I had a ‘bucket list’ once, though I had never heard the term to then. I am 71 and have not accomplished much at all of it. However I find that I have a different bucket of things I have done and places I have been that I never would have placed in that pail when I was thinking about those things half a century ago. These are much more solid and satisfying, I think, than any of those things I wanted to do when I was twenty.
Interesting response, ThanPhero. Mine is similar. My wife and I traveled extensively before we were 30 and had kids. (even some months in 1971 behind the Iron Curtain - whew.) Have kept it up since that time, even on a pretty modest income.
At this point, age 67, just taking what comes. I have never been to Rome, though, which is just silly, given my interests. Would like to go there with my wife and my adult daughter (who speaks Italian) and her husband for an exclusively “Roman Holiday.”