San Francisco
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Tini, John, and Stephan eat clam chowder near Fisherman's Wharf.
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Stephan, John and Tini in front of Alcatraz.
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John and Catherine outside the fancy restaurant in the...
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Rachel, John, and Jimmy outside the restaurant.
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Arr arr arr! I heart sea lions. Man, disposable...
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John tries driving our big sailboat to the Golden Gate Bridge.
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John with the city and the Bay Bridge in the background.
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Looking up one of the Golden Gate piers.
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Seriously, the clarity from this camera is terrible.
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Or maybe it was just a hazy day.
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More bridge pictures
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Close-up view (or, as close as I could get with no zoom)...
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That coat was HUGE, but seriously necessary for comfort...
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Looking back at the bridge as we sailed back towards harbor.
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Yay.
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John in the happy warmth of the boat.
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Rachel, in an alleyway between 24th and 25th in the...
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Jimmy took me on a hike to the top of Bernal Heights to...
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I slept over at Jimmy's apartment Saturday night, and...
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Since when is sleeping illegal?
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John-the-jedi at Twin Peaks, overlooking (hazy) downtown...
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Nothin' like a good ol' fashioned giant antenna to look...
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We're actually beginning to rock at self-photography.
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Catherine on the top of Twin Peak #2 (or maybe #1), with...
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John and some purdy flares.
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A California poppy (the state flower).
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Catherine getting into some trouble at Sutro's Baths.
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Waves go kabloomy.
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The waves were really fun to watch crashing into this...
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And then, I pushed John in.
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... and he was dragged out to sea.
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And I was merry.
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At the top of a rock overlooking the Pacific, where we...
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Splashy! Also,...
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John climbs out of the damp and fortunately still not...
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We had been sitting vaguely in the direction of over the...
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Beach + water + waves = happy Catherine.
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Pelicans! We were hoping to see them eat some fish. ...
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Where's my bathing suit when I need it?
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Teh Golden Gate Bridge!!1!
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Looking at the bridge from a view not always seen - from...
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Rodin's The Thinker at the Legion of Honor.
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He thinks from both directions.
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Purdy flare. And the spider who lives on him.
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Giant windmill in Golden Gate Park, dating back to 1902.
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John likes Mr. Windmill.
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Mom, just curious - do you know what kind of flower this...
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A bird heading for a bath in Golden Gate Park. Taken,...
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Again - Mom, any idea what kind of duck this is?
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Ah, the bison. We were so excited to see that Golden...
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John with his newly acquired piece of fine art.
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John gazing in adoration at his newest monser.
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Transportation method, poster for male intelligence a la...
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John contemplates Mr. Monster, and debates how much he...
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Get in my belly, teddy bears!
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A study of the bears, for future art projects.
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Goodbye, Mr. Moster. Stay tuned; we may be back for you...
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Larger bedroom on level 4.
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Attached bathroom to level 4 bigger bedroom.
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Bathroom for smaller bedroom on level 4.
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Kitchen as viewed from breakfast area. Built in gas...
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Living room as viewed from breakfast nook/dining area. ...
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Living room as viewed from kitchen area. Gas...
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Looking at kitchen from living room. 12+ foot window...
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Kitchen as viewed from master loft bedroom.
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View from roof deck (north).
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View west from roof deck. Lower building with roof...
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7 am, Thursday morning. View from my bedroom. San...
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Bedroom from doorway.
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Standing at foot of bed.
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Looking from bed back at doorway.
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Dresser.
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New painting.
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"Just keep it under 60" ... sage words from the Delancey...
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John drills a hole in the bottom of the tree for use...
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Yay, a bridge!
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Bridge!
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Be prepared for a lot of bridge photos. This is San...
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Local wildlife.
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I wish I could have taken this 10 seconds earlier, when...
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Nice park within the city.
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Mmmmm, bridge cake.
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Critical Mass! Jay and I are hoping to ride in Austin's...
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More Critical Mass.
