Ok

[Soln]

so I'm turning 40 this Summer.  Advice.  Ideas plz.  I'm taking at least a week off.

hookers and blow and killing pandas no


Edit:  

[schild]

No hookers and blow? Enjoy the hill. It's gonna be boring the whole way down.

[Soln]

hopefully I won't remember. 

C'mon.  Imagination-land.

[apocrypha]

I also am turning 40 in a little under 3 weeks time.

I plan to get drunk and stoned and eats lots of nice seafood with my family. But I'm always open to more exciting ideas 

[stray]

40 is the new 20.

So.. umm... Get out the old beer bong or something. Smoke a joint. This time with your kids.

[dusematic]

Draft a will.

[Sheepherder]

hopefully I won't remember. 

C'mon.  Imagination-land.

Whisky.  I like Rye, personally.

[gryeyes]

How much are you looking to spend and are you in a committed relationship? Have to answer those two before I can give a suggestion.

[Falconeer]

For a moment I thought you were asking for  a life plan from now on. For that, I had ideas.

[Bzalthek]

I think it's time to find a nice isolated iceberg to float away on.

[Sky]

I turn 40 next year. BFD. Another year, probably be better than every one before it, as usual.


Young was fun but I'll take wisdom any day. Then again, I did young right.

[Signe]

Start taking naps.  All of you.

Don't believe Sky.  He's like 60.  I have proof.



Looks good though, no?

[Sky]

I only wish I was that dude. Coolest man on the planet, Texas heartbreaker and homewrecker.

[apocrypha]

Start taking naps.  All of you.

Naps rule. I shall print out and laminate the awesome pictures nap pic forthwith 

I'm honestly really not bothered about 40 anyway, I don't get people who get stressed about it, it's just a number.

[Cyrrex]

I just turned 36, and I'm not too happy about it, I'll admit.  Maybe it's because I don't take naps.  They always have the opposite effect for me...they rarely refresh me and always leave me more tired than I was in the first place.

[Grimwell]

I'm 37 and I run on lack of sleep Cyrrex. Naps are for when yer dead or just can't resist it. Like when you are reading.

I'm in Sky's camp though, I enjoyed being young, but not as much as I enjoy being now.

[WayAbvPar]

My plan was to gather as many of my friends as possible in Vegas for my 40th (Feb, 2010). Then I knocked my wife up and knocked that plan into a cocked hat. We may still try to talk her parents into coming along and babysitting while we paint the town, but I may need to go on a tear @ the poker tables to afford it.

[Soln]

So the advice so far is:

1. get drunk and stoned and eats lots of nice seafood with family (apocrypha)
2. Smoke a joint. This time with your kids (don't have any children, that I know of, yaddayaddaetc.) (stray)
3. Draft a will.(dusematic)
4. Whisky or Rye (Sheepherder)
5. find a nice isolated iceberg to float away on (Bzalthek)
6. Start taking naps. (Signe)


Feedback:  Married, no kids, steady job, all family on East Coast of CDN, where we have actual to goodness icebergs (even in some parts of the Summer).

1. yeah, but wife hates everything from the Ocean.  I know.  Disappointing.
2. no kids, but still a good idea. 
3. actually this is a very good idea.  Not fun but yadda.
4. sure
5. have to move back home. 
6. yeah, but not really something I can really look back on. Not quite sky-diving or what-not.

[Lantyssa]

Quit your job in a fit of mid-life crisis and become a secret agent.

Have wife dress as Barbara Feldon.

[Jherad]

Alas, you've just missed the annual Gloucestershire cheese rolling competition for 2009 - might I suggest entering for 2010?

http://www.cheese-rolling.co.uk/2009_YouTube_video.htm

[Bandit]

Quit your job, get a job at a fast food restaurant.

Buy a Pontiac Firebird.

Take up a healthy pot smoking regime.

Start lifting weights in your garage.

Fantasize about teenage cheerleaders and rose petals.

[Lianka]

Go back to your home town and see your guitar hero play in his twilight years with a band you really don't like in a crappy venue a couple of days before the big date?

http://thechronicleherald.ca/Front/9012214.html :)

 

 

[Signe]

I don't know.  I look back on my naps fondly.  Anyway, you probably should have started having reverse birthdays years ago like me.  Or random ones.  I might do 22 this year again.  All my other 22nd birthdays have been awesome.  For real.

[Jain Zar]

If it helps any I turn 35 in a couple of days.

OH GOD.  WE ARE ALL SO FUCKING OOLLLLD.
 

[Nebu]

Take a trip.  Go someplace you always dreamed of going as a kid, no matter how dumb it seems.  Eat a quality meal.  Something that demonstrates you've learned about the difference between quantity and quality.

[Oban]

Go to Montreal and enjoy the local talent for only ~220 an hour.

Travel back home with a smile.

End.

[WayAbvPar]

Go to Montreal and enjoy the local talent for only ~220 an hour.

Travel back home with a smile and a mysterious itch.

End.

Completed.

[Hawkbit]

Get a tattoo.

[rattran]

Take a far-east safari tour. Hookers and blow and killing pandas.

[FatuousTwat]

Buy that new walker you've been eyeing lately!

Seriously,

Take a trip.  Go someplace you always dreamed of going as a kid, no matter how dumb it seems.

This.

Also, go do something that you don't normally have time for/allow yourself to do/always wanted to do.

And kill a panda.

[craan]

How about a bike tour?

I'm planning to take a solo ride from Virginia to Montana.  Visit ghost towns, some western battlegrounds and monuments.

[Broughden]

so I'm turning 40 this Summer.  Advice.  Ideas plz.  I'm taking at least a week off.

hookers and blow and killing pandas no

The new issue of National Geographic Adventurer magazine this month has an article on all the amazing travel deals available right now due to the slump in the economy and the travel business.

Here are a few suggestions....

A) Spend 9 days hiking the 93 miles of the Wonderland Trail that completely circumnavigates Mount Rainier in Washington State. Then spend two days summiting the mountain with Rainier Mountain Guides. (maybe 2 grand? last time I looked?)

B) Do a 14 day combined Kilimanjaro summit with crater overland safari. Kilimanjaro wont have anymore ice on the top with in the next 5 years IIRC so see it now before its gone. (approx. $4-4500 per person including air)

C) Spend 2 weeks rafting the Grand Canyon. No, not with those gay outboard powered boats but a regular rowed raft. OARS and a couple of other outfitters will do 2 week long complete raft trips through the canyon with time for side hikes up the smaller branch canyons.

D) Hike the Annapurna circuit in Nepal. (Plan it yourself for around $3000 grand or so including airfare)

Each one of these are life list quality trips you will remember for the rest of your life (or at least until senility hits at 41), and are all in geographically different places. Pick your poison.

If you have specific questions let me know. I do this shit for a living now.

[Signe]

Wowsers.  Righ would probably love to do any of those.  Me - I'd cheer him on from the hotel spa!  Have you or are you planning to do any of those kinds of adventures, Broughden? 

[Nebu]

I used to guide people through survival trips in Canada.  Something like that could be fun and a way to help you appreciate what you have through suffering!

[Broughden]

Wowsers.  Righ would probably love to do any of those.  Me - I'd cheer him on from the hotel spa!  Have you or are you planning to do any of those kinds of adventures, Broughden? 

I did the Wonderland Trail and summited Rainier twice when I was living in Washington state back in the early 90's.
My wife and I are doing Kilimanjaro next spring. This year we are already to booked up with other trips.