Journey to the End of the Night: Glasnost by Leslie, Jason Spence, EvilMoFo [TKC], Yellow Rose, Jason Spence
July 4th, 2007 10:57 PM
after waiting a couple minutes, jason arrived ... we then walked to the second checkpoint
at checkpoint 2, we met up with leslie and yellow rose and then went to catch the bus to the next checkpoint
after waiting a very long time, and realizing that we could have walked there by then, we questioned if the bus was even in service ... yellow rose decided to go home and the rest of us pressed on, choosing to move to a different bus line (that would surely be in service), we caught a bus and started moving along the route again
we got to checkpoint 3 and everyone was bewildered by the questions about the morton salt girl, after we figured that we had missed her (and it not be a complex puzzle), we then had the manager sign off that checkpoint
at this point we knew we were behind schedule and there was little we could do about it ... the transit options were not appealing at this point and we walked to checkpoint 4
we arrived to find that the agents had just left, we had the waitress sign our checkpoint and we went to wait for the bus ... after a while, we decided to walk to the next one, so that we were at least moving along the route
at this point, the bus appeared and we had to hail it down ... it was packed so full that we were forced to push our way in from the back, trying to get off of the stairs so that the bus would move proved to be quite a chalenge
after arriving at checkpoint 5 and seeing the lack of movement, we quickly turned our attention toward food as it was nearing midnight ... around the corner, we found a store where we had our checkpoint signed by the clerk
we then went toward the bus stop, expecting it to be late again ... we were nearly kitty corner when it went past on time
with the next bus a few minutes away, we decided to walk to checkpoint 6 ... when we got there, a wooded area with no sign of life, i yelled "charlies in the trees" and got no response
after concluding we were really late, and that we needed to go that way instead of this way, a stranger walked past ... as we were starting to walk away, a lightbulb turned on and we asked him to sign the checkpoint
at this point we walked to the marina, meeting up with lowteck as he was leaving ... we then took a breather and were greeted by sean and ian, who marked our time in a semi official manner
we walked about 7 miles when it was all said and done
At the very beginning
A fresh clean slightly folded paper, before all the signatures from mostly strangers. I think here we were waiting for the 'F' near the ferry building
First we took the trolley
This is at the very beginning, folks. You can see Yellow Rose at the edge of the shot. From this point we were walking toward Coit Tower
At the top of Coit Tower
I didn't actually think I was going to make it here. I was hanging out in an alley for such a long time waiting for the chasers to go away.
the view at coit tower
taken from the north side of the park
the bay bridge from the coit tower
coit tower checkpoint
pacman dumpster
found along the way between checkpoint 2 and checkpoint 3
the stanger for checkpoint 5
since checkpoint 5 was shut down, we went around the corner and got it signed
checkpoint 6 signatures
as we arrived at the end, we met up with lowteck ... he signed our checkpoint 6 line (next to the strangers signature)
at the very end
war torn and tattered list of checkpoints and their signatures
