Bucket List

Mark W.

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1. Help on a Big Time corn harvest in the cornbelt someday. Would love to see the huge operations up close.
2. Spend a week in Ireland with the wife.
3. See as many antique tractor shows as possible (Redpower Round up or Fla Flywheelers)
4. Retire and raise animals, self sufficient.
5. See grandkids someday (Im only 42 so not for a while)

Please share yours.
 
(quoted from post at 18:31:00 11/22/15) 1. Help on a Big Time corn harvest in the cornbelt someday. Would love to see the huge operations up close.
2. Spend a week in Ireland with the wife.
3. See as many antique tractor shows as possible (Redpower Round up or Fla Flywheelers)
4. Retire and raise animals, self sufficient.
5. See grandkids someday (Im only 42 so not for a while)

Please share yours.

I'd love to get to Australia, tour the country and maybe work on a farm for awhile. I love this video.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anqGtsl29R0
 
Would like to do some traveling, see the Red Wood Forest, Yellowstone, Grand Canyon. Then head north, Henry Ford Museum, the German Uboat in Chicago, Smithsonian, as many battle ships, aircraft carriers, space shuttles, antique cars, trucks, tractors, machines I can find!
 
I have been to Ireland a couple of times, you better like potatoes and bland cooking.

For me, fly a P51, and sail for 5 days in the virgin islands.
 
I have been blessed in this life. There are few things I want to do that I have not done. I guess I would like to travel and see some of the world but that fire has pretty well gone out as I have gotten older. Maybe I am just settling in.LOL
 
I've done a lot of things others have on their lists, rock climbing, ice climbing, heli-skiing, spelunking, hunting, camping, hiking. Been to Arches, Zion, Bryce, Alaska, Banff and Jasper. But still many I would like to do, such as Yosemite, Redwoods, Yellowstone(still would like to snowmobile Yellowstone) Grand Tetons, Glacier and many other parks and mountains all over this great country of ours. And a few large tractor shows also like Rollag and still haven't made it to Coolspring, ect, ect, ect.
 
(quoted from post at 19:39:24 11/22/15) I've done a lot of things others have on their lists, rock climbing, ice climbing, heli-skiing, spelunking, hunting, camping, hiking. Been to Arches, Zion, Bryce, Alaska, Banff and Jasper. But still many I would like to do, such as Yosemite, Redwoods, Yellowstone(still would like to snowmobile Yellowstone) Grand Tetons, Glacier and many other parks and mountains all over this great country of ours. And a few large tractor shows also like Rollag and still haven't made it to Coolspring, ect, ect, ect.

great sights in Yellowstone but 40 MPH speed limit :(.
 
Reminds me of Johnny Cash "I've been everywhere man I've been everywhere" lol. One thing I'd like is a train trip thru the Canadian Rockies, but at $1,000 a day I think I'll pass.
 
(quoted from post at 22:24:47 11/22/15) Reminds me of Johnny Cash "I've been everywhere man I've been everywhere" lol. One thing I'd like is a train trip thru the Canadian Rockies, but at $1,000 a day I think I'll pass.

Take the California Zephyr from Denver to San Francisco. Lots cheaper on Amtrak.
 
I've ridden the Silverton and Durango narrow gauge, and been to Steamtown in PA. Also Smithsonian and Henry Ford museums.
 
Not much for me. I've seen a fair bit of the world and lived in foreign countries. I checked off a bunch of stuff in the last 10 years or so. Like learning to SCUBA dive. Did rock climbing in Europe. Have run dozers from a JD MC to a D8K, own a D4 7U, backhoe, 4 tractors. Worked the combine circuit one year. Drove truck too. Would like to see the science museum in Chicago maybe. Tour the swamp in LA and maybe fish in the Gulf of Mexico.

Rick
 
Florida flywheel was is on the top of the list. Ive seen all of the intimate parts of the central US and Canada so that part of the world doesn't interest me anymore except for the good folks I met there. Some day I will make the rounds to see them once more. I would like to see the east. You easterners post all of those neat pictures and it gnawing on me. I would like to go back to Finland and go to Lapland during Summerfest. Then head for Denmark to see my ancestral land. While that far away I would go to Wales to see Sam.
 
I have always wanted to be smart enough to build a spaceship and get off this planet for good. Don't look like it is going to happen anytime soon.
 
I worked overseas so have been to lots of places, but I had my first grandchild when I was 34. Later generations haven't kept up, only have four great grandchildren at 66, the oldest is 10 so I may not be a great great grandfather until I'm 72 or so. All the little ones are great.
 
Andy Martin- I wouldn't want to try to keep up with you. Actually, I don't think that is
something I would be proud of.
 
