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Has anyone fulfilled any "bucket list" items, even if at the time, you didn't consider them as such? My son & I were talking last nite about accomplishments and/or regrets.

I have a few. But, probably the best one is that I got to ride in the Goodyear blimp out of San Pedro, CA on one of their training flights. Took my wife and 8 year old son. Who got to fly in the co-pilot's seat, and received a "captain's" cap.
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I flew to visit a friend in California last year. I had previously said I'd never fly, but after having done it, I am so glad I did. It was a heck of a lot of fun and I want to travel now just to fly!
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Had a few of them checked off

To accurately list would take more pondering than my sleepy brain has time for right now
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Being a fan of Westerns since a kid I learned to ride western when in my thirties, later on a trip to Arizona I got to see Tombstone and fly down the Grand Canyon in a helicopter and I actually watched one of my favourite westerns Stagecoach while in Monument Valley.🌵
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To quote a line from Jerry Seinfeld...

"My bucket list was causing me too much stress.

So I just changed the first letter...

And now it's my F***it list"


If I get to an item -- great! If I do something else instead -- OK. And if I don't get to it -- oh well...

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LeverGunner wrote: Tue Jan 20, 2026 11:11 pm I flew to visit a friend in California last year. I had previously said I'd never fly, but after having done it, I am so glad I did. It wa s a heck of a lot of fun and I want to travel now just to fly!
Go to your local airport, find a flight instructor and take a 30-45 minute introductory lesson just for the fun of it. Wont cost as much as a ride in the cattle cars they call airliners.
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So far so good...

Grew up poor, but became at least 'comfortable' (able to work ethically now because 'living below my means' came naturally).
Looked out my bedroom window as a kid and thought I'd like to build a house in the valley there where I grew up - did that.
Wanted to make the little pond bigger and make a separate bigger pond - did that.
Wanted to meet and marry either a hot teenage girl, a ballet dancer, a farm girl, or a nurse - got all those in one woman.
Wanted to raise kids with good values who were smart - my wife saw to that.
Wanted to see the kids all find good life-mates, and the last one did so this past year.
Wanted to have a chance to corrupt and educate some grandkids, and that seems to be materializing (five of 'em so far...).
Wanted to hold together and perhaps even add on to the family homestead (since my great grandfather hunted here in the 1880's) - so far so good there.

Nothing too major on my bucket list now other than to re-do some of the farm projects that need repair, while I'm still able, and hopefully to spend a summer going through my gun collection with my son, shooting them all, deciding which to sell, which to upgrade, which to keep, and so on. He's less sentimental than I am, so will be better at such things.

I would like at some point to go to Alaska...
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LEngthy --- but to add some humor and levity --- thought i would add the humorous bucket list compiled by Adam Carolla, the comedian , a few years back





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• Have my hands registered as weapons.

• Get kicked out of a casino for winning.

• Jump into a body of water with a knife between my teeth.

• Have a cape removed onstage.

• Have a sports jersey pulled over a nice suit.

• Be killed by the person I told to kill me if I started to become a zombie.

• Wipe down a gun.

• Silently communicate/point to my watch underwater.

• Punch out my undercover partner who is about to say something he shouldn't and blow our cover.

• Play bass in an all-black band, be the only white guy. and whisper something onstage to the conga player and then laugh.

• Put my hand over the mouth of a beautiful woman to stop her from screaming and alerting the bad guys.

• Get shot at and brush it off, saying, “I ain't got time to bleed.”

• Be able to say someone attempted suicide over me: She threw herself on the train tracks.”

• Catch a punch and twist the guy’s hand until he goes down to his knees.

• Have a celebrity shorten my name in an interview. “Bobby De Niro says working with Ace was great.

• Be embroiled in a lawsuit that leads to a heroic story: "I broke the leg of a gangbanger robbing a liquor store, and now he’s suing me.”

• Stop a crime by throwing something. A guy steals a purse and starts running. I throw a can of corn football-style and knock him out.

• Track someone. I dismount my horse, then do that low squat where I pick up a clump of dirt and let it sift through my fingers.

• Hawk a championship belt or Super Bowl ring at a pawn shop when I hit rock bottom.

• Shout, ‘Release the hounds!”

• Be lost in the Utah desert with a hot chick, then come across an old Indian guy and speak his language.

• Pull a fake mustache off someone and shout, “A-ha!”.

• Have a hot towel on my face at a barbershop with a cigar sticking out.

• Dislocate my shoulder to get out of a straitjacket.

• Snap Larry King’s suspenders and turn him into a pile of ashes.

• Shout “Not on my watch....”

• Direct a movie called Awesome so that entertainment shows will have to refer to me as “Awesome director Adam Carolla.” Then follow it up with the sequel Hung Like a Rhino.

• Drive a car off a pier onto a garbage barge.

• Be stripped of a crown.

• Tell my team to “synchronize watches.”

• Dry-shave with a machete.

• Pull down a surgical mask and say, “There’s nothing I could do” or beat someone on the chest and shout, “Live, darn you!”

• Box a kangaroo.

• Demand unmarked bills.

• Drape a suit jacket over handcuffs in the front like John Gotti.

• Fend off a Kodiak bear with a torch.

• Pop the locks on an attaché case full of money and slide it across a table.

• Be tied to a chair with a hot chick.

• Have to choose between cutting a red wire and a blue wire.

• Fight someone on top of a moving train.
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That about covers it !
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Streetstar wrote: Wed Jan 21, 2026 5:57 pm
Adams "Bucket List" List
To paraphrase the famous line from Jaws: "We're gonna need a BIGGER bucket!"

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Griff wrote: Tue Jan 20, 2026 10:06 pm Has anyone fulfilled any "bucket list" items, even if at the time, you didn't consider them as such? My son & I were talking last nite about accomplishments and/or regrets.

I have a few. But, probably the best one is that I got to ride in the Goodyear blimp out of San Pedro, CA on one of their training flights. Took my wife and 8 year old son. Who got to fly in the co-pilot's seat, and received a "captain's" cap.
I am jealous about the blimp ride.
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Yeah. I always searched for a true love, life mate. Found her in Nancy. 22 amazing years.
Bucket list filled.
Then she passed.
Now I have Ashley. Our love is the equal.
Bucket list filled.
I want for nothing.
Well, more range time….
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I have thought about it. I don't really have much I want to do. Maybe shooting at the buffalo target at the FOBD gun range.
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Too much unpredictability today to hold to any kind of a "must do" list. I expect to face a lot of hardship in the future so my philosophy has changed somewhat to be more appreciative of things as they come.
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