Memorable Routes
Some memorable and nostalgic routes in chronological order. Each one starts from a home and goes to some place that I was frequenting for that time period, which varies between about 1 month and 2 years.
2010/Various: I’ve visited London frequently and often stayed at my Aunt’s house, which is down the road from the excellent Daniel’s Bakery.
2010/Various: I’ve visited Johannesburg a number of times, starting with the 2010 World Cup, where I first stayed at a family friend’s house in the Glenhazel neighborhood. It’s great to walk around (during daytime hours) from their house to Kosher World, passing by a Lubavitch Yeshiva and the Glenhazel Tennis Club (checks all the boxes).
2012: When I first moved to Tel Aviv and walked to Ulpan Gordon every morning for Hebrew lessons.
2013/14: The Technion did not like that I brought my own refrigerator into the dorm and around the same time I met someone in the gym who was doing CrossFit (apparently I was very into cliched things like food and fitness at the time) who was looking for a roommate in Nesher.
2018: A year of traveling post-masters degree ended with 2 months in Paris attempting to learn French (this did not go too well). I lived in an apartment that doubled as a Hillel during the school year. I was there with one roommate who the Hillel people tried and failed to evict during my stay.
2019: I lived in Hudson Yards, which I would mostly not recommend, especially pre-excellent Hudson Yards Whole Foods, but did have the benefit of this beautiful bike route down the West Side Highway and across the Brooklyn Bridge, during the time that you could actually ride over the bridge with pedestrians and not in the weird car-adjacent lane.
2020: During COVID I lived at home for a few months and frequently walked around the block (and sometimes more elaborate routes, but you get the point).
2021/22: I lived at the Sangha Lodge in CAR for 2 months and frequently walked from my room to the kitchen (shortest walk on the page).
2022: Around 2021, I decided that I wanted to get really good at tennis. I also still had some desire to get better at French. Why not combine these with tennis lessons in French in Senegal? Bonus: Much cheaper than tennis lessons in the US. Anti-bonus: I often had no idea what was going on.
2022/23/24: A useful way to get better at tennis is to live 5 minutes walking distance from a facility that has 16 indoor tennis courts.
2024: Running AI Poker Camp in SF twice/week, one of which takes place at The Commons (also a cool place to hang out/cowork, etc.).
