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Boomer Bucket Lists: A Huge New Travel Obsession

Published July 4, 2013 | By Clark Norton

Is St. Petersburg, Russia, on your bucket list? Photo by Dennis Cox/WorldViews

I haven’t seen the Jack Nicholson-Morgan Freeman flick that the term came from, but “bucket list” has certainly entered the lexicon of our age: Stuff to do before you kick the bucket.

Could be sky diving, could be bungee jumping — could be any number of things that might actually have you kicking the bucket somewhat before your allotted time.

Or, in my case — and that of many other baby boomers — it’s traveling to as many places as we can before we’re immobilized in one way or another.

Now, some of these may well include a certain level of risk: trekking to Machu Picchu; angling for a great shot of African buffalo on a safari in Kenya (tip: angle away while remaining safely in your vehicle); even climbing the Great Wall of China (some of those… Continue reading →