What's On Your Life Bucket List?

My driving instructor told me he was a school bus driver once. I asked "why?" and he said, "because it was on my bucket list, so I did it for two years and then stopped." He went on to tell me he had other things on his bucket list, such as learning new languages. He asked me what I had on my bucket list, and I was caught off guard, because I hadn't thought about it.

Now that I have, I realized I always wanted start drumming and I want to pick up painting again, since I enjoyed it very much in high school. There are a few other things on my list, but I want to hear about your guys' bucket list. What do you guys want to do, or learn to do before you die?

 

Definitely have a lot of stuff I would love to do. 1. Learn German (took it first year and found it very interesting) 2. Travel Europe 3. Climb some high mountain 4. Read a book a week for 2 years.

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Already working on #1. The rest I either don't have as much time currently or I'm just broke (Still in undergrad).

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  • Kill a moose in the Alaskan interior
  • king salmon fishing on the Copper River
  • run and place in some extreme mountain marathon/run
  • hike through Patagonia
  • learn a useful skill not involving a computer
"That was basically college for me, just ya know, fuckin' tourin' with Widespread Panic over the USA."
 

1) Learn the fiddle 2) Deep sea fishing (prefer to catch marlin) 3) Roadtrip with camping/hiking along Route 66 4) Swim with tiger sharks 5) Become certified as an advanced diver (followed with upper levels) 6) Become certified to skydive solo 7) Participate in a ruck march for PTSD awareness 8) Travel to Asia 9) Start a business that I would enjoy 10) Buy an acreage out in the wilderness

 
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  • Getting married
  • Getting divorced
  • Earning a ton of money
  • Having a shitload of kids and sending them to college so I can be a patriarch
  • Living in a beach town in Europe or Southeast Asia
  • Living in a foreign city and earning residence / citizenship
  • Building a business and getting away from it just enough to be Partner Emeritus
  • Traveling most of the world and taking pictures of exotic locales
  • Learn French and Japanese
  • Master / finish learning Mandarin
  • Live at sea for some considerable amount of time
  • Buy my mom a house
  • Buy my mom a fresh car
  • Build some kind of shelter from wood

I'm pretty basic. This list could go on for pages but it'd just be a list of "little big things". At the end of the day my ideal 10/10 life would just be having considerable sex every day with a model, playing video games with my friends, and smoking enough weed to immobilize a dinosaur. I never grew up, sadly.

in it 2 win it
 
  1. See every major championship in person (super bowl, Olympics, world series etc.)
  2. Visit every world wonder
  3. Visit 6 continents
  4. Drink a beer in every baseball stadium
  5. Watch a former teammate/friend play in the World Series/Super Bowl.
  6. Start a left-handed coffee mug business
  7. Run for office
  8. Hire an intern like Monica
  9. Give a commencement speech
26 Broadway where's your sense of humor?
 
stvr2013:
I recently walked across the Brooklyn Bridge (into Brooklyn) and went the park that's right there. It's a really nice, clean park right on the water and it's right next to Grimaldi's so you should probably check that out.
+1. Really nice views of Manhattan especially at night. Awesome for photography too.

Governor's Island is also a cool place to check out. I'm a huge NYC history buff so maybe that's why I like it but it offers very nice views of Manhattan and it's a nice oasis from the mayhem of the rest of the city.

Go for a Circle Line cruise. Takes a while but it will teach you a lot of cool things about the city. High tourist factor though.

 
Nabooru:
Katz - get the combo corned beef / pastrami

Food related shit to when you're done with your day, although they tend to be on the pricey side...

Capital Grille - bone in Kona Keen's - mutton chop 21 Club Gordon Ramsay at the London 53 and 6 halal

and let me know if you're in the Chinatown area

I'd suggest learning the history of the city in which you live before blowing all your hard earned cash at some exorbitantly overpriced restaurant.
 

"secret" hamburger place at the Parker Meridien (56th between 6th & 7th). young crowd and lots of finance people so great place to network and make friends. very limited seating so it forces you to make conversation. cash only.

 

Familiarize yourself with the area your office is in. Dont be that guy who asks "where is a good place to get food"

Also if you want history....look up historical place of NYC or significant places and go walk around.

Eventus stultorum magister.
 

Walk through Times Square with a Canon point and shoot, and randomly stop in the middle of the sidewalk to take a picture, and spend the next 30 seconds juggling your camera out of your fanny pack as people queue up behind you.

