Mark an urban awakening.

SF's League of American Wheelmen in a group photo @ 21st and Capp St, SF in 1890; they would ride a century afterwards.

After six months of closure for grade improvements, Hawk Hill (of the Marin Headlands) has finally reopened. I set out for an easy ride to its summit earlier today and was pleased to see the views are as spectacular as I remember.

Decided to extend my knowledge of SF dirt today and passed through Bernal Heights on the way back from a mostly standard loop of Twin Peaks. This is the view from the north side of the hill.

I'll prob start to include this hill in more of my runs and rides--it's about a mile from our apartment.

... newly discovered by me atop Mt Davidson (near Twin Peaks). The plaque marks it as a memorial to the 1,500,000 Armenians killed during the Armenian Genocide (which Vonnegut included as the driving thematic event in his novel, Blue Beard). The cross is huge but hidden by trees if you were to seek it from below.

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Our quick run this morning.

Now open @ 24th and Valencia.

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... Found at the Punchline off Battery.

Sanny and I convinced a couple friends to join us on a run this morning. The fog made for amazing views. Started out by descending out of it, then climbed back into it, only to later climb out and above it; too cool.

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So while I've been enjoying taking public transportation too and from
work these past few weeks, I realize now I paid too much by purchasing
the caltrain 3zone monthly pass. The problem is that my schedule
doesn't have me making the same 3zone trip every day. Instead, I
sometimes take bart to the caltrain (in which case i could get by with
a 2zone ticket). Other times I bike to work in the morning, or drive
(if its monday morning, or friday night). What this means is that
every time I take a form of transportation that isn't caltrain (and
specifically a trip on caltrain between zone 1 to zone 3 or vice
versa) I'm throwing money away.

So next month I'll do the following instead:

week by week basis:
Morning Evening drive bart 2zone 3zone
Mon: drive caltrain/bart 1 1 1 0
Tues: bike caltrain 0 0 0 1
Wed: caltrain caltrain 0 0 0 2
Thurs: bike caltrain 0 0 0 1
Fri: bart/caltrain drive 1 1 1 0
Total: 2 2 2 4
Total x 4: 8 8 8 16

3zone 10pass: 49.99 x 1.6 = 80
2zone 10pass: 34.00 x 0.8 = 27.20
bart x 1: 3.85 x 8 = 30.8
total: = $128

+driving (+ 17$): = $145

I paid $152 just for the caltrain ticket in September -- not counting
the cost of gas from driving in once ever week, nor the $40 in bart
tickets I've used.