Despite living in Manhattan my whole life, I have only travelled to Inwood a few times. I have visited the park and the Cloisters before, but I have not spent significant time anywhere else in the neighborhood. It is always interesting traveling to parts of Manhattan that are not loud and crowded like most of the borough is. I think that this trip would have been especially interesting to someone who is not accustomed to New York City and has little knowledge of the area besides the stereotypes seen in the media.

Our class trip also allowed me to see many things in the neighborhood that I had previously not known about. Specifically, I enjoyed the visit to the farmhouse. The story of its preservation, how ancestors of the original owners bought it back with the intention of protecting it, was especially interesting to me. Besides this story, many aspects of the house caught my attention. The proportions of the house were tiny, by modern standards, and it was interesting to think that people used to be smaller than they are now. I have read reports about this phenomenon before, but walking through the small doors and staircases of the farmhouse provided a fascinating visual comparison that was difficult to grasp through words. The small structure in the backyard also intrigued me. The bars on the windows along with the large padlock on the outside made me think that it was a storage container of some sort but it is not clear what would have been stored inside.