did i see a request for a PK completion?
well, i did my best to use the basic skills i've gained from previous amateur parkour excursions to complete this task.

as i was completing this task, i felt the need to discriminate not only against sidewalks, but also against roads. the roads in baltimore tend to rather pedestrian friendly, so many streets were, essentially, really wide sidewalks. so i started to try to shy away from walking on any paved surface intended for pedestrian or vehicular travel.


The first challenge was getting out the door! I had to take out the trash, but front door of the cafe opens directly onto the sidewalk.



I figured the cellar door wasn't technically part of the sidewalk, so i tossed the trashbag over to the cellar door. (i felt the need to fully discriminate against the sidewalk and not even let my trash use it)
The ultimate destination of the trashbag was that yellow trashcan.



Then i shimmied across the window ledge to take myself over to the cellar door.



Next i had to get the trash out to the street

So i tossed it over the sidewalk and out to the street
then i tossed myself out to the street

(as soon as i jumped out to the street i realized the camera was still left on the windowsill - duh- so i had to jump back and get it. i call this problem of self-filming the Survivor Man Dilemma - for every proof i filmed i had to retrace my steps, without using the sidewalk, to get the camera back)

and a trash victory


i continued south down Wolfe St. towards the water


there was hardly any traffic
a few blocks later the street turned cobble stone-y


(the cobble stones reminded me of a sidewalk, so i decided to leave the street and head into a nearby park)

but the park was surrounded by a sidewalk. hmm.


only one thing to do:


the park was kinda nice i guess


i time was precious and i had to be on the move. i wanted to go down to the water, but first i had to find another way out the this park which turned out to be surrounded by sidewalks on all sides.

my chosen exit route definitely seemed to be a one way path to the street, so i'd have to bring the camera with me on the first try.
i got a running start and leapt for it.


i wandered along the street for a bit but stayed in the least street-like part of the street. i followed old railroad tracks.


i wanted to get to the water's edge, but again, there was a sidewalk between the street and my destination. the sidewalk wasn't very wide, and would have been easy to jump across, but i was afraid i wouldn't be able to stop my forward momentum when i landed, and would continue right over the edge into the harbor. so i had to find some other way to get closer to the water.


i found a dock ladder that came up at the edge. it was technically close enough for me to jump to, but i'd have to seriously nail the landing if i wanted to stay dry and avoid touching the sidewalk.

(again, i had to go back for the camera)

i made it to the water's edge, standing on a wooden docking strip, which could in no way be mistaken for a sidewalk.

i walked along the edge for a while

until i came to a gap in the wooden strip



i had to get back to the street but there was a brick sidewalk in the way. luckily there was a fence within jumping distance of the water.
(i carried the camera with me again for this one, as it would have been a bad idea to set it up and leave it at the water's edge) when i landed i did a quick little barrel roll, protecting the camera, and getting a final shot of the fence.




i decided to do some active discrimination and tried to blatantly demoralize the sidewalk by using a building to traverse the cityscape.


i could tell the sidewalk felt ashamed for being different from, and therefore inferior to 'proper architecture'

i left the sad sidewalk behind and continued along Thames St.


i tried to bypass a sidewalk by going up and over this building

but when i got up to the roof i found that the way down on the other side led right to another sidewalk, so i went back the way i came.


i found a 'pedestrian walkway' that was really more of an alley that cut through/underneath a building, so i didn't think it really classified as a sidewalk. nonetheless, i didn't much like the look of it, so i tried to scale the walls to get through.

as i came to a section of full height windows that looked into offices. i couldn't turn back, so i pressed myself up against the windows and kept going. a woman stared up at me from her desk, so i waved at her and made an expression that i thought would convey the idea "don't worry, everyting's 0k, i'm just climbin crost ur windowz"
eventually i came to a bare section of brick wall that was unscaleable. i was forced to get down and run quickly across the floor of the rest of the walkway.


i jumped onto some grass as soon as i could and looked back at the walkway with disdain.



on the way home i exerted particular effort to discriminate against both sidewalk and street. i think, with these last two videos, i really started to understand what traveling in an urban 'Grey Area" really feels like.



this one was the most fun