I want to go to St. Petersburg, mainly to see the art in the Hermitage. But as long as Putin is in power, that's not happening.

Besides world peace, a hole in one at golf. Other than that, I’m good.

at 83 I'm done

Had a full life, and happy to have had the privilege

time to stay home now as my physical abilities are so limited now :o(

I gave up bucket lists or whatever they were called back then in my teens. Saw too many people make all kinds of plans that they had to do then have problems when they realized they would never be able to complete even one of the items much less the entire list.

Clean out the attic and basement.

tj

We saw the eclipse back in August 2017 -- it was so incredible we want to see the one in April 2024. If I had money to burn, I'd join some of the eclipse-chasers and see the all over the world.

I also want to see more of USA/southwest. We've traveled most of our country other than that.

Those are the only specifics that come to mind. Lots of general wishes: more travel, more learning, more gardening, more reading, ....

"Life ends when you stop dreaming,hope ends when you stop believing and love ends when you stop caring. So dream hope and love...It makes Life Beautiful"

I've been all over Europe and parts of Asia. I'd like to see Antarctica. And go back to some of my favorite European countries to explore where I haven't been.

I have been to 70 countries through the years. I would like to get up to 100 for membership in the Travelers Century Club.

I still have 3 Provinces in Canada to go and 4 states in USA to go.

Losing the 40 pounds my physician recommends is way down the list.

AND...if one wants to see the sunrise in Baja, then one has to see the sunset the night before!!

No bucket list, awful term, but travel wise, St. Petersburg for sure ( no way is that man long for this world with his latest stunt.) And I want to go to Egypt for a long vacation.

What's your suggestion?

I think the quote you posted above is spot on.

Nothing really wrong with the term bucket list. Everyone knows what it is. But I guess it could easily be called dreams and goals you'd like to fulfill in your lifetime.

my bucket has a hole on each end

Never had one. I'm in my 70's.Life's been good. The adventures continue. . . .

Make my goal weight for once in my life. I'm really focused and it is achievable within 12 months.

Ride in a hot air balloon

"I want to drive all the way down highway 1 to the very southernmost tip of the Baja peninsula, and watch sunrise on January 1st. Sounds kind of stupid now that I'm saying it."

Yes it does.

I'd never in a million years consider it. I perhaps don't have as much experience there as lars has described having but I've been to many destinations in Mexico on many many, many times. Including to Cabo a handful of times (though always by air). Mexico is a lovely country with mostly friendly people who are mostly kind and gentle. Both my wife and I speak reasonably good Spanish so communications have never been a problem for us.

There's enough criminal activity going on, and banditos on the roads, that however attractively exotic such a trip would sound to be, it could be quite a dangerous undertaking. And, it's a long way.

Cabo is a nice area. Fly there. Most of Baja (and even the mainland on the other side of the Sea of Cortez) is desert-like and not particularly attractive.

Instead of complaining about something, why don't you offer a solution?

If it's such a stupid term, come up with your own. I didn't create it, but I know it's commonly known.

I didn't say I was going to do it, I just think it would be interesting to do.

I have been in the desert many times and I find it beautiful, especially sunrises and sunsets.

I don't understand criticisms about everything everybody else picks. Why don't you tell us what you would want to do, or like, or prefer. You always say you don't like this and you don't prefer that. Maybe you just don't like anything elmer. You can have your opinions, I just don't understand why they always have to be presented so negatively. Even when Lars disagrees, it's palatable. He often says things in a much softer kinder way.

I totally agree Rob.

“Why don't you tell us what you would want to do”

Some folks can’t help it. ☹️

Dance with John Travolta

Yes, Elmer, you seem to like putting people down so they have to look up to you.

To borrow a turn of phrase from Eudora Welty, I can't think of anything that I have a "gnawing and a craving" to do that I haven't already done. I guess I'm either content or lazy.

@User, I agree with you about the Eclipse. We traveled to see the one in 2017 but the next one will have 4+ minutes of totality in my backyard.

"I don't understand criticisms about everything everybody else picks."

To rob, dexx and others

My comment wasn't a personal criticism. I said I thought the described trip wasn't a good idea, that's my opinion. The safest parts of Mexico are where there are lots of people, and even in such spots there can be unfortunate tourist incidents. Baja California (as well as the mainland side across the water) has hundreds of miles of remote roads. Proceed at your own peril, there are better choices.

If only comments in agreement were made in conversations, conversations would be boring.

Nickel, we travelled to Jay Em, Wyoming to see the total eclipse in 2017. Beautiful scenery and a very fun road trip.

I've been crossing off items on my bucket list for a few years now. One of my remaining big ones is to travel to Omaha Beach and follow the route my father's unit took from there all the way through Belgium and into Germany during WWII. I have started planning it and bar any major issues will be taking that trip in 2024. Yay!

A smaller one is to visit the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto. I have been a life long ice hockey fan and actually went to Toronto to see the HOF but got the norovirus and never left the hotel.

I have never had a bucket list. And rob, wanting to drive someplace to see the sunrise is never a stupid idea. My kids drive during the evening and hike in the dark to see sunrises from mountain tops.

