What is on your Bucket List?

FujiLove said:
1. Earn enough to keep the current roof over our heads.
2. Adopt another dog.

I think that’s it, apart from just staying healthy and mobile, happy and positive.

If anything, next year I’d like to own less, consume less and instead spend more time being creative and reading books.
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All worthwhile endeavors!

I like the dog idea a lot!:angel:
 
Cal, it's the "making it" up to NYC that's the problem. As to the "Death March"...Cal, I'd bet $$$ that you are in better shape than 95% of the guys in our age group. My "Death March" in years past was lugging my 35 pound camera backpack around the zoo with my 20 pound Majestic tripod over my shoulder. Trust me, that's a workout!
 
I’ve been sailing through life at full speed on a rudderless ship and have somehow managed to avoid all significant hazards to navigation. I never made any career decisions based on personal wealth or power. I’ve been to war, I’ve been all over the pacific ocean, I’ve gone skinny dipping on the black sand beaches of Pagan Island, I’ve walked on the bottom of the Persian Gulf (with diving gear of course), drank cold beer, chased hot women, and I met a lot of wonderful people along the way. I’m married to a wonderful woman, I live in a country that I love, I’m 63 years old, I’m retired, I’m financially stable, I’m not greedy or wasteful, heck, I don’t even own a car, nor do I want one. However, I am able to get out several days a week to walk around with a camera taking pictures.

I don’t have a bucket list, my life is full my bucket is empty. I live a life of peace and tranquility (knock on wood). I get up in the morning and smile, try not to disappoint my wife with some stupid immature comment or action, try to be helpful and useful whenever I can and hopefully take some interesting pictures along the way.

I'll probably go to hell for being so happy.

Mike
 
This was a difficult question Dave...it took me a few days (I had to look for what a bucket list is!) to prepare one answer!

First I have to say that with my age I am satisfied to be still healthy enough to be able to live a normal life, together with my wife. And the main hope is to go on in this way so long as possible, but...

Being able to pursue my passion, photography and drawings, visiting exhibitions and concerts, some journeys with the support of my wife is already very very much...because of the age I had to give up something else, like sailing but this is part of life...always trading something for something else !

Now the desires, the almost impossible ones...

A long road trip in an unknown (to me) place like Alaska...

Renting a small apartment in a foreign city (New York, Tokyo, Berlin...) and spend a few month there attending a photography/art school in order to develop a full project or at least try to...

Spending a winter (maybe just a part of it) in a place with snow...possibly a small village in a small cosy house reading books, listening to music and drawing...

Traveling around the world to meet some friends, included RFF friends...

I think this is already a long list but dreaming is not expensive :)

robert
 
robert blu said:
This was a difficult question Dave...it took me a few days (I had to look for what a bucket list is!) to prepare one answer!

First I have to say that with my age I am satisfied to be still healthy enough to be able to live a normal life, together with my wife. And the main hope is to go on in this way so long as possible, but...

Being able to pursue my passion, photography and drawings, visiting exhibitions and concerts, some journeys with the support of my wife is already very very much...because of the age I had to give up something else, like sailing but this is part of life...always trading something for something else !

Now the desires, the almost impossible ones...

A long road trip in an unknown (to me) place like Alaska...

Renting a small apartment in a foreign city (New York, Tokyo, Berlin...) and spend a few month there attending a photography/art school in order to develop a full project or at least try to...

Spending a winter (maybe just a part of it) in a place with snow...possibly a small village in a small cosy house reading books, listening to music and drawing...

Traveling around the world to meet some friends, included RFF friends...

I think this is already a long list but dreaming is not expensive :)

robert
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Robert,

These are nice dreams! I hope some or all of them become a reality for you.:)

When one stops dreaming, what's the point? Right? The last two years working toward giving something of value to wonderful people who just happened to have a traumatic event in their lives would have never happened without dreaming.

Our very first client was the most exciting to work with as she had a dream. We worked with her for months to help her dream come true and it was the most rewarding experience we could have ever imagined.:angel:

So, yeah, dream on!!! Absolutely!!!:D
 
I had only one thing on my bucket list:

- Not to have a bucket list.

Passed that point a couple of years ago. Now I just enjoy whatever happens and direct my energy to expanding the whatever that happens in good ways. It's all "gravy on top." :D

onwards,
G
 
Photography related:
Develop the ~200 exposed rolls of film I have which date back to 2005.
Make a family reunion home movie on 16mm film.
Shoot more.
Travel and shoot more.
Revise my book about Iraq and reprint it. Or, make a new book by the "new" me.

Non-photography related:
Marry Bethanne.
Fully restore my car.
Write a memoir.
Travel.
Make amends.
Visit the graves of relatives, and a friend.
Visit living friends.
Read more. More for myself.
Make more art.
Get more comfortable expressing myself.
Ride a bicycle across the USA from ocean to ocean. Then do it from Mexico to Canada.
Overcome anxiety.
Build a custom bike frame for me to ride.
Live abroad.
Visit Vietnam.
Visit Fallujah, Iraq, if it is ever peaceful in my life.
Help others in their mental health struggles.

Phil Forrest
 
I'm with Mike and Robert... I've mostly been rudderless and drifting with the current, which has taken me in useful directions. And I had to look up "bucket list" as I had the wrong meaning, relating to gambling. I'm not into gambling at all... but I do take my chances on the stock market!

So now at a post-retirement age I look forward to maintaining health, and to travel as long as my wife and I feel able and interested. We've achieved much of what would have been on a reasoned bucket list of decades past, so feel fortunate. Carry on! :)
 
Try and land some big air off a ramp at my local skate park, l am 53 and still on a board, getting height off a ramp is not too hard, landing however................. well it's not pretty. Photography-wise l have a New York trip planned for next November, which l am quite excited about
 
MrFujicaman said:
Cal, it's the "making it" up to NYC that's the problem. As to the "Death March"...Cal, I'd bet $$$ that you are in better shape than 95% of the guys in our age group. My "Death March" in years past was lugging my 35 pound camera backpack around the zoo with my 20 pound Majestic tripod over my shoulder. Trust me, that's a workout!
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MFM,

Both my mom and dad were Diabetics so early on I knew I had to remain lean, eat right and exercise. I am a skinny bitch who was able to run the NYC Marathon at the age of 49 "off the couch" in under 5 hours. Pretty much a friend, an elite runner, had overtrained and gave me his bib to run in his place.

I do not look my almost 61 years of age. I expect to be very active for a few more decades. I already lost the weight gained from Holiday binge eating.

I started going down to our Community Room that is next to the gym in our building. It seldom gets used so I began practicing guitar. I have had an interrupted life, but now things are stable. "Maggie" can't stand the repetition required that I call "Wood-shedding." Things are starting to happen because now I am making the time to practice every day.

Cal
 
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