106. Go to a real desert and see sand dunes

This is the coast of Baja California.

292. Go 100 days without fast food

Pretty self-explanatory.  It also turns out to be surprisingly easy if you're a six-hour plane ride from the nearest fast food joint.  I didn't manage to avoid fast food when I lived within walking distance of several fast food places.  I think my favorite fast food is the canteloupe juice at Quickly.

49. Read War and Peace

It was an alright book, kind of a lot of characters to remember.  One girl, Natasha, reminded me of a character in Tale of Genji.  I don't remember if the girl in Tale of Genji had a name; lots of them are called "the plum-blossom lady" or something like that.  But the girl in Tale of Genji wrote a poem that went "Not to one mortal only, but to all that in this dark world dwell, that word I must accord."  If I told you what they had in common, it might spoil the book, though.  You are going to read two 1000-page novels, each hundreds of years old, right?