I haven't seen the film yet, but I have always found myself jotting down or making mental notes of things I really want to do before I get called Home. In no particular order, a couple of my things are:

See a Jimmy Buffet concert
Travel the Pacific Coast Highway from bottom to top
Learn sign language and interpret worship music in church.
Cruise to Alaska

What's on your list?

hmmm list? Me?

Those are 2 things I'd love to do, but I'm in the middle of 2 other things I've wanted to do for a long long time...

I'll work up a list and see if I keep it updated

play drums in a wosrship band for about 100,000 people in a worship set.
work full time in the ministry.
travel to homeland of my ancestors. TUrkey. And travel Pauls missionary journey areas.
Go to ISrael.
Cruise the Greek Islands.
Have lunch with ZIg Ziglar.

Go to Tuscany
Go on mission to Africa
Have a home on the water

*sigh*

If you are serious about travel, go to www.travelocity.com, sign up/in and set some travel watch preferences - say you want to travel to Florence, Italy, but aren't right now because of prices. Tell it to let you know when flights to Florence are less than $400 (or whatever level you are comfortable with that's still reasonable). Travelocity will send you an email when the pricing drops to your level.

Thanks David!

Got a "bucket list" ?

I know I've saved hundred$ with the travelocity fair trackers, I think expedia does something similar now too. I need to work on a bucket list...

If you are not concerned with frills, Southwest has the "Ding" feature on their site that you can download. Every day they send out specials on flights that are not sold out and they want to fill. That's how I travel all the time. I have gotten tickets as low as $47 each way to Florida. It works for anywhere Southwest travels, you just have to put in your desired airports.

yeah... southwest just crams us into some small areas. It's difficult to get a row with a little leg room (exit/front) when traveling southwest. I really don't like having to line up hours ahead to get a decent seat too, especially when I usually plan weeks/months ahead for trips. I've looked for a different flight just because I couldn't get a decent seat on a particular flight. Maybe if I were shorter...

LOL... well, you were not alone in those concerns, sooooo as a customer service initiative, they did away with the lining up. You do have to sit in front of your machine 24 hours in advance of your departure and speed click on your reservation (the second the clock strikes your time) to check in on-line. When you do it assigns you a position. At the gate they call for boarding by zone first then position. I got 7 once but usually get 18 or so. So only pre-boarders (handicap/wheelchairs) go on before you, then numbers 1-30, then 31-60 and so on... Not as bad as camping out on the floor to reserve your seat.

Yeah, that was our experience going to NYC and back, the problem is it may be a continuing flight so no-telling what seats are available, plus you still line up by groups, even if you get #1 you have to be ahead in line of the other 9 in your group if you want the desirable seats. And whatever you are doing you have to be in front of a computer at exactly 24 hours ahead of flight time to get your number. Not worth it to save the $30-40 per seat I might save when I get tickets a month or 2 ahead of time anyways. Getting to the airport and on the plane is stressful enough without the extra drama and I don't have to worry about flight seats out during the middle of my vacation/business trip.

Another way I save is to go to www.kayak.com or http://farechase.yahoo.com - these sites search all the travel/airline sites (I think kayak searches more) for desired flight times, locations and price.

Roundtrip flights to florence, italy are <$600 now

I want to go to Assateague Island National Seashore to see the wild horses and watch their swim across the channel.

www.assateaguewildhorses.org.

http://www.assateaguewildhorses.org

(took the period off the end)

anyway .... back to the bucket list ...

i don't think too much about things i want to do before it's the big call home, but now that you mention it, i think ill think about it... oh yeah, embie, i havent been yet, but jimmy buffet plays here ALL the time .. come any time you want!

parasail
sip coffee etc. in france and eat real french food
get a tattoo
wear a thong without total fear (sorry mom)


i give it more thought ... think ???

Thanks Steve.

A3, I've done three of the things on your list, but I won't say which three.

I'd like to take a trip with each of my boys... a road trip... one of my sons is sort of a history buff... i would like to take him to DC and see the historical sites there... my other son loves the outdoors... would love to go to Colorado with him...

i know it sounds funny... but i would like to take them each separately so it can be all about them... and someday do a northeast excursion with my husband.

cool! and embie, i learned sign lang (3 yrs) and interpreted for deaf students in clasess one year. and .. i've been to alaska. wierd, we can switch bucket lists!

i'd just like to be alone with my husband for one weeekend ... it's been almost 6 years !

I haven't made a bucket list, but in the last few weeks I've water skied and kayaked - 2 things I've never done before