Just got back from a few days in Southport and got to check off a Bucket List of mine which was to see all of the N.C. Lighthouses. So what are some of your Bucket List? Serious replies only........please
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See the Carolina Panthers win the Super Bowl
Plenty of others but being the humble person I am, I don't want to give the impression that the world revolves around my selfish life wishes!
Plenty of others but being the humble person I am, I don't want to give the impression that the world revolves around my selfish life wishes!
Most of my bucket list items revolve around travel. The world is a beautiful, strange, sad, and amazing place. A few at the top of my list:
- North America via RV
- Australia and New Zealand (also via RV if I can find a way to make it a multi-month or multi-year experience)
- Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Brazil, Bolivia
- The United Kingdom, particularly Scotland and Ireland
- maybe southern Africa and/or northern Africa (Morocco, etc.)
- North America via RV
- Australia and New Zealand (also via RV if I can find a way to make it a multi-month or multi-year experience)
- Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Brazil, Bolivia
- The United Kingdom, particularly Scotland and Ireland
- maybe southern Africa and/or northern Africa (Morocco, etc.)
I don't really have a true bucket list, but I like to be able to say I've sailed in as many bodies of water and far-flung places as possible. So far my best one is the Arabian Sea (did an evening sail while visiting my sister in Mumbai). I've notched one on the West Coast, in the Salish Sea (San Juan Islands, Washington State). Beyond that it's a lot of East Coast/Bahamas/Caribbean so far.
I could see someone spending a lifetime on that bucket list.
I also do not have a true bucket list, but a few obvious things jump out at me when I give it some brief thought:
- get married (seems fairly obvious and not really a "bucket list" type thing but it's something I haven't done yet)
- own my own home, including at least 5 acres of land I can call my own (see note from above bullet point)
- lots of sports-related things. Seeing Carolina play at Notre Dame a couple years back was an amazing experience.
- I wanna go to all 50 states before I die. Obviously some I'd rather spend more time in than others. By a quick count and not stopping too long to think about it, I've been to (i.e. actually spent time in, an airport doesn't count) 16 states.
- get married (seems fairly obvious and not really a "bucket list" type thing but it's something I haven't done yet)
- own my own home, including at least 5 acres of land I can call my own (see note from above bullet point)
- lots of sports-related things. Seeing Carolina play at Notre Dame a couple years back was an amazing experience.
- I wanna go to all 50 states before I die. Obviously some I'd rather spend more time in than others. By a quick count and not stopping too long to think about it, I've been to (i.e. actually spent time in, an airport doesn't count) 16 states.
Does driving through a state and stopping to eat at a Cracker Barrel count?
Even after living there for 5 years I had never heard that term. OMG, I learned something on OOTB today. Cool.
I've kayaked in the San Juans a couple times, including my first ever kayak experience. Got to do a multi-day camping trip, too. What a beautiful place.
I think I'm at 14 states (deliberate visits, at least overnight, not counting drive-throughs).
Yes it does, but it only barely counts. I've driven through states on the interstate (Maryland, West Virginia) that I didn't count toward my tally. I feel like you have to at least exit the interstate for it to count. Also my count was wrong because I thought of two more states. So it's 18.
I agree layovers don't count for states or countries. Going to all the states is one of mine but I don't think I will make it. I have no desire to go to Hawaii. Every time I think about going, I think of dozens of other trips that would require that amount of traveling that I would rather go on.
Compounding on the one I gave earlier, all of mine are experience-based:
1. Move the family to the beach. Lived in Wilmington for eight years and moved away for work / marriage and have always felt like I left a huge piece of my soul on the coast when I left. Preferably a place on the ICW with a boat dock (jet ski).
2. Enjoy our daughters growing up in health and happily.
3. See my mother and father both stop working 16+ hours every day.
4. See my brother clean himself up and have his hope actually come true for once.
5. Might contradict #1 and #2, but here's goes the adrenaline junkie stuff -- experience a Cat 5 hurricane on the beach.
6. Witness a tornado up close (not the way off in a distance landscape photo thing in the midwest)...gotta "feel" it.
7. Go white water rafting on the gauntlet course.
8. Hike the Appalachian Trail (and hopefully avoid the serial killers)
9. Go on a deep sea dive.
10. Learn to surf.
1. Move the family to the beach. Lived in Wilmington for eight years and moved away for work / marriage and have always felt like I left a huge piece of my soul on the coast when I left. Preferably a place on the ICW with a boat dock (jet ski).
2. Enjoy our daughters growing up in health and happily.
3. See my mother and father both stop working 16+ hours every day.
4. See my brother clean himself up and have his hope actually come true for once.
5. Might contradict #1 and #2, but here's goes the adrenaline junkie stuff -- experience a Cat 5 hurricane on the beach.
6. Witness a tornado up close (not the way off in a distance landscape photo thing in the midwest)...gotta "feel" it.
7. Go white water rafting on the gauntlet course.
8. Hike the Appalachian Trail (and hopefully avoid the serial killers)
9. Go on a deep sea dive.
10. Learn to surf.
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My wife and I just got back from spending a few days in Southport. It's an interesting part of the state.
