Unlock the Secrets of Central Park (Revised)-A Members Appreciation Event

DO NOT CLICK ON THE RSVP BUTTON UNTIL YOU HAVE READ THE ENTIRE DESCRIPTION OF THE EVENT VERY CAREFULLY ESPECIALLY IF YOU HAVE NEVER ATTENDED AN EVENT BEFORE. I like to think all the events we do are fun and interesting.

This is a Members Appreciation Event. I want to initially reward those members who have supported this group -especially those in the past 12 months.

We are looking to add a number of First Timers to this event. However, you actually need to read the description of the event carefully or you are wasting your time and mine. We are not asking for that much. This group has lots of rules in order to prevent the spread of anarchy within Meetup!

We have done an event on or around New Year's Day in Central Park since this group's inception. I have led tours in the southern and northern parts of Central Park for the Guides Association of NYC. This event will be better and more fun.

We are going to conduct this event differently than we have done in years past.

First off, it's a members appreciation event and I won't accept any monetary contributions on this one. Secondly, I will NOT go into much detail about the history of Central Park and it's design features like I usually do. Instead, this will be a relatively fast paced hike around as much of the park as we can get to where I will point out some real secrets of the Park. For example, the location of a time capsule in the Park, the site of the old "Indian" cave, the locations of former burial grounds pre-dating the Park, the only visible piece of the long demolished Marble Arch, etc etc.

We will make this fun and informative.

IF YOU HAVE NEVER ATTENDED AN EVENT WITH THIS GROUP, I AM REQUIRING THAT YOU SEND ME AN E-MAIL TO [bsb2@att.net](mailto:bsb2@att.net) AS SOON AS YOU RSVP, WHETHER YOU ARE ON THE GOING LIST OR ON A WAIT LIST, AND PUT YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS IN THE BODY OF YOUR MESSAGE TO ME. THIS WILL HELP ME COMMUNICATE MORE EFFECTIVELY WITH THOSE WHO RSVP. SOMETIMES MEETUP MESSAGES DO NOT GET DELIVERED OR ARE NOT READ FOR A VARIETY OF REASONS. IF YOU CAN'T ABIDE BY THIS SIMPLE REQUEST, YOU ARE GOING TO END UP ON THE NOT GOING LIST. If you think this request is just too much for you to bear, please let me know.

NO GUESTS UNLESS YOU HAVE ATTENDED AN EVENT BEORE WITH THIS GROUP. One way to deal with this if you are new to the group is to have your potential guest join the group just as you did. And take the RSVP seriously.

I won't accept any money on this event even if you try to force your cash on me!

The wait list for this group does NOT operate in a conventional way. Those on the wait list will NOT be moved to the going list automatically.
I do NOT believe that the Meetup waitlist works well for a number of reasons.

IF APPLICABLE, ALWAYS JOIN THE WAIT LIST WITH LOW PRIORITY WHICH IS FREE. IF THERE IS A WAITLIST, IT APPEARS MEETUP WILL ASK YOU IF YOU WANT TO JOIN MEETUP + BUT IN SMALLER LETTERS AT THE TOP OF THE PAGE YOU CAN CLICK CONTINUE WITH THE FREE PLAN. There is NEVER a need to pay extra to use Meetup's High Priority wait list classification for this group.

MEETING DETAILS WILL BE SENT BY E-MAIL TO THOSE WHO RSVP NO LATER THAN THE EVENING BEFORE THE HIKE.

Join us on a fun, fast paced approximately 5 mile hike around Central Park. We will be starting out somewhere near the southern part of the Park and we will zig zag around as we head up North. I don't know how far we will get. There are always surprises along the way. (Photo by Sonia Braga. Meetup's process for downloading photos does not do this photo justice.).

We will finish north from where we started probably in the mid to upper part of the Park.

Both the beginning and end point are easily accessible by public transportation. There will be enough bathroom stops for you.

There will be NO Food stops so bring snacks and water.

IF YOU HAVE NOT ALREADY DONE SO, ON YOUR DESKTOP, PLEASE CLICK ON YOUR PROFILE (it's in the upper right of the Home Page), THEN SETTINGS ,THEN E-MAIL UPDATES AND MAKE SURE THAT YOU CAN RECEIVE E-MAILS THRU MEETUP. THAT'S THE WAY YOU WILL LEARN WHERE THE MEETING PLACE IS. ALSO PLEASE CHECK THIS SITE RIGHT UP TO THE DAY OF THE EVENT TO SEE IF I HAVE POSTED ANY COMMENTS ABOUT THE EVENT-I LIKE TO THINK THOSE COMMENTS ARE IMPORTANT! ALSO PERIODICALLY CHECK YOUR MESSAGES LINK ON THE TOP RIGHT OF THE WEBSITE. YOU CAN CHOOSE WHICH MEETUP GROUPS YOU WANT TO RECEIVE MESSAGES FROM.

We will meet BEFORE 10:15 A.M. and finish around 1:30 P.M. very close to public transportation. You can always leave any time.

BRING SNACKS AND WATER. WE WON'T STOP ANYWHERE TO BUY FOOD. THIS GROUP NEVER GOES FOOD SHOPPING DURING AN EVENT!

AS ALWAYS, I am also going to ask that people NOT post any comments or questions prior to the event. You have more than enough information to do this once you get the meeting details. No offense, but I don’t need to know-and probably neither does anyone else- what you are doing that day if you can’t make it or what you think the weather will be. AFTER the event, post as many comments and photos as you like. The comments/questions you post BEFORE an event are almost always annoying and unnecessary and I'm not the only one who believes that. PLEASE RESPECT MY WISHES ON THIS.

If the weather forecast is bad, I will post a notice on the day of the hike by 7:00 A.M. and probably sooner. If there is no notice, we go.