To Do 201-210

201 - work the phones at a charity telethon
202 - learn Arabic so I can write it's beautiful alphabet
203 - canoe the Boundary Waters
204 - hear zydeco music in the bayou country
205 - come home to find dinner ready on the table
206 - hug a redwood
207 - visit Ouagadougou, capital of Burkina Faso in West Africa
208 - shop along Rodeo Drive
209 - program my VCR with ease (done)
210 - ride horseback through Ireland

To Do 161-170

161 - visit the restored buildings of Colonial Williamsburg (done)
162 - drink chilled Manzanilla accompanied by olives and almonds
163 - hit the road for a year in an RV
164 - live and work in Beijing for a year
165 - spend a day watching the sun move across the sky
166 - live in a villa on the Italian Riviera
167 - mud slide in the rain
168 - watch a bud open
169 - see summer arrive in Antarctica
170 - visit Louisiana's Oak Alley plantation to imagine antebellum life

To Do 141-150

141 - visit Valley Forge in a winter as severe as that of 1777-78
142 - get a cosmetic makeover (done)
143 - cut my own firewood with a chain saw
144 - cross the Cumberland Gap of the Appalachian Mountains, following Danial Boone's Wilderness Road to the Old West
145 - drive a four-wheeler up a mountain
146 - dig a pond on my property and stock it wth fish
147 - celebrate Mardi Gras in New Orleans
148 - have a shipboard romance
149 - own a portable global positioning system and never get lost
150 - snowmobile in Finland

To Do 41-50

41 - spend a day surfing the internet (done)
42 - own land on which there's a gravity-fed spring
43 - take the drain into New Orleans across Lake Pontchartrain on the longest train bridge in the world
44 - win a week at Rancho la Puerta
45 - ride a fire engine
46 - submit a suggestion that saves money for the company (done)
47 - receive an impassioned love letter (done)
48 - go to a sherry tasting in Jerez, Spain, where sherry originated
49 - swim in a pool on a cruise ship (done)
50 - eat the world's best cheesecake at Junior's in Brooklyn (done)

To Do 31-40

31 - re-read all of the original Nancy Drew mysteries (in progress)
32 - drive through a dust storm in the desert (done)
33 - learn three jokes that get laughs every time
34 - run through Chicago's Buckingham Fountain
35 - celebrate Easter at St. Peter's in Rome
36 - bake croissants
37 - spend a summer in a chalet high in the Swiss Alps
38 - see a jazz funeral in New Orleans
39 - make charcoal rubbings of the stones in a ghost town graveyard
40 - canoe the lakes of the Adirondacks