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[more randomness, travel.SF]
Dec. 29th, 2004 08:03 amRaaaain... sheesh. But hey, at least today there's some blue sky!
This is not the week to go to the Exploratorium. Lots of children also have the week off, and it was _crowded_ yesterday. Ah, well. The big reddish/orange building(s?) (art something) nearby were really neat, even though it was wet and rainy. And the Exploratorium's store is _dangerous_. It's good I have limited space, because I kept almost buying a magnetic building block thing. I wanted all the magnetic, glow in the dark, or tactily interesting things there (there were not many of the latter). TOYS! Must not buy all the interesting toys. Trying to _not_ increase the amount of stuff I own!
I wander off to lunch in San Jose in about an hour. That's one hell of a long trip entirely on transit! Hmm. Then again, I suspect it's not that much longer than taking the commuter rail from Andover to Boston, assuming that one's end goal isn't North Station - the commuter rail alone is an hour.
Why do the colored subway lines not have correspondingly colored vehicles?! That made for a bit of confusion on my first solo trip on them on Monday. But I realized that I'd forgotten to pay attention to which vehicle I was on - I had the direction right, at least - and got off to switch at the point before which one I'd selected would have mattered. If you're going to make the line colored, shouldn't the colors _mean_ something?
I now have a winged wolf. Fitting it into my stuff should be interesting, since I also bought a few books (and a couple small fidget toys, but they can fit into my jacket pocket). I think I have the space, but I can't really buy much of anything else.
Hmm. I wonder if the blue sky means I'll actually see sun today? I mean, I'm traveling ~2 hours away (by public transit), so it's possible!
Wee! I was amused to note last night that something about the time I've spent here made my brain feel like SF is just a really really big college campus. Probably due to a combination of the sheer variety of the things I have been doing and the amount of walking I've been doing (I am always pleased by how fast my leg muscles adjust to an increase in walking) - I haven't mostly traveled by walking and pubic transit since college. Of course, the wandering on Valencia street that I did with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rosefox and sinboy rather stopped the feeling of college campus - I am _not_ a city dweller, and walking to where I was meeting them made me a tiny bit nervous (there were lights everywhere, but the thing is that everywhere else I'd gone on my own thus far, I went to in the daytime). But! Bookstores. :) A not-open-anymore Good Vibes, too, but not being open makes for pretty much no opinion of the place.
This is not the week to go to the Exploratorium. Lots of children also have the week off, and it was _crowded_ yesterday. Ah, well. The big reddish/orange building(s?) (art something) nearby were really neat, even though it was wet and rainy. And the Exploratorium's store is _dangerous_. It's good I have limited space, because I kept almost buying a magnetic building block thing. I wanted all the magnetic, glow in the dark, or tactily interesting things there (there were not many of the latter). TOYS! Must not buy all the interesting toys. Trying to _not_ increase the amount of stuff I own!
I wander off to lunch in San Jose in about an hour. That's one hell of a long trip entirely on transit! Hmm. Then again, I suspect it's not that much longer than taking the commuter rail from Andover to Boston, assuming that one's end goal isn't North Station - the commuter rail alone is an hour.
Why do the colored subway lines not have correspondingly colored vehicles?! That made for a bit of confusion on my first solo trip on them on Monday. But I realized that I'd forgotten to pay attention to which vehicle I was on - I had the direction right, at least - and got off to switch at the point before which one I'd selected would have mattered. If you're going to make the line colored, shouldn't the colors _mean_ something?
I now have a winged wolf. Fitting it into my stuff should be interesting, since I also bought a few books (and a couple small fidget toys, but they can fit into my jacket pocket). I think I have the space, but I can't really buy much of anything else.
Hmm. I wonder if the blue sky means I'll actually see sun today? I mean, I'm traveling ~2 hours away (by public transit), so it's possible!
Wee! I was amused to note last night that something about the time I've spent here made my brain feel like SF is just a really really big college campus. Probably due to a combination of the sheer variety of the things I have been doing and the amount of walking I've been doing (I am always pleased by how fast my leg muscles adjust to an increase in walking) - I haven't mostly traveled by walking and pubic transit since college. Of course, the wandering on Valencia street that I did with
rosefox and sinboy rather stopped the feeling of college campus - I am _not_ a city dweller, and walking to where I was meeting them made me a tiny bit nervous (there were lights everywhere, but the thing is that everywhere else I'd gone on my own thus far, I went to in the daytime). But! Bookstores. :) A not-open-anymore Good Vibes, too, but not being open makes for pretty much no opinion of the place.
