# Build a bucket list **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 19, 2013, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/build-a-bucket-list/647688 "2013-01-19T03:47:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Oedipus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Oedipus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oedipus)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2013, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/build-a-bucket-list/647688/1 "2013-01-19T03:47:50Z")
1. Go skydiving ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2013, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/build-a-bucket-list/647688/2 "2013-01-19T04:46:38Z")
1. Rocky Mountain climbing 2. 2.7 seconds on a bull named Fu Manchu ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2013, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/build-a-bucket-list/647688/3 "2013-01-19T06:28:32Z")
1. Go through astronaut training. ---
**Author:** ![thenonepercent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@thenonepercent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thenonepercent)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2013, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/build-a-bucket-list/647688/4 "2013-01-19T06:38:31Z")
1. The blue bucket in the closet that I was puking in when I had food poisoning. 2. The bucket that that walrus had. 3. The bucket on buckethead’s head. That’s all I got. ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2013, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/build-a-bucket-list/647688/5 "2013-01-19T13:16:00Z")
I have a running bucket list and mark things off as I go. Some of my goals are too embarrassingly small to mention but the big, travely ones are: Get back to the Smithsonian and spend _days_ there. Go back for a bleary-eyed trip to New Orleans, stopping in Biloxi to hit a casino. Visit the British Isles on an open-ended vacation. (I’m ready when I’m _done_, dammit.) ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2013, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/build-a-bucket-list/647688/6 "2013-01-19T14:18:10Z")
I’m working on three of mine right now. Though I don’t have an actual list. - Learn a musical instrument. For me it’s banjo. It’s great fun. - Learn a new language. That would be German. - Visit Europe. We have a 3 week vacation planned for… you guessed it Germany/Austria. ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2013, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/build-a-bucket-list/647688/7 "2013-01-19T16:04:43Z")
> [@Becky2844](#): > > I have a running bucket list and mark things off as I go. Some of my goals are too embarrassingly small to mention … I’d like to hear the small ones, too! Mine are: -swim somewhere with [bio luminescence](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioluminescence#Marine_invertebrates) (sea lights) -bathe in natural hot springs -get my marriage well again ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2013, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/build-a-bucket-list/647688/8 "2013-01-19T21:07:49Z")
You sure? Looking at most of these I realize it’s my health issues that are mostly holding me up. I lost part of my sight from a stroke and I’m dependent on other people to take me places and help when needed. So the stroke list is…😛 1. See if I can still bowl. Having a “right field defect” changes the playing field a lot. I did try to play pinball and couldn’t even see the damn ball! which breaks my heart. I love pinball. I’m going to write a poem about it and it’s going to be sexy: the alternating thrusting hips leaned up against the machine… 2. Go antiquing across the bay. There’s a little town that has tons of antique shops. 3. Early weekend yard sales. Flea markets. The other prob is that I have peripheral vascular disease which makes walking a big deal, which leads to… 4)Take walks. Just up and down the street a little. Stretch my legs and see what’s going on. 1. Go dancing. I can dance like crazy for a few minutes, then sit and rest awhile, then dance again. I’d like to do that again, in public. 2. (I have no excuse for this one.) Publish a chapbook of my poems. I write short stories, songs—hey, I have _outlines_ of books, anyway. 😛 But if I had a compilation of my poems, I’d be happy. Heck, somebody else might even read them. ---
**Author:** ![deltasigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e5b9ba/32.png) [@deltasigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deltasigma)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2013, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/build-a-bucket-list/647688/9 "2013-01-19T21:36:33Z")
1. Find a country where necrophilia is legal (you know, just out of academic curiosity). ---
**Author:** ![Oedipus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Oedipus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oedipus)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2013, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/build-a-bucket-list/647688/10 "2013-01-20T04:12:38Z")
1. Crash a wedding ---
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2013, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/build-a-bucket-list/647688/11 "2013-01-20T15:54:14Z")
