Spending a few weeks exploring, camping and surfing along the Great Ocean Road. (Australia)

Nada. Don't have a bucket list.

I have goals, though.

Current goals are to learn how to swing a golf club reasonably well and to lose the gut. Once I accomplish those I'll decide what I want to do next.

Finish reading the Bible. Actually understand it.

See my kids get married.

Spend time with my grandkids.

Be with my wife until one of us dies, hopefully a very long time from now.

I've always wanted to bicycle across the U.S.

Places to Visit:

Normandy
The UK (particularly Scotland)
Switzerland (and see Oesch's die Dritten in concert while I'm there).

....acquiring a newer smaller bucket

I would like to do the Golden Gate bridge swim. 1.5 miles, cold, choppy, etc. Very challenging. They hold the ship traffic when this even happens. I did the Alcatraz swim, it was relatively easy except for the sand sharks nibbling at my toes.

Also a thorough visit to Normandy, asap.

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I think bucket list items are subject to change as we age. Things I once thought would be cool in my teens (and idealistic and unexperienced) are different now that I'm in my 40's.

Joining the USMC out of high school let me see the world from 1997-2001. Cool, been there, done that.

Recently I've made it a goal to see as much as Texas as possible. For those not from here, it's a lot of driving. I refuse to fly because it's like looking at "people of Walmart" both in dress and decorum. My most recent bucket list item accomplished was simple and enjoyable. Went saltwater fishing for the first time this weekend down on the gulf coast. I caught a few, tried surf fishing, tried bay fishing, tried pier fishing. All enjoyable.

My two overseas travel items are to visit Jerusalem/Israel, and the beaches of Normandy where I can also spectate the Tour de France bike race.

I want to take a helecopter ride through the Grand Canyon, but I want to do it true Marine Corps style. I want to sit on the floor in the back of the helo, with the doors open, and my feet hanging outside. If some of my old Marine buddies could go to, that would be extra awesome!!!!

Ski Exhibition and Limelight runs at Sun Valley one more time. I'd done it many times when I was ski bumming it in my 20's. I didn't do it 10 years ago when I was plenty capable but now probably a bit out of reach for this old man.

Make my first million dollars after taxes without taking more than a year to do it.
Repeat first item regularly.
Fly on a private jet.
Too many places globally I'd like to visit to list.
Space tourism.

Other than the above, nothing too ambitious.

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Australia and New Guinea because my dad was there in WW II.
Saigon because I was there in first and second grade.

When you're in that area you should consider visiting New Zealand--about 3 weeks would be good. (I've been there twice.)

I don't have a formal bucket list, but the only things I'd thought I wanted to see that are left are the Great Pyramid and the Taj Mahal. At my age (85) i think neither is likely now.

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Bucket list? Nah, I'm good.

Me too. I've done things and gone places I never dreamed I would. I'll survive quite nicely without ziplining Mt. Kilimanjaro, thanks.

The Bee Gees sing my bucket list.

Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive, stayin' alive Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive

Not to kick it.

I‘be actually done everything I wanted. Anything else would be pure greedy and not really important.

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Originally posted by robbiedog:
I would like to see the Northern Lights. My wife and I plan to make a winter trip to Norway or Iceland one of these years....

The Northern Lights are really the only thing on my bucket list. My husband and I would like to take a winter train trip through Norway.

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Originally posted by robbiedog:
I would like to see the Northern Lights. My wife and I plan to make a winter trip to Norway or Iceland one of these years....

The Northern Lights are really the only thing on my bucket list. My husband and I would like to take a winter train trip through Norway.

Two things, the Northern Lights, my wife is primarily of Norwegian descent and we’ve been looking at places above the Arctic Circle in Norway. As other have said, Normandy.

In response to smithbc, I assume you know that NPS hasn’t allowed flights below the rim of the Canyon for years now. My wife gifted me with a flight over the Canyon, and it was a bit underwhelming .

Banging an entire bachelorette party! Speaking of the bucket, they'd probably have to carry me home in one afterwards!

Travel through Egypt and see the granite boxes at Saqqara. They are almost more interesting than the pyramids to me. Almost.

Travel to Old Uppsala in my ancestral lands of Sweden and visit the burial mound and temples. Be with the Gods during the midsummer blot.

Travel to Machu Picchu and see all of the ancient stone buildings.

I'm 75 so I guess it would be seeing 76.

Trip to The Dry Tortugas.
Trip across Lake Michigan on the Badger.

I plan to take both of these in the next couple of years.