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John's awesome parking spots.
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Jay and John sporting hair nets at the chocolate...
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Catherine at the chocolate factory.
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Mmm, chocolate crusher.
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Golden Gate Bridge!
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Bridge!
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Catherine on the bridge!
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Bridge tower!
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John and Jay at Bridge Tower #1.
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Catherine and John at Bridge Tower #1.
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View up Bridge Tower #1.
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Looking towards the sunshine
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John's friend running back across the bridge
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Scary cold water that you don't want to fall into
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A peek of sunshine!
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Midspan! Alcatraz!
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More sunshine
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Hmm. I don't think I want to be around when they...
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Looking back towards the city, through the Presidio.
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Pretty bridge
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Vertically-oriented bridge
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Confused 30/49 MUNI bus
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Heirloom tomato tart with home grown tree oyster mushrooms.
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I think this is what happens when a tree gets leprosy.
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This place called the West Point Inn, which is most of...
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On the hike back down.
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I grew mushrooms! They are tree oyster mushrooms.
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My mushrooms, before cutting them from their spore block.
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Mushrooms sitting in a bowl.
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For scale. Note the gills on the underside.
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Detail of mushroom. Not so bad for my underwater...
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Big mushroom.
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Michael, post half-ironman (50 mile bike, 13 mile run,...
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Monica made chocolate chip cookies (I helped) and also...
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All of the argyle cookies in their diamond splendor.
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Detail of a few of the varieties we decorated.
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Detail on the pink with green and orange. The...
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A few more. The dark brown designs were done with...
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The one on the left was my favorite: chocolate and...
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Uncle Sam, with LEDs.
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At several points, cars moved into the intersection so...
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Uncle Sam, wearing a suit festooned with blinking LEDs.
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Looking north on Valencia around 11pm, from 19th and Valencia.
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Just a view of the apartment building on the southeast...
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Partying on top of a van (I believe the owner of the van...
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Partying in the intersection of 19th st. and Valencia. ...
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3 blocks from my apartment: 19th and Valencia at 11:30...
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Stars and Stripes being paraded through the crowds on...
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Party is beginning to thin at around 1am, but the band...
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Snickerdoodle. Nice and crackly.
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Closeup of a snickerdoodle.
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Another closeup.
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Chocolate mint cookies. Each cookie half was measured...
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Snickerdoodles stacked up to make room for chocolate...
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Mmmmm... cinnamon and sugar.
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Lots of cookies.
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Mmm... more mint cookies.
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I think it was around here when we ran out of mints for...
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Yum.
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The Homer Simpson donut!
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Mmmmmm... sprinkles.
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Another close-up
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And now for something totally different... Ready Made...
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The dough called for 5 different types of flour (one of...
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But the glaze made it worth it: 2c confectioners' sugar,...
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The donuts were then topped with chopped roasted...
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Lemon pistachio goodness...
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John's pesto broccoli frittata! With awful white balance.
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Jesse, taking a break from manning one of the deep...
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An army of peeps march to their toasty smeempy death in...
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Smeeps are done! Ready for eating...
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It's weird their eyes totally vaporize. I was told that...
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A drunken (and slightly crispy) peep, er smeep.
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Monica enjoying a smeep at Oakland International.
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Croissants, fresh out of the oven on Monday night. ...
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Croissant, viewed from the end. Simply long triangles...
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I was trying to capture the translucent flakes on the...
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A croissant morsel, displayed lengthwise to reveal the...
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One more shot of the first 12 to come out of the oven.
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Jesse and Monica pouring 6 cups of sugar into 6 cups of...
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Monica and Jesse making pate de fruits.
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6 cups of sugar, plus a cup of glucose and some fruit...
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John, operating the mixer in the making of marshmallows.
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Making marshmallows.
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Kaitlin and John doing their best to get marshmallow...
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Not an easy job: this stuff had the consistency of...
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Jesse's new Facebook profile picture.
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Kaitlin doing her best to press the marshmallows flat in...
