Amtrekkin' 2

My last day in San Francisco was wonderful. I had breakfast in my hostel, like usual, with some friends, and then I set off to figure out how to get to Mt. Davidson. I took a bus to the base of the mountain, did the mile hike straight uphill. Whew!

After I navigated my way back to the Green Tortoise I walked down to the Warf, went grocery shopping to stock up for the long, long ride home, and enjoyed my walk back people watching all the while. I got back to my hostel finally and we all hung out in the ball room for the duration of the night, taking in my final day in an amazing city.

It’s been a long train ride home, about 57 hours so far. I was pretty jealous of the brothers sitting behind me who got on last night and got off this afternoon (thanks for those Cheez-It’s, by the way, they’re my favorite). However, it was my choice to do this, I knew it’d be a bit brutal. This whole trip has been a bit brutal: living on my own, on the road, moving fast, and making all my own choices is not easy, but a brilliant learning experience, and insanely fun. Occasionally while walking around a city a huge grin would appear on my face, out of nowhere, just because.

Winterim Fair, where I, and everyone else, presents what they did all three weeks of Winterim is this Tuesday the 24^th at 7 PM at Maumee Valley, so come check it out. Hear some jazz, eat some surely amazing food from the cooking Winterim, check out the Rube Goldberg’s by the Tech Wars Winterim, hear about students experiences networking to other schools, see what others decided to do for Independent studies, and of course come talk to me about my trip, I still have a lot to tell.

Thanks for reading everyone.