Ditch Your Bucket List
Having a bucket list is the "in" thing today but I don't want any part of it.
When you go somewhere (or do something), so you can check it off of your bucket list, you will be surrounded by other people who will be there doing the same thing you're doing--checking something off of their bucket list.
Walk 200 feet (or better yet, go two miles) in either direction and you will get away from the crowds and see and experience what there really is to see and do in the area.
It amazes me how much time and money people spend to mark things off of their bucket lists.
Marking something off of your bucket list should not be a goal
Instead of doing something before I die, I want to do things while I'm living?
What if the medical world gets together tomorrow and declares that you only have a year (or maybe a month) left to live?
I've floated down a river in China, slept in a tent and hiked through the jungles in Africa, and saw silverback gorillas.
When I was in India, I didn't go see the Taj Mahal like everybody else. I rode elephants through the jungle looking for tigers. I saw some, and I'm glad I was up on an elephant instead of walking around on the ground.
I've had dinner with a Prince in a palace in Saudi Arabia. By the way, the Prince was trying to impress me with his gold-trimmed china and gold-plated silverware. To really impress me, to drink, he served Pepsi in a can.
You can't put these things on a bucket list. You have to live life and let things happen.
If you're going to have a traditional bucket list, you might as well watch videos on the National Geographic Channel.
Instead of scurrying around trying to put things in your bucket, live your life and let the world put things in your bucket. Your bucket won't be like everyone else's, but it will be so much more interesting.
Experience Adventure Before Dementia
When you're an RVer, you have so many opportunities to let the world fill your bucket if you will just let it. Ditch your bucket list and see what life throws your way.
Lindsay McKenzie wrote a book recently called Follow Your Detour. It's one of my favorite books.
If you follow your detour, you might be surprised at what ends up in your bucket.
Bottom line: The great writer Gilbert K. Chesterton said, "The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see." Scrap all of the tourist things on your bucket list, go live life and see what the world reveals to you.