What do you want to do before you die? - Page 2

porsche4life · porsche4life's Garage

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Originally Posted by BRPORSCHE

Mount this:

Climb this:

I'm right there with you on both Tom! If you need someone to climb the mountain with give me a shout, I'm not helping you bag Biel, that'd just be weird...

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Originally Posted by romad

I don't get the mountain thing, the risk are no were near the benefits and the actual experience is no joy.

Its apparent you are a debbie downer. Please leave the negativity.

And some of us do get joy from summiting a peak. Its like being on top of the world, its accomplishing something relatively few people have done. Its a challenge.

Zeke · 10-13-2011, 08:06 AM

I always really wanted to drive an Indy car, an older one, didn't matter. Today, not so much that I'd even pay.

Sorta leaves the list open....

Win the lottery? Yeah, that'll open some doors.

pwd72s · 10-13-2011, 08:18 AM

Money just gives one more options...or so I've been told.

May sound silly, but really, I feel like I've pretty much been there-done that. No bucket list.

I would like to be able to run several racks in a row in pool...but I know that isn't going to happen. Those who routinely do that have spent more hours on the game than I have left...

masraum · 10-13-2011, 08:27 AM

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Originally Posted by romad

I don't get the mountain thing, the risk are no were near the benefits and the actual experience is no joy.

Like people wanting to fly in a figher jet, for most to all(ever experienced commerical pilots) its not that comfortable of a deal and bragging rights just do not add up to anything.

I don't get the Everest thing either. It looks like a miserable undertaking and I think about 10% of those who go up stay up forever (at least from their point of view).

I can definitely see flying (or even being a passenger) in a fighter jet being a rush. I suspect it's like the airborne version of driving an F1 car which is not easy or comfortable as well, but that doesn't mean that I wouldn't want to do it.

For me, hmm, I'm not sure. I'll have to think about it. I've got a good woman, I've traveled some (could use some more). I'd like to end up getting out on a track. I've had a 911 and now 2 miata, and in all of that time (about 12 years, I think), I've never been to the track. They are my daily drivers, and I can't afford to walk away from them. I guess I'd like to drive on some of the big tracks, like the 'Ring, Laguna Seca, etc.... I'd like to get out to Cali and drive on Mulholland (and ride in Bannings car) and meet some of the fine Porsche guys from over that way.

I'd like to do more travel, see stonehenge, the Giants Walk, the pyramids, Rome, Germany, drive on one of the unlimited autobahns, see the Alps the Grand Canyon, the Redwood Forest, Yosemite, Yellowstone, Glaciers in Alaska.

I'd like to learn to speak Japanese and Spanish at least, possibly a few more.

masraum · 10-13-2011, 08:37 AM

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Originally Posted by turbocarrera

two chicks at the same time

I think if I had a million dollars I could hook that up too.

pwd72s · 10-13-2011, 08:40 AM

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Originally Posted by masraum

I think if I had a million dollars I could hook that up too.

Shouldn't cost ya that much...sure didn't cost me that much back in the day. All it cost me was booze.

Overrated by the way.

porsche4life · porsche4life's Garage

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Originally Posted by masraum

I think if I had a million dollars I could hook that up too.

Bar tab for two chicks for the night wouldn't run near that high. Just a matter of finding the right two chicks...

romad · romad's Garage

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Its apparent you are a debbie downer. Please leave the negativity

I suggest just taping a plastic bag over your head and pedal an exercise bike in a freezer for a couple of days. At least you could end the nighmare at anytime.

Any experience you wish would end when you are doing it or you would wish to never do again is suspect in being a experience worth undertaking....Donnie Dower

porsche4life · porsche4life's Garage

I get it, you aren't into moutain climbing... Some of us are, lets leave it at that...

masraum · 10-13-2011, 08:54 AM

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Originally Posted by pwd72s

Shouldn't cost ya that much...sure didn't cost me that much back in the day. All it cost me was booze.

Overrated by the way.

Sorry guys, it was a quote from the movie "Office Space".