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Stupid marshmallow tricks: Kaitlin and John.
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This task eventually devolved into just trying to eat...
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So dignified.
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Monica, meanwhile, makes peanut butter cups with graham...
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Monica brushed each of these cups with 1/16 of an inch...
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18 out of 24 peanut butter cups complete.
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Jesse, trying to eat the chocolate off the silicone pastry brush.
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Kaitlin, cutting a block of fleur de sel caramel, with...
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Monica eats while Kaitlin makes. (Completed...
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Jesse eats fruit pate, which never hardened right.
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Kaitlin, still not willing to give up on the pate de...
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Dark-chocolate covered caramels with cocoa powder and...
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More dark-chocolate covered caramels with cocoa powder...
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Making fresh corn ice cream! Corn kernels, corn cobs,...
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Fireworks, viewed from my roof. I have no idea what...
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Lots of big fireworks.
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Mushroom cloud fireworks
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Note the hipster (feet pictured) who scaled the...
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A blurry hipster makes his escape (look to the right of...
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Bearded John and Catherine hang out by the fish tanks at...
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Here fishy fishy fishy...
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Uh-oh, I think he heard me.
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This guy is rather scary and ugly.
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Jay checks out the hands-on displays.
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I like all the colors in this shot.
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I'm pretty sure this one tank had every fish in "Finding Nemo".
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Little worms sticking their heads out of the sand.
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Albino alligator (named Claude, apparently).
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Living roof of the California Academy of the Sciences.
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We spent too long watching this pendulum swing, waiting...
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Nope.
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Nope.
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Nope.
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Ahhhhh!
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Guess I'll have to go to the Philippines to see one in the wild.
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John with a stuffed Claude. I think that's a mighty...
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Socktopus? This knit octopus of Monica's had some great...
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Blurry but still cute. Jay and Catherine on...
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Golden Gate Bridge model outside SFO.
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Just another night in the 'hood. Who knows what these...
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John, dressed up for Monica's birthday lunch.
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Ordering a Blue Blazer at 83 Proof. A Blue Blazer is a...
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The Beard Deconstruction Project, phase 0.
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Beard Deconstruction Project: Phase 2.
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Phase 2, post-styling.
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I made vegetarian breakfast sandwiches for breakfast:...
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I made vegetarian breakfast sandwiches for breakfast:...
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John with his brunch.
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Picture of the potato tempeh curry with gravy.
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Monica cooked up some Indian potato curry and dal for...
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Eating dinner at Monica's place.
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John and Ashley at Cass's farewell party to send her off...
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View from Monica's window on a dramatic weather afternoon.
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San Francisco's dump has an artist in residence program...
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Interesting apron made partially from tire tubes.
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Saws turned into pretty attractive looking trees.
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The various compost bins used in San Francisco. Monica...
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My new uniform!
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San Francisco Transfer Station (a.k.a. the dump) is...
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Here, fluorescent lighting tubes are sorted. ...
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Car batteries which contain lead acid are also toxic waste.
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Who knew you could bring books to the dump and they...
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Rugs and carpets are often made with toxic glues and...
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Seagulls happily feasting on the organic matter in our...
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Toxic waste drums. Who knows where these go next.
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Waiting with other members of the tour group to go see...
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No scavenging, watch your kids, etc.
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Up on the hill, workers toss interesting items that have...
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There are lots of hawks about that wait to prey on a...
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So, here's how it works: garbage trucks drive in to the...
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Even a city the size of San Francisco generates enough...
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Hard to believe this is the best solution the most...
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Another overhead chute brings in more trash from a...
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Fun For A Day: Be the garbage bulldozer driver!
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Rawr!
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I try not to think about these trucks in a very...
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Best part of the day: seeing the San Francisco Food Bank...
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Here's an almost brand new bag of baby diapers and...
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A garden grown entirely from plants that were thrown...
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An exhibit in the sculpture garden.
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I think this sculpture was called Car Accident.
