Bucket Lists!

[Matow]

I'm not asking people to post their whole bucket lists, as I'm sure a lot of them may be private, but inspired by Steve (Among others) I opened up notepad, and just started typing.

30 items later, i have noticed a lot of my things revolve around travelling - Even stuff like 'Learn to Snowboard' - That's so that I can hit up the Ski Season in the Alps!

It could be simply because travelling is on my mind at the moment, but hey!

I will keep adding to it over the weekend while I start to plan one of my aims (Get visible 6-pack abs - Hitting the gym after work tonight to get a measurement of my base fitness/lifting capabilities). I've had a toof/gum infection the past week so I have been in too much pain to even eat, so I figured getting better was more important. Now the swelling has gone down, I'm rearing to go.

I ticked off 'Make my own homebrew' which was a pear cider - bottled earlier this week, but I cant drink it yet as I am still on anti-biotics. I also have ' Start a blog and keep it updated' on there. That will hopefully start next week - Up until now I haven't had the subject matter to put in there, so never bothered. So anyways, Here is the start of my list:

• Become a Doctor of something.
  
• Visit China
  
• Visit New Zealand
  
• Own a powered boat
  
• Restore a motored vehicle (Van/car/bike/boat)
  
• Route 66
  
• Get a 6-pack abs
  
• Run a marathon
  
• Learn to snowboard
  
• Earn a 5-figure salary
  
• Start a business
  
• Program my own app
  
• Program a computer game
  
• Clear out all my useless junk, and minimise everything
  
• Become debt free
  
• Win a 1st place trophy
  
• Learn to sail a ship
  
• set up a media server
  
• Become an instructer in any watersport
  
• Learn to surf
  
• Own more than 2 suits
  
• Own a house
  
• Build a wooden canoe
  
• Learn archery
  
• Learn how to fix minor car problems
  
• Ride in a helicopter
  
• Peru
  
• Learn bushcrafting techniques
  
• Start a blog, and keep it updated
  
• Learn indoor/outdoor climbing
  
• Kayak down a river (Haven't been on moving water since a shoulder dislocation/chipped tooth on a river about 6 years back)
  

A lot of these are a bit vague, as I don't know what targets I need to shoot for in some of the given activities. Once I create the blog, I'll pop some background info on there. So.. What's on Your bucket list, and selfishly - Any advice on completing mine would be epic!

[Guest guest4729]

Just threw this together. I know there's a lot of things I'm missing but it's a good starting point!

Bucket List:

• Visit Germany

• Become fluent in German (written and spoken)

• Live in Germany for at least a year

• Get a job in foreign trade or relations

• Become a good business leader

• Become a better role model than I already am

• Visit Japan

• Get drunk with Japanese people and do karaoke

• Visit Australia

• Swim in crystal clear water on a white sandy beach

• Relearn how to ride a bicycle

• Get fit and stay that way

• Try new foods (this is ongoing)

• Scuba dive or snorkel

• Take cooking classes

• Take sewing classes

• Take graphic design classes

• Own my own home

• Decorate each room in my home with a different theme

• Save as much money as possible

• Retire in good standing with money to live off of

• Learn how to invest in the stock market (when the economy isn’t crap)

• Have a garden

• Grow my own foods to cook with

• Live a comfortable life unlike my unstable childhood

• Have a good credit score

• Travel whenever I can if my job allows it

[Atalan]

Thru-hike the Appalachian Trail (Georgia to Maine)

Barefoot thru-hike the Appalachian Trail (Maine to Georgia, time concerns)

Medieval Equipment Thru-hike the Appalachian Trail.

Learn Russian

Learn Italian

Learn Mandarin

Do a one-armed push-up in armor

Visit every continent (three down, four to go).

[spezzy]

There's actually a category in the blog section called "Epic Quest" if y'all are interested (you can carry on here though, not trying to move you!)

[Matow]

Sorry Spezzy! Can I use the excuse that I'm new? Probably not...

I'm totally stealing a few items from your lists! Especially the Japanese Karaoke one, aswd00!

[Hannibal]

Three trips on the Appalachian Trail sounds really hardcore, Atalan!

Matow, a doctor of something? Anything will do, or you just haven't narrowed it down enough yet?

Awsd00, why the interest in Germany? And having lived in Japan as long as I have, I find your goal of singing karaoke with drunk Japanese people in Japan to be quite curious. I've never really looked at it as being that special, though it is a lot of fun. I guess I take it for granted.

My bucket list isn't all that long. Sure, there are tons of things I want to do and accomplish, but I only have five things I feel I need to do before I die.

1. Trans-Siberian train trip. I wrote about this in my Epic Quest blog so I'll keep it short here, but I must do this. I've been back and forth the US by car, up and down Japan by train, and I want to put the biggest country on earth under my belt. Such a huge expanse of land that's still wild and unsettled is so alluring. At the moment, I'm planning on going next year.
   
2. Become fluent in a foreign language. I can speak a bit of Japanese, but I'm still so far from fluent it kills me a little inside to think about it. I've also started learning Russian, in preparation for my Trans-Siberian trip next year. Hopefully Russian turns out to be easier, though I doubt it will.
   
3. Learn to play an instrument. I've always loved music, just wish I could play it.
   
4. Get in shape and stay in shape.
   
5. Get a Ph.D. I'm planning on going back to school from next year, in the hopes of getting a Ph.D in anthropology/archaeology.
   

[scarletleavy]

Here's a snippet from my ever-evolving bucket list

Climb a 6000m+ peak in the Himalayas

Travel to Bhutan

Go on a Yoga retreat

Run the Patagonia Expedition Race

Climb the Mont Blanc, the Matterhorn and the Eiger

Drive the Nürburgring

Fall in love/Find love

Live in Scandinavia

[Loren Wade]

What happened to the epic quest forum? Wasn't that everyone's bucket list?

[scarletleavy]

What happened to the epic quest forum? Wasn't that everyone's bucket list?

I was looking for it, but I think it disappeared? Or moved to the blogs?

[Benny P]

What happened to the epic quest forum? Wasn't that everyone's bucket list?

Yeah, has it moved to blogs or have I just got really bad eyesight?

[Loren Wade]

Pretty sure it's been moved to blogs as there's an "Epic Quest" category. Epic Quests = bucket list.

[spezzy]

There's actually a category in the blog section called "Epic Quest" if y'all are interested (you can carry on here though, not trying to move you!)

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[KillerGriller]

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