See the Grand Canyon. Ride a Clydesdale. Go to Vegas. Those are the big 3 for me I guess. I was able to knock off the other 3 biggies:Pet a tiger, go up in the St Louis Arch and swim with a dolphin. ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2013, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/build-a-bucket-list/647688/12 "2013-01-22T08:47:12Z")
> [@Maastricht](#): > > I’d like to hear the small ones, too! > > Mine are: > -swim somewhere with [bio luminescence](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioluminescence#Marine_invertebrates) (sea lights) > -bathe in natural hot springs > -get my marriage well again I knew you wouldn’t come back and look. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2013, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/build-a-bucket-list/647688/13 "2013-01-22T09:42:34Z")
About the only one left that I haven’t ticked off the list yet is seeing the gorillas in Rwanda. The wife is rather lukewarm about that though, and it may take some doing to talk her into it. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2013, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/build-a-bucket-list/647688/14 "2013-01-22T14:05:37Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > About the only one left that I haven’t ticked off the list yet is seeing the gorillas in Rwanda. The wife is rather lukewarm about that though, and it may take some doing to talk her into it. Tried three times while living in Uganda. Total fail. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2013, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/build-a-bucket-list/647688/15 "2013-01-22T15:46:49Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > About the only one left that I haven’t ticked off the list yet is seeing the gorillas in Rwanda. The wife is rather lukewarm about that though, and it may take some doing to talk her into it. > [@Chefguy](#): > > Tried three times while living in Uganda. Total fail. Well, see? Ya shoulda gone to Rwanda. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2013, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/build-a-bucket-list/647688/16 "2013-01-22T17:11:11Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Well, see? Ya shoulda gone to Rwanda. Gorilla troupes are always on the move. First time we went, the company hadn’t put us on a tour, so we were on standby, which was hopeless. If you don’t have a reservation, don’t bother going. Second time, we were halfway to Bwindi when the dispatcher called and told us that the troupe had moved into the Congo and was an eight hour hike from camp through thick jungle. Screw that, turn around. Third time, we never even left Kampala, as the trek time was ten hours, which would have meant hiking back in the dark. No thanks. ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/build-a-bucket-list/647688/17 "2013-02-27T19:06:15Z")
> [@deltasigma](#): > > 1. Find a country where necrophilia is legal (you know, just out of academic curiosity). Isn’t it legal in Wisconsin? ---
**Author:** ![SurrenderDorothy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/surrenderdorothy/32/1221_2.png) [@SurrenderDorothy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SurrenderDorothy)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/build-a-bucket-list/647688/18 "2013-02-27T20:48:54Z")
The one thing I’ve wanted to do since I was a kid that I somehow have never been able to swing and that I now realize will be boring as fuck and not worth a special trip is to see giant pandas. Just in a zoo. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/build-a-bucket-list/647688/19 "2013-02-27T21:14:13Z")
See the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul Ride a motorcycle down the Pacific Coast Highway Get hit in the face with a pie Juggle lit torches Break the sound barrier (I could probably keep adding to this if I thought about it. I won’t be heartbroken if I don’t get to all of them, but assuming sufficient time and health, they’d all be nice to get to.) If anyone has plans to try that pie thing at a dopefest, no. I’ve got to be ready, and a willing participant. I shall make the pie myself. > [@PapSett](#): > > See the Grand Canyon. > > Ride a Clydesdale. > > Go to Vegas. Vegas and the Grand Canyon are close; you could see those on the same trip. I find that just looking at the Canyon from the rim is a bit ungraspable. Consider a donkey ride, hike, or rafting trip. Not sure about riding a Clydesdale. They’re draft horses. Aren’t they considerably wider than saddle horses, and thus somewhat less comfortable? ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/build-a-bucket-list/647688/20 "2013-02-27T21:26:30Z")
Do the following things: Live in New York for three months Publish a book Meet the President/Former President Play the Blues in: Chicago Kansas City St. Louis Memphis Greenwood, MS Witness the launch (or landing) of a spacecraft Visit the following places: Mesa Verde Yellowstone Chichen Itza Giza Pyramids Mercy Brown’s Grave (Rhode Island) London Dubrovnik The Statue of Liberty The Grand Canyon Mammoth Cave Independence Hall Hagia Sophia Rome Carlsbad Caverns Montecello Angkor Wat Phuket (Thailand) Chaco Culture National Park Cong, County Mayo (Ireland) Kilimanjaro Jasenovac/Kragujevac Harvard Yard Parthenon Shaolin Monastery Castle Bran [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/build-a-bucket-list/647688.md?page=2)