Do You Have A Bucket List? What's Done? - What's left?

Tony Page

Tony Page

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I never had a bucket list, but there were things I said when I retire I would like to do.

Here are some of the things I wanted to do.

Fish more, both fresh and salt water. Did some freshwater.

Go to NY Mets baseball game. Accomplish went once, won't go again to expensive.

Go more offen to Belmont Racetrack. It a beautiful track with picnic area. I thought I Go at least once a week. Bring a lunch and enjoy the park, you don't have to gamble. I went once a year.

Buy a decent Metal Detector, scan my property, the beaches, and parks. Never purchase a Metal Detector.

Do have anything you checked off your bucket list?
Anything you still like to do?
 
No, I don't have a bucket list. I have never been very adventurous, never cared much for travel, done pretty much as I pleased for all my life. Now I'm content to be comfortable at home with my husband, just puttering around.

When I first retired I had a "things I've been meaning to get to" list, like learning to bake artisan breads, reading a stack of books, organizing closets and maintaining a vegetable garden. Nothing earth shattering but I've had fun with it. It's nice to have creature comforts in my 'golden years.'
 
Bucket List? My wife did make one, by I truly believe we will never, financially, be able to go to these places: Venice, Washington D.C. or England (she did some years before we met (England).

However, we have been to: Yellowstone National Park (both Upper and Lower areas), Key West (when we lived in northeastern Florida aka Jacksonville), South Dakota: Bear Country/Custer State Park/Mount Rushmore and Crazy Horse Monument, thru Rocky Mountain National Park on Trail Ridge Road (all the way to the top (12,000 plus feet at the top) and down the other side, which meant going across the Continental Divide), on a Cruise to the Bahamas (my 1st and only one, but her second). We want to go to the Fort Worth Stockyards someday, but that will definitely be after we move back to northern Colorado.

We are pretty much "home bodies" now, so travel is pretty much ended.
 
Lots of travel I would like to do, but wife is not much of a traveler--at least in the way and to the places I do. I have seen a lot of the U.S., some of Canada, a good deal of South America, and, of course a bit of the western Pacific in the early 1970s. I would still like to see Ireland, Scotland, Italy and perhaps a few other countries over there, but I think it will only happen if I outlive my wife, and that is unlikely and would not be anything I would wish to happen.

Most of our travel is to visit children, grand children and great grand children now, with perhaps an occasional Hawaii trip now and then. We are planning a big trip in 2027 to revisit some of our old stompin' grounds and places and people we treasure memories of to celebrate our 50th anniversary should I live that long and be able to still get around.
 
Andie White said:
Mine, too. The Air Force gave us enough travel and now I just want to be comfy at home.
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Were y'all career Air Force, Andie? My son-in-law was career AF and recently retired and went to work for Lockheed Martin. His 2 sons are also career Air Force; one's currently in the middle east somewhere; he can't tell us where. :(
 
Beth Gallagher said:
Were y'all career Air Force, Andie? My son-in-law was career AF and recently retired and went to work for Lockheed Martin. His 2 sons are also career Air Force; one's currently in the middle east somewhere; he can't tell us where. :(
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Whoa, I hope you're not too worried about him, Beth.

Yes, Hubs was career Air Force for 22 years. He was in Thailand, Korea and Arizona before he met me at Wright Patterson. We went together to D. C. Pentagon, Upper Heyford England for three years, and finally retired at Warner Robins Base in Georgia. Then we moved here to Ohio to be closer to my family
 
Andie White said:
Whoa, I hope you're not too worried about him, Beth.

Yes, Hubs was career Air Force for 22 years. He was in Thailand, Korea and Arizona before he met me at Wright Patterson. We went together to D. C. Pentagon, Upper Heyford England for three years, and finally retired at Warner Robins Base in Georgia. Then we moved here to Ohio to be closer to my family
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Yes, we are very worried about Austin, Andie. I just wish we knew where he is. Other grandson Ryan is in Germany but on his way back to Elgin near Pensacola.

Sounds like you did a lot of traveling; that must have been fun and interesting. I grew up in south GA, about 20 miles from Moody AFB. Back then it was called "Moody Field" and I remember the planes and occasional sonic booms. I believe it was a flight training center at that time.
 
Beth Gallagher said:
Were y'all career Air Force, Andie? My son-in-law was career AF and recently retired and went to work for Lockheed Martin. His 2 sons are also career Air Force; one's currently in the middle east somewhere; he can't tell us where. :(
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Tell them ,'thanks for their service to our country' for me. My Navy son was keeping it safer from explosive's in the Middle East and parts of Africa, they hunted land and sea explosive's. On the ship they had trained dolphins to desolate mines.
One In Senegal armed guard took him into the jungle to dissonate explosives, left him to get out on his own. He never did understand why they dropped him and left.
 
In addition to seeing a rocket launch into space in person, I'd also like to see a big demolition in person.

You know, like when they implode an old stadium or something.
 
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