Okay. So we are all hikers now. I didn't feel like going downtown so I did the hills of Washingtons Heights. Here's the first one.
There is no direction from my apartment that is not up hill. I live on a hill yet I am in a bowl.
Here's Yeshiva University. Right down (or up rather) the street from us.
This is the oddest building. It curves down to nearly a point.
If you take into consideration the thickness of the walls, the end rooms cannot be more than eight feet across. Even the rats are stoop-shouldered.
Polynesians are not the only ones who live in stilt houses.
These are on the top of the island very near Fort Tryon. George Washington and the Colonialists hoped that the hills would be steep enough to be easily defended. They were wrong. The Hessian troops sent by the British had apparently been loping through the Black Forest their whole lives and thought these hills were just bumps in the road. They routed the Americans in less eight hours. George barely escaped across the Hudson.
Here's that curved building from a distance. It's tucked into the hillside above those white apartments.
Up and down the hills today was three miles (just) and a lot of puddle jumping and stopping to wait for cars to pass, but otherwise a pleasant afternoon's trot.
Joe(now for some dinner)Nation
