Start of the BLOG
(Feb. 18, 2008)
Yup, I am going to try my hand at blogging. I actually have a direction I want to take this too. You see, I have had this strange goal ever since I moved to New York. I wanted to walk every single street in Manhattan, from Battery Park to Inwood, from the Lower East Side to the West Village, and yes this includes all of Harlem. I want to see the entire city, its beauty and its blight (which to me actually has quite a bit of beauty in and of itself).
I have been meaning to start this journey and series of walks for quite a while, but I wanted a digital camera to take along with me. I wanted to record what I thought was unique. It could be architecture and the public spaces created by it, as that is my field. It could be children playing. It could be a homeless person or just a beautifully framed photo with no reasoning behind it other than it was “pretty”. Or it may be a bad photo of some iconic THING, that may or may not be important to me, but I want to be able to say I was there. What ever the case, I couldn't do this until I got my camera. Now that I have it, enough memory cards, and an extra battery I can start this bizarre quest.
There is another part to this too, but not near as intensive. I want to ride every subway train to its last stop. Why not right?
Anyway, I have to start sooner than later, because I don't plan on living here forever. Plus, I feel as if God is getting me ready to transition out of NYC in the next couple of years. And after my first walk this past Saturday, I may have started a little too late. Only time will tell.
Please keep in mind that this is a work in progress. The title may change a few times, the format may as well, and I probably won’t have too much in the form of an organized plan of attack on my routes or locations for some time. So please bare with me, as I try to record my journeys as they occur. This blog is really more for me and keeping track of where I have been and to record what I see, hear, smell, feel sense…you get the idea. So please feel free to ignore this blog, it will most likely bore you.
I hope to post an actual summary and a few photos from it later this week. Below is a glimpse of the first route I took Saturday February 16th, 2008 (thanks to Google Earth).
That’s it for now. God Bless,
Brant
