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what is the craziest thing you might actually do?
Skydive? Start up your own business? Run for POTUS? Backpack through Europe? What crazy, exciting, potentially life changing thing can you see yourself maybe, eventually doing someday?
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Re: what is the craziest thing you might actually do?
moosie, a friend of mine just finished The World Race, which sounds like it could be right up your alley. It's more than I could ever do, I think, but am humbled by what she and her fellow missionaries have done.
I've toyed with the idea of starting my own small business but have never been able to come up with a good plan. And I'm scared of losing the security of a corporate job.
Someday DH and I will do extended travel again. Our biggest trip together was five weeks across Asia when we were just dating. I'd like to do something like that again, but even longer like maybe 3 months, home to recharge, and then go on the next adventure
Ooo, what are you getting? DH has been through three crotch rockets now, and the current one isn't going to be replaced anytime soon. He started with a small 500cc Kawasaki, then graduated to a used Honda CBR F4i, and is now on a Suzuki GSX-R. It's fun even as a passenger
I have a huge desire to live in Europe. I can see myself taking a job or an expat assignment and just up and moving. If our current situation would allow it, we probably would be living in another country already.
Watching House Hunters International doesn't help calm my desires either.
I've already been skydiving, but I'd love to go again! Does that count for crazy?
I'd also love to do a world cruise someday -- probably when DH and I are retired.
I've also been really inspired by this blog I recently stumbled across that chronicles the cross-country adventure this family is taking all over the US with their two young kids. Someday, when we have kids and they're old enough to enjoy it, I'd love to take a couple of months to drive all over the country exploring and creating the kinds of memories they are.
This is mine, too. My company allows long- or short-term international assignments, so it's a very real possibility for me!
I'm looking at the kawasaki ninja 650r. I don't want a big much more powerful then that for my first bike. I figure I could always upgrade as I become more comfortable. And I got my license because I was tired of being the passenger
J and I have always talked about driving around the country to visit all the big amusement parks in the country. I've always wanted to travel around the country from national monument/park to the next.
I've always wanted to go skydiving, and whitewater rafting
I would love to sky dive. It's on my list for sure.
Nick and I want to join the Peace Corps, which is kind of nuts. The biggest things holding us back right now: finishing college, leaving our cats for two years.
Are you at all worried about having that much bike as a new rider? DH and his friend took the class together and both got 500cc bikes to start with and were glad they did. They said it was really scary at first
The good news is that motorcycles hold their value really well and when DH sold his a couple of years and a couple of thousand miles later I think he got maybe $100-200 less than what he paid for it.
I don't trust myself with a bike; I already have a lead foot in the car
Plus, I'm only 5'1" so none of the bikes I like would fit me!
Quit my job and just go travel for a year. Go where the wind takes me. Live out of a suitcase.
Become a pastry chef and open my own bakery.
I'm 5'11 so I'm a little bigger then you
. I go back and forth with that though - DH thinks I'll quickly grow into it. I don't want anything then 500cc though.
I would love to backpack through Europe. More realistically though I really want to go on a cross country road trip with the family when the kids are a little older. I want them to see our country and I want to do it via car. Whenever I tell someone that they think I'm insane.
I am in the process of starting my own business...something I NEVER thought I'd do.
I really want to zipline in Hawaii or some other tropical place/rainforest but I'm terrified of how far you drop and how fast you go. But it's on my bucket list.
I want to sponsor a child when my kids are older and yes visiting them in person would be high on my list.
If C gets the job he wants after our time in Japan is done, we'll be spending the next decade moving to a new country every 2 years. That might be kind of crazy.
There's a good chance I'll end up going back to school or doing some kind of major new career planning move in my late 30's when we finally settle down. I'm sure I'll FEEL crazy for starting something like that at that age.
On a mini-scale, I hope I have a few crazy-ish adventures over the coming months of C's deployment. I envision lots of spontaneous solo travel in my future. Bring on the crazy!
That blog is amazing thanks for sharing!
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I would love to go to Europe. In fact my parents did backpacking in Europe for 3 months for their honeymoon stay in hostels. It is really neat to see the pictures and where they travelled.
I would not mind going camping/gold prospecting for 6 mos out of the year travelling the country. It can happen.
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