Day 26: Fisherman's Wharf to Heron's Head
May 25th, 2017
11.97 miles in 4 hours 54 minutes
The day began at the Cruise Ship Terminal in San Francisco, which had been taken over for a cloud computing conference. This is also near where Laura and I saw Steely Dan as part of an America's Cup concert series. With my laptop I was able to sit down and compose yesterday's blog post in the middle of the crowd on the wharf. I had some inner confidence that I could belong if I wanted to.
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| Twilio Conference break area with Astroturf |
I walked out to the end of Pier 7, then was delighted to find out there was a bayside promenade from that pier, all the way to Pier 1 next to the Ferry Building. This includes Pier 3 where Hornblower Yachts has their huge excursion vessels for crowds of high school graduates. There was extensive signage to let the public know that yes, they could walk by and gawk at these ships.
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| Pier 7 |
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| Pier 1 |
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| Ferry Terminal Expansion Project |
The Ferry Building and the Embarcadero just look so great nowadays, an amazing improvement over when we moved to California in 1989, and an ugly double-decker freeway blocked the view of the Ferry Building from the rest of Market St., and imprisoned the Embarcadero.
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| The Bay Bridge |
Walked around AT&T Park, and got a good idea for who was benefiting the most from Barry Bond's use of illegal medicine (the Giants), as the sidewalk has bronze plaques honoring the man each step of the way to his asterisk'ed record. This was the finish line for my first half marathon in 2013, run with niece Erin. I guess that says something about me if my biggest memory of the place isn't about baseball.
Made a fairly scenic detour around China Basin, technically not part of the Bay Trail, with a lunch break at a picnic area behind houseboats. A stroll through the half-industrial, half-medical, half-hipster world of Mission Bay and the newly cool Dog Patch took me to a place I've never been, Heron's Head, a Port of San Francisco park with a model sustainable water treatment plant.
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| Heron's Head Park |
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| Heron's Head Park |
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| Day 26: Fisherman's Wharf to Heron's Head |
Starting Balance 42.53
- Uber earnings to Millbrae (17.65)
- Peets Decaf and Bacon Cheddar Egg B'fast Sandwich 7.55
- Uber to 22nd St. Caltrain from Heron's Head 9.02
- Caltrain to Millbrae 5.75
Ending Balance 37.10
Voice Notes:
Set down to write the blog this morning at the cruise terminal. It's been taken over by a cloud computing conference. I just don't know where to begin with finding work in cloud computing. Even though I deeply understand the ideas of scalability.
The amazing thing about cold windy wet weather is how good you feel when you get out of it.
As an educated computer scientist I'm starting to marvel at how little of the world at large I knew and understood.
Hard to find a Scoot when hiking through Hunters Point.
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