…That it is time to update the bucket list?
Nothing like a smile-inducing sit-down with the good old bucket list.
I have often stated that half the fun of the traveling I do is the planning stages. Considering most of what I consider the way I want to spend the rest of my life involves travel… one would have to understand how happy the idea of the list could end up being.
But this is no bar stool promise. I am not eyeballing the things on my list as a fantasy alone. There is every reason to believe my intentions to fulfill each and every one of these goals is feasible and probable. Many of the things I have added to the list in the past have been done. Many more will be accomplished. The trick to recognizing what is realistic is not to set the expectation but only the promise or intent. I will do these things but I will do them when my path allows and fits them. When that time arrives I am going to gladly step into the role and situation, enjoy the hell out of it and then sit down and update the list.
It is hardly surprising that I am putting travel destinations the highest on my list of things to accomplish and enjoy. London (starting with my umpteenth journey on December 19th is a must at least once, possibly twice per year. Europe remains the highest of desires, including a trip to Mykonos, Greece; Budapest, Sicily, Berlin, Roma, Florence, Moscow and Nice. I want to re-visit Amsterdam, Paris, Edinburgh, Dublin, Prague, Brussels, Vienna, Copenhagen…
In the rest of the world I want to see and experience Bangkok, Thailand, Cairo and the Pyramids, South Africa, Hong Kong, a second trip to Tokyo and Rio de Janeiro and New Zealand.
Oh… and I should probably go to Hawaii one day. I’ve actually never been.
Also on the list are some concrete accomplishments to be done while traveling… or while at home (wherever the future decides that should be.) For one thing I plan on being a published author. I will also create and write for a television series (at least one.) I plan on teaching myself daily and learning web design and video editing (something I did in the 80′s and had an incredible knack for…) I plan on running a marathon and jumping out of an airplane (cliche… I know) and as if the travels I want to do on my own were not enough I plan on being a contestant in a team competing on Amazing Race. I love a good challenge.
Whatever I do, wherever I do it and however it gets done the bottom line is that it makes me happy. That would be the point of a bucket list. What do I want to do? What will fulfill me? What makes me happy when I think about it?
I know. More tattoos.
For today I am going to concentrate on the writing, the thinking and the planning. I am going to find some amazing things as I move forward. Some I may not have thought of and added to the list. That’s icing on a very big, rich and delicious cake.
Be Happy. Be Well. Be.
October 21st, 2009 at 9:58 am
Ahhhhhh cousin. Love it! I’ll jump out of the plane with you. Maybe we’ll still get on Amazing Race together, and we’ll have to jump out of a plane during the show.