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The author discusses hiking with a family on the Upper Awosting carriage path to Castle Point in Minnewaska State Park Preserve near New Paltz, New York. Castle Point offers expansive views of the Hudson River Valley. The author's two children are aged two and six and the adults found that carrying the two year old was hard work while hiking.

The author discusses that while some people may move to neighborhoods in New York City for views of Central Park or better schools, some may chose locations based on the food available within a neighborhood. After living in his previous apartment for nine years, the author felt the areas cuisine was tired and looked for an area with a more diverse pallette.

The article presents the author's experience of viewing the New York City while on a trip on a sailboat. He had been sailing in Atlantic ocean with his brother on the sail boat and reached New York City after going through various bays and on entering the Lower Bay, the first landmark he saw was Verrazano-Narrows Bridge than saw Coney Island, the Statue of Liberty and than the southern tip of Manhattan. The trip gave him the different, refreshing and more complete view of the city.

The article presents traveling experience of Ashley Bendell, stockbroker from New York City. He states that he had traveled to 48 countries and wants to visit 50 countries before February 20008. He is going alone on a Caribbean cruise and expects to visit some new countries to complete his target. He mentions that he enjoys traveling as it gives him a chance to meet new people and shares his experience of meeting a photographer and going to beer bar with him on a trip.

The article discusses the author's experience of watching different sports in New York during the 2007 spring season. He watched a lacrosse game between the Duke University's lacrosse team with the team of the Cornell University and mentioned it the best sports event during the spring season. He also went to a few hockey games and found himself in a time warp.

The article presents the author's experience of moving to New York City. She shifted from suburbs to the city 24 years ago and states that she never missed barbecue in the city. She finds grills as a good option to barbecues and believes that though the food may not smell of barbecue but the taste is always great. Whenever she wants to taste the food of barbecue she visits the Wieners Circle, Chicago, Illinois, because she finds food over there better than any barbecue.

The article presents the author's experience of carrying foodstuffs in an airflight. The author states how he carried salted and dried tuna or mullet roe despite of checking by the customs officials at the Kennedy Airport in New York City. The author states that he had bought his foodstuffs from Spain.

The article discusses the author's experience of practicing cross-country running at Van Cortlandt Park in New York City with his team. Around the end of September, rotting leaves, sod and goose feces in the park gives off an aroma which is not liked by others. But the author's team, as they practice throughout a year, likes the aroma. According to the author, the aroma belongs to cross country.

The article presents the author's experience of buying a walking stick from a shop in New York City. The author describes how he rejected walking sticks from the Sharpe Medical Showroom and moved to another shop. The author states how the owner of the shop, situated at 535 Eighth Avenue in New York City, convinced him to buy an 18 inch-long Irish shillelagh for an amount of $100.

The article presents the author's experience about a trip made to the source of Hudson River at Mount Marcy in New York. He was accompanied by Matt McNamara, the trails coordinator for the Adrondack Mountain Club, on the trip. According to the author, ropes, portable oxygen, and Sherpas are not required in the trip, but beginners are suggested to climb the mountain with a guide. INSET: Drive, Climb And Then Rest.

The article presents the author's experience of having divided up his grandfather's diaries, 43 boxes with his sisters. The author informs that boxes chronicled his grandfather's life that began on a Kansas farm in 1893 and ended in 1988 in Manhattan, New York City. The author informs that in the early 1960s, his grandfather move to Greenwich Village, New York City.

The article discusses the author's experience of living in the neighborhood of novelist Kurt Vonnegut in Turtle Bay, New York City. The author, even after he and Vonnegut came to know each other as neighbors, never had the courage to talk to Vonnegut as he had not read his novels since his college days. At a performance of Broadway star Carol Channing at the hotel Regency in 2005, Vonnegut recognized the author as his neighbor and nodded when he had met the author.

The article presents the author's experience of enjoying himself in a sword fight, wearing a Zorro type electrified mask and taking a saber, at the Fencers Club in Manhattan, New York City. The author narrates his experience of fighting with a 20-year-old college student named Konate Primus. The author also discussed rules related to the sword fighting.

The presents the author's experience of visiting the Quatorze Bis restaurant situated in New York City for dinner to taste the French bistro food. The author describes how he enjoyed French dishes with his school time female friend at the restaurant. The author also discusses the method of making sauteed chicken livers with sage and mushrooms.

The article presents the author's experience of undergoing the boxing workout and training offered by former middleweight world champion Doug DeWitt at the Self Defense Fitness Center in Scarsdale, New York City. The author recalls how a session with Doug DeWitt, who offers boxing workout as well as coaches young people who aspire to become amateur and /or professional fighters, led to a burst of pugilistic epiphany in him.

The article presents the author's personal experience of finding lost items on New York City streets. While walking down the street the author dropped his glove, and three people called after him and told him so. He lost his wallet and went looking for it on the streets of the city, finally finding it near the deli from where he had purchased a sandwich. He discusses the smiling faces, when a woman returned the wallet of a stranger.

The article discusses the author's experiences of how he became a bartender in a bar called the Red Hook in Brooklyn, New York City. He had first entered the bar on a winter evening in 1994. He sat at the bar and watched a film. Later, he became a regular visitor there and when more help was needed as customers multiplied, he stated working there. He has been working at the bar for 12 years now. In all these years he has seen thousands of teachers, musicians, crooks, painters, and waitresses.

The article presents the authors' experience of facing problems at the time their child's admission to one of the preschools in New York City. They refer to the problem of shrinking preschools owing to increasing number of babies in the City. They comment on their experience of attending the playdate while in the process of admission.

The article presents John Hardy's experience of covering 10,000-miles by air travel to New York from Bali, Indonesia. Hardy, founder of John Hardy Jewelry, describes his air travel as the world's longest commute. He discusses the issue of jet lag faced by him that causes health disorders. Hardy states how he took photographs during the flight.

The article discusses the author's experience of visiting various beauty salons in Chinatown, New York city and Haircut 100, a two-bit salon in Hong Kong, catering to aspiring Asian rock stars. In Chinatown, which is Asian hub of commerce, there are many beauty salons. It is nice to shop and slurp noodles in Chinatown.

The article discusses the author's experience of ABC No Rio, an artists' collective in New York. One night in the late 1980's, the author walked from his apartment to a reading at ABC No Rio to find the audience fidgeting on the sidewalk. ABC No Rio was part of a scene where the arts were cross-pollinating in a way seldom seen so vividly before.