1. Walked 13 miles.
2. Ate an enormous sandwich.
3. Promptly went to sleep.
I popped two ibuprofen before my nap, and I'm about to pop two more, and I think I'll just keep doing that about every six hours just as a cautionary measure. I'm only a little sore right now but I predict that, much like a car accident, the real pain will happen tomorrow. Maybe not whip lash, but I'm concerned I might not be able to sit on the toilet. Again.
I was hoping I might have something profound and earth shattering to tell you when I got done with this whole journey, but I haven't really discovered some new layer of the inner recesses of my soul to expose so there's no dice on that one. Instead, I've got two things for you. First, for all of these more than 200 blocks and almost 13 miles, I never once thought about getting out of the city -- the one thing that has consumed my mind for the past six months or so. And second, no matter how my thighs may presently be burning, I've got one more reason after today to never tell myself I can't do something ever again. Because I can. And I have. And I did.
And I'll do it again.
See below for numbered captions.
1. & 2. The sun shining through the trees in Fort Tyron Park around 196th Street. 3. View of the river. 4. Pretty church. 5. George Washington Bridge. 6. Subway overpass in Harlem. 7. Seminary Row - is that anything like Skid Row? Millionaire's Row? Death Row? 8. Alumnae reception at Barnard College. 9. & 10. Cathedrals on Cathedral Parkway. 11. The view down Central Park West. 12. & 13. Trump Tower. 14. Columbus Circle. 15. Sneak attack photo of a chocolate lab waiting to cross the street at the corner of Central Park and Columbus Circle. 16. Fountain in the center of Columbus Circle. 17. The Late Show. 18. Times Square. 19. Me and Harry's special place - Ellen's Stardust Diner, home of the singing wait staff! 20. No one up here ever seems to understand why I find the name of this place (and the branding of the font) so interesting. Maybe my southerners will. 21. Cool art in the Fashion District. 22. So true. 23. Beautiful church in St. Marks I used to walk by a lot when I lived in Union Square. 24. Shopping in SoHo. 25. City Hall through the trees. 26. Church downtown. 27. Cool sculpture near Wall Street. 28. Trinity Church and cemetery. 29. Battery Park, from a safe distance because I thought I was about to die. And promptly turned around and went home. Sue me.
cheers,
elizabeth
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