To do before you die?, page 1

Call it what you will. But I want to take my wife and I to Istanbul before i die. I would really like to see: Istanbul, a city that is northeast of it (starts with a E or an I. dont know the name of it), I wanna see Santorini, Crete, Athens, Venice, and just sail on the med sea. But to only goto istanbul see all the sights, go to the underground city, goto the bazaar buy a rug or two and some knives with the bent blade ( i dont know the name of it) eat some good food, goto some night clubs. maybe spend a week to two there.

If someone wants to help me out. I'll be leaving from Lexington,KY..USA. I dont mean give me money i mean to help me find good deals on planes and stuff. I think maybe to have a good time id need to have about 10k. Maybe thats too much, im not sure.

I watched a program on bbc called Francesco Da Mosto. He sailed from Venice to Istanbul in 3 months and it was unbelievable all the places he saw!!!! Made me depressed that i live where i do live.


So tell what you want to do before you die.      

  Thats a good question , Well I think I have 3 categories of things I can Do before Dieing

1.Things Can Do 2. Things Almost impossible to do  3. Things impossible to do


Things Can do , is like Traveling all over the world and I mean it latterly , Drive a Ferrari. ( getting Rich is not a choice or something I wish for, no , it is what am working on Day and night and won't stop till i die { Get Rich or Die Tryn }

Things Almost impossible to do > Ride a Formula 1 Car , in a Formula Race and win  the first Place , & Have something like the WMC but in Egypt with almost all best Djs from the world ( that sounds as it could be done = but actually in Egypt it will end up with a disaster )

Things that is Impossible to do > Stand on the MOON , yea am nuts but I wish I can stand on the Moon or Mars , I mean I want to get the hell out of Earth

Attend to concerts of my favourite bands as music plays a large part of my life.Of course play myself at some amazing gigs.
Someday I wanna be a Jazz piano player, maybe not the best but a decent one.And that's something that is going to happen.
Also attend to a champions leage final and my favourite team playing in it.
World trip is kind of a cliche, but I would like to see some east asian cultures.
These are just top of my head, but that's pretty much it.
Cool thread, James.

Travelling is a must most definetly ... im going to sign up for a charity trek ..like this one https://www.skylineoverseas.co.uk/charity-treks.aspx
they ask for a deposit and then sponsership money over £2500.It's so cool not only do you get to go on a life changing experiance is for a worthy cause too. We should all do it !

Thanks for the thanks enen. But i like yours best Gwende. I gotta learn more about it. I hope its not like a tourist site. Because when i goto Istanbul I dont want someone telling me what to do and where to go. I wanna do what i want when i want for realistically two weeks. But id love to stay for a month.
You want to think im crazy? Id like to move forever in some city in the mediterranean. It is just simply BEAUTIFUL THERE!!!!

Boca....  One time some time ago i managed to get myself on a train about 3 hours south of venice to a place on the mediterranean named trieste (towards yugoslavia). it would have to be one of the most beautiful places that i have seen and i would give nearly anything to get back there again. I suppose one day miami will need a visit in the month of march! Just a couple of things that i would like to do before i die....

- Thy are called Machetty or Yatagan.

Altho Istanbul is great city, thats god choice, you will have a lot to see and learn about the culture and as historical city...
Venice is beautiful city as well you know, I've been there lots of times, almost every year i go there for shopping clothes etc. Great people there, nice and clean, a lot to see..

Oh, I use to train sailing in black sea from young age till couple of years ago. I have friends euro and balkan first,second,third places winners of sailing sports, people from Tukey,France, Spain and so on.. If you look this classes you will se how exiting it is really. First class Optimist is for the youngest age of 8-10 years old I think it was..

Optimist https://shop.pinbax.com/items/Optimist2Full.jpg

Cadet comes second https://www.wksc.net/images/redcadet.jpg and its sailed from two person, Ruleman 60kg and Shkotman 40kg, both person must weight 100 kg together. Shkotman must be the lighter one, the one who put most of its body weight out of the boat hooked with a metal wire and hook to the match of the boat to balance the stability from the wind so the boat wont turn on side. Ruleman is the one from behind on the back rules the boat... Cadet is the small version of class 470. Altho after class Cadet you qualify for the next couple classes that I will show below.

Laser https://www.sciencedaily.com/images/2008/06/080630104637-large.jpg This is Laser sailboat, One person rule. It can be sailed by woman or man. On this picture is woman I think

Finn https://yachtpals.com/files/userimages/finn.jpg Now this is the one person rule heavy weight class, this is fantastic sailboat, one of my favs!

470 https://www.xsracing.org/images/home/2947.jpg Fantastic adrenaline. Any weights allowed. This is the fastest two person sailboat. If you see on the picture the position of the boat, actually this is the normal way of sailing. Both are leaning back on board to balance on level so it wont fell on site. The one who is in upstanded position called 'Shkotman' got to do that every time the boat leans from strong weather and holding the shkot of front smaller sail. And when sailing on 'Back shtack' thats when wind comes from behind, he pulls out the 'Spinaker' -> this sail https://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/05RF5LQcGY3R7/610x.jpg with the GER sign. The Ruleman is taking care the rule and the main big sale and leaning in seated position only.... etc. This is one of my favs too for two person boat. After this classes you qualify for 'Keel Yacht' thats the big ones.. https://www.devilliersyachtdesign.co.nz/images/corsta/big.jpg  

Catamaran https://www.cs.unc.edu/%7Ekeller/catamaran.jpg I don't know the exact class of this one but its catamaran tho, two person. I sailed once on my own one of these and i got turned over aboard because of not enouth weights to balance it max. But i was on some beach and not too far from the coast, so I've waited the waves to bring me down to the coast so the people that were swimming there must of help me turn it around back around. So i went flying again lol :)

I can sail every each one of them and some other except keel yacht, you cant sail keel yacht on your own, if its big you need 10-12 person lol :)
So before I die i really want to have my own sailing keel yacht. With that i can sail anywhere i like with my wife and you know the rest of imagination...

aww penthouse.. i saw this video and thought of you    
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7yfISlGLNU

haha definitely not sailing boat  

good choice. Ive been to ultra two times. But it was a little easier for me since i lived about 250miles north. I wanna go on your train ride too. I tell you if i could win some money on our state lottery i would move there for good.

i would love to become a world leader (FAR AWAY)
Travel around
Jump off a plane, but have a parachute
learn at-least 5 language's i know 3 on my way to the fourth
meet a lot of women
here is a big list, these are the only ones i can think of
I still have my whole life ahead so nothing is that far

World Leader=Headache
Travel Around=YES
Jump off a plane=Yes
Learn more than english=YES YES YES YES YES
You wanna meet the women and thats all?

You have a nice lil list.

Well i wanted to do few more things with them    

I wanna do everything

I dont wanna die    

Lol Dont be a whore. Just pick 5-10 and stay with that number. Any higher and you will have a heart attack