Bucket List Redux: Is Starting Your Personal Dream List Frustrating You? Or Maybe You’ve Got the List, But You Can’t Figure Out How to “Make It Happen?”

Clearly the desire to create a list of things you want to experience before you die; a “dream” – or “bucket” – list is popular with Baby Boomers. It’s also exciting many of you who are a bit older…

After our recent post about making a “Bucket List,” one of our readers shared his story of his lifelong dream of sailing a boat around the Eastern half of the United States. He said he’d envisioned the trip this way:

• He’d start in the Midwest, sailing from the Upper Mississippi River down to New Orleans
• Then he’d sail out into the Gulf, around Florida via the Intercoastal Waterway
• Next lap would be up the Atlantic Coast, into the Chesapeake Bay
• Continue west into New York, down the Erie Canal
• Onward through the Canadian Heritage Canals and through the Great Lakes
• Finally he would complete the circle, sailing back to the Mississippi River

Amazingly, He Actually Completed His Dream Trip This Summer, At the Age of 78. Along the Way, He Found Out That:

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