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 251-260

251 - see a great white shark
252 - pass a wilderness survival test
253 - ride bareback along a beach at sunrise
254 - vacation on a Pacific island you can only get to by sail boat
255 - eat street food in Bangkok and wash it down with ice-cold Thai beer
256 - ride the train down the Malaysian Peninsula from Bangleole to Kuala Lumpur
257 - journey along the Silk Road from China to the Mediterranean
258 - climb the Great Pyramid at Giza
259 - spend a day on a nude beach
260 - work at an employee-owned company (done)

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 231-240

231 - learn to tie a perfect bowline knot
232 - watch the sun set over Machu Picchu
233 - gather the neighbors and plant a community garden
234 - get the amaryllis on my windowsill to bloom in winter
235 - master the internet (done)
236 - take a course in sculpture
237 - swim with dolphins
238 - on a long airplane ride, sit next to someone who really doesn't want to talk (done)
239 - watch the lava flowing out of Kilauea
240 - pay off my mortgage and throw a party to celebrate

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 211-220

211 - buy a sail boat and sail for a year
212 - travel with no destination (done)
213 - ride out a hurricane on North Carolina's Outer Banks
214 - taste raw sugarcane on a Caribbean island
215 - be part of a human pyramid - preferably the apex (done)
216 - learn to rock climb (done)
217 - see a moose in the wild
218 - bicycle across my home state, and if I like it well enough...
219 - ...bicycle across the country
220 - see the cacti bloom in the Mojave Desert

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 191-200

191 - motorcycle across Nevada's desert flats
192 - spend a summer and fall eating only what I've grown in my own garden
193 - learn to draw
194 - observe an American bald eagle in the wild (done)
195 - build a room of my own
196 - eat Oregon apple pie in Portland, then drive north for Washington peach pie in Seattle
197 - be able to help my teenage son with his homework
198 - overcome my shyness (done)
199 - take a bubble bath in Raffles Hotel in Singapore
200 - have an astrologer cast my chart

To Do 181-190

181 - see Haleakala Crater on Maui
182 - stand at the foot of K-2 in the Karakoram Mountains of northern India, the world's second-highest peak
183 - have lunch with my best friend from elementary school (done)
184 - visit the National Aviation Hall of Fame in Dayton, Ohio
185 - sleep till noon every day for a week (done)
186 - spend a stormy night in a lighthouse on a rocky coast
187 - visit every one of the national parks (in progress)
188 - dog-sled across Alaska
189 - visit all 1,000 Places to See Before You Die (in progress)
190 - start every new year with a clean house, an uncluttered desk, and a new date book

To Do 171-180

171 - take charge of my own contentment
172 - explore West Africa
173 - bake scones
174 - work in flextime so I can balance career and family
175 - visit Utah's Bryce Canyon (done)
176 - store snowballs in the freezer and pull them out for a summer party
177 - overcome difficulties in a relationship
178 - redecorate my home from top to bottom
179 - walk the fabled Bund in Shanghai
180 - spend a weekend in Atlantic City

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 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 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 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

To Do 121-130

121 - skydive (done)
122 - celebrate my birthday aboard a yacht in the Mediterranean
123 - Learn to roller blade (done)
124 - skinny dip under a waterfall (done)
125 - celebrate St. Patrick's Day in Dublin
126 - throw a party people will talk about for years (done)
127 - dine in a five-star restaurant in France
128 - take my family on a backpacking trip through the Grand Tetons
129 - observe an avalanche (from a safe distance)
130 - travel to Bali to hear gamelan music on its native ground

To Do 111-120

111 - drive a Maserati
112 - lasso a steer from horseback
113 - trek in Nepal
114 - force Hyacinths to bloom from bulbs
115 - bike the Greenbrier River Trail in West Virginia
116 - canoe the Allagash in Maine
117 - determine what is the one thing in life I want most
118 - dance a Viennese Waltz in Vienna
119 - get a tattoo (done)
120 - go on a walking tour of the Loire Valley

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 91-100

91 - receive two dozen roses from an admirer
92 - trek the jungle of Borneo
93 - start a watermelon garden
94 - attend the Calgary Stampede
95 - see with 20/20 vision
96 - float down the Amazon
97 - tour the great sites of ancient Greece
98 - lie on the ground in a grove of giant sequoias, the largest living things on earth, and look up
99 - walk across the Golden Gate Bridge
100 - ride an elephant in India

To Do 81-90

81 - attend spring training
82 - slip into bed beside someone who's not expecting me
83 - ski Aspen
84 - serve regularly at the local soup kitchen
85 - bid at an auction (done)
86 - write a letter to my descendants
87 - serve as the emcee of an evening's entertainment
88 - learn to read a river
89 - visit Windsor Castle
90 - cruise the Greek Islands

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