To Do 151-160

151 - make love in a public place (done)
152 - kayak over the Grand Canyon's Lava Falls
153 - take a woodworking class
154 - lunch at New York's "21"
155 - split logs with a sledgehammer and wedge
156 - get elected team captain (done)
157 - run my own business (done)
158 - create a computer database for my family tree
159 - pay off my credit cards
160 - sit in the infield for the Indianapolis 500

To Do 131-140

131 - start a patchwork quilt on the day of my child's birth - and give her the finished produce on the day she graduates from college
132 - stick to my convictions even in the face of hostile opposition
133 - take a boat ride through Indiana's Wyandotte Cave
134 - see where the red salmon spawn on Lake Clark in Alaska
135 - be asked for the recipe for something I've cooked (done)
136 - pamper myself with "the works" at a luxury spa
137 - take a limo to a Broadway opening
138 - trek through Karakoram
139 - travel the coast of Turkey
140 - take a kid to the circus

Complete #50 - Eat the world's best cheesecake at Junior's in Brooklyn

Junior's is definitely one of the best. I went there in August of 2005 during a weekend trip to New York with friends. It's not exactly convenient to get to the original since it's in Brooklyn, but it was worth it. If you don't want to haul yourself out there, there are several places in the city who sell their cheesecake, including a shop in Union Station.

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To Do 71-80

71 - sit through an opera by Wagner
72 - give money and muscle to Habitat for Humanity (done)
73 - cook pasta that's perfectly al dente (done)
74 - march in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade
75 - visit a castle in Spain
76 - stay at the historc Mohonk Mountain House in New Paltz, New York
77 - live without television (done)
78 - mountain bike in the Rockies
79 - surf cast for bass at Montauk Point
80 - spend an elegant weekend at the Gritti Palace hotel in Venice

To Do 51-60

51 - drive I-80 from New York's George Washington Bridge to the Bay Bridge in San Francisco
52 - do the Sunday crossword puzzle in ink
53 - ride the Moscow to St. Petersburg wide-gauge railroad
54 - see the gigantic carved heads of Easter Island
55 - stand on the shore and roar back at the ocean as loud as I can
56 - study Buddhist and Hindy dharma
57 - be a mentor
58 - visit a new museum each month
59 - rent an entire restaurant for my 50th birthday party
60 - end a meal with Stilton, fresh pears, and vintage Port

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