Your Bucket List?

One of my best buddies from college died last year of a brain tumor. While he was still able to travel I told him that I would take him anywhere on the planet for his bucket list trip. I was hoping he wanted to go to Tibet or Machu Picchu. Instead he chose to go to Dayton OH (Air Force Museum), Kennedy Space Center and NYC. It was a memorable trip none the less. On our way home I made my own bucket list. Here is what I came up with:
1) See an English band perform at Wembley Stadium - I saw The Who with a grade school friend in 2019
2) Try a glass of Pappy VanWinkle - My daughter bought me a bottle for my birthday last year. Absolutely amazing
3) Fly to Sydney, drive to Ayers Rock and back, camping the entire way.
4) Fly my airplane to Prudoe Bay and camp along the way
5) Spend a couple of weeks camping in Iceland
6) Visit Palmyra (ISIS killed that dream)
7) Have Joe Walsh play at my birthday (I keep buying lottery tickets to finance this. Hopefully one day)
8) Spend a day gold mining with any crew from Gold Rush (No idea why, I just want to)
9) Learn to make tamales
10) Fly into space

Does anybody else have a bucket list they want to share?

Joe Walsh played at my wife’s company Christmas party in 2014

Kimi Raikkonen is my spirit animal

Finish my 110.

evilfij said:

Finish my 110.

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Funny, finishing your 110 is on my bucket list too.

- Drive Mexico to Canada on dirt.
- Visit St Helena, Tristan de Cunha, and Ascension islands
- Visit Socotra Island
- Go transatlantic on a boat. I get seasick so not sure if I can make this happen
- Build an off grid cabin in the desert

chris snell said:

- Build an off grid cabin in the desert

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I spent a couple of years in the climate for uncle sugar. What does a cabin in the desert look like? (not being a smartass, just curious).

I spent a week on Svalbard about 10 or 11 years ago. Rode around on a snow machine for a week camping to view wild life and northern lights. I highly recommend such a thing for any bucket list. The location alone is worth the trip due to how extreme it is. There is a surprising amount of stuff to do and you can pair it with a trip to other Scandinavian countries. Almost died a few times from white out conditions and a rogue reindeer. Cannot recommend it enough.

-camp on every continent
-take a month-long road trip each year
-finally have a proper study in my house
-hunt a cape buffalo

I kept trying to plan a trip to Svalbard when I was in Europe, still need to pull that off. I also have a strong desire to drive to Newfoundland. I’ve touched down in Gander a few times, but that doesn’t count.

Planning another with the guy I went with and can let you know when we finalize plans. This is a few years off.

Australia. Camping road trip Alice Springs, Urulu , to the Kimberleys and the West Coast hopefully in 2022 We are planning the route now. The only continent I have not visited.

Iceland. Camping road trip.

Drive Seattle to Ushuaia, Atacama Desert and Patagonia

I was able to knock one off my list a few years ago & went sky diving with all four of my grown sons (it was a first for them). We work together, play softball on the same team (they make me look good) & we have an all boys Mexico trip planned this summer.

In no particular order -
- Visit the Galapagos Islands
- Scuba the Red Sea
- Learn to speak Spanish (way overdue, I've had Rosetta Stone for years)
- Make it to one of these Rover Events I keep reading about
- Build an off-the-grid-home (my wife wants it to be a straw bale, but I'm not so sure...)
- Print a book of one of the many stories I tell my grandkids (& told my kids growing up)
- Mountain bike the Oregon Timber Trail with my sons
- That thing I remember later that I can't believe I forgot & just has to be on this list

I'm going to run out of time if i don't hurry!

Explore the megalithic ruins of Bolivia and Peru, preferably in my 110; I'm building an off-the-grid house in the desert so maybe after that.

Saw Bruce Springsteen at the old Wembley Stadium July 1985, Born in the USA tour. I was with 70,000 new friends. Set list https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/bruce-springsteen/1985/wembley-stadium-london-england-3bd7b08c.html

win the powerball

Surveyor said:

Australia. Camping road trip Alice Springs, Urulu , to the Kimberleys and the West Coast hopefully in 2022 We are planning the route now. The only continent I have not visited.

Iceland. Camping road trip.

Drive Seattle to Ushuaia, Atacama Desert and Patagonia

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I'd add driving from Sydney to Adelaide via the great ocean road (and camping along the way) and camping on Fraser island to that list.

Pics of the former and latter below

Just try to live a life worth living
Not get COVID (or any variants)
Drive my Defender and my GS wherever the feeling takes me.
Make sure my friends and family know they are loved

hillstrubl said:

I'd add driving from Sydney to Adelaide via the great ocean road (and camping along the way) and camping on Fraser island to that list.

Pics of the former and latter below

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Thanks for the suggestions.
We have friends in Perth, we were thinking of driving east along the bight to Adelaide or Sydney

Surveyor said:

Thanks for the suggestions.
We have friends in Perth, we were thinking of driving east along the bight to Adelaide or Sydney

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If you do the great ocean road in summer (Dec-March) just a heads up that the mozzies and flying bugs in general are ridiculous.

Fraser you can rent a 4wd (like that sweet 110 I had) from several places in Hervey Bay and then ferry over (they also rented all the camping and cooking gear you'd need) -> https://www.discoverherveybay.com/fraser-magic-4wd-hire/