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