![]() At the end of the day, I view the city as more three-dimensional. I can traverse a city from watering hole to watering hole, from a stale-beer-smelling dive to a marble-and-brass hotel bar, down into valleys and up on to the peaks. “A bar trek is a hybrid of James Joyce’s epic wandering and John Cheever’s pool marathon. In cities, it’s the same, although these shady spots are called ‘bars,’” Curtis wrote for the drinks website Punch. “When backpacking, I learned to think ahead as to where I would next rest and recuperate, such as a ledge with a view, or along a nice brook. That means they have sidewalks right outside businesses, rather than strip malls with massive parking lots.Ĭurtis took urban walks while researching and writing a book, “The Last Great Walk: The True Story of a 1909 Walk From New York to San Francisco and Why It Matters Today” (Rodale). He noted that the best cities for long walks are those old enough to have been designed for humans, not cars. Wayne Curtis, who was editor of American Hiker magazine and a contributing editor to Backpacker before becoming a cocktail writer, helped inspire our approach to daylong city walks. ![]() Many long walkers advocate traveling light, but I was pretty happy to have bandages in my purse. ![]() Wearing sport sandals for our Chicago walk was mostly an improvement, but still I got a big blister. ![]() Walking for several hours, even with breaks, made my feet sweaty and swollen inside waterproof hiking shoes on our Manhattan walk. But I overestimated how much those short daily walks would prepare me for all-day treks. ![]()
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