NYC Trek 2007
The Checklist
- Test
the waters at four different beaches
- Scale
the highest natural point in the city
- Consume
food from ten different ethnic cuisines
- Compose
a song about each borough as we pass through it
- Find
the best view of the Manhattan skyline
- Play that piano from Big with our feet
- Do
some volunteer work
- Play
pickup games in three different sports
- Ride
a horse
- Go
bowling
- Make
a funny face at a shark
- Ride
a ferris wheel
- Go to
a hipster bar without looking or acting hip
- Visit
five different religions' places of worship
- Plot
out a ridiculous journey in a library's map room
- Ride
a cable car
- Go
roller skating
- Perform
the Bronx cheer
- Greet
people, and receive responses, in ten different languages
- Get a
haircut
- Row a
boat
- Go
fishing
- Read
bad poetry at Washington Square Park
- Have
a drink on a rooftop
- Ride
a carousel
- Use
the bathroom in each Borough Hall
- Pick
up some produce at a farmers market
- Perform
music on a subway platform
- Check
out, read, and return a library book
- Ride
a camel
- Go
swimming on top of a sewage treatment plant
- Take a stroll down an airport runway
- Tap out
"What hath God wrought" on Samuel Morse's tombstone
- Read
a preposterous list of demands on the steps of City Hall