Who know what, if anything, awaits us after pay the ferryman and cross the Styx?
Inspired by something I read over at Virtual Mirage, I decided to list, for right this minute, what three things I want to do before the End. The list may change at any time.
They are, in no order, the following:
1. Spend a month (at least) knocking around in Tasmania
2. Buy/build a cabin in some remote spot in Cal/Nev/Oregon, and set up a shooting range in such a way that I can test loads while sitting in a chair on the porch, a pot of hot coffee within arms reach.
3. Starting around Tomales Bay or Bolinas, rent a place on the coast for a week, surf fishing by day, and BBQ'ing whatever I caught in the evening. Repeat every couple of months until I reach the Oregon border.
What about you? List your big three bucket list items in the comments.
1. Own a '68 road runner with a blown Hemi. 2. Restore '77 Ford 3/4 ton 4wd with a 460 and manual tranny, forest green, original chrome, RWL's. 3. Get another herd of Galloways.
ReplyDeleteGreat exercise in setting goals. 1) a second stream of income (social security aint cutting it). 2) Read more of the Bible. 3) take better care of myself this year, ie, drinking more water, eating veggies, exercising more.
ReplyDeletehey Steve. If you are serious about number two, shoot me an email. We can be accountability pen pals. I'm working that one as well. my name at pm dot me.
DeleteSteve and StxAR, here is a good plan. Jump in and if you miss a day, don't sweat it, jump in with the current day's reading.
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1. Fly fish (dry flies) for big brookies in Canada. 2. Spend an entire Michigan fly fishing season (end of April to end of September) fly fishing my crick every single day. 3. Fly in fighter plane.
ReplyDeleteI only have one ambition. I'd like to know the real reason why everyone is picking on Meghan and Harry.
ReplyDeleteThat truly is the burning question of the age...
DeleteBecause he’s a little yanker, and she’s dirty used goods plus an uppity bitch plus she whipped him so thoroughly he has to beg to look at his balls once a month in the box she keeps him in. Before her, the whole world thought he was mr studly war hero super cute guy. Now we know and he’s a bigger let down than he freaky dad.
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I think everyone's getting bored of them now, time to stop whining and get on with the quiet life they claim they want. They want to leave the Royal Family behind but are making as much money out of them whilst they can. Sooner or later that income stream will dry up as no one will be interested in them any more, then there'll be no more money coming in. Milking it whilst they can. Hopefully it'll quieten down before too long and we can all forget about them.
Delete1 -Build a 1600 square foot metal building: apartment and shop under one roof. In a more hospitable climate.
ReplyDelete2 - Find a way to pass along what I know to people that want to know it and use it.
3 - Connect and reconnect with those that want to be around me. "Iron sharpens iron."
I'm after near tired of the constant fight to find room to work, people that don't want to be around me but are, and constant s--t flingers that carp about how I do things, or what I know. I'm in the short rows now, and I don't have time or patience for that.
#2...that right there...
DeleteVisit the Taj Mahal. Watch on TV a man step onto the surface of Mars. Attend a Starship launch.
ReplyDeleteBreak a mach number or two in a miljet.
ReplyDeleteSafari in Africa for a month or two via blimp.
Dealer's choice: Boat the Mississippi from source to sea, or sail solo from L.A. to Sydney via the various islands.
1. Take a nice bull elk (not with my wife);
ReplyDelete2. Road-trip the country in a camper with my wife;
3. Spend a summer in Austria with my wife.
I'd like to run a dozer and a steam engine again.
ReplyDeleteDrive a Ferrari
ReplyDeleteVisit Australia
Get the band back together
A- Visit the Erickson Air Collection in Madras, OR when their B-17 is home.
ReplyDeleteB- Visit the Nosler plant in Bend, OR.
C- Visit the Tanker 61 Memorial in Klamath Falls, OR. I salvage logged the burn that their DC-7 was fighting when it went down near Placerville, CA. Both pilot and co-pilot died, and I've always felt a connection to them and would love to pay my respects.
And on my way to Oregon, I'd go by way of the Feather River Canyon and watch the trains for a couple of days.
y'mean like the back of my house where I set up a 10' backstop of two layers of railroad ties in front of a hill for a 15 meter handgun range. it can also take sight-in shots from a .308 Norma Mag, but the neighbors want a leg of venison that they think I'm shooting out-of-season.
ReplyDelete1) Thru hike the Appalachian Trail (will complete by May ‘23!)
ReplyDelete2) Travel the US taking my time camping and backpacking.
3) Live in a remote mountain cabin.
"Who know what, if anything, awaits us after pay the ferryman and cross the Styx?"
ReplyDeleteWell, actually, a lot of people know. Look up pranic healing and arhatic yoga.
It's not a "one and done" as western religions like to preach...
DeleteBeen lucky I guess, pretty much did it all from war to flying jets to seeing the world and racing hot sports car. Now I’m just gonna get right with Jesus and replenish my ammo
ReplyDeleteBe the hangman of all the corrupt politicians and burocrats till the last one.
ReplyDeleteGet in line
DeleteYeah right. That's a line no one minds if you cut in at the front. In fact, most say, Be my guest, or mock you for not actually cutting in.
DeleteFind a wife
ReplyDeleteHave a family
Obtain a home place
I'd like those too, but I don't like my odds on the first two. At age 53, women who are young enough to bear children, want to bear children (especially mine), haven't already done so, and are physically and psychologically and philosophically compatible with me, and vice versa, are not exactly breaking down my door:-(.
DeleteThough I *do* have a house, and my mortgage is paid off, so I've got that going for me. Which is nice:-).
When I think of something I really want to do I take a stab at doing it. Life is short.
ReplyDeleteCW...
You ought to start working the logistics for the time in Tasmania.
For #3, give some thought to an RV of some sort ... but I guess there are a lot of cabins/small motels up that part of the coast.
Excellent advice. Plus save up for it.
DeleteStart out in Chalma NM. with a horse and 2-3 pack animals in April or so and follow the snow north riding through the mountains. Problem is I'm getting a little long in the tooth for riding broncs
ReplyDeleteBackwoods Okie
I've done prit near everything I wanted. (I haven't hiked the Brook Range in AK. Its gonna stay that way.)
ReplyDeleteSo what I'd like is to repeat certain things. At the top of the list is to get out therre again and sail the S. Pacific but spend more time at more islands.
Number 2 is a hobby farm and woodshop/blacksmith on at least 5 acres. I just don't know where.
Find at least one willing partner for daily Bible study. That is how I do it. Reading God's Holy Word quickens your spirit, even to the effect of forgetting severe pain.
Rattle down to some lost place south of the border in my '39 Ford 1 ton with my 8X10 view camera and trade black & white portraits for taco's. Blend in so that I'm just the crazy old gringo in the ancient truck. Harmless.
ReplyDelete1. Skydive again.
ReplyDelete2. Ride in a flying boat
3. Rescue more sighthounds.
Hike some of the mountain trails in Switzerland for a summer.
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