We'd still like to see the Aurora Borealis in Alaska or Greenland. Never been to The Grand Tetons or Yellowstone. I'd like to hike around Peru's Machu Picchu. Dive The Galapagos, the Red Sea. Photograph Iceland's many waterfalls. Winter rail travel in Europe. Swim amongst the hammerhead shark migration. We missed the Hawaii "Manta Madness:, it was too stormy, we need to go back.

jrb451, how lucky you are! We will have to travel, haven't figured out yet where we want to set up -- trying to figure out where will have the best chance of clear skies.

roxsol, we watched the 2017 eclipse in Glendo, then spent two weeks traveling basically around the perimeter of Wyoming. Yellowstone of course was awesome but I also enjoyed the Snowy Mountain Range, and simply seeing an environment that is so unlike my own east coast woodlands.

nicole, I saw the Aurora once years ago, but it was very faint, just a reddish blur in the evening sky. I'd love to see actual waves of color. Oh and I'd like to hear wild wolves howling too. That should be achievable, with a bit of research and luck.

elmer, regarding my comment to what you're replying: stet

We have a couple of places we want to visit, and of course have been slowed by C. We hope to start planning something soon. The Aurora Borealis is near the top of my list. I have had a lot of adventures while younger and traveled a good bit of this country and abroad. Some of the places I have been in connection with my former work are places the average citizen doesn’t have the opportunity to visit, due to their remote locations and inaccessibility to tourists. I consider myself lucky.

Other bucket list items have pretty much been checked off.

Outside, In all seriousness, you need to write a book. The perspective you have on our world today, based on all you have seen would make for some riveting reading. Barring that, perhaps there is a podcaster out there who would like to interview you and get some of your insights out there.

I've never had a bucket list, but I too want to go to St. Petersburg and the Hermitage -- it was at the "next on my list" places to travel when Covid hit, but now it will wait until I see what I think Russia's future will be like (stable vs. unstable).

Don't mind Elmer - she always likes to put everyone else's plans down, and the more other people are excited about it, the more likely she will try to pour cold water on it. Same old, same old.

St Petersburg and the popular tourist sites (Hermitage, the ballet, the Summer Palace out of town) are interesting. Very worth seeing. This is the only Russian city we've visited, we haven't been to Moscow. There was a particular vibe I sensed, whether real or imagined, that I found somewhat "unique".

Before going, I'd read a book on Russian "culture" - the tendencies, preferences and attitudes of Russian people, to the extent such things can be generalized. These things too are unique in a sense, quite different in many respects from what I'd come to experience and understand to be found in Western European countries.

Plenty of people take the Baja road trip and have a wonderful time. Yes, one should be prepared and have a resilient nature to embrace the adventure. But the idea of banditos on the roads lying in wait for the unsuspecting tourist is ridiculous. The real crime is right in Cabo and other tourist areas when the wealthier marks are apt to be. My son did the trip with some friends on a lark some years back. Had a great time was exposed to some real down to earth culture and some great stories. The only bad thing he came upon was getting valley fever when sand boarding in the desert. He also spent quite a bit of time in the area when his wife was there doing marine research for several months. Flying back and forth to visit when she wasn't at sea.

The negative Nancy is just a timid little man that blows in on his own wind. Makes a lot of noise but has nothing to add. Commenting on another's adventure that he hasn't done and would never do. In other words knows nothing about. Wind and hot air.

Right now, just to retire. I'm so stressed out right now. I feel like I'm working back on the hospital floor and thought I would never feel this way again. I was so wrong. 2 years. I keep telling myself, just 2 more years.

Elmer, boring to whom??? you?

The only setting I can think of where one should expect everyone to say the same thing and be in agreement is in a revival meeting. Especially those held in tents.

Judy Good, when you say something without specific attribution, are you communicating YOUR opinions or those of others? There's no need to ask a question that has an obvious answer. People who like reading, hearing, and speaking only with and from people whose opinions they know they share don't learn much or progress in their understanding of things. Try it.

I turned 70 this year. It surprised me. I never considered being 70. I don't have a bucket list. I've traveled and seen a lot of the world. My biggest wish would be for good health but that seems elusive. The past 12 years have been full of a lot of fear and pain. Cancer really sucks.

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I would love to see Yellowstone and other national parks out west. I'd also like to visit Hawaii and Alaska. Never took the opportunities I had to visit Paris and London when I was younger, and now I'm not so sure I'll ever get to do that, but hope springs eternal.

Never had a 'bucket list' either. I feel like that term blew up in popularity because of the 2007 movie - which I've never seen, BTW 😄

Also BTW, AtlasObscura.com covers all kinds of marvelous places and their podcasts are a great way to armchair travel - and get ideas too.

Travel, generically. There are many of the United States that I would like to visit, or visit more in depth/for longer; many countries in Europe that I've not been to (almost none would NOT be on my list), Japan and South Korea, and archeological sites all around the Mediterranean.

I wanted to hike the Appalachian Trail too, or at least as much as I could manage - I did knock off sections of the Pacific Crest and wouldn't mind getting more of that hiked as well.

Oh, gosh, I missed seagrass' post. Hugs, indeed.

Some I’ve done-

Grand Canyon

Traveled the SW section of Rt 66

Bought shoes on the clearance rack (finally-i have wide feet, not easy) i actually bought a few this year

Exercise just about every day

Learn some spanish

Adopt an orange cat

Stick my feet in the Pacific Ocean

Things I’d like to do-

Learn to can

Adopt a pet straight from the streets

Visit more national parks

Zip line

Just thought of something I'd like to do. There is a mule trainer/seller in Arkansas that occasionally does training adventure rides. Very extreme, with hill climbing and sliding, creek and river crossings, rock jumping etc. Outfit I ride with bought mules from him. I got to ride one of the mules in Yosemite this summer. These mules will go anywhere. I'd love to go on one of those crazy 4-5 day adventure rides that he puts on.

I doubt it will ever happen but I'd like to visit the town in Switzerland my paternal ancestors emigrated from which bears their name.

And I'd like to swim with a dolphin.

For me it would be going to Ireland and Tahiti.