OK, my obsessive and addictive nature is coming through on this adventure. Now, everywhere I go on Queen Anne I scout for streets I have yet to visit. When I go to the Safeway, could I go around the block and squeeze in a walk? Where can I go to knock out a few more blocks?
Yesterday I was coming home from the gym in Lower Queen Anne, and of course I had my map on me, and I thought, hey, I could get a few streets up the hill that I have yet to hit. So, rather than just walking straight up the hill (I live on QA Ave) I took a detour and thought, ok, I will just walk over to 2nd, on Roy, which I hadn't done before, then up 2nd and left on a little piece of Aloha that I haven't completed.
I ended up needing to go up 2nd all the way to Ward (I hadn't done that part and wasn't going to leave just one block unmarked), then I figured, well, I hadn't completed staircase number 327 at the top of 2nd. So I took that. Then I looked and just down the block on Ward were two staircases I hadn't done, so I down the hill (away from my house) I went.
Well, long story short, the walk that normally takes me about 8 minutes turned into a 45 minute walk. Must cross off streets on map. I am like an obsessive robot!
In the process the idea that Queen Anne is very hilly was reinforced as I seemed to have climbed several hills only to turn back around and come back down a different way.
Could I not start from the top of the neighborhood just so all my hills can be downhill? I guess that is sort of cheating.
Sorry, no pictures from today, didn't have my camera and was not expecting to do this much! My map, however, is filling up with highlighted streets!
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