July 22, 2007

  • Sunday, July 22

    I got up early and walked Rufus Douglass to Romain to Corbett to Graystone Terrace to Villa Terrace to Twin Peaks to Clayton To Ashbury to Clifford Terrace to Lower Terrace and then home down the Saturn steps. He was pretty beat from yesterday, but a sleepy puppy is a well behaved puppy so he had to go for his walk anyway. I got home and went biking. It was VERY foggy but luckily it had started to break up by the time I hit the Golden Gate Bridge. I went up Marin Headlands which is very pretty in the morning and it's been a while since I've been there at that hour. Here's Rodeo beach from above:

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    I headed up Ike Turner Hill and continued down Conzelman. The bridge was still shrouded in fog but it looked kind of pretty:

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    And here's a nother view of the bridge in the morning light:

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    I went down to Fort Baker and stopped on a pier. The bridge looks really pretty from there:

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    There's this tiny little building under the bridge that I can't figure out what it's for. Jeff thinks it's the remains of a lighthouse and he might be right:

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    Then I headed up back over the bridge and down into the Presidio. I stopped by the Palace of Fine Arts which is really nice in the morning:

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    It's kind of falling apart which gives it a glamorous, ruined look:

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    Here I am all bundled up for the fog:

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    And a parting shot from across the pond:

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    I took Scott up from the Marina into Duboce Park and then Castro to 17th and home. Fun ride! I've been riding so much on my commuter bike that I feel like a rocket when I ride my carbon fiber bike.