Starting Our Very Own Bucket List for 2015

Up until a few days ago this is what our Bucket List looked like.  It was empty.  We hear people talk about their bucket list but we didn’t have one.  Certainly everyone needs one so we decided to start our very own of places we wanted to go for 2015.

What do most people start looking at when they’re getting ready to work on their bucket list?   We figured first of all they’d drag out a map to see where they had been.

That had to be step number one.   After all, don’t you need to know where you’ve been in order to figure out where you want to go?   That’s what we did …. BUT  that wasn’t looking good.  This is where we’ve been   -------------->

We were at a crossroad with decisions.  The US Map was filled up so we looked  at  the other signs we could find just like this one.
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Alas, that was no help either as we’d been to those  places too …..  except for India and no way was India going on our bucket list.  It was one of those not been there and not going there destinations.  I have a quite a few of those.

We had to think about this.  Filling our bucket list wasn’t going to be easy.    There are a lot of things we hadn’t done and many places we had enjoyed but just had not had enough time to see everything we’d like to see.  After all, isn’t it true that we see things with different eyes at different times in our life?

Terry was the first one with an idea.  He wanted to fly on a seaplane.  Seaplane?   Well, we hadn’t done that so “Seaplane” started our bucket list.  That’s going to take a little work to figure out where, when and how on that one but at least it started our bucket list out.  There are many things we’d like to do but we decided to only work on a bucket list for one year at at time.  So, this is our 2015 Bucket List.  It’ll be interesting to see how many of these things we accomplish and how many things we cross off before 2016 rolls around.

	Places to Revisit in BLUE
1	Seaplane		7	Disney World / Harry Potter World
2	Karcher Kaverns		8	Great Lakes, Michigan
3	Hot Air Balloon Festival		9	Gettysburg
4	Natchez Trace		10	Ohio Amish / Licking County
5	Key West		11	Charleston
6	Hannibal & Branson		12	Hawaii

The list does have a few additional places tucked between the columns.  We already know we’ll be spending time at Tucson, Quartzsite and, of course, Washington state.  Right now we’re not so sure we’ll be taking our motorhome back to Washington this year.  We’re thinking of leaving it south.  However, that decision is yet to be figured out.

The list is in no particular order and no where near complete (and we all know it's mostly my list). Some of the places on it will be much more difficult to accomplish than others so will definitely be subject to change.  For now we get to have the fun of prioritizing and planning a few short adventures and crossing others off.  For example, I’m guessing we’ll be nixing Karcher Kaverns.  After all, you can’t take your own  pictures as you walk through the caves.  Why would I want to go anyplace I can’t take pictures?  

  

We now have 12 things on our bucket list.  We’ve also already had our first dilemma.  There’s a Hot Air Balloon Festival in Lake Havasu just about the same time we have an opportunity to go and stay here --- >

So, what would you pick?  Lake Havasu boondocking or an ocean view room at the Hilton Hawaiian Village on Waikiki Beach?  To us that answer was a no-brainer.  It was Bucket List #3 versus Bucket List #12.  I think you probably already know what bucket list number we picked especially when the weather in Arizona looks like this.

Next week we’ll be packing our bags and getting ready to cross the first item off our list.

Okay, so our list might be an aggressive list for one year but you have to start someplace.

What’s on your bucket list for 2015? 

‘Tis life on the road.

If you’re bored with life and you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals.