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Taking a ride on the BART for the first time since moving back to the Bay Area. This was one of the old cars in the system and looked pretty worse for the wear. We were on a new train later and it was much nicer.
This was on the way to an A's game. In 6 years of living here during grad school, I rode the BART literally once -- also to go to an A's game. (On the other hand I rode it multiple times in a week long visit in 2011.)
The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) District quarterly report shows bicycle thefts increased 60% over a year ago for July to September 2008. BART attributes this increase to more bikes parked at the stations and efforts to encourage more reporting of thefts. BART says they have anti-theft initiatives in process and encourage riders to lock their bikes inside the electronic lockers that are now available.
Black Bart settles in after a long day on the trail. He finds some shelter under some Pinion trees. Black Bart is a custom cowboy using parts and pieces from the Big Jim PACK series and the horse is from the Mattel Karl May series.
was trying to get pictures of the drivers at work, but the light was not quite right. this one gave me a honk.
There was this odd woman on the BART platform. She turned toward me like she was really glad to see me, but then she obviously realized she didn't know me and turned away. A minute later she did the same thing to someone else who didn't even notice. It's like she kept expecting to run into somebody she knew. Then she got sort of agitated. There's all sorts of crazy people at the 19th St station but this lady was really normal looking, with a briefcase and a nice looking raincoat. I tried to get a picture of her but she must have walked around the corner while the camera was focusing or maybe something weird happened with the light because this is the picture that I got and she's obviously nowhere to be seen.
San Francisoc and Oakland, 1 Feb 2019
Daughter Caroline lives in Hawaii. Her job sent her to Rome for some training, via economy airlines, where possible, and this resulted in her flying in San Francisco one night around 1 AM and flying out from Oakland at 5 pm the same day.
After a night at a hotel in Milbrae, we caught BART to Powell Street, had lunch at a Japanese restaurant on Powell Street, partway up Nob Hill, where we could watch cable cars out the window as we ate our bento boxes. After lunch, Caroline did some shopping, getting a pair of Doc Martens boots, while I shot cable cars and PCCs. I recommend Union Square and the Powell and Market area for the railfan who is with a woman who wants to go shopping. The railfan will be happy, the woman will be happy and the two of you won't drive each other nuts.
Caroline wanted to get to Oakland airport in plenty of time to get checked in, so soon we were back on BART heading for the Oakland Coliseum station and the relatively new shuttle to Oakland airport. I hadn't realized the shuttle is a modern cable car, a bit different than the ones on Powell Street, but still something of a descendant.
Caroline got checked in and we said goodbye. She through security to catch Norwegian Airline's flight to Barcelona, from where she would connect to Rome, me back to Coliseum station to get Capitol 538 back home to Sacramento. The train was a bit late, but I was able to connect to light rail to my local station and get home from there.
Back in the bay. Used to commute up there weekly for three years. I love San Fran. It's a nice fit for me before the cold pushes me back to our little silicone paradise in OC.
On Bart from Oakland to Powell. A night at the Adagio. Dinner at Millenium. I hope I'm back up here a lot in the years to come. SF and I, we get along.
the Coliseum Bart Ramp Oakland CA Really not as desolate as it appears. Thousands of people use this ramp going to and from the Coliseum or Oracle Arena to catch a game or concert. After a Raider game it can become full end to end with no wiggle room which can actually be a scary experience. And there are always plenty of scalpers to greet you after departing the BART station.