Week-End at San Francisco

After spending most of my week-ends at home sleeping and watching TV shows on my computer, I decided it was time to go to San Francisco to visit a little. It would be shameful to spend 6 months near San Francisco and never go to there. That is why, on Sunday morning (about 11 am...) I took my bike and went to the train to go to San Francisco. It is cool because train is fit out to transport your bike.
So after a little more than one hour, I arrived at San Francisco. Of course, I had already went there for the baseball game, but I had seen nothing except the stadium. Since San Francisco is built on hills and I was not very motivated to climb them with my bike, I decided to go along the coast. All the more, the weather was great and so the bay was beautiful.

So I rode until the Golden Gate Bridge, made few stops to enjoy the sight and take pictures. In fact, I made this ride twice. The first time, I forgot my camera. That is why, the second time I went to San Francisco, I decided to do the same way to take the pictures I had not taken the first time.
So the first time, after going until Golden Gate Bridge, I just went back to the train, roaming a little in the city. The second time, I had been faster, and so I decided to go on the Golden Gate Bridge (I was also more courageous because the way to go to the Bridge is a little difficult).

After a quick stop on the bridge (you do not want to spend too much time there) I went to the Golden Gate Park, a huge park on west of San Francisco. I crossed the park until the beach. Then I moved around the park, stopped once in a while to take a look or rest a little. After a good day, I went back to the train and go home, tired but full of great pictures.

Every day life

After Rebecca left, life in Mountain View became much less fun. Routine set up: Work, movies, TV shows and footing every Saturday "morning". Work became easier and it goes quite good. I tried to fit out a little more my room. My room is still quite empty but it doesn't look like I do camping. I bought a bike. It is cheaper than a car and allowed me to move easier in the area. Of course, my moves are still limited but it is easier to go the the theater or do shopping.

I found a quite good trail to do my footing. It starts near the house and goes to the north until the bay. It is 3.5 miles long. So with the return, it is a good run. It runs parallel the high way so it is a little noisy and the end is surronded with swamp so it stinks a little. Except that, it is nice.

I also started Blues dancing lessons every Monday. It is very cool. It is a couple dance based on lots of improvisation so it is quite fun. It is not so easy because you can do whatever you want but you have to dance with your partner. You have to be very attentive to your partner and try to be clear enough to be understood. Lessons last 1 hour and after it is free dancing until midnight. I also made a workshop during a week-end (10 hours) to get better. It was awesome. We did a lot of exercises to make our dance more varied. And the end of the week end, every one was crazy on the dance floor. That was so good.

I became friend with my colleague Arnaud. We did biking in the hills not far from Mountain View. He invited me sometimes to parties and also a week-end to Lac Tahoe with his friends. It is nice. We went to french events and of course I met a lot of "camarades".

When I had courage enough, I went to San Francisco and did biking in the city. Problem is that San Francisco is not very flat and it is not so easy to do biking. However, the city is great and I had chance to have good weather each time I went there.