Your Bucket List

[Volvo B12BLEA]

What is on your Bucket List to be done in your lifetime?

Not in any order, mine is.......

Meet & pat one of the big cats (done this on June 19)
Jeff Dunham show (doing this on August 13)
P&O Cruise ( doing this in November 2012 & Feb / March 2013)
Visit every Capital City in Australia (after March 2013 I will only have Darwin to visit)
Win lotto (everyone will have this)

Only a short list at this stage for me but could grow in future.

[Doc68]

#1 to be happy can't see this in the near future
P&O cruise first 3 best holiday ever No 4 Pacific Jewel' s first south pacific cruise worst nightmare holiday so far
#2 to be happy
#4 to be happy

Pattern emerging here take a bex & lie down I think

[Brendan03]

What is on your Bucket List to be done in your lifetime?

Not in any order, mine is.......

Meet & pat one of the big cats (done this on June 19)
Jeff Dunham show (doing this on August 13)
P&O Cruise ( doing this in November 2012 & Feb / March 2013)
Visit every Capital City in Australia (after March 2013 I will only have Darwin to visit)
Win lotto (everyone will have this)

Only a short list at this stage for me but could grow in future.

Done a P&O from Brisbane to Sydney and Melbourne and visited every Australian capital, if you include standing out the front of Darwin Airport for half an hour. (Didn't venture much further, We were only transiting)

The P&O trip, when I was in Sydney for a day, I finally set out and did cross a bucket-list thing off, Riding a train across the Harbour bridge. (Done it plenty of times in a car and once on a bus but never got around to doing it on the train)

Not that I really have a bucket list, I've been North of the equator (twice now, That was a big thing for me), Climbed the Great Wall of China (That was awesome), Travelled at 431kmh on the Shanghai Maglev (More impressive in retrospect than it was at the time), Completed travel on every Metro/Suburban line in Perth and Adelaide (bar Tonsley branch), Melbourne (obviously), flown Business class (albeit only a Qantas domestic flight)
Earlier this year, I joined a mate and drove from Sydney to Brisbane in a convertible with the top down almost the entire way - Whilst done in separate trips, I've ridden (as a passenger) from Brisbane all the way to Hobart. (Next step is to do a trip from Brisbane to Cairns. That'll be a proud moment for me)

These aren't things I've ever really set out to accomplish, but I'm quite proud of myself for having accomplished them.

[hillsboy]

Most of the things on my bucket list involve travel, Number 1 is to experience The northern lights ( Aurora Borealis) preferably somehwere in the remote north of Norway, visit Iceland & or Greenland, visit the Swiss Alps ( again)

Already crossed off my list, Egypt, USA, Canada, Alaska, Hawaii, Sth Pacific, All over Europe, Jordan, UAE, flown international business & first class, once you fly both of these its impossible to return to economy.

[Jakesta Tagg]

travel the entire CountryLink network
travel the entire Amtrak network
go to a Pittsburgh Penguins Ice Hockey game (they are my favourite team)
Travel to Antartica to see my favourite animal
thats it so far

[Daz]

Don't have a bucket list so to speak. I've been a doer for a few years- looking for things to enjoy and not waiting for stupid or slow people to change. This has both got me in trouble but given me options of bigger, greater things. Now have my first serious, full time, 5 1/2 day job since my apprenticeship, moved out of a bus depot after 18 months of 24hr on call and have been with a girl out of my league for 1 year, 1 month, 9 days and 8.5hrs. Much better than Asian prostitutes.

However...
Would like to see Japanese snowfields.
Would like to fly a jet airliner.
Would like to drive the Nullabor- but just once will be fine.
Would like to play keyboard on stage for a rock band.
Would like to have a foursome with a Russian blonde, brunette and redhead young women- in Russia.
And whilst I'm there I'd like to travel on the Orient Express.

I'd also like to have great grandkids.

Daz

[Albatross]

If Daz achieves even only the second last thing on his list, everyone should just go home now. Nothing you do will ever be that awesome.

[eddy]

When you get to 67 the bucket gets very small and you just are greatful for things that you have enjoyed and what you may be able to at least start before you fall off the planet to leave a better world or your part of that world.

[Mr OC Benz]

Well my bucket list is short but very detailed.

Beat my relatives in tally count for most countries visited. Think I have to get over 90 to accomplish that.
Drive as many bus chassis types as possible around the world and drive for many popular companies overseas as well as experience driving around Australia and NZ.
Start my own bus company and/or get into planning and operations and put my 2cents worth in, in many places.
Have the opportunity to retire younger than the age that my father has.

