re: "I always wanted one" did you ever fulfill this?

Various motorcycles

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Two chicks at the same time.

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Not as worth it as you'd think.

If you didn't get it figured out by 70 you didn't live your life right.

Damn my man I’m really sorry to hear that. Thank you for the perspective. Hope everything can go as well as it can for the future. Cheers

I wanted an English bulldog my whole life. I’m 49. Got one 3 years ago. Might have to bury me when we have to bury her…
This girl rules the house and that’s fine by me!

Eitek,

I am so sorry this is happening for you and your wife.

My husband and I traveled a lot when we were young and more or less broke . As you well know, if you wait until you can “afford it”, it sometimes doesn’t happen. Later, we had more money and less time, and I could not talk him into retiring. I retired and I traveled domestically with family members, waiting for him to finally retire so we could go back to Africa and then see more of the places we always planned to visit. Then, one day, he was gone and I was left to face the world alone. Covid stole 2 more years from all our lives.

Now, I have been back to Africa and Costa Rica (places we loved) , and plan to go again. Plus I have gone to places he and I never went. On every trip there are hitches in my breath when I suddenly miss him as much as ever ( it’s going on 7 years) . There is also a little guilt that the money we saved together is funding my travel binges.

It wasn’t supposed to happen that way, but it did.

I hope your wife can beat whatever challenge she is facing. If she is healthy enough, at least try and fulfill some of those dreams even if they need to be modified. If she can’t travel, try local luxuries…spa,days, concerts, fine dining, ball games…visit friends and family, read books together, reminisce about fun things you’ve shared.

As to the general question, my “always wanted to” has mostly been fulfilled. When I was a little kid, I kept a blue horse notebook where I jotted down places I wanted to see when I grew up. I’ve seen a lot of them, and I wish I had that old notebook to refer to!
. The other wish was to get a pilot license, which I never did. That one doesn’t bother me at all. It wasn’t an unfulfilled wish so much as an abandoned whimsy. No regrets about never doing it.

Longhorn handy

Thank you. I know he would be fine with me traveling and happy that I am doing so.

I have had extraordinary good luck in the things I’ve seen ( even a very rare pangolin in Africa) and been to places that can be very crowded and had them so sparsely occupied that it was like my own personal outing (Petra) so just maybe he us alongside me after all and directing the show !

I don’t know why but I want a Plymouth prowler

So sorry. I know you will cherish the remaining time with her.