Whats on your Bucket List?
 

Was on another site today and saw a neet spot that I have added to my bucket list. What's on your list? Here is mine, in no particular order, # 1 is what I found today

1 Gilmore Car & Barn Museum
2 Indy 500
3 Smithsonian Institute
4 Learn to play the banjo, probably never happen because I have no musical talent other than being an expert with the skin flute.
5 Get my gold mine up and running, long story but I have secured the property
6 Get permission to drill for my diamond mine, its in a restricted area but all it takes is money to get permission, saw it from the air and the kimberlite pipes are easy to spot if you know what to look for.
7 Finish my 71 E-type resto
8 Paint the inside of the garage

Hate to say it, but I have done everything on my bucket list...

One possible thing that would be to do is a cruise from Seattle to Anchorage...

Back in 2000, I flew to Seattle to meet my then gf where she had driven an old Isuzu trooper with 270K on the clock. We drove up to Bellingham, loaded the Trooper on the ferry up the inside passage. We got off at the end of the line and toured up thru Canada on the AlCan highway back over to AK on the Denali "highway" and then took a wandering tour back down to the Kenai peninsula, etc. Ultimately ended up back in Anchorage where we put a For Sale sign on the Izusu and sold it for $3K in 3 hours(hard to find a rust free old Trooper 4WD apparently) which essentially paid for our 4 week trip. We then flew back to Mississippi. It was a blast. Pretty damn cheap suprisingly. Way cheaper than a "real" cruise. I think our fair for the 2 of us including car and a berth for 3-4 days was less than 1500$.

One weird thing did happen. We were in the middle of nowhere stopped for lunch at an outpost when some bear hunters came in the restaurant. One guy asked who the Trooper from Mississippi belonged to? Turned out he waorked for a bank I represented at one time. Stranger than that, he had dated my gf's sister while he was in college. Small world.

Been there-done that.

But did you get the T-shirt?

Best,
Tom

Two chicks at the same time.

Done that several times. If you have not tried it, its a lot of fun but usually not long term...

You know, I really should toss all those old T shirts...I mean, who'd want a Lemans '76 T shirt anyway?

You did not throw them in with the sale of the 911? :)

When you get tired of those old rags, please let your friends know!

My list:

1) A hot Asian chick.
2) Another hot Asian chick.
3) Both hot Asian chicks at the same time.
4) Recover.

I do that if I had a million dollars.

pack a vehicle of some sort and leave for a year. PEI, Florida, California, Alaska then back home.

Drive to Homer Alaska. Just back from a cruise and it was, frankly, disappointing.

Done the Asian chick thing many times and I never got over wanting more so that's still on the list. :cool:

Love to drive a Porsche Turbo... should be able to get that one done.

1) Washington D.C./Smithsonian Institute/Air and Space Museum
2) Travel to see all the stuff I've missed while working for 40 years. Love to see Maine, The Dakota's, Vermont, Boston, N. California, Oregon, Florida, Alaska, Hawaii,.......
3) Have the opportunity to drive an Indy car, F1, or IMSA type...what the heck, as long as I'm wishing,
4) Learn to fly a Helicopter, Pipers are pretty easy.
5) Learn the drums, re-dedicate myself to the piano
6) Own mountain land near a river for fishing

It's a start

Karl
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Karl,

If you go to Vegas (maybe other tracks too) you can find the Andretti driving school. It's all a matter of money as usual.

Thanks Mark. I have checked into a few opportunities...your right, for what I want It's expensive.
Somehow I'm looking for that feeling I had on the go-carts 30+ years ago. But faster....:>)

Thanks
Karl
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Drive a NASCAR at the Richard Petty driving experience and have the instructor tell me I should do this professionally.

Hot asian chics, Yup don't think I could get enough of that.

Make a few laps in an F1 car with Louis Hamiton and pass him on the inside.

Steal that diamond mine and make a fortune. So I can afford more asian chicks :)

Well, I've often thought it would be interesting to drive the full length of US Hwy. 20...since it is the "main street" of my town.

