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Following on from molgrips' thread, what 'one day' adventurous things have you on the list?
- I am serious about when I retire or before seeing if I can walk/ride/public transport to the compass point extremity cafe's in Europe.
- I want to visit where I was born, in the Himalaya.
- I am keen to start more walking and cycling tours around the UK.
- Cycle around the world
- Go into space
I want to do a City Slickers-type cattle drive across somewhere like Wyoming or Montana
I want to be mortgage free before I die.
– I am serious about when I retire or before seeing if I can walk/ride/public transport to the compass point extremity cafe’s in Europe.
Don't want to pi$$ on your chips, but that's going to take longer than the one day you've set yourself...
😉
DrP
One day I'd like to have time to build a massive network of awesome trails on my local hills.
Motorbike around the Baltic Sea
Win a world or European championship in skydiving
Oneday Someday. "That's a dangerous word. It's really just a code for 'never'".
#RoyMiller 😉😊
Sail across an ocean - not on a cruise ship, but my own wee boat.
Walk the Camino (Frances) Compostella
See the green flash
Couple things planned for my early retirement...
I want to paddle a canoe from my house in Burton to my house near Arbroath. So down the Trent into the Humber and then up the East Coast.
AND
I want to go back to Tromsø but with our campervan rather than flying (so basically a big Scandinavia road trip).
Coke and hookers.
I want to go back to Tromsø but with our campervan
We were planning on doing this on our European road trip a few years ago. We landed at Bergen, drove for a couple of days, looked at where we were on the map against where Tromso was, and realised it was a bloody long way up... We went back to Denmark 🙂
Travel Europe for a year in a VW California thru the Alps/Pyrenees/sierra Nevadas and bike/snowboard all the best places.
Easy: Tour Divide
bloody long way up
Yep, don't think I will have enough time until retirement. Plan is to do the whole road trip over 6 months or so.
Don’t want to pi$$ on your chips, but that’s going to take longer than the one day you’ve set yourself…
😉DrP
Don't tell mrs_oab, I think I have persuaded her it will only be 'one day'... 😉
I want to paddle a canoe from my house in Burton to my house near Arbroath. So down the Trent into the Humber and then up the East Coast
Stather or Lincoln?
Two chicks at once
I've got more...
Bike:
- Tour divide
- Europe corner-to-corner (Cap St Vincent to Nordkapp)
- Dempster Highway
- Track racing (almost the complete opposite!)
Travel/explore:
- Alaska generally
- Some sort of Canadian expedition, canoe or ski based for winter
- Mt Elbrus
- Some sort of ski mountaineering
- A fortnight in a Scandinavian cabin skiing, exploring and having saunas
- Ural mountains
- Carpathian mountains
Other:
- Move to Sweden
A good night's sleep.
Sail across an ocean – not on a cruise ship, but my own wee boat.
It would be possible to get a bus from my house down in to Cardiff, walk to the bay, pick up a boat, sail across the Atlantic, up the Great Lawrence river into the Great lakes and to the town where my in-laws live, moor up and walk over to their house. A bit difficult to achieve though in reality since I don't know enough about sailing.
If we are allowed more than one day..
A big river canoe trip in Canada
A proper US road trip
A European bike tour without a plan
LEJOG
Sail to St Kilda
Current one would be to ride from where I live in Madrid to where I was born in London.
Plus lots of places I'd like to visit, with Tokyo probably top of the list at the moment.
@stretch…
Stather or Lincoln?
- Burton on Trent!
Canadian expedition
- on my canoe to do list as well.
In descending order of likelihood:
Ride to my folks place in Dartmoor (from Twickenham) in a day, back the next.
LEJOG
LEL
Visit Patagonia / Antarctic
Visit the Galapagos
Tour Divide route, probably not race pace.
Scubadive the Silfra gap in Iceland
Get off my arse and do something on my one-day list before I retire and realise I am too old and broken to really enjoy it
One of those motorbike adventures from the tip of Alaska to the tip of Tierra del Fuego, or Portugal to Kamchatka, or similar.
Keep dipping in and out of ItchyBoots on YouTube, just looks like a perfect way to experience the world.
Do another winter season in either British Columbia or the US Rockies skiing and snowboarding before my knees pack up.
Megavalanche.
Since retiring from full time work I have crossed the USA by bike 3 times and been for a few road trips in western USA. I like the USA. I feel another bike trip in a year or two. Perhaps repeating my Washington DC to SAn FRancisco tour. Most enjoyable of the 3 as in best variety of scenery and least sections on busy roads. Almost none in fact.
Retire to Canada.
13yrs 11mths to go . .
Biking in BC.
Maybe popping down to Washington State to ride a bit more and see Twin Peaks country too.
never heard of the Dempster Highway, looks good
Ride across America, Visit New Zealand, Round the World Cruise.
That's pretty much my bucket list. I am sure it will change if my kids ever present me with some grandkids.
Road cycling in the US is a bit scary though, I'd prefer an off-road expedition there.
Canoeing expedition might be better off done in Finland - similar experience, hundreds of miles of calm lakes all joined together, with support and a safety network. Not sure about the Yukon river, might be a bit too dangerous!
Good call on the Dempster Highway. My ‘one day’ used to be the Trans Canada trail & The Tibetan Plateau. (Not both in the same day obs)
I’m 65 though so need to get my finger out.
