Bucket list?

Since I no longer work I have little too much time to think about things. Sometimes I think about a bucket list when I hear about it on TV. I'm not really sure what would be on my bucket list. I pretty much kayaked anywhere that was worth driving to in this area. My favorite was Door County Wisconsin and the time on Lake Superior was awesome and scary

A couple places I always wanted to kayak but were more driving than they were worth were Painted Rock Park in Lake Michigan and Isle Royale in northern Lake superior.

Painted rock was kind of sketchy because there was nowhere to get out of the water for 11 miles. If we drove all that way and the wind was really high we would not dare go out. That kind of made it not worth the drive or I would've gone. Isle Royale would've taken 2 weeks to do it justice and the drive really made it just a little too far for me to want to go.

I always wanted kayak the inside straight north of Vancouver and also Acadia national Park off the coast of Maine. Again these were pretty far outside my travel zones. So I don't think I really missed any kayaking because of my disease that I didn't get to do. So really none of the kayaking things should be on my bucket list.

Some things on my bucket list are probably not worth mentioning so I will skip over those. I never wanted to parachute. I never wanted to go rock climbing. I never want to scuba dive. I never want to go hot air ballooning. I tend to be afraid of heights. Strangely though one thing I think I would've tried to do is flying in those squirrel suits that the daredevils do on TV. I'm sure my wife would never  let me do it but who knows? I think I could do it, I would be in control not a passive participant like some of the other things I mentioned.

Of course there many places I would've wanted to hike like the Rocky Mountains, the mountains around Anchorage. So for the most part I don't feel like I really missed out on something big that I would've wanted to do if I never had MS.

One of the most difficult transitions as been since I can't drive my own chair anymore because my right arm and hand don't work. So if I had one small improvement it would be to get my right hand back. Of course if I had a big improvement I can get would be to be healed entirely but that doesn't seem very likely.

So I guess I would encourage someone who is younger to do some of the things you want before you get old or have a disease. I'm glad I did many of the things like trout fishing, traveling to Yellowstone and many the kayaking trips I took. Bike riding with my wife was a big one too. That's all for now and take care dear reader.