September 21, 2007

  • Friday, September 21

    It was a lot warmer this morning than yesterday.  I rode out Corbett to Portola to Woodside to Dewey to Taravel and then I got on Santiago at 14th ave and took that to the ocean.  It's so different than Taravel even though it's jsut one street away.  I got on the bike path at Ocean Beach and I'm glad I did because the place was teeming with surferlicious surfers.  I totally felt like a chester taking pics of them but there you go....

    And the view of to Marin Headlands from the ocean:  

    And me enjoying that view:

    I rode in through Golden Gate Park and rode out at the Rose Garden and rode Cabrillo to McAllister to Parker to Golden Gate.  I then proceeded to get pulled over by a cop for blowing through stop signs on Golden Gate.  Ouch!  He threatened to give me a $204 ticket and apparently it's points on your drivers license as well.  Luckily I just got a warning.  Although the cops can be kind of prickly about stuff like this in Marin, this is the first I've heard of it in San Francisco.  I kind of assumed that nobody would hassle me unless I had a submachine gun in one hand and a hypodermic in the other.  But he was totally right and I need to be more mindful of stop signs.  I continued down Golden Gate without further incident and then rode into work.

    Over lunch I headed into Japantown to go to the Shiseido store.  This cool building is at the corner of Laguna and Sutter:

    I totally made the Shiseido lady cry by inquiring about the whereabouts of the dog who was usually at the store who , I found out, is unfortunately no longer with us.  I took this photo of him about a month ago.  Poor baby: