The Glade 4.0

I think everyone knows what a bucket list is, if not it is basically a list of things you want to do before you die.

1) See the Aurora Borealis
2) See the giant sequoias in California
3) Visit Fiji
4) Take a trip down the Amazon river
5) Take a trip into space

I am sure there are some other things that I would like to do but these are my top five, with number 5 being the most problematic, but I am hoping for commercial space flight to become more affordable than millions per trip.

So what are yours?

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I met this six-year-old child, with this blank, pale, emotionless face and, the blackest eyes... the devil's eyes. I spent eight years trying to reach him, and then another seven trying to keep him locked up because I realized what was living behind that boy's eyes was purely and simply... evil

I have a list somewhere in storage ... Off the top of my head, it included:

1) Fly in a hot-air balloon
2) Go to the bottom of the sea (a deep trench, that kind of bottom)
3) See the Earth from Space
4) Ski jump

There are more, can't think of them right now.

I note that most of these have something to do with escaping my earthly bonds.

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This cold and dark tormented hell
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So when you get to heaven
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1) Machu Picchu and Aguas Calientes near Lima
2) Carnival in Rio de Janeiro
3) Wingsuit Basejump
4) Snowboard Whistler/Blacomb, Jackson's Hole/Teton, Patagonia, New Zealand, Korea and Japan, Tahoe, Mammoth and the list keeps going on and on
5) Surf Hawaii, Australia, South Africa and Maldives
6) Bora Bora, Tahiti
7) Angkor Wat
8) See the sunrise on every continent
9)

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"It's real, grew up in trife life, the times of white lines
The hype vice, murderous nighttimes and knife fights invite crimes" - Nasir Jones

I made such a list 30 years ago, 101 things to do before I die. I'd managed about 80 of them before I lost the list on a computer crash. Many of them were fairly mundane, fall in love, get married, become a father - in that order. Some of the last and lost 20 will never happen, such as Star in a Broadway Play and walk on the Moon and Mars. Some of them were done simply by living long enough, toast in the new millennium, or letting technology catch up, have a Dick Tracy style phone, have my very own computer (that was a pretty big concept in 1980, not so much a few years later).

I've done some on Killuas' list, having seen both the Aurora Borealis and the Southern Lights and I had seen the Giant Sequoias in California when I was a kid and again several times over the years.

I am not the one to take the physical risks like Ski Jumping or wing suit base jumping, but admire you guys for wanting and be willing to do that.

I need to finish my first novel to complete one of the big ones.

I haven't even started realistically being in all 50 states and all the Canadian State like entities, though Alaska was a good time.

Hmm, Absinthe is now available and it was on that list.

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

1. Sail to the Bahamas and then down to the Virgin Islands.
2. Drive to and hike 10 of the major western parks.
3. Visit Tahiti.
4. Space travel.
5. Write a novel.

There are others I don't remember at the moment.

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Memento Vivere

I have local knowledge.
That sandbar was not there yesterday!

Only one ...

Fly across the Antarctic.

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1. Visit Italy
2. Learn to speak a foreign language fluently.
3. Visit Machu Picchu
4. See Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro
5. Own a House again with a Pool or near water.
6. Complete a Marathon and a Triathalon

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Dream as if you'll live forever...
...Live as if you'll die tomorrow

Vivere Senza Rimpianti

Own a couple of hundred acres of land and raise Arabians.

I have had less and less confidence in being able to accomplish this as I've aged - it's something for a younger man because of the physical demands required.

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In time, this too shall pass.

Pretty sure that's a human rights violation...

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1) Sky-dive
2) Cage dive with Great White Sharks
3) Visit Ireland
4) Visit Japan and/0r China
5) Have a kid
6) Own a house on the beach (ocean)

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I grew up raising Arabians. It is pretty demanding, but if it's your dream, GET ON IT.

How old are you now?

It has its drawbacks. They tie you down in a big way - you can't take them to a kennel and go on vacation. And it can be very expensive. And they are loud - the constant aiyieyieyieyieyieyie can get annoying.

"Violation" is such a strong word...

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In time, this too shall pass.

When I was younger I hated History classes. It was the most boring thing out of my schooling.

As I got older, History became far more fascinating to me as I began to grow in touch with my own mortality. Now I soak up with great interest practically any bit of historical knowledge I can find.

Because of this, a lot of my list would likely be centered around visiting historical places. The obvious ones are like the Coliseum, Sistine Chapel, Stonehenge, the Great Wall, etc. But the less obvious are not even physical monuments, but the places. The idea of being in London, for example, would be awesome. Regardless if it's nothing like it used to be, the fact that it "used to be" is what interests me.

So yeah... a lot of Europe is on my list.

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Les Zombis et les Loups-Garous!

History was the best class. Sometimes I wish I could have majored in History in college.

You reminded me that I had Hadrian's Wall on there. Made it, and it's completely worth it. Especially in winter, so you can imagine just how miserable it must have been to have been posted there 2000 years ago.

I think I have Krak Des Chevaliers, in Syria, on my list, too. I mentioned to my daughter that maybe we'll take a bike tour there when I'm retired, and Syria has joined the list of places not having bloody civil war by that time.

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This cold and dark tormented hell
Is all I`ll ever know
So when you get to heaven
May the devil be the judge