The List

1. Eat lunch with 100 fascinating people before I turn 30 (2/100)
2. Get a psychic reading done (December 29, 2011)
3. Take James Bond on a Mediterranean cruise
4. Write my own wedding vows
5. Undergo a series of reiki treatments
6. Complete the NYC marathon
7. Hike in Yosemite National Park
8. Have sex in all 50 states (9/50)
9. Complete the Way Too Cool 50K Endurance Run
10. Drive across America, from CA – NY
11. Visit every continent (North America, Europe)
12. Pay off my undergraduate loans from NYU
13. Make every recipe from a single cookbook
14. Hike the Grand Canyon (March 22, 2008)
15. Send someone flowers (March 21, 2010)
16. Take silly pictures in a photo booth (September 20, 2009)
17. Attend a major religious service for at least four different religions (Catholicism, Judaism)
18. Milk a cow
19. Make a scrapbook or photobook for someone else (February 14, 2011)
20. Swim with dolphins
21.  Take one photograph each day for a year
22. Explore a jungle
23. Write and publish a book
24. Be an extra in a movie or a television show
25. Ride a camel
26. Go snorkeling in Belize
27. Go backpacking for at least one month (9.18.09 – 11.9.09)
28. Get naked on a nude beach
29. Read 50 books in one year
30. Hike Machu Picchu
31. Walk on a glacier
32. Secretly record my grandfather telling his best stories (December 18, 2009)
33. Visit a city whose name I have to learn to pronounce
34. Work/volunteer on a farm
35. Buy something for each of my parents that they couldn’t afford on their own
36. Drive through a tollbooth and pay for myself and the car behind me (January 10, 2010)
37. Leave a $100 tip for a breakfast waitress
38. Watch the sunrise at the beach
39. Send out a photo holiday card (December 2008)
40. Stay in an Ice Hotel
41. Regularly practice yoga for an entire year, at least once per week (started 3.12)
42. Stay at a spa for an entire weekend
43. Host 10 consecutive Bloggers in Sin City events (3/10)
44. Take a picture of myself in the cities all 8 of my great-grandparents were born in
45. Eat at all of Thomas Keller’s restaurants (Bouchon, Bouchon Bakery)
46. Have a picnic (January 10, 2010)
47. Leave the US at least once a year for five consecutive years (2011)
48. Tour the White House
49. Stand in a submarine
50. See the Aurora Borealis
51. Visit Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe
52. Meet ten blog friends in person (completed May 21, 2009)
53. Send one handwritten card per week for a year
54. Visit a different city once a month for a year (3.10 – 3.11)
55. Go white water rafting on the Colorado River
56. Spend Christmas on a beach
57. Visit the Galapagos Islands
58. Take a dance lesson
59. Buy the perfect little black dress
60. Go wine tasting (May 30, 2009)
61. Swim in the Dead Sea
62. Attend a white tie event
63. Go canoeing
64. Get my picture in a major newspaper or magazine
65. Travel alone (9.18.09 – 11.9.09)
66. Give twenty “just because” gifts to twenty different people in the same week (week of 1.14.2011; sponsored by Babeland)
67. Ride a jet ski
68. Be able to complete five pull-ups in a row
69. Host an eight-course dinner party
70. Get a fourth and fifth tattoo (May 1, 2009 and April 24, 2010)
71. Make homemade jam (February 3, 2012)
72. Complete a 5K race, a 10K race, and a half marathon (5K Aug 2011 | 10K Oct 2011 | Half Marathon Oct 2011)
73. Ride a zip line
74. Enter a writing contest (August 2008, Fiction in a Nutshell, The Acorn Newspaper, Runner up)
75. Go to the Olympics
76. Go on safari in Africa
77. Spend a month as a vegan
78. Own a king size Tempur-Pedic mattress
79. Do volunteer work in three different countries (United States)
80. Hike a volcano
81. Take my nieces on vacation
82. Teach a class, seminar, or workshop (online or offline)
83. Wear snowshoes
84. Fly in a blimp
85. Have black & white boudoir style photos taken of myself
86. Run a race in all 50 states (3/50)
87. Eat a pulled pork sandwich in Memphis
88. Create a ball pit in my apartment (August 22, 2010)
89. Visit a tea plantation
90. Visit the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia
91. Raise $10,000 in one month for a single charity
92. Go on a silent retreat
93. Walk across the Brooklyn Bridge (October 20, 2009)
94. Fly a kite (January 10, 2010)
95. Write a personal manifesto (April, 2011)
96. Attend a Do Lectures event
97. Take a photo at the equator, with one foot in each hemisphere
98. Take a flying trapeze class (October 9, 2010)
99. Contribute to setting or breaking a world record
100. Show up at the airport with my bag and passport, and jump on a spontaneous international flight