A.C. asks from Bluffton, SC on January 13, 2012
What's on YOUR Bucket List?
A friend of mine posted a story of her recent trip on a "photography safari" and said it was a must-do to add to everyone's bucket list. I enjoyed the story, and it got me thinking: what's on my mamapedia mamas' bucket lists?
I've got a few....want to give it a think before I add mine....but off the top of my head I want to travel around the USA and visit the major national parks, and really SEE this great country of ours. I want to visit Alaska and kayak among humpback whales, see a polar bear and/or grizzly in the wild, see the icebergs, ride on a dog sled (just 100 yards will do me fine, lol). I want to learn how to scuba and see some neat coral reefs around the world. I want to see my boys grow up to be happy, successful men starting their own families. That's all I can think of at the moment. What about y'all?
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R.J. answers from Seattle on January 13, 2012
My reach exceeds my grasp. I'd need 10 lifetimes to do and see and be everything that I want to. (And I'm not even joking or being flippant, the degrees alone would take 2 lifetimes. Much less the places to see, the people to be with, the things to do, the books to read). Whatever I make happen or fall into by sheer luck will have to suit me down to the ground!!!
((huh. I'd never actually "gotten" that phrase before. I'd always assumed 'down to the ground' meant my who self, tip to tail. Taken into the concept of bucket lists... I rather suspect it's meant literally.))
All the rest, though, doesn't really matter that much. I want to see my son grown and on his feet. Happy and knowing his own mind. More than anything else. Which probably means I'll die next tuesday at 3, knowing my own life. Mental note: Avoid walking under any hanging pianos, safes, hephalumps, etc. next tuesday at 3!
Granted, I've already died once, so I may have a bit of a fatalistic attitude. I'm on borrowed time already. So all of this is bonus.
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T.N. answers from Albany on January 13, 2012
Well it's time for me to GET. A. LIFE.
And yet here I am on Mamapedia again, sigh.
;(
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J.J. answers from Phoenix on January 13, 2012
Run a marathon, which I happen to be doing this Sunday! Wish me Luck!!!
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T.K. answers from Dallas on January 13, 2012
carribean cruise
to Jamaica on a Bob Marley Pilgrimage
I want to go on a Bill Clinton Pilgrimage, as well. I want to se his library above all.
I want to go to Washington DC and see the seat of our Democracy, to Thomas Jeffersons Estate
I want to walk down the aisle. Texas is a common law marriage state so it wasn't necessary and we coudn't afford it. But I would like to walk down the aisle someday.
More than all those things put together, I want to see my kids weddings, graduations and children. I want to see my daughters pregnant and through childbirth. I want to meet my grandkids. If I can have those things, I would gladly skip the rest!
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R.J. answers from Seattle on January 13, 2012
My reach exceeds my grasp. I'd need 10 lifetimes to do and see and be everything that I want to. (And I'm not even joking or being flippant, the degrees alone would take 2 lifetimes. Much less the places to see, the people to be with, the things to do, the books to read). Whatever I make happen or fall into by sheer luck will have to suit me down to the ground!!!
((huh. I'd never actually "gotten" that phrase before. I'd always assumed 'down to the ground' meant my who self, tip to tail. Taken into the concept of bucket lists... I rather suspect it's meant literally.))
All the rest, though, doesn't really matter that much. I want to see my son grown and on his feet. Happy and knowing his own mind. More than anything else. Which probably means I'll die next tuesday at 3, knowing my own life. Mental note: Avoid walking under any hanging pianos, safes, hephalumps, etc. next tuesday at 3!
Granted, I've already died once, so I may have a bit of a fatalistic attitude. I'm on borrowed time already. So all of this is bonus.
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R.B. answers from La Crosse on January 13, 2012
The only things on my bucket list is:
I want to put my toes in both oceans.
I want to stand on top of a snow capped mountian.
I want to see the Grand Canyon.
That's all, good thing Im pretty simple :)
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A.G. answers from Houston on January 13, 2012
Go skiing
Meet my grandchildren
Ice skate on a naturally frozen lake
Join the polar bear club
Grow old with my husband
Eat spaghetti in Italy
......pastries in France
........ Samosas in India
........ Miso soup in japan
Try to surf
Jump from a plane alone
Have sex in a fog
Get back to feeling like me in my 30s
Convert someone to being a permanent vegetarian
Take a cruise
Take dancing lessons
Climb a small mountain
Ride a motorcycle
Learn a stick shift
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B.C. answers from Los Angeles on January 13, 2012
Bucket list:
Done:
Go on a cruise
Celebrate our 25th Anniversary in an exotic place (Hawaii)
Go to all 50 states
Walk up the stairs in the Statue of Liberty to the crown
See the actual Constitution and Declaration of Independence
Go on a photography tour in Africa to the Masi Mara
Witness a Wildebeast Mirgation cross the river in Africa
See all my kids married
Ride a Hot Air Balloon
Ride in a Submarine
Pay off my home and all my debts
Retire
Yet to be done:
Visit all Seven Continents
Become a millionaire
Visit Greece and the historic sites I studied in school
Visit Israel and the tomb Christ spent time in.
Visit Bethlehem
See the Egypt and the piramids
Become rich enough to be able to visit homelss shelters or street shelters and give $1000 to those families whose being there was due to bad luck and not selfishness. So I could help them with a new start. (I read about a man that did this.)
Thanks for the question. Good luck to you and yours.
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K.L. answers from Des Moines on January 13, 2012
I just turned 32 and just started thinking about this list! So far I'd like to...
Visit Ireland
Visit Scotland
Visit General LaFayette's grave in France(I know, weird, but I'm a LaFayette)
See the Northern Lights
Go on a 'photography vacation'...just go around someplace and take tons of pics
Have a landscape photograph of mine published/printed
Awesome question!
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