Diary of a Not So Midlife Crisis: Tip to mother effin tip

My friend Kate told me about something one of her friends did, and as soon as she told me I knew I wanted in on those bragging rights. We decided to walk from the top of Manhattan to the very bottom (tip to tip). It's 14 miles if you walk straight down, but of course that's not how we wanted to do it. We planned our route around site seeing, street food, parks, drinks, etc. Our route ended up being close to 25 miles we think. We started at 9:30 am, joined by her parents visiting from Montana and finished close to 11 pm. Today I have three blisters and my feet hurt so bad I'm hobbling around, but it was so fun! I highly recommend it if you have a day and want to see the city by the best way, on foot.

The top tip-looking across to the Bronx (215)

Stairs at the beginning, we ran up them at this point in the day

Our first stop in the 160s...we needed coffee

This is a row of old houses from the 1870's across the street from the Morris Jumel mansion that was once inhabited by George Washington. The doors were just tall enough for me to walk through.

The bathroom at the Morris Jumel mansion

Reminded me of the Hunchback. This was at City College of New York which was the best unplanned part of our trip. So amazing, I want to go back to school there!