Bucket List!
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I'm going like your post @MajorRage before I start reading it as I know I'm going to enjoy it!
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@Hooroo said in Bucket List!:
I'm going like your post @MajorRage before I start reading it as I know I'm going to enjoy it!
We actually need a heart symbol besiide 'like' as I love that post!
Not in comparison to your story but when we left Western springs we saw a taxi parked in a drive way and asked if he was available and he said no and a $20 note prepay on top of fare and he was suddenly a yes!
Good times and I pity the people he was supposed to pick up
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Can't think of anywhere else to write this ... so here will do.
Sevens weekend in HK, the usual garb went on. I'm taking it a bit slower these days, but I still managed to get an invite up to one of the boxes from a broker and so a casual saturday afternoon was had. Anyway, about 3pm, was ordering a beer and heard some bloke talking away behind me, thinking a bit of familiarity to his voice ... turned around.
Richard. Hugh. McCaw.
Just standing there taking pic's having a chat to people. Couldn't believe it. Anyway, tried to man up and show I wasn't in complete awe of this guy whose a good 4-5 years younger than me, and managed to get a good 10 mins chat in. I asked some dumb fucking questions, thanked him for all the years etc. He seems pretty into his helicopters these days. Anyway, of all the stupid questions I asked amid some generic corporate answers ... I did ask him why he didn't mention Aussie in the post match WC final ... He just said, yeah, he definitely should have, but wasn't really thinking about his answers too much and was trying to enjoy the moment. Said there was nothing sinister/deeper in it and media tried to make something that wasn't there.
Anyway, bloody nice guy, very engaging and easy to chat to.
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Dunno about that but if I had my time again, I would have pre thought some better questions. The ones I asked were proper stupid retarded ones ... I was trying too hard to think of something different to what he normally gets.
Completely clusterfuck all around honestly!
But still, bucket list for sure!
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@MajorRage said in Bucket List!:
Dunno about that but if I had my time again, I would have pre thought some better questions. The ones I asked were proper stupid retarded ones ... I was trying too hard to think of something different to what he normally gets.
Completely clusterfuck all around honestly!
But still, bucket list for sure!
I assume you got an obligatory selfie
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@MajorRage said in Bucket List!:
@canefan yes. and posted it to some social networks to promote jealousy and act like my life is that awesome all the time.
I'm hoping you asked his views on SBWs latest self indulgent antics with sufficient scorn in your voice ?
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@MajorRage said in Bucket List!:
@MN5 I was going to, but then I remembered that like the last 50, I don't give a flying fuck about the latest attention-seeking-effort by SBW and didn't ask.
This is one of the ferns best ever posts
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@MN5 said in Bucket List!:
@MajorRage said in Bucket List!:
@MN5 I was going to, but then I remembered that like the last 50, I don't give a flying fuck about the latest attention-seeking-effort by SBW and didn't ask.
This is one of the ferns best ever posts
This post does not gel with your own posting history
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So, Bucket List item of sorts.
I've got some Long Service Leave coming up in October, and while one of the things on my bucket list will be ticked off (Uluru road trip) another activity I'm keen on is some hiking (tramping to you lot) in NZ.
I have to make it a fairly quick trip, as if I spent the time I wanted (i.e. 3 months doing Te Araroa) I don't think Mrs TA would be thrilled holding down the fort by herself. So I've got about 8-10 days lined up, all on the North Island. I'd love to get going on the South Island but would leave that one until high summer.
Bits I've figured out:
Depart Sydney, hire a car in Auckland
Spend 2 nights chilling with RB at Te Aroha. Walk some local trails while there.
Head down to Lake Tarawera for an overnight camp.
Across to Mount Egmont NP for the Pouakai Circuit
Up to Waitomo for Blackwater Rafting and Glow Worm Cave - 2 nights I suppose
Back in the car to Auckland and fly homeProbably doing this around 1st week of November. The big question is whether the snow in Egmont NP will have cleared in time for that?
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@Rembrandt said in Bucket List!:
@NTA Best calling it Mt Taranaki too. Very few call it by it's english name and will likely rub a few people the wrong way
Damn. I was keeping him going on Egmont so he could appear a borish Ocker.
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@NTA said in Bucket List!:
Pouakai Circuit
To be fair on Nick, it is still the Egmont NP, only the Maunga has changed name.
Nick, if you get a chance, walk around this side http://www.doc.govt.nz/Documents/parks-and-recreation/tracks-and-walks/wanganui/dawson-falls-east-egmont-brochure-and-map.PDF
Between Wilkies Pools and the swingbridge you can see marked is the Goblin Forest. Awesome at that time of year as everything is very fresh and green (greener than the greenest green thing you can imagine)
