Fun poll: Bucket List - 30 by 30

Happy10th! · July 2010

I have 6 months before the big three-oh, and I feel like I've lived my twenties pretty fully, but there's always something new to do! I want to create a "30 by 30" list.

What small, big, silly, crazy, educational, risque, noteworthy or not things are on your bucket list? What have you done, plan to do or wish you would have done?

altreu · July 2010

I wish I had traveled more. I would love to have made it to Italy and France before we had O. Now it'll have to be a family vacation rather than an ultra-romantic getaway. I am glad to have taken two weeks to drive cross-country with a girlfriend when I moved from Washington DC to Cali. We zig-zagged all over the US and saw a lot of great sights. I would not change that experience for the world.

I'd also like to study forensics. It has always fascinated me. I am just not ready for more student loans.

NotJustAnAuntie · July 2010

My bucket list is 100 things to do before I die, I can post the whole list if you want.

SportyMrs.23 · July 2010

I did a 101 in 1001 (101 goals in a 1001 days) list you can check out.

101 in 1001

kittylove · July 2010

Some of this stuff I have done but my list would include: buy a house, go to mardi-gra, go to a topless beach, weekend of pampering and wine tasting in Napa Valley with friends, a long road trip, take a photography class, concour my fear of flying, bungie jump, take a cooking class or two, and learn to sew.

StefandTodd · July 2010

I have a list of my 30 before 30 in my blog...but I started my list a few weeks ago and have until February, so they aren't big things and don't include things I'd done before a few weeks ago. When I was putting it together, I googled around for inspiration and I thought it was pretty awesome, cool (and SO different than what I was looking for) that people had their 30 by 30 list and were working on it at 25. I was like, yeah, I probably am not going to be able to add "backpack around Europe" to my list of things to do in the next 7 months :P ...anyway, good luck with your list!

amyfelice · July 2010

There are things i want to do , but I have tried them multiple times and not succeeded, so I have basically given up, Learning Spanish was my top goal for years and I have just basically decided that I will never really learn it.

the other is knitting, I try every so often and I always fail, so it's just not my thing.

Things I DID do before 30:

Travel: Paris, Stockholm, Israel, Costa Rica, Canada (Banff) etc. I strongly recommend Paris if you can get the time off. I hear flights are very inexpensive right now. Also I did a trip of all the Nat'l Parks in the area, and I loved Lassen Volcanic Park, so if you prefer to stay close to home, I would put that trip on the list.It's up near the Oregon border. Sequoia and King's Canyon are also very beautiful. Snorkeling in HI was awesome too, but most people around here have been to HI.

Music shows: Hundreds, I can't name them all, but I loved seeing lots of bands when I was younger. Now I don't care as much. I'm too old for rock and roll as my DH says, haha. If you have not ever been, the "Hardly Strictly Bluegrass" festival in GG park in September is a must do. I went every year until I had the baby, it's awesome and totally FREE!!!!! Best part about it Worst part is parking, we used to take our bikes and drive to where the zoo is and bike down along the water to the park. Or take the motorcycle. i parked one year and we got lucky. I would try to do it.

Art museums every week when i lived in NYC- right now there is an awesome exhibit at the De Young, Impressionists paintings from the Musee D'orsay in Paris, I would put that on my list, we are trying to get to it at some point.

Hiking- tons of hiking. Banff was really beautiful but there is tons of nice hikes around here. Steep Ravine is a classic, starts from Pantoll ranger station on Mt tam, goes down to Stinson beach on the Matt Davis trail and then you can have a few oysters down by the beach and come back up on the Steep Ravine trail. I used to do that every year before I got old and out of shape, haha.

I'm not an adrenaline person so "skydiving" or "parasailing" won't be on my list ever. I don't even do roller coasters :P

Happy10th! · July 2010

NotJustAnAuntie:
My bucket list is 100 things to do before I die, I can post the whole list if you want.

Yes, please!

Happy10th! · July 2010

kittylove:

...take a photography class...learn to sew.

These are things I keep saying I want to do, so I think I will add these. Thank you!

Happy10th! · July 2010

StefandTodd:
I have a list of my 30 before 30 in my blog...but I started my list a few weeks ago and have until February, so they aren't big things and don't include things I'd done before a few weeks ago. When I was putting it together, I googled around for inspiration and I thought it was pretty awesome, cool (and SO different than what I was looking for) that people had their 30 by 30 list and were working on it at 25. I was like, yeah, I probably am not going to be able to add "backpack around Europe" to my list of things to do in the next 7 months :P ...anyway, good luck with your list!

Oh, I have to go check out your blog! Yep, I just came up with this idea last night, so I have six months, so nothing too crazy can be added. I'm also putting things on that I haven't done prior to now.

Happy10th! · July 2010

amyfelice:

Thank you for the list!!! I've traveled to Europe a couple times, (Paris, London, Rennes, Salzburg, Geneva, Chamonix, Munich, Baden-Baden, northern Italy), Korea twice, the Bahamas. I still want to see Greece, but I don't think that will happen in the next 6 months.

I want to go camping, so maybe one of your closer-to-home suggestions would work for that.

I've been skydiving.

I want to take DD to the Academy of Sciences (even though she's too young, so it's more for me!), so maybe we can hit the De Young too.

futrkingsley · July 2010

I'm well past 30 so this wouldn't be for me. Thankfully, I've done a lot of the things I really really wanted to do, and the rest is gravy (visiting new places, having fun experiences that aren't goal oriented).

