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Just list upto 10 things you would like to do before you "kick the bucket"
They should be reasonably doable, not "fly to the moon" etc. Well unless you have some inside track on that
Having not had a lot of time to think about this here goes: All these would of course be with my SO = SL!!!!
1. To have a cruise with the girls on this forum.
2. To take the train trip through the Rocky Mountains
3. Hike the Appalachian Trail
4. Visit the National Parks out west in the US
5. Cruise the Mediterranean for several months (lots of ports).
6. Move to a warm (365 days a year) climate.
7. Attend all the national T-girl meetings (SCC, Be-All, Providence,
Diva Las Vegas, etc.)
8. Learn to surf.
9. Bury my ........... sorry that's another list!
I will save the 10th one for later!
Virginia
First star to the right, then straight on 'till mornin!
I'm not sure about 10 but here's what I have so far. Maybe I'll edit it.
1 Go on a real hike again.
2 Bring my children to visit Wyoming.
3 Go to New Orleans during Mardi Gras.
4. Bring myself, and maybe others, to visit my moms old home in Minnesota.
5.Learn to improvise well enough to play 3 choruses without having to figure out the solo ahead of time.
6.Find the time to learn arranging well enough to arrange some of my favorite songs for one of the bands I play in.
7. Resurrect a couple of old friendships.
8.Go to a social event en femme. Preferrably some sort of drag event where I don't have to deal with the whole passing as a 6'3" man thing, since there are so many things like make up that I don't do and have no interest in.
I'll think of 2 more later.
9 Spend a night in the woods enfemme. I'd love to wake up under a pine tree alone in my sleeping bag in my slip. Or sit around the campfire in a skirt and hiking boots.
Absaroka
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everything under the sun is in tune
but the sun is eclipsed by the moon
I don’t know if I have ten things but here’s my list:, they might not be things of excitement but they are my things. I am not one for travel, I don’t desire to go to other places maybe except for France, so most of my adventures have been where I lived. There was no need to visit other lands, everything I needed to experience was just outside my home.
1)I saw most of the rock bands in concert that I wanted to see. That was a simple one. lol
2)I got to hang out in clubs where people like Andy Warhol and Boy George and other stars would hang out at. These clubs had strict door policies but I was always able to get into any club and any party. These were fun nights, one had to be there. Tgirls were a hot commodity back then, probably still are.
3)I was never in the closet, I dressed when ever I wanted. This was a fun adventure to do. I could go to any club or concert dressed, I wasn’t limited to drag bars or gay bars,, in fact I rarely went to gay bars,, too many gays there. Lol I liked sitting in Tompkins park and confuse the homeless guys into not knowing what I was. I liked playing with people’s heads.
4) I was at the Tompkins Park Police Riot, another adventure that one had to be there. Sort of like the running of the bulls, but this time the police were the bulls.
5)On the same note, I lived in the Bronx during the 1970’s gang war days of destruction, and mayhem, this might not sound like much,, just think of Chad today,, quite an adventure to live through. Gang battles, fires everywhere,, total anarchy, I loved it. Better than bungee jumping.
6)Met some of the strangest people in NYC, drag queens, ts’s shemales, punks, anarchists, communists, nazis, thieves and con artists of all sorts, gangsters, and of course the S&M crowd and other assorted perverts, and I mean perverts in the bad sense, not just a label. or stereotype,, to meet these types of people in a lifetime is quite a feat, I will never meet these types of people again in my life, well not all at the same time frame, People I met could not have been met anywhere else but on the streets of Hells Kitchen, the Lower East Side and the Bronx, again, one has to be there to experience these people. Just think of going to a strange and different country and meeting people that you never met before, well these people I met were like that, strange to me. And I met these people dressed as a girl,, I was just another weirdo to them, I was one of the crowd. lol
7) being involved with some weird S&M stuff,, some people didn’t always survive to tell their stories.
8)This might fall under the club category but specifically hanging out at the Roxy disco with Afrika Bambaataa DJing. This was the days when break dancing was first coming out. The guys from the Bronx would come down to the Roxy and practice their new moves, I got to see them make their moves before they took it out to the public. Some movies were filmed at the Roxy. This was fun, and I went to the break dance clubs in drag, no one cared, the hip hop B-Boys didn’t care.
9) Having fun on NYC subways. Riding on the back outside part of a train while it sped through the tunnels. Writing my tag and having the police chase us.
10) I can’t think of anything else, well maybe out living all my friends, seems that they didn’t make it as far as I did.
I guess most of my adventures have come from hanging out in clubs, bars and streets with all the different types of people of NYC. This was enough of an adventure for me. OK it wasn’t always a pleasant experience but I survived, so there isn’t any need for me to go anywhere to experience something new. I will never experience what I had already went through in NYC. Today, I am content just sitting in the park listening to my walkman. I live on my memories. So, my razor blades, vodka and sleeping pills are all packed and ready for when I need them. I did what I had to do in life. I had my fun. It was a blast.