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Garden at the Artist In Residence Center. Everything...
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Someone threw away some new looking water fountains.
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Piles of recyclables waiting to be sorted at Pier 96.
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Workers manually pick out plastic and metal from a...
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Technically photography was not allowed here, and I can...
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Can you spot the soda can headed for a paper recycling...
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These workers do not have an easy job. It's hard to...
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The recyclables eventually end up in holding bins...
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I asked one of our tour guides why sometimes one of the...
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1000 lb cubes of aluminum.
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Stacked as high as the forklift will go.
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Interesting tagger handle. View of downtown from Pier 98.
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Mel talks to one of our tour guides at the end of the tour.
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Getting on BART, bright and early at 7:30am. Trix Bunny...
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Waiting for our train to take us to the start of the race.
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Well, bananas normally do come in bunches.
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In my corral waiting to start the race about 5 minutes...
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Getting closer to the starting gates!
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I hadn't gone half a block when I spotted my somewhat...
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All the way to Moscone / Metreon and the crowd has no...
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ZZ Top cover band at the corner of 9th / Howard. I think...
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Catherine, Jay: this one's for you. There must have been...
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Behind the gates wait the floats, which have in recent...
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Looking backwards as I start up the Hayes St. Hill,...
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Here come the salmon. Every year, hundreds of salmon...
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I haven't seen this before. Some wise guys decided to be...
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A bunch of people were wearing costumes that expressed...
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Mile post 4: just past the entrance to Golden Gate Park.
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Runners in Golden Gate Park.
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Jesus saves. I spend.
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At the finish line waiting to cheer Monica on. It sounds...
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Another banana, but not Monica.
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A leprechaun?
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Muppets?
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After Monica and I finished the race, we stretched out,...
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As luck would have it, a block before we were to turn...
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Someone had the largest beach ball I've ever seen.
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Our theme this year was "Bay To Breakfast" so everyone...
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Someone had set up a Banh Mi (Vietnamese sandwich) stand...
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A whole bunch of Santa Clauses with bells were the...
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Trix Bunny and Banana.
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View East down Fell Street around 11 am. Quite a party!
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Banana and Cap'n Crunch.
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Jesse dressed as french toast, which he fashioned from...
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Jesse also borrowed my luchas libre hoodie because it...
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Oh well, I never wanted to run for public office anyway....
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Laura, the fried egg, and the banana.
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Monica the banana.
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Tapatio hot sauce man, and some other hot sauce woman.
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It turns out it's a long way to the beach! Monica ran...
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We finally made it to the Breakers... and so we relaxed...
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A typical cloudy foggy cold summer day at the beach.
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Thomas contemplates swimming but eventually chickens...
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Jesse, with his French beret and Mexican Diablo Azul hoodie.
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Monica and Jon sitting on the beach.
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Jesse and Laura on the beach. Ellen (right) was dressed...
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Me. I really think I look rather disturbing in this...
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A Pabst Blue Ribbon Gladiator? Seems he has lost a boot...
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Waiting for our flight to take off at SFO on Wednesday morning.
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For Rob's birthday, a group of us went to Encuentro, a...
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This also meant that we got to see the Bay Bridge up...
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Old Bay Bridge with Yerba Buena Island in the background.
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John squinting into the sunshine as usual.
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Rob on the ferry.
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Rob and Monica talking on the ferry. Rob just bought a...
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Entering Oakland Harbor. The decommissioned Alameda...
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AT/AT crane from Empire Strikes Back. Apparently this is...
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Alameda Naval Air Station.
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Alameda Naval Air Station
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Port of Oakland!
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There are a few businesses on the old air station in...
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Cruising through Oakland Harbor.
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This dock looks like it is in need of some TLC.
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Sailing! It was a very windy day, must have been fun to...
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Cool looking crane in Oakland Harbor.
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Old Navy crane that definitely doesn't work anymore.
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A dry dock! Pretty sweet.
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This is the best logo I have seen in a long while. I...
