Circle Pacific 1998/99 - Day 4 - California

• Miles of traffic heading in as we left Yosemite this Labor Day Saturday morning - congratulated ourselves on good timing
• To San Francisco
• Friend from camp can't put us up as offered - just got 30 days notice from her roommates - stayed @ New Central Hostel (Shannon's first American hostel) - segregated dorm rooms (is this church?) - chatted w/ Lucia from Spain
• Dave found an ad for burrito place on Market - yum dinner - been missing texmex
• Walked thru Chinatown + down to piers (up to #29)
• Business park on Embarcadero had awesome grass - took our shoes off to wiggle toes in grass
• Took bus to ??? - driver kicked us off @ end of the line - dark + creepy - eased our tension by sharing a quickstop donut - then this...
• Guy on bicycle wobbles his way past several people in an intersection - starts yelling @ us - bumps Shannon w/ a handlebar as he goes by - turns around saying, "Piece of shit white bitch!" - rants in her face about trying to grab his brake - all Shan can see is that the guy's clothes + bike are worth more than anything she's carrying - thinking about the money hanging around her neck inside her shirt and wondering if Crazy has a gun - anger + defiance from Shan - calming words from Dave, who's trying to pull Shan away from Crazy - we walk away + Crazy loses interest after a few parting words about killing the white bitch - hope he gets knocked off his fucking bike by someone bigger and/or better-armed than me - also hope that this has been the scariest moment of the trip
• Long walk back to hostel - good for calming down - Shan didn't share it w/ her roommates, but Dave did - they were surprised it happened