Things to do before you die

[mondeo]

Not that I'm planning on dying anytime soon, but there are a few things I think it'd be cool to do sometime:

Win the Bear Mountain comp (probably the biggest challenge on the list)
Attend the Paris Air Show
Attend the Farnborough Air Show
Receive a patent
Watch the 24 Hours of Le Mans in person
Watch the Monte Carlo Grand Prix in person
Find a girlfriend
Have a paper published in an engineering journal
Visit all 50 states
Visit all 7 continents
Do a short course triathlon
Drive Laguna Seca
Drive the Nurburgring
Get a doctorate (just so people can call me "Dr.")

So...what's your list?

 

[andyzee]

Can't really thing of much , led a good life. But you did make me think of a song Joe Strummer wrote before he died:

I'm gonna go out dancin' every night
I'm gonna see all the city lights
I'll do everything silver and gold
I got to hurry up before I grow too old

I'm gonna take a trip around the world
I'm gonna kiss all the pretty girls
I'll do everything silver and gold
And I got to hurry up before I grow too old

Oh I do a lotta things I know is wrong
Hope I'm forgiven before I'm gone
It'll take a lotta prayers to save my soul
And I got to hurry up before I grow too old

I'm gonna take a trip around the world
Gonna kiss all the pretty girls
Who do everything silver and gold
And I got to hurry up before I grow too old

I'm gonna go out dancin' every night
I'm gonna see all your city lights
I'm gonna do everything silver and gold
And I got to hurry up before I grow too old

Kind of ironic that he died before this was released ​

 

[hardline]

we need to talk about the engineering stuff. i am a pr whore.

 

[Greg]

So...what's your list?

Don't really have one. I just kinda take things day by day. Don't really have any desire to travel abroad or anything. There's a lot in this country I should see first. Something like skydive? Nah....not really feeling it. I just try to appreciate every day, knowing it might all go black at any time.

Life is pretty awesome though. I have a feeling I'm entering the most enjoyable phase as my kids are getting older. I'm planning to take Abby to a real amusement park this summer. She rode a rollercoaster with me last year and loved it. Liv is a blast to chase around now. She'll start skiing next year. I'm pretty sure anything I do now is not going to overshadow having my two little girls so my time is best spent now just hanging with them.

 

[severine]

Find a girlfriend

Somehow I think you'll accomplish that.

Greg, maybe we need an AZ singles section. :lol:

My bucket list:
*Return to Paris as an adult (I was 14 when I last went)
*See Ireland/Scotland/England
*Alaskan Cruise
*learn to scuba dive
*publish a short story
*swim with the dolphins/manatees
*finish my B.A. in English
*fall in love and actually be able to trust that person (may be a while before that one happens)

In addition to the usual kids ones (see my kids grow into great people, make fantastic contributions to humanity, and see them HAPPY). I want to be happy, too.

 

[andyzee]

Swam with dolphins, that was pretty cool

 

[Hawkshot99]

Swam with dolphins, that was pretty cool

Have done it in the wild.

 

[andyzee]

Have done it in the wild.

Even cooler!

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

I want money lots and lots of money
I want the pie in the sky
I want money lots and lots of money
So don't be asking me why

I wanna be rich oh
I wanna be rich
I wanna be rich oh
I wanna be

 

[deadheadskier]

To crush Mondeo's dreams by blowing him away in the finals of the BMMC someday j/k

Not to sound corny, but I might, but I don't have too many material / experience wants that rate very highly anymore. Yes, I'd love to ski in Utah someday. I'd love to go to New Zealand. I'd love to own a big boat and do the loop from the Southern ME/NH coast around the Cape and Long Island, up the Hudson, through Lake Champlain, up to the Saint Lawrence and then out to the Atlantic and back around. I think that would be an amazing month long adventure. As cool as that sounds to me, I don't think about it much at all.

Nowadays, I just think about being a wiser and more patient man tomorrow than I am today, which allows me to be a better brother, son, grandson, boyfriend, friend etc., to those who I am close with. If I focus on that, then hopefully someday I'm a good husband and father. I don't want much more than that at this stage in life.

Well, maybe a little bit more. Being debt free and 100% financially independent would be a pretty sweet feeling.

Okay, I want to win Powerball tomorrow :lol:

 

[mondeo]

Maybe I should have titled this thread "things that would be neat to do before you die." Really wouldn't have any regrets kicking it without accomplishing anything on that list (maybe with the exception of the patent); just was reading something about the Farnborough Air Show coming up and the idea for the thread got into my brain.

 

[Philpug]

Go to Wodsworth, the dodgie end.
Go to Italy
Ski Chile
Drive cross country was on the list in the past..not so sure now w/ gas prices.
Spend a whole season in "ski country" out west.
Watch "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy in one sitting.

 

[andyzee]

Watch "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy in one sitting.

:roll: Sounds like a tough one. To each his own, I guess.

 

[Trekchick]

Visit Italy(really want to visit the Ferrari Test track)
Drive a F1 race car
Ski Chile(Not such a long shot for me in the next few years)
Ski Snowbasin and Big Sky for a month! (Taking a month off is a long shot, but TR's have inspired me to do them both)
Take my niece and nephew on a ski vacation.
Nail a Helicopter

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Spend the whole ski season in Jackson Hole..

 

[drjeff]

- have a year where my combined skiing/golfing days is over 300
- run a marathon
- ride in a snowcat (my wife and kids got to do that this March)
- Hike the entire Appalachian Trail in the Georgia to Maine direction
- Play a round of golf at Pebble Beach with my father, my brother and my son
- get 100,000 AZ posts

 

[jack97]

If I check out today, I would be OK with what has happen. Having said that, I still have some short term and long terms things that would be neat to do.

1. Hike the Appalachian trail

2. Go back to the Rockies and hike for a week.

3. Ski Flying Goose like the way I can ski Liftline.

4. Make it down Face (at Whaleback) without hacking it up.

 

[drjeff]

Nail a Helicopter

Ouch!!! That could be painful, especially if the rotors were spinning :lol:

 

[Trekchick]

Visit Italy(really want to visit the Ferrari Test track)
Drive a F1 race car
Ski Chile(Not such a long shot for me in the next few years)
Ski Snowbasin and Big Sky for a month! (Taking a month off is a long shot, but TR's have inspired me to do them both)
Take my niece and nephew on a ski vacation.
Nail a Helicopter

I'd like to add to mine............
I want to take another trip like the one I took for Mothers Day weekend.(easily doable) It would be great if it were with the same group!

The most far fetched of all........
I want to get good enough in moguls to have someone say "Who's that hot chick, rippin in the bumps?"

Ouch!!! That could be painful, especially if the rotors were spinning :lol:

:-o
I'll keep the first aid kit handy!

 

[severine]

I'd like to add to mine............
I want to take another trip like the one I took for Mothers Day weekend.(easily doable) It would be great if it were with the same group!

Me, too!