9. Learn how to count
9. Learn how to count
Sighs... Damn 1st grade math teacher. Still screwing me over.
I think mine would be to learn to drive one of my dad's Harley Davidsons and ride through each state and have beer in a little dive place with an interesting older person and have a great conversation.
Did you get that from George Carlin? I know he had a list and "backing out of a drive thru" was one.
- Spend a week on a sailboat in the Caribbean with just me and Mrs 71
- At least one overnight hike per state on the AT
- Play tennis on a grass court
- Brew a batch of beer
- See the Northern Lights
- Get G7 so agitated he gets banned
- Play in one last lacrosse game
- Go dog sledding
I've seen them, and it was hilarious.
My ex and I were tent camping in eastern Washington on a visit to the Grand Coulee Dam. She wakes up to pee in the middle of the night, and of course wants me to walk with her to the campground restroom/bathhouse. As we're making our way up the path, the horizon is lit up in beautiful blue and green swaths of light. They were mesmerizing.
Neither of us had ever seen the Northern Lights before, but I figured out pretty quickly what it was. She, on the other hand, had already convinced herself it was aliens. You heard me. Aliens. There was no convincing her otherwise.
We spent the next 15 minutes sitting on the concrete floor of the ladies' room with her hyperventilating and me trying to talk her down. I wasn't even mad at the time, just trying my best not to make fun of her in her already vulnerable condition. I gave her hell the next morning, though.
My wife and I saw the lights in Norway a few years ago. It's an unforgettable experience.
Great list 71, but plan for 10 days on the sailboat in the BVI; a week will just make you mad.
Great list 71, but plan for 10 days on the sailboat in the BVI; a week will just make you mad.
Pro tip right there
Take about a week in October.
Take the Cherolhala Skyway to Robbinsville NC
Take the Tail of the Dragon into TN, head to Gatlinburg. Stop at Cades Cove
Come across the Smoky Mountain National park into Cherokee
Get on the Blue Ridge Parkway, travel it's entire length, with many side trips.
Go the Hall of Fame for each major sport. Been to Canton, but it's time to go back.
Take the Cherolhala Skyway to Robbinsville NC
Take the Tail of the Dragon into TN, head to Gatlinburg. Stop at Cades Cove
Come across the Smoky Mountain National park into Cherokee
Get on the Blue Ridge Parkway, travel it's entire length, with many side trips.
Go the Hall of Fame for each major sport. Been to Canton, but it's time to go back.
This one is very easy. Let me know if you need any tips. Seriously, you'll be amazed at how little work it is other than waiting for science to do its thing.
Off the top of my head.
* I'd like to visit all the US National Parks (the Yosemite's, etc... not necessarily the "historic sites") I only have about 7-8 so far.
* Would like to go to New Zealand, Norway, and Nova Scotia (separate trips.)
* I do a lot of trail races/running and there's a big one in Europe I want to do. May get to next year.
* See the northern lights.
* I've driven across the country three times but never with my wife (it was before we were married.) Would like to do that some day--tied in with the national parks, probably. Could be in an RV or just hotels/camping.
* Teach my wife to drive a stick shift and to sail my Alcort Sunfish
* I'd like to visit all the US National Parks (the Yosemite's, etc... not necessarily the "historic sites") I only have about 7-8 so far.
* Would like to go to New Zealand, Norway, and Nova Scotia (separate trips.)
* I do a lot of trail races/running and there's a big one in Europe I want to do. May get to next year.
* See the northern lights.
* I've driven across the country three times but never with my wife (it was before we were married.) Would like to do that some day--tied in with the national parks, probably. Could be in an RV or just hotels/camping.
* Teach my wife to drive a stick shift and to sail my Alcort Sunfish
Updated plan. I already intended to buy an RV within the next few years. Once I do that, I want to see a college football game in every FBS stadium in the country. There are roughly 130 FBS teams, and roughly 13 weeks each season, so it would take 10 years to complete a full rotation. I've already seen games in maybe a dozen stadiums, and could accelerate things a bit with Tuesday/Thursday night games, but it would still take at least 8 years.
Go to a UNC basketball game (and also football game but definitely a basketball game).
Win one of these amateur tournaments around here. I will need divine intervention for that one.
Take a week long golf trip with some of my buddies.
I can't really think of anything else. Even if I never do those things I'll be crazy happy. I feel very grateful for everything I have in life.
Win one of these amateur tournaments around here. I will need divine intervention for that one.
Take a week long golf trip with some of my buddies.
I can't really think of anything else. Even if I never do those things I'll be crazy happy. I feel very grateful for everything I have in life.
My wife and I have added an item on our list. We want to ride an all of the N.C. ferries. We lack three, two are small ferries close to Swan Quarter and Oriental, the other is way up on the north end of the OBX close to Currituck.
