^As another poster has mentioned, the countryside in the UK is something special. Having been born and grew up in Wharfedale, they hold a special place in my heart, Wensleydale, Nidderdale, all the other dales, Grassington, Aysgarth Falls, Bolton Abbey, etc. Father will be moving back to Harrogate in a few months. Would like to visit them again. I also love the countryside of Devon and Cornwall and would like to visit them again as well as my summer holiday stomping grounds of the Isle of Wight (my mum lived there). Don't have the time or the money at the moment.

Would really like to try paragliding or parasailing (the one with the engine stuck to your bum), a trip down the Amazon has always been a fantasy of mine (so many amazing insects, reptiles and amphibians - not so interested in the mammals), build a stitch and glue kayak (will start when I move into my new house), kayak the major rivers of Thailand and the coast (not quite as adventurous as Paul Theroux); and a few more things that skip my mind at the mo'.

Would really like to try paragliding or parasailing (the one with the engine stuck to your bum),

That can be done in both Pattaya and Chiang Mai.

When we were building Su'boom the monthly progress photos were taken by a Thai team using a parasailing wing.

(couple of pix from CM)

I love the UK, It's just some of the people in it who don't appreciate what they've got, that forced me away in the first place.

The life style I have had in the Far East is unsurpassed. We have built a beautiful house in Thailand ready for retirement and all my Chinese wife can think about is having an allotment in England and growing her own Veg !!!!

Daughter in Uni and hates the UK, son with me for life and worry about him with yobs in the UK !! Life's decisions are supposed to get easier as you get older.....................Errrr No.

Thai House

Village church where her indoors wants to grow tatties.

^Beautiful house and that church looks very similar to the one in Pool-in-Wharfedale. My sister just gave up her allotment in Saltaire. She will be moving to Cottingly on the edge of the dales.

Wensleydale and the very small village where my name originated:

I can't find 'Whiplash' on the map. Maybe it's been changed?

Are you any good at making cheese? Love a bit of Wensleydale with a salad - but the pre-packed stuff just doesn't do it.

one half of the family being from yorkshire always eat wensleydale cheese with fruit cake.

one half of the family being from yorkshire always eat wensleydale cheese with fruit cake.

I know a fruit cake from the UK . Maybe it's the same guy.

Get rid of my prostate cancer.

Become potent agian.

Make a world cruise on the Queen Mary.

Simple pleasures for my wife, woteva she desires.

Get out of Kansas.

Get out of America.

Get into Thailand.

See as much of Asia as I can.

Write some books.

Learn some more.

See my children grow healthy and successful.

Share it all with my wife.

Click your heals together ?

He ll no, that's what got her back to Kansas. I am trying to get out!!! I am looking for the tornado!

Here's a good movie for you Ian.

The World's Fastest Indian.

I saw it and liked it. In fact I can't think of a movie with Anthony Hopkins that I haven't liked.

I'm watching again right now.

Just thinking Ian, do you use a grinder for your toe nails?

How do the Canucks do???

A friend of mine has done it, and I would also like, to visit four of the world's greatest waterfalls.

Victoria, Niagra, Angel and Iguacu. (waiting for Ian's photos )

And, like another poster, I've always wanted to get to Maccu Picchu.

Now I have the time and money, fitness is the barrier to doing these things.

Now I have the time and money, fitness is the barrier to doing these things.

I'll push your wheelchair if you adopt me.

Wow, this has got me thinking where did things go wrong !?

I've done the English, scottish & welsh countryside with a vengeance, most of Europe Too. Bit of the states even.

Climbed mountains; sailed Sea's; Ski'd; parachuted; been 50 metres below Sea; many , many times.

I'm pretty content with the Thai Countryside I find myself in most of the time.

I do quite fancy one of those 'Soapys' I've been told about with two willing females though, If I'm quite honest.

Shouldn't really be a tall order either I suppose.

Guess I'm doing things the wrong way round

I want to celebrate tje next century celebration.

I want to cuddle a baby orangutan.

Little koalas are cuddly too, Patsy.

I want to cuddle a baby orangutan.

Little koalas are cuddly too, Patsy.

Little ones maybe Blinkie....but big ones scratch and bite and squirt poison too

Apart from make the move to Thailand, one of the things I'd love to do is the railway journey down the West coast of the US, starting in Seattle, or maybe Vancouver in Canada, and travelling by train down to LA and San Francisco, getting off and back on again as the mood takes me and chilling out in one of those observation cars with the glass roof, watching the scenery go by. Going through all those climate zones and the associated landscapes must be amazing.