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Peter Gibbons: What would you do if you had a million dollars?
Lawrence: I'll tell you what I'd do, man: two chicks at the same time, man.
Peter Gibbons: That's it? If you had a million dollars, you'd do two chicks at the same time?
Lawrence: Damn straight. I always wanted to do that, man. And I think if I were a millionaire I could hook that up, too; 'cause chicks dig dudes with money.
Peter Gibbons: Well, not all chicks.
Lawrence: Well, the type of chicks that'd double up on a dude like me do.
Peter Gibbons: Good point.
Lawrence: Well, what about you now? What would you do?
Peter Gibbons: Besides two chicks at the same time?
Lawrence: Well, yeah.
Peter Gibbons: Nothing.
Lawrence: Nothing, huh?
Peter Gibbons: I would relax... I would sit on my ass all day... I would do nothing.
Lawrence: Well, you don't need a million dollars to do nothing, man. Take a look at my cousin: he's broke, don't do ****.

masraum · 10-13-2011, 08:57 AM

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Originally Posted by porsche4life

I get it, you aren't into moutain climbing... Some of us are, lets leave it at that...

Now, rock climbing, that I get. I've never done it, but it looks like more my speed.

I guess to me rock climbing feels like a physical challenge.

Climbing something like Everest that's cold, miserable, low on oxygen, requires everything that it would require, seems more like a mental challenge. I feel like it is a challenge of your will power to force yourself to endure the hardship to accomplish the goal.

scottmandue · 09:05 AM

I want to see/do... U.K. and Europe... Tahiti, Bora Bora, New Zealand, Australia...

Erupting volcano, preferably Hawaii

And want to do one of those race weekend things.

Don't think these old knees/lungs can handle mountain climbing anymore... made to the top of Lassen.

IMHO the mountain thing is like the race car thing... I'm sure a lot of people would have no interest in driving a car around a track at high speed for a couple days... expensive/dangerous way to spend the weekend... but I would love it.

porsche4life · porsche4life's Garage

There is a headgame in rock climbing too. Not as great but its there. You have to have 100% trust in your equipment and your belayer.

Everest is 100% mental, and 100% physical. You better bring your best in both if you want to make it.

masraum · 10-13-2011, 09:07 AM

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Originally Posted by scottmandue

Australia...

Erupting volcano, preferably Hawaii

I'm sure a lot of people would have no interest in driving a car around a track at high speed for a couple days... expensive/dangerous way to spend the weekend... but I would love it.

Yeah, +10 on these. Definitely the Volcano thing.

scottmandue · 10-13-2011, 09:07 AM

For that matter just sitting on a beach doing nothing might be more of a challenge to some of you guys than climbing a mountain.

Flieger · Flieger's Garage

I like climbing mountain roads on my bike, but I would not want to do the Rockies or the Alps. I don't like the idea of oxygen starvation. I would rather do our nice, medium sized hills here in CA that start near sea level. I can go up and down those a few times rather than once on an Alp and not get hypoxic. I cannot imagine what Schleck must have felt like on the TdF this year on that second to last mountain stage.

scottmandue · 10-13-2011, 09:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Flieger

I like climbing mountain roads on my bike, but I would not want to do the Rockies or the Alps. I don't like the idea of oxygen starvation. I would rather do our nice, medium sized hills here in CA that start near sea level. I can go up and down those a few times rather than once on an Alp and not get hypoxic. I cannot imagine what Schleck must have felt like on the TdF this year on that second to last mountain stage.

Have you hiked the Santa Monica trails? Very nice!

Rich76_911s · Rich76_911s's Garage

I want to go on a big road trip in my 1969 911E once with my wife, and once with my son. So build a 911, and road trips with family #1.

With a couple outbursts like this:

#2 is to have a wonderful day of skiing with my Dad and Son. If I am dreaming it is a blue bird day of powder skiing at Silverton Mountain after a 16 inch dump the night before.

stevepaa · 10-13-2011, 09:42 AM

See all my kids marry happily and forever.
Always be available when they suggest doing something with me. Like my son just invited me to go to Rennsport at Laguna this Sunday.

924slover · 10-13-2011, 09:48 AM

I have a running list of things but the most important are
1) paddle into a waimea bomb( i dont care that there are larger and more dangerous but this is where it started)
2)drive across the us in an aircooled vehicle
3) surf every single us state where there is surf ( lakes included)
4)hike and ride tuckermans ravine nh (including the snowfields on mount washington)