Well, I have reached the age of 70 and starting to work on a bucket list. I’ve scratched off two this year that we’re high on the list.

Back in the summer I got to get flight time in a DC3 which is on the bucket list of most pilots I know. After flying it I understand why it’s on the list. The controls are amazingly light for such a heavy aircraft and it just flies beautifully. I had a grin pasted on my face for several days. What a great experience.

When I grew up, quail where all over the place in Texas. My GrandPa had a few great bird dogs and after the Army I raised and trained some good ones. Quail hunting was by far my favorite hunting. In the mid nineties, fire ants showed up in my part of Texas and the quail became extinct in the area soon thereafter. From that experience I always wanted to hunt Pheasant. I had a few acquaintances in Kansas that invited me, but a hunt just never came together. Last Monday I finally experienced it. What a hoot! I’m scheduled to go again in January and can’t wait.

What is on YOUR bucket list?

Wow-#1 would be nice. I had a lot of aviation in my past with my father having an Air Force career. His equipment was mostly Recip as he retired in '68. When we cleaned out the house I found a bunch of his old flight manuals.
Traveling in Europe would be nice but fighting the crowds would be a pain. Maybe some day. Another thing is playing a musical instrument. Probably strings or keyboard.

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Depending on where you want to go and what you want to do in Europe, the crowds might not be that bad. I lived in Germany a few years while in the Army and worked in Western Europe a lot in the early 2000’s. We were there for three weeks in 2017 and are going back for 18 days next April. I prefer going places away from the cities like on the Rhine or in the Alps. Crowds are not much of a factor for that kind of travel. My wife wants to go to Paris this trip and I will accommodate her, but France, especially Paris is my least favorite part of Europe to visit. One exception is the South of France. Monaco and along the Med in that area is a great place to visit.

There is loads of great architecture in France. Even more in Italy.

The only thing on my list at the moment is riding in the two seat Indy car with Mario....before he gets too old!

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..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

- I want to kayak with Orcas
- Nuremberg ring (passenger or driver .. im good with either).
- I'd love to go into space but given the cost that is unlikely to happen in my life time.


Right now that is it. Looking to add to the list.

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Yes, you can’t go very many places in Europe without seeing great architecture that is great enough for even a layman like myself to appreciate it. I have spent much more time in Italy than in France and can get my fill of it there without having to go to France. I have quickly hit the high spots in Paris, but the way Americans are treated by many in France takes the fun out of it. Prague and Bruges(sp?) in Belgium are treasure troves of architecture too. The old downtown Brussels is another one.

In 2017 I checked off an item really high at the top of my bucket list. There is a theater in Prague where portions of the movie Amadeus was filmed. It is the Estates Theater in Prague. Mozart conducted the premier performance of Don Giovanni there and it has been perfectly maintained all these years. I tried to make it there in the early 2000’s when I worked in Europe a lot, but never made it. On my bucket list was the simple desire to just be able to see the opera hall and walk around inside. That was accomplished except I also saw a performance of Don Giovanni there. It was an experience I can never forget.

Another architecture related bucket list item was seeing Leonardo Davincci’s Last Supper. It was on my late wife’s bucket list and she and I saw it right after it was painstakingly restored in 2000, along with the Duomo and a few of the other treasures in Milan. My current wife and I saw the painting and the Milan sites in 2017 and I would go back again it was so good, but there is too much other good stuff I have yet to see over there.

Bruges has very interesting Mid evil architecture including waterways much like Venice.

How much does the thrill ride with Mario cost?

Yes David, a lap around Nurburgring would be a hoot. I will be not far from there next Spring and have considered it. I think that unless you could afford MANY laps as a driver, it would be more fun as a passenger with a driver that knows the course very well.

I dunno....at least two grand...I imagine.

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..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

lake titcaca,tiawanoko,and Macas Eucuador to die

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I saw a show on tv last night about Lake Titicaca. I decided not to go there last time because of the 14,000 altitude. When in Cuzco at 11K I had to be careful about walking too fast as I'd get light headed. I was fine at macchu picchu at 9K though.

I would love to go to titicaca now but I'd need some time to acclimatize....prolly cannot get the Mrs. to go anyhow.

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[SIGPIC] Diesel loving autocrossing grandpa Architect. 08 Dodge 3/4 ton with Cummins & six speed; I have had about 35 benzes. I have a 39 Studebaker Coupe Express pickup in which I have had installed a 617 turbo and a five speed manual.[SIGPIC]

..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

wow T, I am interested in preflood civilizations,and technology.Mountains in the ande's some look like runways,but no rock refuse,when cut

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Aahhhh yes. the nazca lines. we were supposed to fly over them. turned out my guide book was ill informed about how to do it. We thought we could just drive in to the airport down by Nazca and hire a little plane on the spot. We drove down there through some of the most dangerous looking places I have ever seen, places I would not even stop to go to the john. Also got shaken down for $100 by the local gendarme who had a roadblock out in the desert.

Then when we got there they said no plane rides for three days. We couldn't stay that long. We did drive around in the desert for a couple hours seeing the local sites instead.

Yeah, but how did they do those lines? Ancient Aliens? I don't believe in them but have no clue how they did it. Runways, giant birds, etc. Amazing stuff!

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[SIGPIC] Diesel loving autocrossing grandpa Architect. 08 Dodge 3/4 ton with Cummins & six speed; I have had about 35 benzes. I have a 39 Studebaker Coupe Express pickup in which I have had installed a 617 turbo and a five speed manual.[SIGPIC]

..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

Hey T. did you all look american. What I mean is do you try to dress,and blend in?
So countries say they can spot americans,because our shirts hang out,or flip flops.
I try and buy their clothes,so won't get robbed.I believe most ancient aliens,were really from earth's past.

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Not really. We were there for two weeks so buying local clothes was not in the cards.

As far as the road block, they were stopping everybody.

I think they may have been democrats as I think they allowed people to pay what they could afford. (That is a joke).

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[SIGPIC] Diesel loving autocrossing grandpa Architect. 08 Dodge 3/4 ton with Cummins & six speed; I have had about 35 benzes. I have a 39 Studebaker Coupe Express pickup in which I have had installed a 617 turbo and a five speed manual.[SIGPIC]

..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

haha, shame so many scams overseas. The 1 percenter's of the world keep most people desperete for simple things we take for granted.What I do is still dress like the 60's shirt tucked in,belt,real shoe's or boots.Never could stand something between toe's

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