Now my mate has moved to LA there's even more of a 'pull' to do it.

Would really like to try paragliding or parasailing (the one with the engine stuck to your bum),

That can be done in both Pattaya and Chiang Mai.

When we were building Su'boom the monthly progress photos were taken by a Thai team using a parasailing wing.

(couple of pix from CM)

There are currently about three different locations where the wings fly up here in Chiang Mai. Here is one down HWY 1317.

A friend of mine has done it, and I would also like, to visit four of the world's greatest waterfalls.

Victoria, Niagra, Angel and Iguacu. (waiting for Ian's photos )

And, like another poster, I've always wanted to get to Maccu Picchu.

Now I have the time and money, fitness is the barrier to doing these things.

The pictures are all on my slides, Old Croc, and I'd have to dig them out and scan them into digital. Too much effort but maybe I'll do it some day when I ain't busy.

I was to bike the Alps & the Pyrenees 3 years ago.

At the last minute I shifted gears & built a house for my son instead.

I should not have postponed it because logistically it is a hard thing to schedule in my life.

Im sure I could have built the house later but got caught up in it at that time.

So that is what I would still like to do & hopefully still will.

I was to bike the Alps & the Pyrenees 3 years ago.

At the last minute I shifted gears & built a house for my son instead.

I should not have postponed it because logistically it is a hard thing to schedule in my life.

Im sure I could have built the house later but got caught up in it at that time.

So that is what I would still like to do & hopefully still will.

Very true, flying. Life is what happens when you are busy raising a family. Many of the youthful dreams are lost when life gets in the way. When you finally have the time and resources to live your dreams there are other problems that stand in your way... such as poor health and aging joints.

Desire is suffering. Have you learned nothing?

Desire is suffering. Have you learned nothing?

Depends how you act on it

There were a couple of good movies about this topic.

The Bucketlist with Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman was the most similar to this topic. The two old guys set off on adventures together to complete adventures before they died.

Second Hand Lions was a great little movie about 2 old guys who had done it all but wanted to go out in style. Michael Caine and Robert Duvall were great.

I always thought the Thelma and Louise thing would be a fun way to finish up things!

Seriously: want to ski from village to village in the French/Swiss Alps for about 10 days, staying in little chalet guest houses every night with a hearty meal, fine wine, and snuggle under one of those hugely-thick down comforters I've only seen in the Alps.

Sex with a woman!

(Just joking ...)

Sex with a woman!

(Just joking ...)

Would you prefer a man?

Sex with a woman!

(Just joking ...)

Would you prefer a man?

Settle down Brinky, we'll tell you about it when you're older.

I don't want anything. Am I enlightened?

Desire is suffering. Have you learned nothing?

That you want to know if your enlightened shows you want something

Decades ago I would sit for hours per day in meditation mulling the things you mention or not mulling as the case may have been.....

I came to realize it is not hard to be desire-less or thought-less, single thought etc.

It is not all that hard to be a yogi & sit....To just be

But who does it help? What does it accomplish? Better to be functioning in the tangible world while you have a tangible body & also remain centered.

What good is learning without testing/proving what you have learned?

I was to bike the Alps & the Pyrenees 3 years ago.

At the last minute I shifted gears & built a house for my son instead.

I should not have postponed it because logistically it is a hard thing to schedule in my life.

Im sure I could have built the house later but got caught up in it at that time.

So that is what I would still like to do & hopefully still will.

Very true, flying. Life is what happens when you are busy raising a family. Many of the youthful dreams are lost when life gets in the way. When you finally have the time and resources to live your dreams there are other problems that stand in your way... such as poor health and aging joints.

I really need to send UG a PM and see if he has "Viking's Wake". I've never read it, but have run into the following quote:

"What if the spell of a place falls upon a youthful heart, and the bright horizon calls!

Many a thing will keep till the world's work is done, and youth is only a memory.

When the old enchanter came to my door, laden with dreams, I reached out with both hands. For I know that he would not be lured with the gold that I might offer later, when age had come upon me."

-- Viking's Wake, Richard J. MacCullaugh

Sex with a woman!

(Just joking ...)

The Thelma and Louise thing works for me ( sex with two women, who don't hang around to nag afterwards they just get in their car and drive off a cliff (

Sex with a woman!

(Just joking ...)

The Thelma and Louise thing works for me ( sex with two women, who don't hang around to nag afterwards they just get in their car and drive off a cliff )

Grand Canyon, I thought.

But then I've only been to Houston on business and Florida for vacation, so what do I know.