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This ship is named Lurline. Like Lurline Lumpkin from...
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That's a kind of clever logo. The T looks like a Ship...
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The title of coolest ship name lasted only briefly to...
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A bright June morning from my bedroom window. I think I...
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Monica at our first barbecue of the season on our roof...
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Barbecue on the roof. We had chicken skewers, grilled...
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More barbecue on the roof! Trevor, Jon, Ian, David and...
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Trevor and Monica at our rooftop barbecue.
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Sunset on our barbecue.
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John taking a self portrait at our barbecue as the sun sets.
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Ashley, Michael, Monica and John (forget the guy at the...
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No more sun! Barbecue is over. Unless we get one of...
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Monica got a new toy.
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I think it's actually bigger than she is. It certainly...
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Making the cheese cake ice cream with blueberry sauce...
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Heidi rearranging the art work at Quiet Canyon. I think...
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" ... and then the contemporary goes somewhere it can't...
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I think we've lost Peter. Are his eyes closed??
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All friends again. Put that computer away and just chat.
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Who is about to intrude on this happy threesome?
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Just checking out the visitors on the couch.
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Now it's a happy foursome.
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And we've been abandoned.
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But still looking happy with dad in his argyles.
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Off to dinner at Betelnut. Heidi with some saki and...
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Couple of beers for the AZ tourists.
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Back at the apartment. John and Monica are exploring...
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Back to serious discussions.
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Hmmm ... guess Meg thinks she's left with the big job of...
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Ben's 30th birthday party at his apartment. Adam Abeles...
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Ben making a birthday wish.
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Thanks to the magic of Groupon, Monica, Rob, Sharma and...
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Lighting the last. The blue gloved hands are mine, as I...
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Jasper bought the plastic dinosaurs at a dollar store,...
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Monica blowing out her candles.
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Dad enjoying a sip of his Rye-based Monte Carlo at...
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Being a little more serious about it.
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The recipe, if you care to make your own. Sorry, no...
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Mom was drinking a Diablo. Alas, no photo proof of that.
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Our chefs preparing to make Saturday night's dinner.
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Dad and Jonathan about to enjoy the Saturday night...
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What's dinner with John and Monica without fresh baked...
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Now we've got the Tortelinni on the table (as well as...
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Move on to Sunday morning and the view from the tower...
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Across from the DeYoung is the California Academy of...
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A better view of the Academy, with the fog lifting a little.
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The parlor at the Inn San Francisco where Meg and Peter...
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The Inn San Francisco dining room in late afternoon. At...
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A view from the 3rd floor of the ISF, with downtown in...
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Looking more to the west, you can see they've on the move.
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Meg looking happy in the Parlor before going out for...
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So which is the better picture? I actually manage not...
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Dinner at RN74. John's mustache is coming into view.
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Guess Monica (across from John) is saying something...
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And the two lady companions at RN74. Lovely restaurant,...
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Not sure which of these I like better. I think the first.
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Looking back towards Rainier.
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Jasper the horse, as we head out for Halloween night.
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Monicasaurus.
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A kinder, gentler Monicasaurus.
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Showing off the tail.
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Jasper the horse and Monicasaurus on Fair Oaks Ave.
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Monicasaurus and John the horse on Fair Oaks.
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John and Jasper walking over to Fair Oaks ave to see all...
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John stopping in for a drink at Heart.
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Trotting down to Beretta. Hopefully they have some oats...
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Eating cauliflower instead.
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Jasper, and crazy neighborhood Omer with his blue...
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Looking at the Bay Bridge from Embarcadero near the...
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Yerba Buena Island and one tower of the west span of the...
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The Bay Bridge from the southeast, taken from the...
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Option B.
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Bridge-en glow!
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Looking back at the city over the wake and through the bridge.
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At this point, the new bridge began to peek into view.
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Unfortunately, the old span of the east bridge kind of...
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Western span.
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While this half is less pretty (I think, especially in...
