To Do 241-250

241 - go from London to Paris via the Chunnel
242 - collect enough individual ceramic tiles to cover one wall of my kitchen
243 - explore the caves of Lascaux and their 20,000-year-old wall paintings
244 - climb Mount McKinley, reaching the summit just as day breaks
245 - own a big-screen television
246 - drink sherry and eat tapas in Spain
247 - see a grizzly bear in the wild from a safe distance
248 - really spend a vacation lying on the beach reading all the books I've been saving up
249 - fly the Concorde (this one is no longer possible but I'm leaving it on the list just in case)
250 - go on safari across Africa's Serengeti Plain

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 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)