Journey to the End of Night

[figment]

Last night we did our best to survive DC.
We recruited whthorse and together we formed the somewhat haphazard Team Spoon!

Along with close to 250 other people, we headed out from Dupont Circle into the night.

Our tactics - take indirect routes, avoid the Metro, be very paranoid - saw us through 5 out of 7 checkpoints. The best costumes we saw along the way were those of Checkpoint 3, where scientists were studying Brownian motion...

Heading right down the middle of the Mall, we all reflected that DC is an awesome place to have an event like this.

We got jumped just after Checkpoint 5 by a very clever chaser who hid in a bus shelter. We went on as chasers ourselves, but rather half-hearted ones who were, quite honestly, footsore and hungry. So we had dinner at Ben's Chili along with many of the other participants, before continuing to the end of the night and the party...
The entire event was awesome. The weather was perfect. The people were cool. The atmosphere was hilarious and tense and exciting and just fun! We obviously didn't take it too seriously - we paused on the way to Checkpoint 5 to get some ice cream - but we had a lot of fun. I think we ran and walked about 4 miles (especially with all of the doubling back we did to avoid chasers) all over DC.

Comments

[gunn.livejournal.com]

You should post your experience (http://sf0.org/tasks/Journey-to-the-End-of-the-Night-DC).

[birdfigment.livejournal.com]

Done. I am still working on posting my self-portrait...

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Okay, that sounds like fun.

When is it next year? I want to play.

B

[star5.livejournal.com]

we're planning one for here in minneapolis.. currently planning for sept. 13.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Sadly, I'll be out of the country.

B

[star5.livejournal.com]

that's too bad. we're hoping to have another one at some point later.

also i'm working on planning a puzzle race for sf0 in minneapolis. two actually. one in a few weeks.. (looking at june 1 right now) one in the beginning of august.

[whitefox77.livejournal.com]

Dan, that's my wedding day...

[star5.livejournal.com]

well we've already talked about wanting to have a second one if this first one goes well.

also if you like puzzles, some of the same people are putting on a puzzle game in the city.

[birdfigment.livejournal.com]

I will let you know the next time I find out about something like this here.

[star5.livejournal.com]

that's great! it would have been fun to come out for that, but time and money were just not on our side! we're working on a minneapolis one in september.

[echoegami.livejournal.com]

you are?! that's awesome!

[birdfigment.livejournal.com]

If there wasn't a wedding the same day, I'd be there. But go you!

Re: !

[star5.livejournal.com]

uh.. the chicago one happened a couple weeks ago and it was great weather.. i was there! they had predicted rain, but in fact it hardly rained all night and was quite beautiful.

Re: !

[star5.livejournal.com]

uh.. okay... this is the one i did. are you sure the thing you're talking about was for sf0?

http://sf0.org/tasks/Journey-to-the-End-of-the-Night-Chicago/