To Do 261-270

261 - become a Big Sister to a child who needs one
262 - see a meteor crater
263 - bird-watch for sandhill cranes along the Platte River in Nebraska
264 - stand in the center of the Roman Colosseum (done)
265 - find an extra $1,000 in my bank account
266 - ride aboard the Goodyear blimp
267 - have lunch in the restaurant atop Seattle's Space Needle
268 - swing on a trapeze
269 - share a small tent in the wilderness with the one I love
270 - prepare a salad using 20 different ingredients

To Do 221-230

221 - sail the inland waterway down the Eastern Seaboard
222 - give away everything I havent worn in three years
223 - take a pack trip on horseback through Yellowstone National Park
224 - learn to speak French
225 - spend a day as a citizen of Pompeii
226 - get so good at poker I really know when to hold 'em and know when to fold 'em
227 - shop at the 24-hour L.L. Bean store in Freeport, ME at 3:00 in the morning
228 - make a perfect souffle
229 - sing with a band in a night club (done)
230 - snorkel Australia's Great Barrier Reef

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 101-110

101 - help preserve a landmark
102 - smell the freshness of the desert fater a rain (done)
103 - sail a sleek white yacht into the Bay of Naples at sunset
104 - fly over the "roof of the world" - the 96 Himalayan peaks, reaching over 24,000 feet high
105 - see where the Hatfields feuded with the McCoys
106 - learn to box
107 - visit every continent (in progress)
108 - surf the big waves off Australia's west coast
109 - summer in a villa in Tuscany
110 - with the Odyssey as my travel guide, retrace Ulysses' route home

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 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