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New York City Walks We always rack up many walking miles in New York. Joyce tracks the miles on her pedometer and mandates at least 10,000 steps a day (5 miles), but we often achieve 20,000 steps or 7-10 miles each day. Most of our walks are in the areas we know quite well: the […]
We love walking Manhattan’s neighborhoods. Each has its own unique character and unique surprises. While some trips target specific neighborhoods as destinations, our recent trip to New York City included a number of short, relatively unplanned visits to neighborhoods at which we had a specific destination. These included: Ukrainian town Although New York does not […]
Our last museum stop of this New York trip was at the American Museum of Natural History. Although we always enjoy browsing through the museum’s galleries, this stop was particularly focused on a particular exhibit called “Creatures of Life.” The display explained that at least 50 different species have independently developed some form of their […]
The Xian Terra-cotta Warriors exhibit was the second Discovery Center exhibit we have visited. (The first was an exhibit of Pompeii artifacts and ash casts of people who we killed in the pyroclastic flows.) This exhibit was built around nine of the 2,000-year old, life-sized figures from the tomb of the Qin Emperor who first […]
Some of our greatest fun, and certainly biggest surprises of our recent New York City visit, came courtesy of Harlem’s legendary Apollo Theater. After a phenomenal evening last year at one of the Apollo’s famous Amateur Nights, we signed up for a disgracefully inexpensive ticket ($10) for a show that was simply labeled “Wycliffe Gordon’s […]