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Backing off a bit.
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San Francisco, the Bay Bridge, and the Golden Gate...
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Another sunseted cityscape.
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My hope had been to run across the Golden Gate Bridge on...
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All smiles! The construction behind is for a new...
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John and Monica with the city behind.
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It'd be nice to get on this bridge when there are no...
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Sunset over the Pacific.
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Self-photography at its worst...
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If you don't look closely, you won't notice what ELSE...
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Speaking of paint... Looking up the tower, it looks like...
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All the important folks.
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Recreation of a shot Jay came up with when we visited in 2008.
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John and Monica. Next to the tower there was a great...
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Looking at the side of the bridge and the visible arch.
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Big giant truss...
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I'd never noticed this dam around the pier of the Golden...
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Looking up at the GGB hanger cables.
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Bicycles to the right, older gentlemen leading reluctant...
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Yeah, seems about right.
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Expansion joint in the Golden Gate Bridge.
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The lights come on, and we head to dinner...
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The giant 1700T (on water, not land) crane built in...
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The crane from further away. We joked that this was the...
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The Oakland end of the Self Anchored Suspension span (SAS).
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Catherine and Tour Guide Carol inspect the SAS of the...
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Looking at the main tower from water level. Sort of...
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The silver spools on the barge are single bundles of...
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Looking up at the Bay Bridge tower and crane.
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Looking up at the bottom of the SAS, with bikeway to the left.
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Looking up through the space between the two bridge...
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Catherine and John on the boat.
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Looking up at the SAS. Note that this side of the...
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Looking up at the SAS tower. Eventually, when the big...
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The old, the new, and the construction.
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We watched the tower crane (the base of which is visible...
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Looking up at the bent cap at the start of the SAS.
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New skyway and old Bay Bridge.
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Maintenance access to the skyway and in the distance...
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Piers for the Skyway (the part from the SAS to Oakland).
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That is one large expansion joint. Visible within are...
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Another view at the joint. Also, you can see the...
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Looking down the skyway towards Oakland. The horizontal...
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Access holes under the skyway.
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Looking back towards YBI and the SAS.
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50 mph speed limit.
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Repaired span of the SF Bay Bridge. If you zoom in and...
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I thought this view fit in with my "Pathways" series of...
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The off-angle of the hydraulic piston makes this...
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Turns out, the Oakland Bay Bridge has a troll! For a...
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Another shot of the hydraulic piston on the south side...
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The segment that fell from further away.
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And now, from the other side.
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Glancing back at the city from the boat. We were quite...
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Catherine talking with Tour Guide Carol.
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Headed back to the Oakland Touchdown (nothing to do with...
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Remember the spool of wire we saw being lifted to the...
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1700 ton crane custom built for lifting the Chinese...
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Seeing a mirage on the nearly complete skyway, headed...
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After the boat tour came a drive on the skyway to the...
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Catherine walking up to the SAS.
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Bundles of steel cable waiting in line to get strung.
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Closer shot of the steel cable spools.
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Spools of wire wait their turn. On the right, the blue...
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On the steel deck of the SAS.
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Ski-lift type mechanism for stringing steel cables. The...
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Out on the deck of the SAS, looking at the tower.
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A bundle of wires (127 per bundle) gets pulled up to the...
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Each of the cable bundles that are already strung are...
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The cable bundles are taped together to mark and...
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Looking out towards the Golden Gate Bridge from the new...
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John and Catherine are all smiles on the bridge!
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Giving the wire bundles a sense of scale.
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Catherine on the SAS.
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Catherine and Carol on the SAS.
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Approximately 78 bundles of 127 wires that will become...
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John and Catherine.
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That walkway looks more than a little teeter-tottery for...
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John and tour-guide Carol walk towards the main tower.
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View of a maintenance staircase between the eastbound...
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One of the cross-beams between the two spans. We had...
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Bundle of cable waiting to be installed. Each bundle is...
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Again, reminds me of a space shuttle launch pad.
