What are 10 things you'd like to do....

[Skyrunner]

Hey Ya'll,

I just wanted to ask an interesting question to ya'll. What are the top ten things that you would like to accomplish in your life? I think it's interesting to see what people would like to do before they kick the bucket. Also, it gives me ideas and things to think about.

Here is my top 10 list. Not necessarily in order.

1. Add one more little one to the family.

2. Run the Inca Trail (only the serviceable trails) with my son

3. Get hired by LUV and retire with them

4. Run the Grand Canyon Double Rim crossing - 44 miles/12,000ft of elev gain

5. Take my wife to Paris for 2 weeks - I know, I know. But my wife likes Paris.

6. Attend at least one World Cup Final with my friends and family.

7. Teach at least 3 years of elementary or high school.

8. Be a Big Brother to at least 10 kids/yound adults.

9. Break the Masters record for the Pikes Peak Marathon.

10. Someday have Pete McGlade's job at LUV.

Hmm. Off the top of my head.

Take care and fly safe,

Chris Bow

 

[Looking4Traffic]

Inca Trail

Hey Chris:

Regarding Goal #2, I ran 8 miles of the Inca Trail which finished at Machu Pichu, Peru.

Unbelievable, man, you gotta do it. Profound experience. Be sure though, that you spend at least 4 days in Cuzco or elsewhere at altitude to get acclimated before you start a run two miles above sea level.

Report back when you cross that one off the list.

 

[Dan CFI/CFII]

What is amazing, is that I read that list... and I ain't doing too bad!

1. Add one more little one to the family.
----Not married, but it's on the list

2. Run the Inca Trail (only the serviceable trails) with my son
----Did that less than a month ago

3. Get hired by LUV and retire with them
----Still have to wear a tie for that one, I'll pass

4. Run the Grand Canyon Double Rim crossing - 44 miles/12,000ft of elev gain
----How bout Rim to Rim to Rim in a day. Not really a "run" but you gotta be booking it. Kinda fun, if you like having to carry 4 liter dromedaries with ya.

5. Take my wife to Paris for 2 weeks - I know, I know. But my wife likes Paris.
-----Never been to Paris, but that might require I own a tie too, would also require a wife

6. Attend at least one World Cup Final with my friends and family.
-----World Cup would be sweet, but I could do the same with NCAA basketball

7. Teach at least 3 years of elementary or high school.
-----you left out Junior High. done all three full time for a few years, Junior High boys aren't so bad, its the clique happy girls that are difficult

8. Be a Big Brother to at least 10 kids/yound adults.
----not with the Big Brothers program, but I do that... They get real fun if you have known them a long time (two of my kids are twins, and the best basketball players in the state, known them since they were in Kindergarten)

9. Break the Masters record for the Pikes Peak Marathon.
----You're big on running, but I hold a few speed ascents of mountains only mountaineers climb. What is really scary is when someone recognizes you because you climbed such and such in so long.

10. Someday have Pete McGlade's job at LUV.
----Someday I'd like to have a "job" again, but until then--I'll play with kids!


Five outta Ten! That makes me feel pretty darn good about myself! But I've got more that I've got to add...

Learn to play the guitar. you'd think with all my youth work that I'd know how, but not yet (this summer perhaps!)

Climb a certain mountain every month of the year (missing July and August)

Have to pay income tax some year (you kow, if you've never made enough money to have to pay tax, you kinda want to)

Climb Cerro Torre (not Maestri style--a new route would be nice, but impossible )

Get a job using my certificates, degree, or both.

Get 100 percent of the family vehicles running (only five out of ten there now--but the average age is 1968)

I like this thread. It makes me feel good about myself. Instead of just being an unemployed bum, I'm really accomplishing things. Like the trip to Utah last week... And I've got a lot of work done on the trucks lately...

Dan

PS-the Inca trail is something you've got to do. But while you're in the area--climb something. And the Atacama is really sweet. The salt flats, the salt slot canyons, the Flamingoes... And whatever you do, avoid Lima. That place sucks.

 

[Flying Illini]

Learn to play the guitar. you'd think with all my youth work that I'd know how, but not yet (this summer perhaps!)

Dan CFI/CFII,
If you haven't learned I would highly recommend it. I just graduated this past December and bought myself an electric guitar to learn on. (I did alot of research online and spoke and experimented on friends' guitars. Decided the electric would be easier to learn on with the strings closer to the fretboard. Accoustic is on my list of things to do). I am still learning and sometimes I frustrate the hell out of myself but so far I can play "Old mac Donald," "On top of old Smokey," and the National Anthem along with a few others. I would love to get good enough to play the beginning riff to "Thunderstruck" but I just don't have the time or patience for that...yet!!! It's fun to dabble on outside on a nice day or while you're waiting for more posts or replys to your threads

 

[328dude]

1. Visit Figi and ask for directions to Chicago.

2. Plant 6 40 foot Maple Ficas Tree's in my yard to rid myself the painstaking hours spent raking up fall leaves.

3. Have a party at one of Saddam's palaces with plenty of frolic and binge drinking.

4. Have Girls Gone Wild show up at number 3.

5. Find out what Steve Irwin is like in real life. Aint she a beut.

6. Slap Michael Moore with a rubber hose.

To be Continued.