Sophia Urista
Retire.
anything else is just gravy.
West Highland Way IAD
Solo 100 rock climbs
Ski Broad Gully on Stob Coire nan Lochan
Do a 24 hour race
Cuillin Ridge Solo, unsupported
Ski Easy Gully on Aonach Mor
300 mile cycle ride
Solo French 7a rock climb ( over water, natch)
Ski the Schindler Couloirs
Onsight f7a rock climbing
Climb Supercrack of the Desert at Indian Creek
Climb grade 4 ice
Amotsfallene.
Kayak the Ulla Slides
Chase boat on a completely unknown ( to me) river, somewhere exotic.
Another Tour Divide here;
Colorado Trail too.
Fly to Morocco and ride home.
HT550 as a tour. Before the midgies arrive..
Great Glen by canoe.
I've recently ticked off a couple (listed for inspiration, not bragging):
West Highland Way, running it in one go.
MTB hut to hut tour in the Alps.
Paddle down the Spey with the Mrs in an open canoe.
Another self guided hut to hut tour, this time on skis in the Alps with pals. On Telemark skis, on glacier terrain and with some climbing.
Cycle tour around Ireland; same for the Outer Hebrides.
Hmmm....
Be with the woman I truly want to be with - and it's not my wife (long story that involves me being shat on from a great height).
That would do.
Spending a night or preferably a few with somebody.
Its been a while, a long long while
Probably resort to coke and hookers and viagra and a nice hotel
A long weekend riding in Scotchland with my pals there, as life should be
Targets on my 'some day'/Bucketlist for 2022 are a weeks motorcycle holiday in Scotland with a couple of my old mates.
Road cycle up Alpe d'houez
Motorcycle trip to the Norkapp,going for a month.
2023 motorcycle trip incorporating a couple of stages of the Tour de France,I'm planning on also taking in the Stella Alpina motorcycle rally.I first heard about it in the early 80'S & have met a few people who have subsequently done it.It's about time I did it before I'm to old
Visit the Outer Hebrides either Sept 2022 or 2023
About the only things I’d really like to do would be a long steady road trip from Vancouver down the Pacific Coast Highway, exploring along the way, then back across the US, roughly following Route 66, in time t catch the best Fall colours up the east coast.
The other is to visit Japan.
Sadly, lack of funds and my age mean I’m unlikely to achieve either. 😕
Ooh yes, that's one for my "not yet done" list .... ski some powder in Japan
And do the puffer.
🙂
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a Brass Against gig?
Kayak down a big scenic but easy river. Central Europe all mod cons
Camper round the coast of Europe
Bike trips like touring in the Scottish Islands
I made a list in my mid 20s, I've done some, changed my mind on some, and added some new ones. Currently outstanding are the below
Climb a mountain
See a rocket take off
Complete a panini football sticker album
Thru hike the PCT
12 month road trip around the US
Take life as it comes.
Get a hip that works.
Fly to Nice with a bike and come back the long way across as many mountains as possible.
Visit Iran
Climb Positron at Gogarth
Great North Trail
Colorado Trail
Learn to play the piano properly again
Many great ideas above
Snowboard in powder in Japan then attend local judo club to get my butt kicked
Heli Board in Canada/Alaska
Visit Patagonia
Road trip through Monument Valley
Finish the Slickrock trail I started and then backed out of years ago.
Finish the West Highland Way
Done a fantastic month in campervan in NZ and a road trip of BC including a great canoe trip and biking etc.
Step off the hamster wheel,
Concentrate on looking after the love of my life (GF, not bikes).
Take time doing what I want, when I want.
Visit friends, family, places for as long as I want.
Remind myself of the person I once was before I "grew up" and started worrying about "life".
Take my nephew and friend's kids to a bike park.
Spend time using my skills/time to help others (I'm very fortunate, many others are not).
Eat vegetables that I've grown.
Smoke my own home grown.
Be content.
Very fortunate compared to many of my friends in as much as I don't have any obligations to speak of, I've got some cash saved, I don't *need* to work my arse off (despite doing so, but more because I don't want to leave my mates hanging), I have everything I need and most things I want. Both the GF and I are likely to inherit enough that we'll never be able to spend it on ourselves unless we either develop major drug habits or decide to become some egoistic ****s.
See the green flash
Ooooh! I saw it! In Lanzarote and no other bugger was looking. It was awesome!
Be with the woman I truly want to be with – and it’s not my wife (long story that involves me being shat on from a great height).
You do you.
Oh, and get a dog.... Jack russel, I think. I'll call it Jack, or Jackie, just for kicks.
A solid poo 💩💩
I had a whole load of plans that got a bit buggered up!
However there are still things I want to do and some of this is being actively planned right now
Cycle on the frozen Yukon river
Climb a 20 000ft mountain
Ride my bike to the med and back via as many STWers I can find
Scatter a few odd sized bolts on Molgrips drive under his car 🙂
Funny you should say that.
Removed fuel pump and filter assembly on the mighty V70 trying to locate a WOT misfire
On dropping the car off the jack there was a bolt lying on the floor. Had been there for a while, but looked suspiciuosly like a brake caliper mounting bolt , flanged 10mm .
small panic then ensued with grabbing variuos car parts that should be solidly mounted checking for play.- none found, so did a gallic shrug and put the jack away