I really wanted to visit Paris, be a wife, and be a mother. Done, done and doing. Along the way I learned to knit, sew, and take a pretty decent photo.

DH and I keep a small list of things we want to do with DS, but honestly those are things for us. He'd be happiest if we all stayed home and played hockey all day.

kittylove · July 2010

Happy10th!:
kittylove:

...take a photography class...learn to sew.

These are things I keep saying I want to do, so I think I will add these. Thank you!

Both of those are things I really want to do SOON. I used to sew but if you don't use it you lose it and I lost it! I also would really love to learn how to take a good photo. I hate having me SLR and not knowing how to use it.

bubbs147 · July 2010

How about hang gliding? DH did it and said it was way better than skydiving!

NotJustAnAuntie · July 2010

I started this as scrapbook project, with a page for each item as I finished it, that's why #100 is what it is... if it has a "**" before it, that means I've done it. I wrote the list in Sept. 2004, when we were on our way to LA to see a Giants game at Dodger Stadium, so that's why it's first. DH and I started talking about it, and I started writing my list out!

***************THE LIST***************
**1. Go to an away game
2. Fly first class
3. See a shuttle launch live
4. Drive or ride a train cross country
5. Go to Giants Spring Training
6. Parasail
**7. Own Manolo Blahnik shoes
**8. Appear on television
**9. Play a table game in a casino
10. Try colored contacts
**11. See Madonna in concert
12. Stand at the edge of a volcano
13. See a show on Broadway
**14. Go to an NFL game
**15.Go to an NBA game
**16. Be a mom
17. Get my RN
**18. Own a convertible
**19. Learn to fry a really good egg
20. Scuba dive
21. Be in a live studio audience
**22. Have a scrap layout published
23. Own all of John Cusack's movies on DVD
**24. Own my own house
25. Learn to knit and actually finish a project
**26. See "Beach Blanket Babylon"
**27. Meet someone famous... really famous
28. See my name on the Jumbotron at a ballpark
29. Learn to play golf and play a full 18 holes
**30. Go to a drive-in movie
**31. Own a bathtub I can stretch out in
32. Go to Legoland
**33. Host a dinner party for 6 or more people
34. Ride in a biplane. Go upside down
**35. Have a pint at the Guinness Brewery
36. Ride an air boat in the Everglades
37. Take an Alaskan cruise
38. Go to a game at Fenway
39. Go to a game at Wrigley Field
40. Attend a black-tie gala
41. Go to the Grand Ole Opry
42. See Mt. Rushmore
43. Attend a Democratic Nat'l Convention
**44. Buy a brand new car
45. Cross the Panama Canal
46. Cruise the Mediterranian
**47. Drink a bottle of wine that's older than I am
48. Make a dish that involves setting something on fire
49. Paint something and hang it on my wall
50. See all the movies on AFI's "100 Best" list
51. Throw the 1st pitch at an MLB game
**52. See Paris from the Eiffel Tower
53. Go see Emma in Germany
**54. Spend some time in Ireland and England
55. Go on safari in Africa
56. Pet a sheep in New Zealand
**57. Drive a moped or motorcycle
58. "Jump out of a perfectly good airplane" (Sktdive)
**59. Win something on the radio
60. Cross the Equator on a boat
61. Attend the Opening Ceremonies of the Olympics
62. Explore Washington DC, see all the monuments
63. Have a beer at Oktoberfest in Munich
64. Spend New Year's in another country
65. Witness Carnivale in Rio
66. Go to New Orleans, but not during Mardi Gras
67. Learn to juggle... well!
68. River raft through the Grand Canyon
69. Drink a champagne toast in a hot air balloon
70. Kiss the Blarney Stone
71. Drive on the "wrong" side of the road in England
72. See the aurora borealis
73. Own a purebred Chartreux or Tonkinese cat
74. Hurl a tomato at La Tomatina in Spain
**75. Pour soap bubbles in a public fountain
**76. "Discover" and name my own constellation
77. Make a pilgrimage to Graceland
**78. Walk across Abbey Road
79. Visit a former concentration camp
80. Have high tea in London
81. See a play at the Ashland Shakespeare Festival
**82. Brew beer. ACtually drink it.
**83. Send a message in a bottle
84. Climb a glacier
85. Ride in a helicopter
86. Climb the Sydney Harbour Bridge
87. See the Great Pyramids at Giza
88. Walk on the Great Wall of China
89. Get a chocolate facial in Hershey, PA
90. Go to Burning Man. Once.
91. See the SF Giants win the World Series
**92. Participate in a political protest
93. Float in the Dead Sea
94. Watch an eclipse from start to finish
95. Visit the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
96. Go spelunking
**97. Marry my best friend
98. Dye at least part of my hair an unnatural color
99. Go to Yellowstone and "smell the geysers"
100. Finish this scrapbook

dblhappiness · July 2010

I love reading all of these replies. I didn't do a list but by the time I was 30 I had traveled to France, Belgium, New Zealand and Syndey, Australia, got married, and had two kids. I do have a long list of to-dos: learn to sew, take a photography class, drive across the country, see the Fall colors on the East Coast, go on a cruise, do some more international traveling, learn calligraphy, have always wanted to take DH to watch the Tour de France...gosh I'm sure there's more but that's all I can think of right now.

Happy10th! · July 2010

dblhappiness:
learn calligraphy

This is another one I started and haven't finished!

amyfelice · July 2010

Oh another one I have always wanted to see the Northern lights, or Aurora Borealis. I have no idea how to go about doing that, but I have a friend that is really into it and has managed to do it a bunch of times.

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