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Your Dream Trip? Priceless. Cost of the Journey in ‘The Bucket List’?

Hi Jim:

I’ve never heard of the film “The Bucket List.” What does that term mean? Anyway, roughly a hundred thousand smackers sounds relatively cheap for hiring a private jet and upscale adventure tour. I take it the Serengeti is at least as hard to get to as “Timbuktu.” Judging from what I’ve heard from some friends who actually tried to visit that legendary African city associated with Nowhere, and indeed some of them were uncertain they had, a penurious backpacker would have kind of an uncomfortable dusty ride. Likewise, I’m not sure if you can get to the Serengeti by bush taxi. But a guaranteed misadventure, I guess, beats not going at all.

The Bucket List was a fairly recent American movie. Bucket List refers to a list one makes of all the things they’d like to do before “kicking the bucket”.