7 September 2010

In the interest of giving me some additional time walking hills, the Spouse Thingy and I headed for San Francisco again. Bonus: the BART train didn't smell like pee today. Since it's a 45 minute ride from Concord to the place we get off of the train, that's a definite plus.

As soon as we got there we met up with Diva Kitty's Mom for lunch at Max's (who knew Max had a side endeavor? Not surprised it involves food, though...) ...hell, we've lived within 40 miles for years and just now got around to meeting. Stupidly, there are no pictures. We had a camera, didn't even think of taking pictures.

Afterward, Mike and I headed out to walk, and the first steep street we encountered was this one...from the bottom. And we walked up.

Holy carp...the picture doesn't do it justice. It felt a hell of a lot steeper than it seems looking at this.

My knee decided halfway up that it was stupid steep.

But...once at the top we were rewarded with this view (click the image to biggify)...peeking through the buildings, you can see the Bay Bridge. I would guess that on a clearer day, it would be even more noticeable.

We spent about 5 hours walking around, but probably only 90 minutes or so was hills.

Face it, after not too long, walking steep streets fades from a good workout into unbridled masochism. And that's not something in which one should engage publically.

So, we walked around China Town, went to the Cheesecake Factory, and then to Westlake mall for the hell of it.

China Town

Union Square from TCF

Westlake Mall, looking up

There's still a couple of weeks left before the Walk...that's a couple more opportunities to go walk the inclines and see more of the city.

It's a hardship, truly ;)