SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Short day today. In the morning I got to hop on the ole internet and kill some time catching up on email and paying bills. I was suprised at what a good job I'd done saving money on this trip until I cut the $600 worth of checks that paid for everything.
Kern and one of his sons--they're twins so I've no clue which one--went down to City Hall with me. They actually watched my bike for me while I went in to find out what was going on. I met up with Giddeon Baum who works in Supervisor Aaron Peskin's office and Dave Snyder the Executive Director of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, a group that's done a lot of great stuff in the city. We met up with Supervisor Preskin, who rode cross country several years ago, down stairs and Mayor Willie Brown's representative, Tyrone Jue of the Department of Neighborhood Services, showed up shortly there after.
Supervisor Peskin, made a few brief remarks in suport of the greenway effort and making me sound like a standout guy (he obviously didn't have to put up with me the whole way cross country) before presenting me a Certificate of Honor from the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. That really ment something to me, partially because it was for me personally, not the NBG, but mostly because it was coming from someone who'd been out there. Mr. Jue followed that by presenting Mayor Willie Brown's proclamation declaring August 7th 2002 National Bicycle Greenway Day in San Francisco. I'd have really liked to meet Mayor Brown, as my friend Chris said admiringly, "That guy is such a pimp."
Afterwards I rode back to Kern's apartment and caught up on my relaxing. Kern took me out and showed me some of the city so I could take some pictures.
Kern and my friend Joe Lane would get on pretty well, they've got the same cheerful disposition and coffee habit. A quick anecdote about Joe that might explain a bit of both of them. He and his cousin were out on a backpacking trip and ran out of toilet paper. Joe's cousin suggests using the coffee filters instead. Joe won't hear of it vowing that he'd "use the permits first". Not that I mind being around either of them, it means I end up drinking good coffee.
Tomorrow: Palo Alto
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