We lived in New York City for the month of September, 2013. I shared a journal of that time with friends and family.
Back by popular demand, The Manhattan Experiment was a (mostly) daily blog of our adventures. Edited for brevity. And common decency.
If you want to follow along chronologically, the journey begins with Mordecai takes Manhattan.
Packing two adults and a dog into a Mini for a month away from home is not without it compromises and challenges. Suitably impressed with ourselves, and no longer in need of airbags for protection, we got on the road a little more than two hours after we’d planned. Another two hours waiting at the […]
Woke up and made a pot of Westside Market coffee. Damn good. Gill went out for a run, so Mordecai and I decided to go on a short walk to check out the dog run in Union Square. Mordecai’s always so gentle and friendly with the smaller dogs, and loves to sniff butts as much […]
I got up at 7:30 ’cause someone was panting in my face and it wasn’t Gill. Fed Mordecai, then took him around the block to do his thing. Found some parking had opened up on the street, so I moved the car back on to West 16th. Gill invited me to participate in her morning […]
Things were still a little cloudy when I got out of bed around 10 am. Gill had gotten up earlier to let Mordecai out and to move the car from the other side of the street (on Tuesdays, that side gets swept, so no parking between 8:30 and 10 am). She found a spot right […]
We woke up a little before 6:30 am. Gill’s plan was to drag me through another workout, then head off to the Jersey office. My plan was to go back to bed. She peeked out the bedroom window to measure the day, and noticed that the Mini was no longer 12 feet from the fire […]
Late morning, Mordecai and I decided it was too nice a day to not head up to Central Park. We hoofed it up 7th Avenue, past all our superhero friends in Times Square, and felt the grass beneath our feet for the first time in days. First stop was Strawberry Fields, where we paid our […]
The day started with a trip to Union Square dog park were Mordecai had some competition for the big-crazy-dog-trying-to-fit-in-the-wading-pool award. I think we may have a new champion. Such is the fleeting nature of New York fame. Wish I had a picture of both of them trying to fit at the same time, but I […]
No dogs allowed on the boardwalk, so we took Mordecai over to Union Square, played some fetch, got some jam at the market and dropped the pup before getting out on the road. The traffic on the Jersey side of the Holland Tunnel was a nightmare, but we eventually found our way south to Asbury […]
Got on our bikes early and headed down to Battery Park for our ferry ride to Liberty Island. Feels like it’s been a whirlwind tour, but we’re in full-blown tourist mode this weekend ’cause the rest of our stay looks a lot more like work than vacation. Liberty Enlightening the World is a big gal, […]
Up at 6 am to feed Mordecai and take him over to Union Square. We got back to the apartment just as Gill was returning from a run. I’m thankful the dog needed attention – running Mordecai beats running every time. Got on a bike at 13th Street and headed down to the Financial District […]