Big Chucks’s Bucket List

I have been reading about Pompeii and the eruption of Mount Vesuvius since I was a kid (see the comic book above).  The story has always fascinated me. I have also bee to Italy three times but never to Pompeii.  I think I need to put it on my bucket list...

No cars, leisurely strolls around an old Victorian village, horse and buggy rides, the Grand Hotel..... I have always heard about this remote place in Lake Huron.  It sounds kind of like a fairy tale existence.  The entire 8-square mile long island is listed as a National Historic Landmark...

I don't think I have ever even stepped foot into the state of Rhode Island. The Cliff Walk in Newport is a 3.5 mile pedestrian path that takes the wanderer past some of the most spectacular and ostentatious Gilded Age mansions in America...

I have always heard about this event but never made it......yet! Several years ago the community of North Tarrytown legally changed its name to the more Chamber of Commerce-friendly name of Sleepy Hollow.  It was a smart move.  Few places in the Hudson Valley are so familiar to Americans as "The Land of the Headless Horseman...

Everybody has a bucket list.  My list of things I need to check off as I get older continues to grow and change.  I thought it would be fun to once in a while start sharing some of the things on my bucket list.  I have traveled extensively over my six decades, but there are still many places that I have missed...