An Adventure

The older I get, the more I relish a good adventure. I used to be kind of timid and hesitant to really break out of my comfort zone, but these days I really get a charge out of it. I like doing slightly crazy things, just to keep people guessing and to keep myself feeling alive. There's something very invigorating about doing something you've never done before.

I've been mulling this over for a while, and today I took the plunge. It all happened faster than I thought it would, but it was quite the adventure, and I even took my camera along so I could show you a little bit of what I saw today. Come with me on my adventure and see if you can guess what I did before you get to the end!

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I left the house at 9:00 this morning, even though I've been fighting a little cold and going to bed around 8:30 the past few days. I went by the ATM and took out several hundred dollars, then I got on the bus and went to downtown Berkeley. I was kind of nervous with all that money in my pocket!

In downtown Berkeley, I got on BART and took it across the Bay to San Francisco.

Once in San Francisco, I walked down from the BART station and picked up this awesome little car from City Car Share. It's a Scion xD - I really loved driving it! It has quite a bit of pep and is a great size. Maybe if we get a car I can convince Roger it's a good one... plenty of room for doggies in the back!


I drove all the way through the city. (That was an adventure in itself.) Here I am on Broadway Ave, if I remember correctly.


Once I got to the northwest edge of the city, it was time to get on Highway 101. That is - the Golden Gate Bridge! You can't see it too great from here, since I was being a not-entirely-unsafe driver and wasn't actually looking through the camera when I took the picture. I just turned it on and blindly took a shot out the window.


Just in case you didn't believe me, here I am driving across the honest-to-goodness Golden Gate Bridge. It was amazing.


I don't have any pictures of Marin, but you'll just have to believe me that I drove up into Marin county, where I got lost. My Google Maps directions were wrong, and I had to wind around in the hills for about an hour before I arrived at some very nice people's house. We chatted for a long while, they gave me some tea, and eventually I got back in the car and was on my way home.

I got stuck in traffic in the city, but it really wasn't so bad on a day like today.


I was waaaay late bringing the car back. Between the hour of being lost, the nice nice people in Marin, traffic, and then having to stop for gas and getting kind of lost again (this time in the city), I was an hour and a half late. I called City Car Share three times to try to extend my reservation, but their system was down every time. I did find out no one needed the car until 1:30, which is when I got it back, so I didn't feel bad, at least. I just hope I can talk them out of charging me a bajillion dollars because I was so late.

After I dropped the car off, I headed back to BART. A really cute French guy stopped me and asked me where Chinatown was. I could tell he was French by his accent, so I started talking to him in French. He thought I was French too!! I totally still got it. That made me feel even happier.

I finally made it back to BART and headed back into the East Bay.


Then I made it home, cargo intact, around 2:30, I think. Huck and Rye were playing it all cool, but I know they missed me.


I took a look at our living room and noticed how asymmetrical the area by the door looked. I was glad I went to retrieve my cargo, because now our living room will be just about complete.


Did you guess what it is yet??

Ok, here, look what I got from those nice people in Marin:


Pure awesomeness is what. This baby goes for almost a thousand dollars new, and I got it for waaaay less than that because their 13-year-old son had outgrown it and he just wanted to get a reasonable amount of money for it to offset the cost of his new one.

I am a speed demon, baby. I'm going to ride this thing all over the Bay Area. It is so fast and light and totally worth however much City Car Share charges me for bringing their car back so late!

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