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I was thinking of some low-key bucket list esque activities I/we might want to do. Not skydiving or shark fishing haha but lower key pleasurable things. Any personal favorites?

So here goes one of mine…

I saw that you could kayak in biolumenescent water in Florida. That looks fun!

Just watched the space crew 9 return to earth near Tallahassee on a NASA live feed. Happy they made it back.

But I can now say for sure, ONE thing I DON'T want to ever do, is ride in that kind of little capsule! My honest assessment: the whole scene reminded me of the Biblical Lazarus emerging from the tomb, right down to their white uniforms! The woman had a little difficulty standing even to get to the stretcher after all that time weightless. It's gotta be seriously CLAUSTROPHOBIC!

Although it did bring back fond memories from my childhood, watching on black & white TV the historic return of the 1st manned orbital mission, Project Mercury, with experienced test pilot and newly-anointed Astronaut, John Glenn. (That tiny metal capsule is now on view in the Air and Space museum at Dulles Airport, Northern Virginia.)

So, as the 4 astronauts this evening "egressed from Dragon X" as the announcers kept saying, I also remembered the big fear scientists back then in 1962 about what kind of potential contaminants might be brought back to humanity from space travel! So it's taken for granted today that this isn't an issue, as I could see from the way things went. Nevertheless, scratch that one off MY list!!! :)

Like skydiving, going to space is n/a for me too Superesse.

Terra firma for the most part is what interests me. On the way to some medical follow up F and I are planning some fun things to do. Not exactly bucket-level stuff but good stuff!!
The route can take us through several states from VA to MN.

Did the bioluminescent thing in both Jamaica and Puerto Rico.

Very, very cool.

Didn’t know it existed in Florida.

My idea of Bucket list activities would be seeing rare spectacles. Seeing the Aurora Borealis, or the night sky in one of the least light polluted places in the world. Seeing the roman ruins like the Parthenon or Coliseum. In the states, I would love to watch a game at each NHL Hockey rink with my kids. I would like to go on a Alaskan Cruise and see the whales as well as visit Asia and see the Great Wall of China or the Terracotta Warriors. I would love to see Japan and visit their Temples and see Korea and the technology there. I would like to go to Africa and see the wild animals in their habitat.
Some less adventurous ones would be get a tattoo, Star in a movie, Watch my kids get married and have children. Meet someone to spend the rest of my life with.

We spent two years traveling the US and some of the national parks were my favorites. Big Bend, Yellowstone, grand Tetons, Glacier, and Zion were favorites but we love hiking (if you couldn’t tell by my name) I still want to get to the California parks.

We took a helicopter over the Grand Canyon for a tour, that was cool.

We also kayaked at Crystal springs in Florida and saw manatees and turtles everywhere.

Attended Summerfest (we love music and concerts)

Saw the big rodeo in Cheyenne. Also the Cody WY nightly rodeo is good too. Different levels of an event but both entertaining.

The most scenic drives we were on in the order I liked them: Beartooth pass in Montana (you will end up in a quaint mountain town of red lodge, have lunch and go back the way you came instead of the shorter route- hang with the mountain goats at the top), going to sun road in glacier, pacific coast highway (I have more to do of that one I only saw mostly the LA/San Diego area to La Jolla), pikes peak, million dollar highway, and overseas highway. Special mention anywhere around the grand Tetons or the pass between Cooke city Montana and Cody Wy)

Still on my bucket list:

Switzerland, Greece, Yosemite, Sequoia, Alaska, Hawaii, Vancouver, all the Washington national parks, I would like to take a higher end cruise. If we get an unexpected inheritance or win the lotto I would love to do the huts on the ocean in Bora Bora. See most of Europe and Asia, be able to go to the mountains out west every summer and somewhere warm every winter. Some of those are more like dreams than bucket list items.

And outside of that I want to make a full on cottage garden at my house so when I am old and retired I can spend a good deal of time outdoors improving it, tending to it, and enjoying it. I live gardening but am just a little beyond a novice at this point. So I am slowly starting it a little at a time. Adding Hollyhocks this year, I started them from seed in my sunroom.

[This message edited by hikingout at 4:15 PM, Friday, March 21st]

And I'm going to repeat the advice we’ve all heard 100 times:

Don’t put this stuff off.

Your health is good right up until the morning you wake up and something doesn’t feel right.

So many older folks wish they’d retired sooner.

Nobody on their deathbed is thinking, "I wish I’d worked more."

I've now been to 20 National Parks and they are amazing. Unfortunately, we didn't get around to all of them in the Southwest/West Coast that I wanted to see during the five years we lived out there. But we've seen a good variety. Such an incredibly inexpensive way to see our country. Of those I haven't seen, Glacier and Denali (or others in Alaska) are still on my list.

For the last year or so, I've been wanting to plan a trip to Norway! But I can't make up my mind on how to do it... either take a small cruise ship (I loathe large cruise ships) that goes up the west coast, rent a car, or do a combination of trains and ships. Hell, I can't even decide when I want to go... either winter so you can see the Northern Lights, or summer for the midnight sun. I really, really want to see the fjords!! Now that we live in New England, Norway is much less cumbersome to get to. I've been to many other places in Europe, but the geography of Norway seems so different than other parts of Europe. I might be willing to settle for Iceland since that's an even easier travel journey from Boston, but I really want to do Norway.