You know Amelie, I think you could add a positive to that list, how about you would love to take some of your sisters here on the forum "through your looking glass!" What an education it could be!
Love you!
Virginia
First star to the right, then straight on 'till mornin!
1. Visit Iceland
2. Finish the Appalachian Trail (a dream)
3. Finish the Pacific Crest Trail (Oregon, S. Wash)
4. Rehike the Wonderland Trail around Mt Ranier
5. Explore all of Baja California.
6. Hike the San Gabriels (Los Angeles area)
7. Visit Namibia
8. Hike Baffin Island and Canada's Arctic
9. Drive CA 101 Pacific Coast Highway
10. Visit New York City / Central Park << This Year
Looks like I plan to stay active into "The Golden Years"
That is a great list Seville Iceland is somewhere I'd like to go to also
Amelie....you've lived a full and eventful lfe!
Me and Ed used to be regular clubbers in London...got some great memories of some great nights, seen some of the World's top D.Js....must try to do a few more nights before we're really too old to do it
Love,
Curly.
Women: scientifically proven to be right even when they’re wrong.
I'd like to add to my list....I'd love for me and Honor to go to a TG club and meet and dance with other TG folk. Honor has never been out publicly but I think in a club where she feels safe...she would have just a brilliant time....me also! Just need to find the right place
Women: scientifically proven to be right even when they’re wrong.
Lot of things on that list of your Virgina, that I have done. Train through the Rockies, most of the National Parks. One of the things that used to be on my bucket list, was removed for me. It used to be my number on item.
1. Visit and go to the top of the World Trade Center.(defunct)
1a. Have GRS/SRS
2. Visit the Pyramids.
3. Skydive
4. Hang glide.
5. Own a Martin D-45 guitar that sits in a stand in my living room where I could play it anytime.
6. Become passable, even if just for a day. Just to feel what it feels like to be a woman in society and not be noticed as a transsexual.
7. Make all Raven's dreams come true.
8. Have just one look through one of the world's large telescopes.
Boy do I feel old. And by extension Curly you may feel young.......Going to clubs to hear the worlds greatest DJs. Back when I liked to go to clubs the idea of going to hear a DJ made no sense. You went to hear the band. All the local bands had their own following. Likewise HS dances, and playing at them is a very fond memory for me. I think I'd rather have played in the band than have gone with a date, although a date coming to listen to us might have been nice.
Absaroka
everything under the sun is in tune
but the sun is eclipsed by the moon
Your number one item I was fortunate enough to have done in my own lifetime. I spent a weekend in NYC when I was about twenty years old. It was a very eventful trip (got my wallet stolen, was followed by four guys down Fifth for several blocks, tried to sleep in Grand Central Station, almost got sucked in by the Moonies, etc., etc.) but it was also a beautiful one. I love buildings, architecture, and urban design, generally, but I totally fell in love with New York (my dad says, "wait 'til you get a load of Chicago"--his favorite U.S. city). I spent hours walking in those glass-and-concrete canyons, staring up at what little sky I could see. On my itinerary: the World Trade Center. I went to the top (floor 107, if my memory serves me right) and spent an hour and a half looking at the 360º bird's eye panorama of the city below me. It was an absolute thrill. I took about a million pictures. It was brilliant how they had glued clear, black line silhouettes of the major landmarks and surrounding skyscrapers right on the windows; these outlines were drawn to scale so that, if you positioned yourself just right, you could match the window outline to whatever building you were looking at.
At the time, the Twin Towers were only about four or five years old, still very new. And very much the pride of many native New Yorkers I spoke to. When I heard the news of their destruction, I saw, in my mind's eye, those tall panes of glass shattering and melting, taking the black outline of the NYC skyline along with them. Of course, I hadn't yet understood just how many people had lost their lives in the event; on the day it happened, I was vacationing in St-John's, Newfoundland, walking along the Atlantic coast with a friend and we'd heard talk of a "tragedy" in NYC but it was only when we got back to her place, around 7:30 pm, that I first saw the indescribable horror of it all. That I happened to be in Newfoundland, where so many of the airplanes were forced to land, was a fluke. Over the days following the destruction, I got a chance to speak with many Americans and these conversations will be with me for the rest of my life.
Anyway, I probably still have some of those pix lying around in a dusty album somewhere; I'll send some to you one day, if you're interested, Elizabeth. I consider myself privileged to have been able to experience firsthand one of the engineering marvels of the 20th century and it haunts me that my feet have trod in the same spaces--now gone--where so many have died.
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