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bif

(26,812 posts)
Sun Feb 15, 2026, 11:15 AM 23 hrs ago

What's on your bucket list?

Just about the only thing on my list is to spend a week or two in Venice. I'd love to explore all the islands, photograph them, and then do a bunch of paintings from them.

Yours?

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What's on your bucket list? (Original Post) bif 23 hrs ago OP
Pompeii is #1 CanonRay 23 hrs ago #1
It's really amazing. bif 23 hrs ago #2
The vendors had some cheap toys with dirt on them, like they had just been dug up. Norrrm 23 hrs ago #4
Seeing the Southern Cross in New Zealand catbyte 23 hrs ago #3
I really want to get to 101 countries visited, but I'm running out of time. I'm 78 this year and keeping up with tour sinkingfeeling 22 hrs ago #5
Going to the u.k. and having real afternoon tea. mwmisses4289 22 hrs ago #6
Bay of Fundy Maninacan 22 hrs ago #7
Best scallops in the world there. sinkingfeeling 18 hrs ago #15
Yellowstone, Yosemite, and Crater Lake. lastlib 22 hrs ago #8
Venice is so awesome kimbutgar 21 hrs ago #9
The most beautiful city on earth bif 21 hrs ago #11
Win the Powerball lotto. Emile 21 hrs ago #10
You, too? Morbius 11 hrs ago #18
I had 3 things on my bucket list: oberle 19 hrs ago #12
How cool is that! bif 19 hrs ago #14
A Month in Japan Onthefly 19 hrs ago #13
Playing the Main Event at the World Series of Poker iemanja 12 hrs ago #16
Not to die...? Grim Chieftain 12 hrs ago #17

bif

(26,812 posts)
2. It's really amazing.
Sun Feb 15, 2026, 11:21 AM
23 hrs ago

I was there many, many years ago and found it fascinating. They've made a ton of new discoverers since then and now my wife has been bugging me to go there again. Maybe in the next year or so we'll do it.

Norrrm

(4,496 posts)
4. The vendors had some cheap toys with dirt on them, like they had just been dug up.
Sun Feb 15, 2026, 11:24 AM
23 hrs ago

catbyte

(38,900 posts)
3. Seeing the Southern Cross in New Zealand
Sun Feb 15, 2026, 11:22 AM
23 hrs ago

But, oof, that long flight. Maybe I should just go to Peru instead...

sinkingfeeling

(57,541 posts)
5. I really want to get to 101 countries visited, but I'm running out of time. I'm 78 this year and keeping up with tour
Sun Feb 15, 2026, 11:42 AM
22 hrs ago

groups sometimes is hard (I have mild COPD and my knees act up). Should have 91 under my belt by year's end.

mwmisses4289

(3,688 posts)
6. Going to the u.k. and having real afternoon tea.
Sun Feb 15, 2026, 11:50 AM
22 hrs ago

Seeing the amazing places in the u.s. and it's territories (especially Hawaii).
Going on another cruise.

Will I get to do any of that? I don't know. Budget is the main reason, but also physical issues make it difficult for me to walk long distances.

Maninacan

(253 posts)
7. Bay of Fundy
Sun Feb 15, 2026, 12:01 PM
22 hrs ago

Could have driven up to the bay of Fundy in 1994 from Bar harbor. Pre 9/11 easy to cross the border. Need a pass port now. Used to cross the border with just a drivers license.

lastlib

(27,859 posts)
8. Yellowstone, Yosemite, and Crater Lake.
Sun Feb 15, 2026, 12:01 PM
22 hrs ago

I saw some of Yellowstone and Crater Lake in 1965, when I was 7, but didn't see as much as I would like to now. (Never saw The Old Man of the Lake, and stayed on the beaten path at Yellowstone.) Have never been to Yosemite. But now, with a bum leg, I would never be able to go where I would like to, even if I went to those places. So I'll settle for going to the reagan library and pissing on the old fool's grave.

kimbutgar

(27,035 posts)
9. Venice is so awesome
Sun Feb 15, 2026, 12:43 PM
21 hrs ago

Went 3 years in a row. Loved walking around the streets and we stayed at an awesome hotel ! I would love to go back someday when the orange reign of terror is over. Too embarrassed to say I’m American now.

bif

(26,812 posts)
11. The most beautiful city on earth
Sun Feb 15, 2026, 01:07 PM
21 hrs ago

We love it so much, we gave our daughter "Venice" for her middle name.

Morbius

(946 posts)
18. You, too?
Sun Feb 15, 2026, 11:27 PM
11 hrs ago

I confess I'd be happy to not win the jackpot, just win $1 million (match all the numbers except the Powerball). I wouldn't be able to retire but my life would be a LOT easier.

This doesn't count as a bucket list thing for me because I have no control over it. If I did win, though, it might enable me to achieve some bucket list things, like own a nice house with a pool table in the basement.

oberle

(323 posts)
12. I had 3 things on my bucket list:
Sun Feb 15, 2026, 02:48 PM
19 hrs ago

1. Go to the church in Leipzig that Bach wrote the Christmas Oratorio for, St. Thomas, and hear a performance
2. Go to the Edinburgh Tattoo
3. Go to the Galapagos

I just finished the list last month.

Onthefly

(1,214 posts)
13. A Month in Japan
Sun Feb 15, 2026, 02:52 PM
19 hrs ago

Heading there in October with my family and their spouses. Trying to learn basic Japanese .
Can do this because I am retired…no longer consulting!

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