The next stop had a fellow that proceeded to freak out on the driver as he didn’t have the complete fare, he was short about four cents, and whether he needed to get off a few streets early as he didn’t have the fare. And he complained to all that would listen and all that wouldn’t about how the driver, the city, the people in the city, the visitors to the city, and everyone else in the world and/or universe caused the problems of fare increase. So in the end, I think the driver got what he deserved for his racist and idiotic remarks, and probably will for the rest of his working career.
So we rode the little cable car around the city and back again to the civic center, as that was the last cable car ride available in the city. We got back to the civic center and waited and walked and tried to find the right bus stop back to the RV, but little did we know that we had ridden the last bus into the city at the beginning of the adventure. So after hanging out, and walking from stop to stop, and asking passerbies, and using others cell phones we decided to catch a cab back to the RV. That in itself was a quest as the taxis, for some reason, don’t want to stop at the civic center. So we wandered for a bit till we got picked up by a Palestinian taxi driver and we headed back to the RV. Forty dollars lighter and informed of the thoughts and feelings of an immigrant from Palestine we went and found our respective pillows. I set my watch to wake me up for the first ferry into Frisco and fell into slumber.
The next day I got up and duder was feeling frumpy and bumpy. He was working on a serious ear infection, antibiotics and everything, so he was feeling considerably crappy and was in no mood to boogey on to the city. I heated up a few of the shanghai, as I was starvin, handed him one and stuffed the rest along with the bottle of spicy chili sauce into my little pouch I had. The pouch was the sleeve to the bladder that I had bought at the local surplus store, but the bladder made the water so heinous that I got rid of the bladder and used the pouch to carry stuff in. so I stuffed and strolled, taking hits along the way before I got to the ferry area, and bought the ticket to Frisco.
