Saturday, September 13, 2008

Time For Some Touristy Junx

My dad's bike is pretty high tech. Has a fancy navigation system in it and tells you when the trunk or saddle bags are not closed all the way. About two days ago my dad started his bike and it said the trunk was open. But it wasn't and the warning or whatever you call it takes up the whole navigation screen which is pretty annoying. So we took his bike to a Honda dealer because it also due for an oil change.

After dropping the bike off my dad needed to ride on either my or uncle floyd's bike. i volunteered uncle floyd because the last thing i want is a 203 lb lengthy gorilla on the back of my bike. They did looked pretty silly riding together.
Our next stop was the pier. We visited this crazy arcade museum. Admission was free which is my kind of museum. There are some pretty old school games in here and most of them work. The first thing we wasted our quarters on was this old western diorama display. It consisted of some animal bones and a broken down wagon and once a quarter was inserted a fan would blow onto the fabric of the wagon....and that's it. This actually entertained people once...but not this guy.
piano that plays itself...i need to get one of these.
Of course my perverted uncle would check out this viewing box...
For lunch we went to pier 8 or somewhere near it. i got some crazy skewers with assorted seafood and veggies on it. It wasn't spectacular but still good. i should have gone with the crab cakes.
Our next tourist stop was the cable car. Took a ride on one of them for 5 bones and got off at the cable car museum. The idea is so crazy and learned a lot about cable cars. Of course i've forgotten most of what i read but cable cars are the next best thing to trolleys.
This is one crazy city. Ever corner is either up hill or down hill. You would think this would be one fit city....but i still saw fat people.
After waiting for a cable car for 30 minutes we gave up and walked back to the marina to Pier 39 where the sea lions hang out. Silly sea lions...i wish i was a sea lion.
This company is real?!??
The most crooked street in the world. Lombard Street...i wanted to ride my motorcycle on it but my uncle was too chicken. Maybe if i had a GPS navigation system i would have done it by myself. The worst thing is parking sideways on one of these streets. My bike leans over so much its practically impossible to get it up straight again. People kept taking pictures of me too. At first i was like "Wow, i must look pretty cool if they're taking pictures of me..". i then realized they just wanted to catch me wiping out with their camera, bastards.
Because of some traffic a cable car didn't have enough momentum to make it over the hill to grab the cable again so it was stuck and need to be pushed by one of their fancy trucks.
For dinner we hung out with a couple that uncle floyd met in Nigeria. Good eats...mostly boring conversation.

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