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Bucket List…

Quicken Anja

Time for our November Icebreaker!

This month, we’d like to share Bucket List goals and/or activities.

One thing that’s on my bucket list is to one day sign up for volunteer travel to an elephant conservation or sanctuary. They are my favorite animal, and one day I would love to spend time helping care for them safely without being harmful to them by avoiding deceptive tourist attractions.

What’s on your bucket list? We’d love to read about it!

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Quicken Jasmine

Hello Hello Hello Everyone,

Welcome to a beautiful and crisp (depending on your location) November!

Honestly, at this point in time, I feel like my bucket list isn't so much fun as it is more survival. My bucket list (currently) includes being financially stable, owning a home, graduating with my PhD (I will be receiving my first college degree next month but still have a ways to go), and being the best mom that I can be.

I know my bucket list might seem too "realistic" right now, but as a struggling 24-year-old in today's economy, these are the goals that I am currently striving for. Now if you had asked me 5 or 10 years ago, my answers would have been much more exciting LOL 😂

I can't wait to hear from all of you!

I hope you all have a wonderful November as we start heading into the Holidays!

NotACPA

@Quicken Anja, look into the Hohenwald Elephant Sanctuary, which isn't too far from where I live.

www.elephants.com

NotACPA

My goal, for 50 or so years, has been to visit all 7 continents. So far, I'm missing Africa and Antarctica … although I got Asia on a technicality (I've been to a part of Turkey that's considered to be Asia).

My best friend was even more ambitious. He wanted to visit all 7 in a single calendar year. He missed fulfilling that objective … but he DID visit all 7 in 12 consecutive months (just not the same year). Scheduling fouled him up.

jacobs

@NotACPA Seven continents in one year is indeed ambitious accomplishement for most people. But how about this: I know someone who participated in the World Marathon Challenge:

Run 7 full-length marathons.
On 7 continents.
In 7 days.

Read that again. Not even assessing the logistical challenges of traveling to 7 continents in 7 days, I just can't imagine how the human body can possibly do it.

(Oh, and the person I know who did it has Parkinson's disease.)

For the record this is NOT on my bucket list. 🤣,

Quicken Kristina

Hello All,

My bucket list is fairly practical. I'd like to be able to spend more time on my hobbies and have more time to volunteer, so to achieve that, I save and invest in the hopes of having enough to be able to fully retire when I reach retirement age.

I hope everyone has a wonderful November!

NotACPA

@jacobs, surely those flights were charters. My friend flew commercial.

Quicken Anja

https://community.quicken.com/discussion/comment/20395772#Comment_20395772

Thanks for the suggestion! I'll definitely look into it. 😊

Rocket J Squirrel

I like resort islands. I have been to quite a few in Hawaii, Tahiti, and the Caribbean.

My bucket list includes visiting some islands before rising seas overtake them: the Florida Keys and Catalina.

smayer97

https://community.quicken.com/discussion/comment/20395973#Comment_20395973

LOL. Tell that to all the banks and FIs that still extend mortgages and loans and finance projects on these waterfront properties or to the many climate change political proponents that buy up these properties… :-\

https://www.facebook.com/reel/2294885154053008

Phil Burton

My bucket list is to visit all 30 Major League baseball stadiums (stadia?)

Also upgrade my camera to a mirrorless model + new lenses to match.

Jon

Travel destinations on my bucket list are

Australia & New Zealand (but I'm not sure how well my back would tolerate such a long flight)
Ireland & the UK (visited England, Scotland & Wales back in 2002 & always wanted to go back for more)
Renting an RV & driving around Iceland
The Trinity test site in New Mexico (I went to Oak Ridge last year & Hanford in 2019)
Pacific and Atlantic coastlines in the RV
Route 66 to California

Chris_QPW

The Trinity test site in New Mexico (I went to Oak Ridge last year & Hanford in 2019)

If you want to actually see the Trinity site and not just the (small) museum/white sands, then you have to go on the two days of the year that they open it to the public. For 2024 that is April 6 and October 19th.

https://home.army.mil/wsmr/index.php/contact/public-affairs-office/trinity-site-open-house

Jon

@Chris_QPW Thanks, I knew about the 2 days per year restriction, but I thought it was always the first weekend in April & October so I'll have to remember that it sometimes varies from that. I was thinking about going this upcoming April, but that date is a little too close to the 2024 eclipse & I don't think I could manage to see both. Trinity will still be there in 2025 but the next eclipse in North America is a couple decades away so the eclipse wins next year.

Quicken Anja

https://community.quicken.com/discussion/comment/20396066#Comment_20396066

Some of these travel destinations are on my bucket list as well! Ireland specifically is near the top of my list since my sister lives there and has been begging for a couple of years now for my family and me to come visit. I hear it's beautiful there. 🙂

Jeff76

I would like to see all 50 States…I have seen 48 so far, just need to visit New Mexico and Hawaii.