Route information
Length: 3,365 mi[1] (5,415 km)
Existed: 1926[1] – present
Major intersections
West end: US 101 in Newport, OR
Major
junctions:
I-5 at Albany, OR
I-15 at Idaho Falls, ID
I-25 at Casper, WY
I-29 at Sioux City, IA
I-35 near Williams, IA
I-55 near Chicago, IL
I-75 near Toledo, OH
I-79 in Erie, PA
I-81 near Syracuse, NY
I-87 near Albany, NY
I-91 in Springfield, MA


I-95 in Waltham, MA
East end: Route 2 in Boston, MA

In no particular order, here are undone items on my bucket list:

1. Ride my bike across the United States, southern route, then northern route back.
2. Hike PCT end to end.
3. Learn to play the guitar
4. Learn to sing without making the dogs howl
5. Go to a driving School (e.g. Barber, etc)
6. Take a drive-about in the US. Maybe a year, wander as I like.
7. A houseboat on the arm of a canyon in Lake Powell, in October with just my
family. I just might make this work this year...
8. Watch the space shuttle launch and return. Guess I might have to watch a
rocket instead on a one way trip.
9. Get way too close to tornado
10. Shoot a cannon. Not a gun, a freakin' CANNON!!!!

angela

Own a Helicopter Hughes 500E
Drive the Coast from San Diego PCH to Vancouver / Whistler in a GT3 RS
Archery Mountain Goat
Drive Europe in above GT3 for a month
Spend a summer in the Thousand Islands with a Beaver on floats
See Africa

I see 4 out of 10 within easy reach.

Well, depends on how good you want to be on the guitar. ;)

Travel :)

Sail to Bermuda
Drive at Leguna Seca, Road Atlanta, Watkins Glen and Road America

Oh Milt PLEASE tell me that shooting the cannon made one of the four? Because I would REALLY like to shoot a cannon! :D


angela

Owning, renting or driving a 935

Mine is pretty easy:
1) watch my two kids grow up, graduate and become well-adjusted and successful in business.
2) provide for the family so when I'm gone they don't have to worry about money.
3) Visit Jerusalem to see the holiest place on earth.

OK here's my "serious" top 10, in no particular order (but I still wouldn't turn down that whole "two chicks at the same time" thing...)

1. Ride my bike up the Alp d'Huez - without stopping.
2. Finish my 911 to perfection and then drive it on an epic road trip over a couple of months to Glacier, Yellowstone, Yosemite, Disneyland, New Orleans, Key West and then back home.
3. Stand on Mount Everest - even if it's base camp, I want to go there. Climb a bit if I can.
4. Fly an airplane supersonic (me at the controls of course)
5. Attend an F1 race... in Monaco
6. Sail a boat across the Pacific - stopping in Hawaii for a while and eventually making it to Australia.
7. Give something really special to a desperately needy person - like a car or a place to live or a job or a few thousand dollars - something that will make a real difference to them.
8. Design my own home - and then build it and live in it.
9. Hike the entire John Muir trail (I've only done portions)
10. Write (and publish) a book.

Absolutely! Look for a cannon club and go shoot the thing.

I'm sure they'd be more than delighted to have you participate.

Angela, see if this link helps.

The American Artillery Association, promoting safe shooting of muzzleloading artillery

Best,
Tom

Karl, I did the Andretti thing and it doesn't suck. Get on their mailing list, they have specials all the time.

"I'm gonna go how fast?"
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Some items on my bucket list:
-Watch the Monaco Grand Prix from a sailboat in the harbour
-Fly 1st class to Maui
-Live somewhere warm for a while
-Live on waterfront
-Own an Aston Martin

Take my youngest daughter to Disney World. She has not been there. Being out of work for a year put big delay in going.... Eventually will get there...

The other thing on the list was to buy a 911. Love the one I have.

Cool!

That experience would be amazing! Thanks Rich.

In about 5 months, it'll be time to "do" some of these things. I'll check it out!

Karl
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I notice many people said their bucket list was complete, curious what was on them? I like some of the list items mentioned, it inspired me to add a few. One thing I like about this site is many of the posts have really pushed me to see what else I could do. Thanks for that.

I started my bucket list before I knew the term "bucket list" sometime in high school. since then I have crossed some things off my list and added things as new goals have come to mind. With any luck I'll cross them all off the list but honestly, I suspect if I have done this right some won't get crossed off as I will know I pushed the limit. This weekend i crossed one off the list (run half-marathon). This is my list cutting out the more boring ones like places I want to visit:

Own an Antique Car -DONE X 5
Find a beautiful, intelligent wife (who is great in bed and loves me) -DONE (parenthetical added after divorce from first wife)
Have children -DONE
Get my pilots license -DONE
Go Skydiving -DONE X 3
Rebuild a car engine
Get my PhD -DONE
Get published (journals, conferences, presentations, etc.) -DONE X Few
Rebuild an antique car -DONE
Run a half-marathon -DONE
Run a marathon
Do a triathlon
Fly a helicopter -DONE
Land a sea plane
Own my own plane
Write and publish a book
Build a car from scratch (kitcar or other)
Be a stand up comedian once in front of an audience
Pilot a plane to every state in continental US
Build or own an amphibious vehicle
Race in an auto race
Hunt and kill my own food once (deer or duck)
Create a kick-a** garage / man cave
Take wife on weekend getaway where we go to an airport and decide where to fly at the counter
Restore a car with my son
Make a comfortable living in business, retire and become a college professor (again)
Do everything I can to help my kids become more successful than me

If the stars align (the really hard ones):
Get into outer space
Own a Tucker
Make a major positive impact on the world (make world better place)

Be a better human being....

When I was younger, I wanted to own a Porsche and hoped to some day drive it on a racetrack. I also wanted to build a business and sell it for a significant sum. Pretty much had done them both by age 40.

I travelled enough with my jobs out of college that travel sort of lost its charm. I'd still like to see Australia and spend more time in the UK, but I wouldn't call them bucket list items.

So either I have a serious lack of ambition or I'm just content with where I've been, what I have, what I've done, etc.

In no particular order

1 See an F1 race (did it last fall and will do it again)
a Ride in an F1 car (did that last fall too, twice, first time driven by Didier Theys, second time driven by Martin Plowman)

2 Skydive (did that last fall right before #1)

3 Start running again and get back down to a 6 minute mile. (this may or may not ever happen

4 Drive a car, any car on Laguna Seca and the Nurburgring

5 Space Shuttle Launch (got to see STS-132 May 2010)

6 Eat at Michelin rated restaurants

7 See giant redwood trees

8 See Stonehenge

9 Own a Lotus/Caterham 7

10 Go to NYC and do the sight seeing thing

11 Go back to Japan (lived there as a kid, but would like to go back to visit)

12 Go to Italy, Germany, UK and France, at least, possibly Spain again and some other spots

13 Learn to speak Spanish and Japanese, at least conversationally

14 Go back to Wash DC and tour the place, I was young the first time I went. (I guess really, "see a lot more of the US" should be on the list to include, NYC, Boston, Cali, Wash DC, etc....)

15 I've been to Asia, Europe, Africa, N. American, and S America, I need to hit Australia and Antarctica so I can say that I've been on all of the continents. I would accept seeing Antarctica from a boat or somehow just getting close.

To make it all through life without ever having used the term "bucket list."

Oh, damn.

It's nice to have a bucket list. Maybe my bucket list is less ambitious than you guys, or maybe I nailed (pun intended) more in my early/earlier days, or I see things differently. Little things like I'd hate to drive around Europe in a GT3; everyone would be trying to rob you. Plus the traffic is a bastard. Travel - just do it. My only one is a two day river trip down some fairly fierce water in a Canadian canoe, if I survive it I'll post pic's.

Yer no fun.