Bucket List

[planet planet]

I like the idea and I had friends of ours who are a couple going into the weekend talking about a bucket wish list re: the Broncos and Packers. Unfortunately the Broncos were defeated, but she (the Packers fan) was sad because it may have scratched an item off her bucket list, to go to Super Bowl with the Broncos and Packers. I love it because you can defuse money totally out of the conversation if it happens to be on your bucket list.

[Freed Roger]

I like the concept. My sis went to 2011 game 6 and when Cards won, she decided right away to buy game 7 and stay over,.cost be damned. I am too cheap to box myself in.

Though I do some of this. You obsess over going somewhere/seeing something enough, eventually you make it happen.

[Radbird]

Travel to all the countries our kid has already been to. And then some.

Take my sister to Italy to visit her father's grave. Cemetery is just south of Rome. He was a B-29 navigator whose plane was shot down over North Africa during WWII six months before she was born.

A road trip to see a game in every MLB park.

Retirement in the south of France (or someplace else we fall in love with during our world travels)....
or in a BPV condo overlooking Busch (that is if they ever actually build the damn thing).

[AWvsCBsteeeerike3]

Here's a book that I think more or less argues that you shouldn't have a bucket list, but should be living your bucket list. It's really pretty interesting.

http://liveonthemargin.com/

[IMADreamer]

I've been trying to sit here and come up with something that I genuinely want to do that would warrant a bucket list, but the fact is my bucket has a big hole in it and I've got nothing.

[jim]

Does anyone understand what the hell planet said?

[Freed Roger]

Does anyone understand what the hell planet said?

If the an opportunity to do something on your list, you do it. Cost be damned.


Relates to catholic guilt.

[jim]

Ah ... she likes the idea of *having* a bucket list. I get what she was saying now.

I talk about a bucket list but don't really have one. As things come up I say "Oh that would be cool to do, I'll put that on my bucket list". I've done alot of stuff, traveled and had a little bit of disposable income to spend it on recreational stuff in my life. Because of that I don't need one. Now my oldest sister, who has struggled financially her entire life and recently and lost her husband, has not. She wouldn't complain, she has been surrounded by people who loved her, but she hasn't had the opportunity to do bucket list type stuff. She I believe has a bucket list with one item on it - go to Paris. Fortunately for her she has a wonderful daughter who has made herself a financial success, and they are leaving Tuesday for a week. I'm as happy for my sister as she is I think.

If I was completely pressed I would come up with:
1. Travel to South America
2. Travel to Africa
3. Sit courtside at an NBA game (Bulls).

[Radbird]

It's just her of expressing sadness over the premature demise of the Broncos and Packers.

[AWvsCBsteeeerike3]

Might be the wrong thread, but whatever.

People that want to visit places, how long do you want to stay? A weekend? Week? Month? Would you plan on just staying out of a hotel/hostel or would you stay long enough to lease a condo for a month, or stay with friends, or something?

After high school, I went to London and Paris on one of the Acis trips or whatever it is with about 20 people from high school. It was fun and all, but really it was a wasted trip. We could have gone to a field out in the middle of nowhere and had just as much fun. It was a good time because we were allowed to drink, well, not by the sponsors or the trip, but because it wasn't illegal. The tour guides took us to all the major spots. You know, Buckingham Palace, french chateaus, london bridge, big ben, eifel tower, normandy, stonehenge, etc. So, yeah, I saw those things....which was somehting. And, I'm glad I did.

But, it constantly felt like we were in a bubble. And, there was a tour guide filling that bubble with factoids and history and what not. There was no immersion in the culture which is what I wanted and what I on the return home realized was the most important part of the trip. Still to this day, I remember more about the bartenders and random people I shot the [expletive] with than how neat stonehenge was or what Big Ben looked like.