Most people would welcome a couple of weeks of vacation and many may even have further daydreamed of taking a whole year off, possibly to backpack around the world or do volunteer work.

But Scottish brothers Lee and Lindsay Vine figured they could top such run-of-the-mill ideas by taking a rather unusual year off. Since December, they have been traveling around Asia trying to accomplish 101 tasks chosen for them by the Internet-surfing public.

It's a project that "puts the public in control of our lives for 12 months," says the brothers' Web site.