[captainch]

my main list is to see the end of the year health wise

[Paul_Nicholson]

Some really good examples and I like the variety in Daz's list!!!!!

My current ones are mainly to do with travel

* Oktoberfest (Germany)

*Andre Rieu performing in his home town Maastricht

*Cruise through the Panama Canal

* More of Switzerland (especially Jungfraubahn)

I would also like to become a grandfather one day.

And it would be nice to see some bitterness in family situations (caused by quite trivial things) resolved and people happy again.

I liked one posting about "doing it now" and not waiting for low or stubborn people. That could poly in my areas of our transport interest where people can take an extremely conservative line and hold back.

But at the end of the day perhaps the most important thing is to enjoy good health.

We only get one chance at life: it's not a dress rehearsal.

A very interesting topic and hope to see some more contributions especially from the old (61) fsrts like me.

Paul in Melbourne

[captainch]

1 trams in brisbane drop centre handbrake cars still in 1965
2 trolley buses drove them
3 steam trains and swing door carriges& trains to coolangatta
4city hall tower being the tallest building in 64
5 good old colour radio 4ipthose were the days
I worked there doing traffic reports! now river radio ipswich

[jarf]

1. Forcefully overthrow the government and implement a functioning anarchist society.
2. Commit and be acquitted of murder.
3. Join the mile high club.
4. Have sex with a porn star.

I've already done two of those. Guess which ones...

Would like to have a foursome with a Russian blonde, brunette and redhead young women- in Russia.

Foursomes aren't that fascinating. Seven on the other hand...

[Daz]

You can have sex with a porn star whenever you want. It's called POV and free on spankwire.

The mile high club isn't that exciting. Especially when she keeps bumping the Push to Talk button and transmitting our "intentions".

Daz

[B10BLE]

My Bucket List

Go SkyDiving
Bungee Jumping in New Zealand
A group photo with the West Coast Eagles
Ride the Bullet Train
At least drive a Ferrari California around Melbourne
Oktoberfest

[Brendan03]

Ride the Bullet Train

You do realise there are various types of Shinkansen and some of the same trains run varying different services?

[B10BLE]

Try & visit Area 51 bit I doubt that will ever happen

[B10BLE]

Drive a vehicle on the autobahn/freeway (motorway) in Germany. No speed limit on most parts

[Albatross]

Drive a vehicle on the autobahn/freeway (motorway) in Germany. No speed limit on most parts

I like your style. Personally, if I ever won lotto, I'd have my own car shipped over to Germany, and take it for a spin along the Autobahn. I almost typed Autobarn then, but I've driven to Autobarn many times and it's nothing to write home about.

Other than that I'd probably nominate the following things

1. Buy a brand new Falcon. By my count I have either 3 or 5 years to make it happen.
2. Find, buy and restore an old rusted wreck of a car, back to showroom mint concours condition.
3. Own a V8 powered automobile. Preferably something like an NC Fairlane or VR-VS Statesman. Old enough that they still have a proper, OHV V8, yet modern enough that performance is reasonable and using one as a daily drive is a reasonable prospect.
4. Plan and execute the perfect crime. By definition, I can not do this now-having stated a desire to commit the perfect crime. If you tell someone of the plan, the crime is no longer perfect as I have opened myself to suspicion.

Beyond that there are very few things I actively want to do before I die. I did catch a train to Wollongong the other day which means that I have only to catch a train to Lithgow, Goulburn, Scone and Dungog and Cronulla in order to have travelled the entire CityRail Network. I guess if you want to be picky you could also add the Harris Park-Merrylands Y Link and the Lidcombe to Olympic Park line-having said that I have done Olympic Park to the City. i have also done Cronulla-Sutherland on a rail bus which technically does count I suppose.

I also would like to travel the Indian Pacific in first class and do the drive back across the Nullabor.

[hillsboy]

Travel to Fairbanks Alaska to see The Northern Lights ( Aurora Borealis), plan is to travel there this October.

[3805]

Live long enough to see the re-creation of the Soviet Union in the form of the Eurasian Union. Best idea ever Mr Putin.

[captainch]

I want to be wheeled, march, or have my ashes carried down the main street this anzac day in my home town in qld is all I ask for! and have my ashes sprinkled over the war mermorial at the depot were I worked for many years!

[nbus]

Where is your home town Captainch.

[captainch]

good old ingham nth queensland, and no its not were the "ingham chickens" come from as most people think!