We had a wonderful day using our city and becoming more familiar with our home. It was a total pleasure and honor to have an excellent small pack of walkers meet up yesterday at different points. We met Curtis and Trish at Christopher Street, Elizabeth at 42nd street (on the subway), Paul, Ben and Philissa up at 220th street, Robin at @ 200 and Amy & Jill jumped in about halfway down.
(78 pics - 10am to 5:30pm - lotsa hardware stores)
Thanks to all of you, we had a glorious walk, marching 13 miles in seven and a half hours.
Oddly enough, we felt more energized this morning when we woke up than we thought we'd feel. Instead of tiring us out, the walk and the company was very revitalizing and we've decided we need to walk more. So, this morning we left the scooter at home and walked to work.
We hope to drag more people into our walk next year, so get ready for AT Walks 2006. It will be Marathon Sunday, next November.
Looks like so much fun... I was hit with a bad flu over the weekend, otherwise would have been there. You guys had great weather!
7.5 hrs?! Wow, this West Coaster woulda petered out around 2. That is impressive. So who's who in the picture? =)
ATL -
In that picture they're showing, Left to Right was...
Green jacket with red accents = Ben; grey blouse and glasses = Philissa; red shirt, curly blondish hair = Sara Kate; longer brown hair, black blouse = Elizabeth; tall guy with glasses and dark hair = Paul; raven tresses with sage green jacket = Trish; tall guy with red-orange shirt and blond hair = Maxwell; guy with Tweed cap kneeling in almost all of the group pix = me (Curtis)
Then... around Zabar's or so... longer straight blonde hair until Lincolnd Center = Amy, then at 59th Street ever-so-slightly-less-blonde = Jill.
I think that's about right. The weather was perfect and a good time seemed to be had by all, but I can only vouch for myself. It was a fantastic way to spend a day.
What about me? Jeez, Curtis. We spend a magic day together and the next day...NOTHING. You tweedy lothario!! I feel cheap. I feel used. That and the indignity of my name misspelled. It's Robyn. Remember, Robin with an "i" is trashy, with a "y" is classy.
It certainly was a wonderful day, I trust that the 2006 version is also guaranteed to have such great weather...
rr- I certainly remember you, regardless of what curtis says.
(signing off as masck because there are all ready too many pauls around here)
question for those on the walk-
my friend Karen (from the "fab, fearless" color contest entry!) saw someone with a ploka dot plastic bag like in photo #25 last time she was visiting NY and wanted to buy some. I searched and searched every dollar store I could find, but never found them. Does anyone remember where that one is??
Thanks!
Now you must all imagining me doffing my cap, etc. and donning that huge black spandax bag that Martha Graham used to dance in as some grieving Greek widow while grieving her dead child, hitting her forehead with the butt of her own hand and hopping parallellishly and hellishly across stage or something (OK, I'm combining two different pieces there).
Why? Because THAT'S how sorry I am for omitting my dear, dear, excruciatingly funny Robyn! Yipes!If you look at the pre-walk thread about the walk, you see that her decision to go to this thing is what completely sealed the deal for me, because she was such a gas at the New York re-launch fete a while back at DWR!
But also... uh ... I had only ever heard her name pronounced, and maybe I was accidentally liking to think that she was actually Batman's sidekick? So maybe that's why the misspelling?
Oh ... anyway ... Robyn is the one with the sunglasses and the black T-shirt with the white rectangle with the red outline and the red diagonal logo on it.
lc- I remember the polka dotted bag. It was uptown, by the photos you can see it was somewhere between 137th and 125th. We were walking on the West side of Bway, and it was hanging off the uptown end of an awning of a place that sold all kinds of misc stuff, maybe a hardware store, may have been El Mundo. I bet you can find it...
You guys were walking really fast at the end, weren't you?
I think we did our fastest walking at the beginning, when it was still early and crowds were sparse. It was slower going through Times Square and Canal Street. Maybe the realization that we could actually finish before it got dark helped us along those last few blocks (blisters be damned!)
Wow, 7.5 hours! Looks like you guys had a lot of fun. Incidentally, how in the world did the Peelander-z guys get into one of your photos? Those guys are pretty crazy, and definitely a lot of fun to watch. I thought for a second there that they walked with y'all, too.
Well, when I looked at my watch, when we were at the water, it was 4:55, so I would say it was just under 7 hours.
This was not a slow or wimpy group -- when I'm walking by myself on uptown-dowtown blocks, I go about a mile a minute and I'd say that most of the trip we were doing about that. It also usually took a little less than another whole minute to check and see if we were all together to take a group picture on all the "20" block points -- well, most of them.
NO. I mean a BLOCK a minute. Not a mile a minute. I am fairly fleet of foot, but I'm talking about walking, not running.
Oh, wow, GREAT pics, and I can see a great time was had by one and all! So you actually walked from one end of the island to the other? I wanted to go, but I had a wedding to go to that day. So the next one scheduled for NYC Marathon Sunday 2006? I'm coming this time - can I bring my shopping cart? Or would it get it in the way, for example, if there are steps to climb, or other spots where a cart would be inconvenient? Because I KNOW I'm going to want to shop, which means me & my 4-wheel drive, :) How long did it take, from end to end? What a wonderful idea, I'm sorry I missed it.
Absolutely top-to-bottom of Mahattan. I would almost bet that a shopping cart would lose a wheel along the way. Steps to climb? Well, to get in and out of the subway. The 220th Street stop is elevated, so that was kind of a lot of steps.
I think it would be better to bring a camera and a notebook and make note of which shops you'd want to come back to, because if we actually stopped to shop we'd never have made it.
Great pics; a few weeks ago, I just happened to go the opposite direction.
Wasn't fortunate enough to run into P-Z, though.
Oh, good point, Curtis! So forget the cart, and I'll just bring a notepad - see you at next year's walk, :)