SF0 / tlzeigler / Journey to the End of the Night

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Journey to the End of the Night - May Day 2010 by Silent Zig

May 2nd, 2010 12:53 AM

INSTRUCTIONS: May Day 2010: Minneapolis and Chicago

The city spreads out before you. Rushing from point to point, lit by the slow strobe of fluorescent buses and dark streets. Stumbling into situations for a stranger's signature. Fleeing unknown pursuers, breathing hard, admiring the landscape and the multitude of worlds hidden in it.

For one night, drop your relations, your work and leisure activities, and all your usual motives for movement and action, and let yourself be drawn by the attractions of the chase and the encounters you find there.

If you participated in this two-city simultaneous Journey in any way (as a player, chaser, or volunteer), please post your story here. Tell us your story of fear, lust, pain, speed, alienation, loneliness, hate, and desire.

It was a first for my husband and me. 10 miles.. we think.. all on foot.. in a city that, though we have lived in Minneapolis for 3 years, we still don't know quite that well. We know it much better now. Oh, yes. We do.

Our friends in Chicago had been signed up for the Journey for weeks when I realized, the day of, that we also had access to such a super fun event. We went in having no real clue what we were doing and, unfortunately, it showed. We got tagged quite quickly due to a rookie mistake of stopping for a snack. NEVER STOP FOR A SNACK. Sigh. At least it was a delicious burrito snack...

We learned a lot, though, and had a super fun time. We will come better prepared next year. Snacks will be chosen for their ability to be eaten on the run. I suppose we could go without snacks... no. That seems crazy.

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