What are your highlights from 2024 and what do you hope to achieve in 2025? I will go first.


2024 Highlights
-Divorce finally final (20 months and expensive but worth it)
-Scuba Diving Cuba, Grand Cayman, Cabo, and Curacau
-Passed 1901 miles on my Indian and 3,000 on my Ducati
-Bought a 2 door Jeep Wrangler

2025 Goals
-Scale will read under 200lbs
-Buy a house
-Plan and book my 2026 dive trip to the Great Barrier Reef
-Road trip with my son to the Grand Canyon

2024
-Got hit by a car while on my Indian
-Took my Indian on a 4000 mile road trip from NC to ME and back
-Took proceeds from lawsuit and bought 2nd Indian

2025
-Take Indian from NC to Yellowstone and back

2024, applying for social security and Medicare.
2025, retiring.

2024 lowlights & highlights:

1st quarter was one shit sandwich after another starting with seventeen 2nd degree burns on NYE that took 6+ weeks to heal, diagnosed with arthritis in both knees, tore my rt knee in 2 places, and ended a 5 year relationship.

June visited India for first time. That business trip was one of the highlights of the year.

Started losing weight in July

Spent nearly a week at a golf resort with Dad over Labor Day

November started a new role at work

2025 Goals:

Visit Africa. Haven't been in 20 years.

Continue weightloss journey

Take Dad to another golf resort

Ride my Indian more than I did in 2024

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I'm an old guy with a bad ticker so it's pretty simple

2024 Highlights

-Looks like, in about 50 minutes, I'll make it to 2025

2025 Goals

-Stay on the right side of the grass

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Originally posted by creslin:
2024
-Got hit by a car while on my Indian
-Took my Indian on a 4000 mile road trip from NC to ME and back
-Took proceeds from lawsuit and bought 2nd Indian

2025
-Take Indian from NC to Yellowstone and back

That is a nice plan ! Approved.

I've lost 75 lbs since April. I quit eating crap and have been moving everyday whether it's the gym, walking, or hiking. I'm off all medication (cholesterol and blood pressure) and no longer use a CPAP machine.

My goal for 2025 is maintenance and to have more patience with people.

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Originally posted by creslin:
2024
-Got hit by a car while on my Indian
-Took my Indian on a 4000 mile road trip from NC to ME and back
-Took proceeds from lawsuit and bought 2nd Indian

2025
-Take Indian from NC to Yellowstone and back

Not sure my Scout Bobber is up for a trip to Yellowstone, but if you are interested in a ride to the beach hit me up.

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Originally posted by armedprof:
Not sure my Scout Bobber is up for a trip to Yellowstone, but if you are interested in a ride to the beach hit me up.

I have a 2023 Roadmaster and a 2021 Scout Bobber.
We can double bobber it up.
(once the weather warms up)

Hope to survive cancer.

2024:
Stayed low key and lived life one day at a time.
Save up my vacation days until the end of the year so I don't have to drive through the holiday shopping madness.
Got long tube headers and exhaust cut-outs so the neighborhood kids will know that an 8.3L is louder than their 1.8L.
Stayed in touch with long time friends and was able to help them out whenever they needed it.

2025:
Don't die alone in the rain.

2024

Survived a bleeding stomach ulcer.
Bilateral cataract surgery
Total right knee replacement
Unable to make it to Africa, yet again.

2025
Total left knee replacement (April).
Make it to Africa (September/October).
Ride the wheels of the GS1300.
Sell 95% of gun collection.

2024

- Took an awesome trip to Alaska with my oldest son where we borrowed a car and just winged it for a little over a week.
- Watched my youngest reel in a 22" bass...biggest I've ever seen in our local lake. It was way more about his excitement than the fish.
- Oldest got his license and it's been fun (and sometimes a little sad) watching him mature into a more independent, mostly responsible, almost adult.
- Fun family vacation in WY with lots of great hikes, wildlife sightings, and fishing.
- Some personnel upheaval at work has made for a stressful year, but it seems to be turning out OK in the end.


2025 goals

- Climb Cloud Peak in the Bighorns with my wife this summer
- Hike the Camino de Santiago with my wife and son in the fall
- Finish the back half of my in-law's house so that we're done working on that all the time
- Remodel our only bathroom...a project that's been overdue since we bought the house
- Get the rookie through training and through the Academy so we can go back to a normal work schedule