Since I was in my early teens, I have dreamed of having a shop large enough to turn out a few custom cars and trucks. Other than that, I could spend a year or two just traveling around the great state that I live in, (North Carolina). I believe it is well to be familiar with our own backyard first, then spread out. We have seashore on one end of the state, and the Blue Ridge and Great Smokey Mountains to the West, and just about everything in between, so when I win the lottery, or Publishers Clearing House brings me that truckload of money they have been promising for years, I have plenty to occupy the rest of my years.
 
I didn't marry till late so got to do a lot of interesting jobs and see a lot of places.
Been to 13 countries and 46 states.
I'd like to visit the last 4 - HI, ME, NH and VT.
I'd like to hunt mulies in Montana one of these days. Maybe publish some of my writing.
I'd like to restore a tractor someday.
Others here mentioned train trips.
I've ridden the Empire Builder from St Paul to the west coast and back a couple of times and love to train.
A trip around the US would be great. St Paul, Chicago, Philly, DC and see some sights there Smithsonian, Vietnam Vet memorial, WWII memorial. Then in down to FL and across the southern route to CA, then up the west coast to Portland OR and then back home.
I don't much care to fly so overseas is kinda out.
 
Well, to start, I would like to go to eastern South Dakota with my son and grandson and do some pheasant hunting with my relatives near Lake Norden. 2. Spend some time out west in Oregon and Washington. 3. Go to Florida Flywheelers in the winter. 4. Go back to visit friends in Wilmington, NC where we used to live. 5. Drive through Maine, VT and NH. 6. Spend more time in the Keeweenaw Peninsula of Upper MI touring and visiting friends.
 
Fishing in the Gulf is fun. My family went to Gulf Shores and I have fished off of their pier, surf fished at night and chartered a boat. Definitely worth it.
 
Don't have a bucket list, because she hasn't told me what I'm doing today. Going to travel more, just haven't figured out where. Just got back from Hawaii. Did a 7 day cruse to 4 different islands. Nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there. Next trip to Hawaii, I'm going to drive, the flight is a killer. I think my next trip will be a free style road trip. Head south and see where I end up. Been retired for 12 years and my bucket is empty.
 
Hunt pheasants in South Dakota, Elk, Muleies, and Javelina in Arizona where my sister lives. Win the lottery so I could build a new P-51 from the ground up.
 
I hope I can put together a small farm and farm it with my collection of machinery that I have. I have nearly everything needed to do all the farming with just case equipment. Would like maybe 100 +/- acres and some beef and maybe a couple hogs then just do it all for fun. Also would like to hit more of the tractor shows as well.
 
A trip to Hawaii to see pearl harbor as well as the agriculture in that state. Another trip to Alaska. Get a sport pilots licence. I'm 54. Dad lived to 102 so I have to be careful to earn enough and make the retirement funds last.
 
(quoted from post at 07:02:14 11/23/15) Since I was in my early teens, I have dreamed of having a shop large enough to turn out a few custom cars and trucks. Other than that, I could spend a year or two just traveling around the great state that I live in, (North Carolina). I believe it is well to be familiar with our own backyard first, then spread out. We have seashore on one end of the state, and the Blue Ridge and Great Smokey Mountains to the West, and just about everything in between, so when I win the lottery, or Publishers Clearing House brings me that truckload of money they have been promising for years, I have plenty to occupy the rest of my years.

I've been to NC several times. We used to make the trip every fall to visit our son and his children. I think the mountains in that part of the country are beautiful. Especially when the leaves are turning. My son lives in Dallas in Gaston county.
 
I have been pretty lucky, done a lot, traveled a lot, seen a lot.

We are headed to Iceland in Feb. to see the northern lights and whatever else we can dream up while there.


Gene
 
(quoted from post at 18:17:44 11/23/15) I have been pretty lucky, done a lot, traveled a lot, seen a lot.

We are headed to Iceland in Feb. to see the northern lights and whatever else we can dream up while there.


Gene

I'd like to see Norway. There's a farm there called Fure. I often wondered if our family originated from there. My great, great grandfather immigrated here from Bavaria in 1848. Apparently his family came from Norway at some time.
 
No desire to travel. I even turned down free trips to Australia and Cuba when I was still working. What I really hope to do is get my '55 Chevy shorty pickup, my '55 Chevy two-door and my '37 Chevy five-window (my first car; bought in '64) back on the road. So much to do, so little energy.
 
When working at the IH dealer, I won a trip to Hawaii for wife and me. I had just bought a walk behind snow blower from the boss and traded my trip for what blower cost with the boss as he had to chip in a good chunk along with the co. I still have that snow blower over 30 years later. Never did want to go there and still don't. It would have gone on my taxable income which would have cost me nearly as much as the blower did also.
 
I've done a little traveling and have seen all I really want to see. The only regret was not taking the job in Australia that I was offered 40 years ago. I'm doing what I want to do nearly every day so now all I really want to accomplish is to have a good nights sleep and wake up afterwards.
 

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