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Catherine is all smiles in front of the new Bay Bridge tower.
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All the necessary details. Each wire was tagged with...
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The orange traveler is I believe what attaches the steel...
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I feel like the tower might actually be a rocket ship...
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Looking down 200+ feet to Yerba Buena Island. Don't drop...
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We are now near Yerba Buena Island, where the SAS main...
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For more info on all this, check out this site:...
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New Bay Bridge tower from the other side.
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Where the cables turn around. The massive steel U-shaped...
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The channels actually force the cable bundles from their...
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This is were the construction of this bridge gets even...
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Remember: the SAS is a Self-Anchored Suspension bridge,...
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Note that each cable bundle has a blue wire and a red...
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The tower shadow on the water so very far below.
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The intermittent white pieces sticking out are the...
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CalTrans Catherine, at the cable turnaround. We're now a...
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Looking towards the Golden Gate. Good thing our tour...
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Steel tension rods 200+ feet long actively pulling the...
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The deck in the SAS is steel, but the Skyway from...
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Looking at the SAS wire bundles, towards YBI.
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Here you have a better view of the rectilinear channels...
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Unlike the Skyway, the approach from YBI appears to have...
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The approach from YBI (actually, this is the westbound...
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Back to the wire bundles. The bundles naturally want to...
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We're still under the deck at the YBI end. This giant...
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The YBI descent again. This is the same structure we...
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Looking back at the old structure.
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And up at it. Sure has a lot of rivets.
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Another look at the old span and its eyebolts.
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Unfortunately for us, right about this time was lunch...
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Happy square bundles of wires. Not that you can see the...
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We are now on the south side, looking back at the tower....
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In the top right, the cable that was just placed can be...
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Better view of the jacking equipment, and workers...
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Then, the hydraulics are released. The CalTrans...
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Looking at the bike path on the east-bound span.
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And back at the deviator saddle. Before lunch, the guys...
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View of the pedestrian-bike path on the south side of...
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78 out of 137 cable bundles in place, headed up the...
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Now this catwalk looked nice and sturdy. I challenged...
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Eventually the main cables get attached to a number of...
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The angled white structures off the side of the deck are...
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Looking down on the top of the hanger anchor assembly. ...
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Another look at the anchor. I wish I had something in...
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The nearly straight cables at the center left run all...
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Closer up.
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Another picture of John and Catherine, with the light in...
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The spare parts yard.
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I hope not.
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Supply yard. It's amazing how much more open this...
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Scaffolding and elevator "shaft" on the south side of the tower.
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The old bridge. Some base paint seems to be showing...
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John's helmet casting a shadow.
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Looking up the tower. Now I need to figure out how to...
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Steel cable bundles waiting for installation.
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Most of these buckets were marked with notes like "do not use".
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Note the conical cable receptacles on top.
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John glances back one more time. Probably the next time...
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A lot of civil piping runs through the bridge. It seems...
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I was amazed by how over-the-road the cables were...
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A second cable-moving trolley.
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Apparently bridge workers like trolls and Angry Birds.
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Steel tie rods where the tensioned cables are anchored...
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I love that even this "small" task has necessitated a...
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One of the coolest parts. This is the anchor for the...
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Each cable bundle has a giant end cast on to it - the...
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The other end of the casing has a threaded hole in it,...
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The hardest part with applying load to anything is how...
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Tour-Guide Carol liked that the workers used the...
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Some unfinished expansion joints.
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Another deviator saddle, where the big cable comes down...
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Looking at the expansion joint between the SAS and the...
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Close-up of one tube (without its mate).
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Looking down to the supports below.
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Driving back in the Mini Cooper.
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John with his drink (hot buttered rum) at Smuggler's...
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Giant awesome anchor on the wall of the bar.
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Catherine and Monica at Smuggler's Cove.
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Our flaming volcano drink at Smuggler's Cove. The blobs...
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The drink with giant straws in convenient straw holes.
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Monica takes a sip.