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As you know I turn 40 in January, so a bit late to do a things to do before I am 40 list. That got me thinking, perhaps I should do a list of things to do in my 40s. I am throwing this out to you lot for suggestions. I am game for most things that I can afford, will not kill me, and is legal and moral (ish)……

So far I have had :-

Sky diving
Tough Mudder
See the Northern Lights
Learn a magic trick

Um, I've seen people that do Tough Mudder.

How to put this... They're not you.

Why don't you try and get on a TV quiz show?

Nonsense, my workmate did tough mudder and he's a skinny little thing. His mate is Kov shaped and he got round too. The trick is... take some athletic mates.

Yes it is not me, it is a 12 mile obstacle course...

3 peaks?
Total Wipeout?
Learn Spanish?
Change it so when I click on someone's profile it says their name instead of mine?

Finish Shadow of the Collosus.
Win at MafiaScum.

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You'll struggle to do Tough Mudder before January, what with it not being run again before then.

Have sex with twins
Win a food challenge
Learn a magic trick

These are to do over the year, I am under no illusion I will have to train and train hard for it..

One of my friends does triathlons, and has offered to help train me

I should really read.

Still counts.

There must be one country you've always wanted to visit?
Put that on the list.

Develop an area of expertise in computing

Other ideas that I've been coming up with (that should really be on my list)

Visit the Barrier Reef & go diving.
See the Northern Lights

*narrows eyes*

Do a coast to coast american road trip.

Done!

Sail solo around the world?

Live on a canal boat for 2 weeks.

See a volcano erupt.

Complete all the Zelda games.

Read "Infinite Jest"

Read "The Broom of The System."

Why is it called a bucket list?

Because it's for before you kick the bucket.

That can be left for retirement home, but who knows how many zelda games exist by then.

Doesn't work for me.

We're gonna need another PC.

Learn to waltz, foxtrot, or tango.
Buy an expensive suit and wear it daily.
Complete the Circle Line pub crawl (harder now it's no longer a circle)
Shoot a range of guns.
Visit the highest points of the Six Nations (as for the 3 Peaks-yeah, I'm up for that)
Brew your own beer
Grow a manly beard
Wrestle a bear
Camp under the stars
Go to Yellowstone!
Come to Oxford someday .

Whisky Tango Foxtrot; Lima Oscar Lima.

When the bucket is empty it just refills again. I had a trip to Norway before, and now it had been replaced by the American road trip.

American Road trip is my plan for the summer.

2 weeks renting a RV and driving from dallas to New Orleans and around the deep south!

Sounds ace. If you're heading through Mississippi, be sure to get to Natchez. Beautiful place.

I still don't know if i can pull it off next summer.. .

It's gonna be sort of half planned half take it as we go. Gonna be awesome. Proper hillbilly holiday

I did America coast to coast in a greyhound! And sat across the isle from two of Coolio's roadies for half the trip.

On the way back I didn't sleep at all. Then spent a weekend not sleeping in a hostel in New York that was rat infested. And then flew home (still no sleeping). All told I didn't sleep for almost 6 days, then I slept for almost 36 hours (waking twice to go to the loo, and have a drink of water), followed by 10 hours or so awake, and then a normal night's sleep.

I don't think I could manage that now though.

Malc

Come to the mother fucking quiz.

I want to do it by train someday. And then, perhaps, in a 1952 blue Chevrolet.

Which reminds me - something else for Kov:

- Ride the Trans-siberian railway.

That's the best way.

When in Jan is the next one??

Make a list of all the buckets you'd like to buy.

Hyacinth or Onslow?

Guess it has to be both, otherwise it's hardly a list

I don't see what's so daunting about Taggart re-enactment.

One of the things on my list, and something I intend to do quite soon, is explore this place.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamchatka_Peninsula

Camping out in small huts, surviving in vodka and potatoes. Helicopter rides over lake-filled extinct volcanoes.

Who's with me!

My "list" is more an informal collection of thoughts, but I should probably start writing these things down so that I remember them.


Gain the skills & confidence to climb lead on trad routes.
Push up a sport grade or two.
Try ice climbing.
Go bouldering in Fontainebleau.
See the aurora properly since I've only ever seen a green glow a few degrees above the horizon.
See more noctilucent clouds since they're one of my favourite things ever
See a Morning Glory cloud roll on by. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morning_Glory_cloud
Learn to paraglide.
Find a cast fossil since I've only ever found molds.
Go camping around the peak of the Perseid meteor shower every year until I'm deid.
Visit Cape Wrath during Exercise Joint Warrior & watch them bomb the shite out of Garvie Island.
Make the music quiz in That London.

There's no fucking way I'm racing this, but I plan to ride it. It's far too long a way to travel without regularly stopping to enjoy it all, plus I like sleep & pubs far too much http://tourdivide.org/

Closer to home there's this. Not racing it either for much the same reasons. http://www.highlandtrail.net/

... & I still fancy riding the Tour du Mont Blanc & Grande Traversées du Jura over in Frenchland.

I've still got the WHW to wander. Done most of it on the bike, but never walked any of it. I'll probably go along with some of Ronald Turbull's suggestions to liven things up & get away from the crowds. http://www.amazon.co.uk/NOT-The-West-Hi ... 852846151/ Then I'll keep going to Inverness because Fort Wullie is a shitehole


Probably the scariest thing on mine is this bastard*... http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/fortwill ... gach.shtml
*Aye, I suffer from vertigo when on foot. I think it's because I have more time to think about what I'm doing.