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bif

(27,264 posts)
Sat May 9, 2026, 11:39 AM May 9

What's on your bucket list?

I'd love to spend a week or two in Venice. Maybe rent an apartment and just explore the whole lagoon, take a ton of reference photos to do paintings of, and do some painting there.

How about you?

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What's on your bucket list? (Original Post) bif May 9 OP
This: True Dough May 9 #1
Tour of France biophile May 9 #2
I went to Venice in 2016 for the first time and ended up going in 2017 and 2018 again. kimbutgar May 9 #3
My favorite city on the planet. bif May 9 #5
doing last night's dinner dishes......... lastlib May 9 #4
I hear ya! some_of_us_are_sane May 9 #11
More like a barrell list, lol. mwmisses4289 May 9 #6
A few weeks in Paris with my wife. NNadir May 9 #7
I'd like to go to Amsterdam to see Anne Frank's house MIButterfly May 9 #8
Life is short and uncertain... Rizen May 9 #9
I'd like to win the lottery. Morbius May 9 #10
I can only DREAM of England and Scotland, Ireland.... some_of_us_are_sane May 9 #12
Outlive the Planet Terra. Wolf Frankula May 10 #13
Fly in an open cockpit bi-plane. Take a ride in an hot air balloon, and Emile May 10 #14
Tahiti, Moorea, French Polynesia mnhtnbb May 10 #15

biophile

(1,583 posts)
2. Tour of France
Sat May 9, 2026, 12:21 PM
May 9

Mostly the southeast and eastern regions but all of it is appealing- the Loire valley, the Dordogne, Grenoble, Poiters, anywhere Eleanor of Aquitaine might have been. Oh and a river cruise on the Rhine.

kimbutgar

(27,565 posts)
3. I went to Venice in 2016 for the first time and ended up going in 2017 and 2018 again.
Sat May 9, 2026, 12:34 PM
May 9

I could live there it’s so awesome! We just walked around and got lost and found in Venice.

With the reign of terror we are experiencing in this country I’m afraid to fly anymore. But I’d return to Venice in an heart beat but Tahiti and New Zealand are my next wishful destinations. Sadly the way things are going I don’t know if I will make it there.

bif

(27,264 posts)
5. My favorite city on the planet.
Sat May 9, 2026, 02:02 PM
May 9

I've been there several times, but only for a few days at a time. It's a step back in time to the 18th Century. Just magical.

lastlib

(28,661 posts)
4. doing last night's dinner dishes.........
Sat May 9, 2026, 01:52 PM
May 9

that's about the limit of my ambition this morning....

mwmisses4289

(4,751 posts)
6. More like a barrell list, lol.
Sat May 9, 2026, 02:35 PM
May 9

Travel, mostly. Both the states and abroad. But alas, finances.
I will just have watch you tube videos and find recipes of food from the places I would love to visit.

MIButterfly

(3,173 posts)
8. I'd like to go to Amsterdam to see Anne Frank's house
Sat May 9, 2026, 05:09 PM
May 9

and Cooperstown, NY to see the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Rizen

(1,124 posts)
9. Life is short and uncertain...
Sat May 9, 2026, 07:00 PM
May 9

So I've been doing minor bucket list things. I went to the zoo, butterfly pavilion and the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. I'd definitely like to travel in the future but I haven't thought about where.

Morbius

(1,120 posts)
10. I'd like to win the lottery.
Sat May 9, 2026, 08:34 PM
May 9

Eight figures, preferably. Seven, at least. After that there's a few things I'd like to do, like get a house with a bigger kitchen.

some_of_us_are_sane

(3,645 posts)
12. I can only DREAM of England and Scotland, Ireland....
Sat May 9, 2026, 09:53 PM
May 9
But I'm scared to death of flying. Can't swim. Boats are out because the sea also terrifies me. Was on a fishing boat once off New Jersey and the damn engine kept cutting out and we drifted almost into international waters with waves high as a mountain coming at us. The other passengers were all fishing and everyone but me got seasick. NEVER AGAIN!

I'll just have to dream and fantasize.

Emile

(43,320 posts)
14. Fly in an open cockpit bi-plane. Take a ride in an hot air balloon, and
Sun May 10, 2026, 04:46 AM
May 10

go for an underwater adventure in a mini submarine.

mnhtnbb

(33,511 posts)
15. Tahiti, Moorea, French Polynesia
Sun May 10, 2026, 06:29 AM
May 10

I've come close to booking trips there in the last couple of years, but, in the end, just couldn't bring myself to do it. It's such a lot of flying time and I really hate flying now, and have for at least the last 10 years. It's also a big honeymoon and couples romantic destination, that it might be too sad going alone.
I'm somewhat resolved to confine my travel at this point in my life to closer to home. I am going to the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, SC at the end of the month, which is one of my favorite things to do.

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