What's On Your Top 10 Bucket List?

[mevinyavin]

Problem is I don't want to go anywhere, really. I'm a couch potato. But really the problem is I might have to go somewhere else due to rising rent.
The definition of bucket list doesn't seem to be trips, though the USAGE certainly is. So sorry if this offends you guys. These are all on my front burner, though (if I haven't gotten through them), but in no particular order.

1. Write a sefer that helps people grow
2. Write another one - This is much closer to completion - sefer is on Rabbi Berkovits's desk and he's going through it
3. Compose a heartzige song and get it to a mainstream artist
4. Finish shas
5. Get the standard set of semichas: Shabbos, Niddah, IVH + bonus berachos
6. Get my kids married with actual apartments
7. Launch a website with an index of laptops under $500, filterable by upgradeability, battery life based on an actual reviewer, real weight, build material/quality, etc...
8. Make aliyah (RYB said to do it)
9. Get enough people to watch the neighborhood security cameras so that I only need to do it five times a year
10. Okay, this needs the lottery, but: take my family to see my grandmother in San Marcos, CA so she can get some nachas. (Estimated current cost: $7000 not including travel expenses.)

[Something Fishy]

Mongolia done, replaced with a narwhal expedition.

In no particular order:

1 - South Georgia
2 - Angel Falls
3 - Narwhal expedition
4 - Deadvlei/Skeleton Coast, Namibia
5 - Greenland
6 - Erta Ale, Ethiopia
7 - Socotra, Yemen
8 - Kaktovik, Alaska
9 - Gabon
10 - Palau

Other things high up on the to do list are Siberia in the winter, Cabo Verde, Kamchatka Peninsula, Hokkaido, and a good nap.

Alaska Done!
Hawaii Done!
Iceland Done!
Cuba Done!
Norway Done!
Antarctica Done!
Kenya/Tanzania/Botswana Safari Done, done, and done!
Lençóis Maranhenses Done!
Israel Done!
Guatemalan volcanoes Done!
Galapagos Done!
Great Barrier Reef Done!
Madagascar Done!
Komodo National Park and Raja Ampat, Indonesia Done and done!
Mongolia Done!

[TzviR]

10. Okay, this needs the lottery, but: take my family to see my grandmother in San Marcos, CA so she can get some nachas. (Estimated current cost: $7000 not including travel expenses.)

Approximate breakdown of the cost?

[Yehuda57]

1) home depot
2) baseballs
3) outside the sukkah negel vasser
4) paint
5) magician/clown supplies
6) aquarium animal feed
7) {redacted names} kick the
kids beach sand castle
9) US National Park road trip
10) popcorn

[mevinyavin]

Approximate breakdown of the cost?

In 2022? In any case, I miswrote that post. I meant to say it was around $7000 to get there, and then we would have other associated costs. The best way - and close enough to cheapest as to not matter - was LY to LAX + Uber to San Marcos for my family size (then) - around $7000. It doesn't include costs of getting around while visiting her. (I can't stay with her, but I can stay by my aunt who lives in Carlsbad. Then I would need to pay for food - she can't feed us - and to get to her for visits, as we don't fit in her car even if she would drive us.) I don't know what those other expenses are, or what it would cost to get there in today's flight environment. (I see $5500 or so with 12+ hour layovers in CDG.) I can ask my brother, who did the trip once with his family.

[mevinyavin]

In 2022? In any case, I miswrote that post. I meant to say it was around $7000 to get there, and then we would have other associated costs. The best way - and close enough to cheapest as to not matter - was LY to LAX + Uber to San Marcos for my family size (then) - around $7000. It doesn't include costs of getting around while visiting her. (I can't stay with her, but I can stay by my aunt who lives in Carlsbad. Then I would need to pay for food - she can't feed us - and to get to her for visits, as we don't fit in her car even if she would drive us.) I don't know what those other expenses are, or what it would cost to get there in today's flight environment. (I see $5500 or so with 12+ hour layovers in CDG.) I can ask my brother, who did the trip once with his family.

My brother wrote:

I’m not 100% it was a while ago, but just to spitball some numbers:

Airb&b- $1,700 (can get smaller and cheaper I’m sure and it’s also dependent on amount of days)
Food- $600-$1200 (depends on family size, restaurants etc)
Car- $600ish (300-450 on car/van plus insurance/gas)

He was there from Thursday to Thursday (Shabbos in LA, Sunday through Thursday in Vista).