisteddfod (a national music festival, not a million miles from where I live, so no excuses!) ...
... go skinny-dipping in one of those Scandanavian saunas ...

I'm printing it now, and I'll pin it just above my monitor  8)

Thank you Kev.
 
Hi!

I try to live in the present, not past or future and enjoy every day to the max.

Call me a dreamer or whatever but there are still a couple of things I'd like to make happen:

1. EB-5 Visa and waking up on the first morning in my apartment in NYC.
2. Visiting each and everyone of my friends I made in the US over the years in one big tour across all states.
3. Establish a charity foundation that takes care of people not causes.

4. Experience a start and a landing on an mil. aircraft carrier (Never gonna happen for a million reasons, but I would love to. I'm always smiling like a kid on Christmas morning when a pilot with whom I fly starts or lands really powerful)

Kind regards,
Oliver

 
I'd like to be able to focus on woodworking about one-half time, with the following little details:
(1) First, my passion for woodworking is driven by a desire to show off the beauty of the wood that I work with.
(2) Build a dedicated shop given what I've learned in the basement and garage over the years.
(3) Be able to travel to a variety of places, talk to local craftsmen, and bring back local woods for projects.
(4) Get really good at hand tools and arcane joinery - gives you a feel for working with rather than against wood.
(5) Make multiple heirloom projects for all of the grandkids.  Make a few projects that would be valued long after I'm gone.

Combined with other non-woodworking interests in the other 150% of my time, I think I could stay busy :).
 
I saw the film called the Bucket List, it was touching and funny..

I've got no real reason to make a Bucket list, I have some things I'd like to do, I work doing practical maintenance for several building and courtyards in a Scandinavian city. I'm mostly on my own, but the change of scene from place to place means I'm never really bored.

I guess on item on mu bucket list is to make some useful contributions using my Festool setup, getting a small shop set up to aid in that. I have other interests that a cultivate in turn, and though it might seem like I'm aiming too broad, by keeping the same subjects simmering away over the years I make some real progress, hardly noticing it myself, so the you would say I'm not straining away in my daily life driven by blind ambition.. Slow and steady progress. I don't worry too much about what I manage to get done, but cultivating a positive internal personal energy, focused friendly open, and quietly productive gets me through a  Bucket list that I don't even have written down and never look at..

 
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