I took this photo on the ferry ride home last Tuesday. The weather forecasters had promised thunder, lightning, rain, plague of locusts, etc. We got none of that where I was (except for a 5-minute shower once we pulled into Alameda), but the skies on the way home were dramatic and gorgeous. It's an added bonus to an interesting daily commute through the Oakland/Alameda estuary. These cranes, and the ships they load/offload, are monstrously HUGE. You can't really appreciate that until you're right up next to them.


Though it's more expensive, the ferry has it all over AC Transit. Interesting views (and bird watching!), fresh air, and I'm not crammed in like a sardine and forced to either stand (and have my knee cartilage decimated by a sadistic bus driver trying to go from 60 to zero in two seconds) or sit in the usually filthy back stairwell. Plus, I can get a glass of merlot or a Sierra Nevada to enjoy on the way home on the ferry: though more often than not passengers NEED a shot of something to deal with afternoon bridge traffic, there are no snacks (or booze) offered on the bus.


Now if I could just do something about those 8 hours between ferry rides...


NOW GROOVIN' TO: Clampdown from the album "London Calling" by The Clash