Side note: I would like to donate some money to help protect endangered animals, I'm just not sure which one does the most good per donated dollar?

mshiggins

https://community.quicken.com/discussion/comment/20399157#Comment_20399157

I have found Charity Navigator helpful in evaluating charities, including how much of the funding is used for overhead vs. the charity itself.

NotACPA

While I agree with the suggestion by MSHIGGINS, I'd like to plug the Hohenwald Elephant Sanctuary also.

Elephants.com

Frankx

@Quicken Anja

You absolutely need to visit Ireland! I suspect your sister has told you this but the country is beautiful and the folks are wonderfully friendly and helpful.

Personally, my wife and I still need to see Iceland to complete our bucket list. No current plans, but always have the thought on our minds…

Frankx

NotACPA

Does a stopover in Keflavik, flying on Icelandic Air from DC to Brussels, count?

That flight probably doesn't exist any more, as I took it sometime in the 1970's.

jacobs

@NotACPA I also did the flights from the US to Iceland to Europe in the mid-70s; I probably spent no more than two hours on the ground in Iceland each way. They undercut the prices of the major international airlines because they could fly shorter flights by stopping and refueling at Keflavik.

I'm happy to say that Icelandair is still alive and kicking, and still flying routes to/from the US and Europe which connect in Iceland. I've flown Icelandair twice to/from Keflavik in recent years, and plan to be doing so again next summer for the start of an expedition cruse to western Greenland and northeastern Canada. Unlike the 70's, Iceland has become such a hot tourist destination that most people who fly to or through Iceland are doing so to spend some time there as part of their travels.

afine

I want to visit all 50 states and all the continents.

skeleton567

My Bucket List - mostly filled

My bucket list perspective is likely different from many of you in that it is mostly completed now at 80 years of age. Hope I don't bore you too much.

My earliest buckets began during grade school / high school years when I wanted to earn some money. Being a farm boy I was able to raise chickens and sell eggs, raise and sell hogs and sheep, and work for neighbors baling hay, cleaning soybean fields, and helping during harvest season. Obvoiously there were literally buckets of you-know-what and bags of livestock feed to be carried.

In HS a new bucket was to be able to continue my education through college. This bucket was filled by continuing the tasks I had begun in grade school and high school, and by earning a AB degree and most of a MA. Then a new bucket became paying off college loans which I accomplished in ten years.

My bucket for a successful career actually spilled in a very short period. My work in my chosen field of study (Sociology/Psychology) terminated after less than a year in a single position and I never looked back. This lead to a number of years in bookkeeping and accounting using self-taught skills and subsequently to a couple positions in Credit Management.

During my time in Credit Management I got to see a computer for the first time in my life. A few weeks later I started a new bucket as a programmer trainee which lead to 42 years of work in IT as Programmer, Systems Analyst, Depertment Manager, and finally years as a Database Administrator jointly responible for over fifty database server instances at a Fortune 500 company.

Another bucket was the goal of having a cabin in the Roocky Mountains. In 2003 my wife and I bought a 10-acre historic mining claim at 11000 feet elevation in the Colorado Rockies and built a real log cabin we were able to enjoy on vacations and all summer after retiring.

My travel bucket list included my first visit to Colorado following my first year in college when a friend and I traveled from Illinois to Colorado/Wyoming/Montana driving, eating, and sleeping in a used 1962 Ford Falcon 2-door. We spent about $100 each on that trip.

My wife and I got to visit the Virgin Islands on our honeymoon when we married at 36 years of age.

During my IT years one employer treated my wife and myself to an expense-paid vacation to Hawaii after a major IT project. Later we were able to go back for another vacation to several more islands on our own.

One year we decided to visit Alaska so flew up there and did an extensive tour including traveling the Dalton Highway along the pipeline route and got to walk across the Arctic Circle.

Toward the end of our bucket list we visited Europe twice. First time we drove with another couple east from Amsterdam around Germany, Austia, Switzerland, northern Italy, and back through France. Second visit we did a riverboat cruise again from Amsterdam all the way to Ukraine and Romania where my wife had employees for her graphic design business.

Our domestic bucket list involved raising four sons who are now ages 53/54/57/57. Three of the four enjoy successful IT careers and the fourth owns an HVAC company.

About all that remains on my bucket list is cleaning up my Quicken data beginning with a couple investment holdings my Dad began for me in 1943, all my earning/spending data from 1986 when I began Quicken, and accounting for every cent of my retirement savings.

The only other remaining bucket is the ice bucket holding our bottle of wine on the deck or patio on many afternoons. We call that 'merlot time'.