Ariadne's Thread:

The San Francisco Bicycle Tour!

Featuring:

San Francisco Zerø as: Ariadne

Lank, Blue, Bjorn Teuleuse, Myrna Minx and Non Players as: Theseus

and ♡Minch Niddle♡ as: Hash Slinger

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Shortly after her relocation to San Francisco, Ms. Myrna Minx appealed to local team San Francisco Zerø for a list of favorite places in the city. A great many gems were offered forth. A short-notice invitation to tour a selection of these on bicycle was issued, and Sunday March 8th, 2009 found The Spontaneous (read Lank, Blue, and Bjorn) setting out to create and follow a thread...

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As you might imagine, a large amount of Improvisation accompanied their thread-following and some serendipitous places were added along the way.  They rode roughly 17 miles over hill and dale (mostly hill) from rendezvous point to commencement point (this does not include their treks to the rendezvous point or back home, which admittedly seemed rather long after the eventful day), and visited well over 10 places.

Here's the map of our route.

After fueling with atomic pancakes courtesy of their gracious rendezvous-point host Blue, we went to:


"Defenestration"

our first stop was an abandoned building with wall-crawling furniture escaping from the windows...
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Labyrinth

After braving the steepest of hills we encountered three Minotaurs. But they were quickly laid to waste and with a little haste we made our way through the labyrinth. (and none of us cheated to reach the center sooner)
roar!!!


Cable Car Museum

The pulleys here operate every Cable Car in the city at a constant 9.5 miles per hour. Pretty amazing.
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Union Street Produce Company

Although they make the Fresh Orange Juice right in front of you, we still believe they sweeten it with Crack!


Bohemian Cigar Store

Coffee, Sandwiches, Cinnamon Polenta


There's Lombard Street and Coit Tower!

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Seekrit Tunnle - Shhh!!

we have plans to access soon... Tea Party anyone?!
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West Battery & Cannon

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Palace of Fine Arts

Where everyone lowered their fly in solidarity with Myrna's broken zipper..
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Henceforth and Hitherto!

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Fort Point

Awesome in the actual sense of the word. Check it out.
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Pet Cemetery

A wonderful place for a pick-a-nick or simply to retire.
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Sutro Baths

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Giant Camera

One day Giant Camera...one day
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DeYoung Tower

Which was closed! durn. this is what the bike rack looks like:
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Chez Minch!

The lovely Minch fed the fatigued cyclists tea and delicious Aloo Gobi. They were very grateful.

(Minch Says: I like being the tasking reward.)
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Minch Niddle: Hash Slinger


collapse!


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A long arduous knotty thread was met with smiles, tea, and nourishment at Minch's dwelling. Even though some of her alleged calisthenic apparati doubled as BACK BREAKING DEATH TRAPS, we enjoyed a variety of oddly shaped massage objects.

While the sun went to rest, the four brave cyclists set out to their homesteads and were distracted by the notion of making one last visit before retiring...only to realize that we were painfully sore from the days travels and that a cozy bed seemed much more entertaining.

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