December 1, 2009
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Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Muni worked out pretty well for me on Monday. I don’t think the subway is slower than biking home for lunch and it might even be faster. I would say it’s less dangerous except for this shit. What the fuck?? I was just happy that the assailant was not described as a little white dog who made her escape on a Barbi Big Wheel. Because I can totally see Mimi getting all stabby on Muni for no apparent reason.
As for the evening commute, I think if I time it right I can avoid a lot of the nasty crowded trains. Mr. Poe says that people tend to get off work on the hour and if I get to Muni on the half hour than it’s much less busy. It was certainly true last night. I walked through Union Square and got on Muni at Powell. Mr. Poe was stunned to see me show up for dinner dressed up like an adult. I walked the dogs and we went to bed early.
I was up at 4AM for some reason this morning. I was hungry and felt rested. Mr. Poe thought I was nuts. I got up and had breakfast and tried to be super quiet until he got up at 5:20. I headed off and tried a bike routing that turned out to be kind of a disaster. I wanted to go around Lake Merced but I was there too early and it was darker than I’d like. There’s a bunch of places in the city I don’t mind biking in the dark and Lake Merced is not one of them. I rode Corbett to Portola to Woodside to Dewey to Claremont to Portola to Santa Clara to Monterey to San Benito to Ocean to Ashton to Head to Holloway. Holloway was a bit darker than I wanted it to be. I continued to Font to Lake Merced which was really dark and kind of an eek to John Muir to Skyline to the Great Highway. The sun was just coming up by the time I got to Taravel. I won’t try this routing again until the sun comes up a lot earlier:
I continued on the Great Highway and went into Golden Gate Park at MLK and followed that to the Music Concourse. It was cold and hazy this morning. But gorgeous. Check out the De Young:
An interesting view of the California Academy of Sciences:
I got on JFK and came out of the park at 8th. I took that to Lake to Arguello and into the Presidio. I came around on Washington and stopped at Immigrant Point for pics. So pretty:
It was getting really late so I headed back on Washington the way I came and then took Arguello to Jackson to Cherry to Clay to Presidio. This was the view looking towards Japantown from Pine (I think):
I continued on Presidio to Post to Scott to Duboce to Castro to Market to 17th to Ord and home to get ready for work. I had to wait forever for Muni and we were packed in like sardines. Yuck. Oh well, at least some of the passengers were hot.
Bike Mileage:
Today 23.3
Week to date 42.7
Month to date 23.3
Year to date 7,602.3
Rolling Year 8,276.0
Since Inception 10/1/07 20,880.0
