I Always Wanted to, but.....

[Native Vail Gal]

Is there anything that you've ever wanted to do or learn and life just hasn't given you the opportunity.....YET?!
I guess it's kindof my "Bucket List"!

For me:
it's going to Austria & Greece
becoming a professional photographer for National Geographic
Learning how to quilt the olden days way
Taking a Pottery Wheel Class
Go Sky Diving...
Climb a 14'er without throwing up on the way down!
Learning how to make a stained glass window....

That's all I can think of for now.....I'm SURE there's more.

How about you?

 

[Robyn]

Great thread NVG!

For me:
Ride the Rockies
Learn to Quilt
Start my catering business in full force
Go to Austria, Greece and Italy
Go back to Chile
Climb a 14er
See the winter Olympics in person

 

[Skimom]

Learn to knit or crochet. I've tried to teach myself with the "learn to do it yourself" kits, but just can't seem to do it. I think I'm all thumbs or something! But, I'd love to be one of those people that sit there with a project while at a meeting, or watching tv, or something.

Would love to travel more!

Want to ski at every resort in Colorado, then move on to every resort in the USA!

Own a two seat convertible. (Ditch the minivan!)

I'll have to think of more later!

 

[Pequenita]

I've a bunch, but the one that comes to mind immediately is: climb a 14er without throwing up on the way up.

 

[Native Vail Gal]

I've a bunch, but the one that comes to mind immediately is: climb a 14er without throwing up on the way up.

:ROTF: :ROTF: :ROTF: :ROTF:

 

[Kiragirl]

travel to Belgium
marry a freakin' rich man who's sexy as hell and speaks French (& English)
ski out west more
have a ski house in VT
see the Grand Canyon (that's right I haven't seen it YET)

 

[Severine]

see the Grand Canyon
travel to Ireland/Scotland/England
learn how to crochet
hike Katahdin (I'm a long way off from being able to do that right now)
scuba dive
go on an Alaskan cruise
swim with the dolphins and manatees
return to Paris as an adult (I was a high school freshman the only time I went...not the same)

have some peace and quiet (oh wait, that will come in about 20 years ) (I say this as cranky boy complains as he has all afternoon since he wouldn't nap today)

 

[NannyMin]

I don't know how I missed this thread!

I seriously have a ton of "Bucket List" items...here's a few!

• Live for a year in the South of France
• Learn to surf
• Ski hut to hut
• Climb all the 14ers (with or without puking!)
• Do a volunteer vacation in Eritrea
• Remodel a craftsman style bungalow
• Heli ski in Alaska
• Take a photography class
• Return to the Taj Mahal with the love of my life

 

[ski now work later]

[these are in no particular order]

*Cat ski in B.C. and ski at Whistler, Jackson, Steamboat, and Taos

*Take all of my children and my DH on a luxury ski vacation to Utah

*Not have to work in the afternoons so I can be with my kids before they head off to college

*Get permanent laser hair removal for annoying facial hair (now I need my GD reading glasses to see where to put the tweezers!)

*Volunteer more in my community

*Get really good at yoga and be extremely physically fit

*Improve my cooking skills

*Own a horse and stable him nearby in a great barn where I don't have to do the barn work

*Build an energy efficient second home in Northern Vermont as a family "compound"

 

[snowski/swimmouse]

Learn enough German to really use it (I've taken: the first semester 3X but they never have enough people at night to offer the 2nd semester)
Learn how to make an old fashioned quilt; I finally bought one from a friend/neighbor who made one almost exactly as I'd envisioned, colors and all
Travel to Ireland, Germany, Switzerland and Austria
Vacation in the summer in Bermuda
Own a canoe
Camp out in Maine in the summer-want companion
Oh, and a sweet, considerate, financially stable, attractive outdoorsman would improve everything!

 

[SkiNurse]

Oh, and a sweet, considerate, financially stable, attractive outdoorsman would improve everything!

 

[astridhj]

I've always wanted to travel around the world...
Be a better climber.
Get in better shape.
Learn more languages, and be better in the ones I already know.
Learn to scuba dive.
Be a ski bum for a season.
Learn to kite.

And what would life be without having a goal or a fantasy???

 

[ski diva]

Here's my list, or at least as it stands so far. Unfortunately, none of these things comes cheap!:(:

Have a house on the beach or in the Caribbean;

Spend a month or so each winter skiing out west;

Go cat or heli-skiing in the Canadian Rockies;

Ski in Europe;

Ski more places out west;

Visit the Greek islands;

Go for a ride in a hot air balloon.

 

[Kimmyt]

For things that I would love to do someday but probably never will:

learn to speak another language fluently
live in another country for a year or more

Things that I would love to do and probably someday will get around to:
learn to do something creative, whether it be sew, knit, woodwork (would love to learn to make beautiful bowls and things), etc.... I don't have a direction, but I know that I need something 'creative' in my life to balance myself out. Ah, someday.
Heliski in Alaska. Or somewhere.
Ski well enough to be able to really take advantage of a heliski trip.
Lead solid 5.10 sport, be a solid 5.6 gunks trad climber. Maybe do Shockley's nekkid.
Sub-25 5K?
Marathon
HIM or IM
Get better at gardening!
Be a 365/ bike commuter. Sack up and do my grocery shopping by bike.

 

[Ski Spirit]

Here's my list---some possible, some not too likely:

Build my own highly successful consulting business with a schedule totally under my control, allowing me vast amounts of free time in the winter.......

Have a house in Tahoe and/or Colorado/Utah

Have a house in the wine country of CA

Be multilingual in German, French and possibly Spanish

Ski all of the ski resorts I could ever dream of

Write a book

Travel to all of the places I've wanted to go but haven't seen
including Bali, Tibet, Africa, China, etc.

See the seven wonders of the world

Ski well enough to take a heli ski trip

Be incredibly fit and stay that way

Have enough time to study music and understand what it takes to compose

Take cooking classes with my husband

Find a summer hobby I love as much as skiing

Make yoga a regular part of my life and become as flexible as my husband!

Some of these are definitely wild daydreams....!!

 

[abc]

Is there anything that you've ever wanted to do or learn and life just hasn't given you the opportunity.....YET?!

NVG, bravo for the best non-skiing girlie thread!

A lot of interesting things I see others "wish". I only have a short one.

I prefer to focus on only one thing at a time so there're things I can't do NOW because I'm too busy -- well, skiing, for example! So I'm not including things I know I WILL do in due course (such as learning Spanish, xc skiing Finland or cruise the Nile etc).

So only a few things I can't figure out how to do EVER, either due to huge time conflict, or lack of opportunity beyond my control:

1) Live & work in Switzerland for 3-5 years and use the opportunity to learn German, French and Italian.
2) Live & work a few years "down under" and get to enjoy Australia and NZ. Maybe settle down there for my retirement...
3) Live (& work if possible) in Agentina or Chile for a couple years to ski the Andes and kayak the coast, AFTER I learn some basic Spanish (any day now ;-] )
4) Build a house! (I grew up in a builder's family so that's always the dream of every one of us in the family)

Number 1 and 2 are hard enough due to immigration & work permit issues. 1 is the hardest because there's chicken and egg thing between language and job. Trouble with 3 & 4 is only there mostly due to I don't have that many years of working life left that I can use for all of the above.

Couple of things got striped off the list through the years:

1) Living out west or in the mountains: I've already done once, may do it again when the mode strikes. It's easy enough to do for me and # of working years is the only constrain. I have other destinations on higher priority.
2) Learn to play the piano: It's the most "addicted" hobby I've so far done. It pushed ALL of my other hobbies out of my life. Decided that's not a healthy situation.
3) Marry a "rich" European and nail "wish list #1": Had that chance twice. But they both prefer to live in the US!!!