 

[ilinipilot]

Neat Thread:

1. fall in love

2. Have a house by the water in RI

3. Come back and speak at my school's career night

4. be able to golf in the 70s

5. referee a major sporting event

6. watch the Red Sox win the world series

all that I can come up with now

 

[bobbysamd]

Things to do

I thought that only Letterman has a Top Ten list(s)!

I can only think of a few at the moment:

1. Retire.

2. Do some flying and/or find a way back to aviation.

3. Travel.

4. Read more.

Those are all that I can think of at the moment. I guess I must be in good shape if those are all that come to mind.

Good discussion.

 

[VNugget]

My goals in life:

1) Find true love (more specifically, from a certain someone)

2) Sit in a jet fighter (DONE and DONE!!! and.... done? )

3) RIDE/FLY a jet fighter (*sigh* if I ever end up with a spare $10K to drop...)

4) Help restore and fly a warbird.

5) Make a decent living and support a family (see #1) solely by flying (anything).

And those are really the only major ones I can think of... Take care of those, and my life will be fulfilled.

 

[350DRIVER]

1) Get hired by AWA and retire 36 years later at that "magic" 6-0-

2) Go on one date with Elvis's daughter (for kicks)

3) Nice house in La Jolla

4) Watch Cowboys win a superbowl in first year under Parcels

5) Genetically engineer a female who is perfect with ALL the traits I want her to have.

6) Travel the world over....

7) Contribute millions to the French tourism industry and shop there till I was tired.

8) Try and outlaw props on airplanes (somehow) and show proof that "props" were for boats.

9) Get JDRU25 to post his airline >Eastern States on this board (he promised he would)

10) Try and help out the less fortunate in our society to the best of my ability.- start a flying foundation up to let these kids experience aviation.

happy easter

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[2000flyer]

Interesting thread. My contribution:

1. Retire and enjoy my days golden years on the porch at our cabin on a lake with my lovely wife. Enjoy my children (and hopefully grandchildren) when they visit. Wake every morning knowing I've lived a full and happy life with no regrets and always looking forward to tomorrow!

2-10. Who cares. I've got number 1!!!

Regards,
2000Flyer
(about 22 years to go to number 1 )

 

[46Driver]

1) Win the lottery

and/or

2) To quote 328 dude, "Slap Michael Moore with a rubber hose".

 

[KigAir]

4. Have Girls Gone Wild show up at number 3.

I don't know if you heard but these guys got busted a couple of weeks ago in PFN. It appears that some of their Wild girls were underage.

 

[Draginass]

Click my fingers and go back five years. That way I'd have used my other skills to find a rewarding job instead of wasting them in commercial aviation.

 

[brianjohn]

I second 2000 Flyer. Except my beauty queen and I don't have the children yet...
Right now #1 for me would be surprising my wife with a brand new VW Passat to thank her for all the support she's given me through school and flight training.
Hmmmm, anything associated with my wife would be #1.
#2 Would be going on a cross-country bicycle trip with my dad. He's an avid biker and over the summer he usually rides 150 miles on a good weekend. I've never gotten into it much myself but I'd love to do it for the old man.
#3 Would have to be going down in a shark cage in the Great Barrier Reef with a bunch of Great Whites.
#4 Would have to be waking up one morning and suddenly having a strong desire to never stop reading instead of wasting time on this blasted computer.
#5- Having enough money so I wouldn't have to work and could buy a single pilot jet and use it to transport medical patients to the care they needed.
More to come...
Excellent thread!

 

[WrightAvia]

I don't get the list thing.

As an obsessive compulsive person, I find that lists are too confining. They tend to keep your horizons too focused. I have done alot of spectacular and fun things...and never would have dreamt of doing them 2,3, 5 or 10 years prior.

Lists are O.K. for some things...and some people, but I would have to say they definitely need constant review.

 

[avbug]

Lots of climbing talk...

Climb into bed on time. Climb back out on time.

See my kids.

Die fast.

 

[enigma]

My top five involve my kids and my God. I'll just leave that alone.

In no particular order

6. build myself a hangar/shop that will hold about four autos, two tractors and one biplane

7. build a factoryfive Cobra Daytona coupe replica. www.factoryfive.com

8. scratch build a Steen Skybolt

9. retire with no accidents, incidents or violations

10. retire before all of the VOR's are completely gone. I know that satnav is so much more precise, but I KNOW that when the needle points to the VOR, that there is something there. I'm just not comfortable relying of a system that is only COMPUTING" my position.

11. fly an airplane with synthetic vision, such as the Kollsman unit recently certified on the G4/5

12. take my wife to Hawaii

13. ski a black diamond trail at Purgatory.

14. ride the Durango to Silverton narrow gauge train.

15. bungee jump from a hot air balloon then cut the bungee and freefall before pulling the ripcord.

good thread
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