Bucket list.

I don't like heights either so many typical bucket lists are not for me.
It's our 50th anniversary next year and my husband wants me to decide where to go, I've wondered about sailing to New York then going across America to San Francisco. I really don't like airports much.

cc

I don't like heights either so many typical bucket lists are not for me.
It's our 50th anniversary next year and my husband wants me to decide where to go, I've wondered about sailing to New York then going across America to San Francisco. I really don't like airports much.

a train journey across sounds fabulous CC and you'd get to meet so many different types of Americans.. seeing the Rockies and Death Valley had long been a dream of mine.. and New Mexico..

Oh the trip along the Silk route sounds wonderful. Did you watch the very first series of Race Across the World on BBC? That’s the route they took.

I would have liked to see the northern lights, but not that fussed, these days.

It's all too much effort.

Once covid travel restrictions were lifted we decided to get a move on and get on with visiting all the places we have talked about visiting for years. Last year we visited the Galapagos and hiked in both the Andes and the Grand Canyon. This year we’ve been on the Panama Canal, visited Costa Rica and returned yesterday from an incredible trip to Nepal and Bhutan. Last Monday we did the hike up to the Tiger’s Nest monastery in Bhutan.
The only problem is that the more we travel and talk to other people, we keep having more ideas for places to visit. We’re both mid-60s and making the most of our fitness while we have it.

I've done a parachute jump, abseiled, flown in a helicopter and done many other 'adventurous' things over the years, but I would love to visit Istanbul again and see Cappadocia. I would also love to go riding again - I've loved horses ever since I was a toddler but unfortunately my weight wouldn't allow me to do it these days.
Oh, and Whiff, my husband and I competed in car rallies for many years. I once broke my collar bone after our Mini did a triple somersault! I've also gone round a rally course in a car driven by the original Stig from Top Gear, which was a great experience.

For my 70th birthday, my family clubbed together and gave me a lesson on an HGV - 45 ft artic!! Because of Covid, it didn't happen until I was 72, but it was fabulous and a bit scary at the same time. I came away feeling I had missed my vocation

I have a bucket list but also a non bucket list. To see orangutans and gorillas in the wild are on my bucket list. Parachuting and bungee jumping are on my non bucket list.

I'm sorry you weren't allowed to do your jump.

I am half way through my bucket list. Nothing very exciting really, just things that I wanted to do. My last thing was visiting the school my mother attended in Wales.

I surprised my family a few years back when I went with them to Disneyland in Florida. I fully expected to be chief bag minder while they all screamed their way round the exciting rides. No, not at all. I went on everything because my GD encouraged me. Loved it all !

I’m not into ‘dangerous sports’ but I always wanted to go on the Orient Express which we did for our silver wedding. Just between Venice & Rome though - by then I didn’t want to give up an en-suite whilst travelling! My husband always wanted to go on Concorde which we did some years before the Orient Express. Travel wise, my biggest wish was to visit Petra & his was the Pyramids. We managed both for his 50th birthday.
My bucket list is full of destinations rather than doing anything too dangerous. Every time I watch Race Across The World (I’ve seen them all), I add a few more. Most recently, Patagonia.

I had always wanted to see the Great Barrier Reef but it never happened and won't now. I can't dive so I guess that the best I could have hoped for was a glass bottomed boat.

I'd have liked to spend time grooming and making a fuss of tapirs.

I’ve had a pretty exciting life and for the last 10 yrs adventure travel has been wonderful, now that Travel insurance is becoming an issue it’s time to be less ambitious.

Cadenza123

I had always wanted to see the Great Barrier Reef but it never happened and won't now. I can't dive so I guess that the best I could have hoped for was a glass bottomed boat.

You could snorkel, you don't have to dive.

I hope you manage to go one day.

AliBeeee

Once covid travel restrictions were lifted we decided to get a move on and get on with visiting all the places we have talked about visiting for years. Last year we visited the Galapagos and hiked in both the Andes and the Grand Canyon. This year we’ve been on the Panama Canal, visited Costa Rica and returned yesterday from an incredible trip to Nepal and Bhutan. Last Monday we did the hike up to the Tiger’s Nest monastery in Bhutan.
The only problem is that the more we travel and talk to other people, we keep having more ideas for places to visit. We’re both mid-60s and making the most of our fitness while we have it.

Nooo! Not the Tiger's Nest monastery in Bhutan. I am reading a lovely book by David Michie called The Secret Mantra which is partially set up there. Glad you are making the most of it as that is one place I would love to go to.

In the past ,I've done a lot of travelling and thoroughly enjoyed it .
I still have a bucket list, but would opt for less strenuous more relaxing holidays .

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Tuaim it was spectacular! We walked in and out of cloud on the way up until the sun burned it off.

AliBeeee

Tuaim it was spectacular! We walked in and out of cloud on the way up until the sun burned it off.

Fantastic photos.. what an awe inspiring experience

I have always wanted to see the Northern lights. I never have, despite having been to Canada and Alaska .......... Maybe one day.
In his eighties, the one thing still on my husband's bucket list was to fly a plane. I treated him to a trial lesson at a local airfield. I took him to the airfield in advance, to make sure he was capable of actually climbing into the plane. By this stage he realised what I was up to and he was overjoyed . I paid in advance for the lesson while we were there and booked a four seater so that I could go in the back. We picked a sunny day to actually go up. It exceeded all his expectations. The pilot took off, let him take the controls and only took them back for landing.

That sounds like a marvellous present. (Not that I'd want to go in it!!)

We went to Tromso in Norway last November for a long weekend and we did see the lights, they gave us snow suits it was around -10C, we went self catering because Norway is excruciatingly expensive.

AliBeeee

Tuaim it was spectacular! We walked in and out of cloud on the way up until the sun burned it off.

How spectacular and what stunning photos! Out of this world! Thank you for sharing them first hand - made my day!

There must be something wrong with me because I don’t have any great yearnings to do anything. Just reading this thread though I would now rather fancy driving an HGV or tractor. No jumping, caving, leaping or anything dangerous.

I did a fire walk,it was an amazing empowering experience ,I walked over red hot coals 3 times and would happily do it again .I felt invinceable

Now that's something different.