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 What's something you've never done but would really like to do? 
 Skydive using a wing suit  
 A bitcoin vacation in El Salvador.  
 Love that 
 You should do it someday 
 Swim with sharks 
 Wild!  
 How about you? 
 My list is long 😂 
 🤣name one 
 Hike the continental divide trail 
 What about you @HODLr ? 
 Mine is/was lame.  To ride the train from one end of Canada to the other.  Though, as I have become a laser-eyed maxi, it has been replaced by returning to Costa Rico and spending Sats 丰 in the #BitcoinJungle, going to Whaletail Beach, goingto Thailand’s Bitcoin Beach. 
 Neither are lame, trains are super cool.  I always thought the train across Russia would be neat 
 Grandaddy was an engineer on the RR. I grew up with steam engines and steel rails. It’s in my blood. 
 😅 I hope you take it as a compliment when I say that explains a lot 🫂💜 
 I do!   Thank you! 
 😁🫂 
 Long train rides are so cool and romantic 🤩 
 I've never actually been on a trian 🥲😂 
 I also can't spell 🥲😂 
 I have been on shorter rides in the UK but not a long one. I love the before sunrise movie. V romantic.  
 There's one near me that goes through the mountains. I've always wanted to take it but time always gets in the way 
 Dumb time 😤🫂 a mountain train ride sounds lovely tho  
 "someday" 💜 
 It’s one of my best memories from my childhood. Little sleeper compartment, across the prairies and through the Rockies to the coast, with my brother and grandma. 
 Tomorrow is someday 
 Tomorrow is a lot of things 🫂 
 Don’t let those things stop you….I got you to climb a tree once…. 
 You did!  I've built a life that is very hard to put on hold. That's my only reason  
 Okay okay. I’ll let it be 😂🫂 
 Steam engines sound more romantic, especially narrow gauge rail lines like the Durango-Silverton, or the Cumbres-Toltec.  Diesel engines are the modern iteration, smoother, less rocking, look/sound different.  Many scenic railways are narrow guage. 
 Had never heard of it but the images look fantastic.  
 You could share your top five?  
 I've already mentioned 2 😊 
 I have done this! Lotsa nurse sharks and one time a bull shark it was at night and v fast 😳 i think hammerheads would be cool 😎 
 Fly a plane.  
 To where?  
 Learn to fly*  
 Well I gathered that 🤣  
 Lol. I'm tired. But if I got my license, it would be a small plane to fly up north to fish.  
 Nice! "Up north" are 2 of my favorite words 
 Drive the Pan American Highway, is one that comes to mind. 
 💜 road trips are the best 
 Where does that run? 
 Prudhoe Bay Alaska down to the tip of Argentina in Ushuaia 

I’d do the Dempster highway again, while I was up north. One of our best trips. 
 What the estimated time on that? Assuming you don't drive like a college kid on no-doze?  
 I’d take 6 months minimum to do it right. 
 A year would be ideal…….. 
 1970 Cadillac coupe Deville?  
 For some of it! 
 🔥 til it runs out of gas? 😂 
 I fell like that car is meant to be driven in the desert….it would be cool to have a different vehicle for different sections….. 
  HST did that to us... bat country 

That would be the wildest road trip ever, to have a car that matched each segment 💜😂 
 😂 they’re everywhere!
…..it would be💭 
 I'm going to be thinking about cars the rest of the night, probably looking at maps tomorrow  
 😂 And train itineraries? 
 ... probably 🫣💜 
 Visit North Korea... Broker a peace deal in one of the civil wars in Myanmar... See angels... Hike to the top of Mt Hallasan (I only made it 1750 meters above sea level had 200 meters to go)... Meet @The Beave in real life... Yeah that's my list.  
 Banger, too! 💜 
 Thank you 😁 
 Visiting me is not worth it. At least not yet.  
 Hike the Camino de Santiago  
 This is another one of those 'alt' moments! 🤣🫂 
 Pull JD’s beard! 
 Ouch! 😬😂 
 And that’s the whole point! 
 😂🤣 whatever floats your goat 
 No, I actually don’t like him hence why I wanna pull his beard! 
 😂 the visual you're generating for me is quite scene 
 With @shawn 

https://media2.giphy.com/media/ErsqGboAn3A2kO2o8e/giphy.gif?cid=2154d3d7h81vntg4if0wyaqsnuc7r08skks9em2q7v4pgm73&ep=v1_gifs_search&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g 
 💜 that's on my list too! But not with @shawn 🤣😂 
 😂 
I wouldn’t blame you! 

With your person, one day. ✨💜 
 Oooh hot air balloon ride? I just remembered that I always wanted to do that over Bagan https://image.nostr.build/c3639977f4c994ae07e407a90192d9fb391104a232c53fa222b84d9c50f3ab58.jpg 
 Beautiful!

But IDK about balloons. This may sound ridiculous, but I'm very phobic of heights. Unless there's something solid-appearing, within reach, and higher than my center of gravity, then I'm totally cool. IDK which way I'd take a balloon ride, and I won't know until it takes off... 
 and then just you and the wind and the hot air…. I fly in lots of things and hot air balloons are scary to me. But a dirigible, yes please! 
 I understand because I couldn't do a cruise ship. I wanna see land and have it within my reach.... But I have no issues with flying ✈️ it doesn't really make sense to me. I wouldn't jump in a hot air balloon for the sake of it, but I would do it if I went to Bagan. Because ancient pagodas and balloons seem irrisitible.  
 Go a year without procrastinating. 🤷‍♂️