Hoping we can get up to Mount Washington in New Hampshire this summer since it's quite a unique experience I hear.

I've been to all but three or four of the U.S. states. I should knock one of those off the list this summer.

Also want to explore the northeast Canadian provinces... New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. That would be a driving trip for us, though and even from Boston, we'd have to take close to a couple of weeks to see them all.

After those, I'd feel really content if I never got a chance to do any more major traveling. I've been very fortunate.

I have two US states to see in my quest to see them all. And I haven’t been to South America, India, or Antarctica yet. I’ve been to Europe, Asia, and Africa). Lots of countries to see, but I at least want to get on the continents. And I want to see a bear in the wild. And go on a safari in Tanzania.

Trying to make it so this can happen. It’s good to have goals!

Bucket list achievements:
Spring Training
Ride a road motorcycle
See and dive the Blue Hole
See the Gorge
White water raft
Hot air balloon ride
Bourbon trail

Things still to do:

Yosemite
Yellowstone
Ireland/Scotland
More scuba trips
Fiji

I'd like to take at least one bike trip like Le P'tit Train du Nord or Erie or C & O Canal - credit card touring, 25-50 miles/day on my bike, while my W drives from town to town.

Browse Blackwell's in Cambridge. (Long ago they opened a charge account for my W with no credit check. W and classmates needed a book unavailable in the US, so they queried Blackwell's. Blackwell's responded by opening an account for each student and sending the books.)

Visit Laphroaig and Lagavulin distilleries.

Ambivalent about China because of the pollution. I'd like to see Hangchou, old Beijing, and the site of the Sian (Xi'an) Incident of 1936, but I've been led to believe bad stuff is in every breath one takes and every bite one eats. OTOH, YOLO, and I've already had a lot of good years.

The surprises are better than bucket list items, IMO. Those really stay with me....

I'm getting some great ideas. Mine are going to Canada and traveling through there. Going to Greece with my Army sister, Scotland, Ireland, and England first. Then, eventually I want to move back to Germany and go to more countries in EU. I want to go to Peru as well. I also want to get back into shape and take up martial arts again. I used to be a badass, now I'm just a big ass. LOL! You all have some great adventures i think I want to add to my list!

Tush nurse for years my husband and I have gone to Bourbon and beyond In Louisville. (The tickets have gotten more and more expensive but we’re super cheap in the beginning) but we would do a a couple new distilleries on the trail each year. I would make a stop in bardstown and stop at their soda fountain as well as peruse some of the shops when you go. My favorite distillery tasting was at Woodford reserve. If you are music fans the bourbon and no hind weekend is a great way to taste different bourbons, all the distilleries are there and they all have signature drinks for the weekend too.

HO thos is soemthing that has been on our list for many years. We went not this past weekend but the one prior. We had a great time wing friends. Things were just starting to bud out. I'd love to see Makers in a month. I think we will go back. Willett, Makers, Angel's , Know Creek and many others. Was a fun trip would love to go back in warmer weather.

Y'all should try some Boone County Bourbon Cream. Good stuff! I like it in my coffee, and a few weeks ago I used a splash of it in a cheesecake. Subtle, but definitely there and delicious!

At burboun and beyond they put it in root beer and it tasted like root beer floats!

[This message edited by hikingout at 9:08 PM, Tuesday, March 25th]

At burboun and beyond they put it in root beer and it tasted like root beer floats!

Buffalo Trace does this at all their tastings. It helps that they make their own root bear (and Ginger ale). We live 1.5 hours away so we take the drive through horse country often to pick up their allocated bottles whenever we are out of purchase jail(1 bottle brand each every 90 days).

Besides being a regular visitors to BT, we've been to Four Roses (distillery part), Woodford (versailles itself is worth the trip), Heaven Hill(Bardstown), Bulliet (Shelbyville).

Overseas trips we've done London (x3), Wales, Scotland (returning at some point), Ireland (ditto), and are looking at Florence, Italy for 2026.

One of mine is to hit a big dart tournament, either the Worlds at Ally Pally, World Match play in Winter gardens Blackpool, or UK Open in Butlins Minehead.

[This message edited by grubs at 10:12 PM, Tuesday, March 25th]

Oh so many on my bucket list:

I want to see:

Parts of Europe (Italy, France, Spain, Switzerland, Ireland maybe England)
Japan
China
Greece
Australia/New Zealand
Brazil
Mexico City
Bahamas
Bora Bora

Want to see in the U.S.: New York, Maine, Chicago, and Florida

Would love to see the Northern Lights

I've been to a lot of U.S. States, Canada, Alaska, Hawaii, Mexico

Have been to Glacier National Park, Denali, Mt. McKinley, Grand Tetons, Yosemite, Sequoia, Yellowstone

And I really want to try Scuba Diving