Date: Sun, 29 Jun 1997 19:17:35 -0700
Subject: Days 6&7 : Remember Cheyenne
Greetings from Palo Alto again. Beautiful day -again. Unlike MT, the weather is not a major spectator sport down here. It gets quite boring (in a good sense).
Yesterday we went to San Fran. We had big plans. We got there at 11 after about a fifty or so minute drive. We met Juliet, who is one of the people who is organizing the astrobiology academy, at a supermarket where we did some grocery shopping. Then we went up to an overlook of Golden Gate Bridge and had lunch outside of the museum there. Some of us (not me) tried climbing on the statues. After lunch, we got in trouble from the museum for climbing the statues. They also said they don't allow picnics (ie pack up and leave). No favors, not even for NASA.
The no favors part was probably the theme of the day. After the picnic, we went to the Golden Gate Bridge and started walking on it. At the first big tower (there are two of them), we were looking at the view when the cops pulled up and said to get on the other side of tower. We then figured out that there was a guy high up on the wire that had a gun. We ended up walking to the other side - the one our car wasn't on. We couldn't go back to that side due to the little incident. Sound like the Cheyenne trip??
Since we couldn't go back, we decided to take the ferry to Fisherman's Wharp. Slight problem: the ferry was two or three miles away. We hitched hike down there. Our group of fifteen managed to flag down about three or four cars to take us down there - not all the cars stopped at once. We eventually got on the ferry. At Fisherman's Wharp, the drivers went to get the vehicles, which were a long ways from us while the rest of us hung at the Wharp. Then we ate dinner, went to a bar and came home. Not the day I thought it was going to be, but certainly more exciting.
Today we just hung out around here. I got a chance to see the campus. Some restaurants, the Stanford bookstore, and a post office are near bye. It's a big campus. I'd say it's at least four times the size of UM (probably closer to ten). It's also beautiful. It's got a nice clock tower and big oval. It's one of the most beautiful I've ever seen. The grizzly in me, though, and also my common aesthetic sense, still says that UM's campus is a lot better. UM's campus is still number one with me.
Say hello to all that may know me. E-mail ya soon. Now I'm off to play some basketball. See yas.