When 15 angry New Yorkers come up to yell at you, just say with a smile and southern accent "Ooops! Sawry. Ah'm from Georgia." Then follow up with "Have you seen a restroom around here?"

 
IlliniProgrammer:
Walk through times square with a Canon point and shoot, and randomly stop in the middle of the sidewalk to take a picture, and spend the next 30 seconds juggling your camera out of your fanny pack.

When 15 angry New Yorkers come up to yell at you, just say with a smile and southern accent "Ooops! Sawry. Ah'm from Georgia." Then follow up with "Have you seen a restroom around here?"

to which I'm sure they'll respond "well at least you're not from the Midwest"
 
IlliniProgrammer:
Walk through Times Square with a Canon point and shoot, and randomly stop in the middle of the sidewalk to take a picture, and spend the next 30 seconds juggling your camera out of your fanny pack as people queue up behind you.

When 15 angry New Yorkers come up to yell at you, just say with a smile and southern accent "Ooops! Sawry. Ah'm from Georgia." Then follow up with "Have you seen a restroom around here?"

Sounds like Bruce Gilden... Although he uses a Leica and is a New Yorker...

http://www.youtube.com/embed/IRBARi09je8?rel=0

 

Check out the Frying Pan on Pier 66, it's a good laid back bar on a historic ship on the pier...doesn't actually move but they have cheap beer and casual atmosphere. Also, Beekman beer garden is decent, that one could be hit or miss. Enjoy NYC.

"I never said that you are not good at what you do...it's just that what you do is not worth doing!"
 

Actually heard some great recommendations for NYC this past weekend...

"If you're looking to celebrate the summer, I know just the place for you. New York's hottest club is Scampi..."

“Millionaires don't use astrology, billionaires do”
 

I've done a couple of tour bus tours and they were fun -- lots of ground covered and plenty of fun, informative facts about NYC. You can get on/off the bus at any stop you want. A whole tour is about two hours.

"The light at the end of the tunnel may be you." --Steven Tyler
 
JRODG:
go to a yankee game, if your around the weekend of the 9th they're playing the mets. If your into art go to the whitney. if the weather is nice, chill in riverside park and hit grays papaya on 72nd.

Great idea about baseball. But the Yankees are going to be away all of next week. The Mets only day home game is on Monday.

I live in UWS, so I've definitely hit up Gray's Papaya on almost a weekly basis.

 

Walk. Walk. Walk. Just do it. You'll meet interesting people and find cool places to hang, guaranteed. Plus, it's free.

"When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is." - Oscar Wilde "Seriously, psychology is for those with two x chromosomes." - RagnarDanneskjold
 

Learn to shoot.

"When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is." - Oscar Wilde "Seriously, psychology is for those with two x chromosomes." - RagnarDanneskjold
 

Finance rebellions against enemy regimes Climb the half dome Go to every national park Kill a dictator Embrace the tao Learn algebraic geometry and kripkean semantics Live to 150

“...all truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.” - Schopenhauer
 

I'm sure there's others I haven't thought of but two quick ones come to mind:

1 - Run the NYC Marathon again. Yes, I've already done it but it was SO good I want to do it again before I die 2 - Be a member at Augusta National.

 

Respect on the wanting to get back into painting. I met a girl recently and spent an afternoon doing water colors (first time since I was 10), good stuff. It is very time consuming but an amazing use of downtime.

On my bucket list:

  1. backpack across Europe with my friends of 10+ years
  2. Reach the top of the North Poll
  3. Snowboard through the Swiss Alps and plan a spontaneous trip to Chile to do the same thing
  4. Help my parents retire
  5. Start a non-for-profit tailored towards war vets or animals. Both very different, but unsure of which one
  6. Create. This doesn't have to be one thing, whether it be music, glass-blowing, art, trying to invent a product, etc. I was always destroying shit while my brother was busy creating.
  7. Come up with my own unique recipe (I fucking love salmon poke bowls, so I may start there).
  8. Mentor someone less fortunate than myself
  9. Hike with a girl through Hawaii for at least a week
  10. Go back and thank all the people in my life that have helped me make it this far (e.g. teachers, mentors, etc.)
  11. Skydive

Most of mine are either travel based or giving back, so I would say it is pretty clear where my focus lies.

 

You know Kung Fu is made up bullshit, right? Like, any high school wrestler will break your neck while you're doing Sweeping Swan or some shit

heister: Look at all these wannabe richies hating on an expensive salad. https://arthuxtable.com/
 

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