Off Topic Your Bucket List...

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I once took a wrong turn in Niagara US. Foot down. Don't glance at anyone FFS. Though not as bad as some parts of Baltimore! That's right scary!!!!
Had to do some work at a hospital in Baltimore, taxi took me through the worst ghetto I’ve ever seen in the states . Working in the lab had to go into the service corridor when two huge cops walked past with a huge black prisoner in ankle irons and chains. Dr told me they are specialists in trauma there because it was the worst city for gunshot wounds! Waterfront was ok but if you looked quarter a mile up each street there were flashing police lights every night . Didn’t wander too far of an evening !
 
Had to do some work at a hospital in Baltimore, taxi took me through the worst ghetto I’ve ever seen in the states . Working in the lab had to go into the service corridor when two huge cops walked past with a huge black prisoner in ankle irons and chains. Dr told me they are specialists in trauma there because it was the worst city for gunshot wounds! Waterfront was ok but if you looked quarter a mile up each street there were flashing police lights every night . Didn’t wander too far of an evening !
My cousin Gerry lives in Glen Burnie, Maryland. With her Yank husband, Tom a great guy. We took a drive into Baltimore to visit a meat supplier in a dodgy area. Basically do the business then get out quick. We passed a scene with a load of cops around. Someone had just shot his neighbour, then turned the gun on himself. Later the same day someone went into a hospital and shot a patient.
Just seemed like a normal day in Balt.
ps Annapolis is lovely.
 
His name was John Firth and he lived in Baton Rouge. When we was doing our promotion seasons I got a ball autographed to take to him when I went to see family near Philly. Unfortunately we couldn't hook up and I had to post the ball to him from where I was.
Good bloke was John. R.I.P.


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One of a kind, and I was proud to have him as a friend.
 
Being a sea lover I had 4 things I wanted to achieve firmly written in to my bucket list .. to swim in the wild with dolphins, manta rays and a whale shark, and also to do a cage dive experience with a great white. A couple of years ago while in Hurghada I achieved the swimming with dolphins in the wild one and have to say it was one of the most emotional experiences of my life, the fact that a pair of bottle nose dolphins chose to swim with me on a reef was brilliant, they stayed with me for around 40 mins before they'd got bored of me and with a flick of their tails disappeared, magical. The intelligence of these creatures is just something to behold the way they just slowed down to swim alongside me looking at me as if to say that's a queer looking bloody dolphin !

Still hope to achieve the others once travel becomes easier, and achieve MY big 4 !

The other bucket list things I'd hoped for was to see City in the top league - tick .. and to see City at Wembley - tick.
 
Being a sea lover I had 4 things I wanted to achieve firmly written in to my bucket list .. to swim in the wild with dolphins, manta rays and a whale shark, and also to do a cage dive experience with a great white. A couple of years ago while in Hurghada I achieved the swimming with dolphins in the wild one and have to say it was one of the most emotional experiences of my life, the fact that a pair of bottle nose dolphins chose to swim with me on a reef was brilliant, they stayed with me for around 40 mins before they'd got bored of me and with a flick of their tails disappeared, magical. The intelligence of these creatures is just something to behold the way they just slowed down to swim alongside me looking at me as if to say that's a queer looking bloody dolphin !

Still hope to achieve the others once travel becomes easier, and achieve MY big 4 !

The other bucket list things I'd hoped for was to see City in the top league - tick .. and to see City at Wembley - tick.
That’s a really great list mate. Swimming with Dolphins must have been something you know you'll never forget. One of those things you can think about as you're trying to get off to sleep.
 
That’s a really great list mate. Swimming with Dolphins must have been something you know you'll never forget. One of those things you can think about as you're trying to get off to sleep.

Absolutely.. still get chills thinking back .. never wanted to swim with captive dolphins and wanted it to be their choice .. completely magical.
 
My 2 aims are to Get a straw in a Capri sun without losing half of it first , and come out of B And M with just the items I went in for and not 40 pounds worth of extra stuff
****ing hell
I thought they were supposed to be things that are at least possible in theory! You'll be saying you'll get a USB connection in the right way round first time at this rate!
 
My cousin Gerry lives in Glen Burnie, Maryland. With her Yank husband, Tom a great guy. We took a drive into Baltimore to visit a meat supplier in a dodgy area. Basically do the business then get out quick. We passed a scene with a load of cops around. Someone had just shot his neighbour, then turned the gun on himself. Later the same day someone went into a hospital and shot a patient.
Just seemed like a normal day in Balt.
ps Annapolis is lovely.

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