Bike Shuttle

Really beats any transportation across the bridge... is the Bike Shuttle. You need to have your bike, and you can catch it at MacArthur Bart or at the Transbay terminal in SF. It gets you across the bay for a dollar.

At MacArthur Bart, it's located where the passenger loading zone is. At the Transbay terminal, it's located at the end of the first platform on the 2nd floor, to the right as you enter the terminal. It does get packed so you do have to be punctual. They only come once in half hour.

You would have to lock down your bike in three different spots on the shuttle. The guy sitting next to me was a newbie, and didn't do it right, so his bike almost fell off of the shuttle today. Another thing I have to warn is that the people on the shuttle are hipster kids. They can be kind of funky. Today was a particularly warm day. And the funk was kind of intense. Somebody let one out in the shuttle... and I'm convinced that that's why the girl sitting behind me got car sick and had to move to the front.

Other than that, bike shuttle is a nice and relaxing way to commute.

Local Flavor

Local Flavor

Local Flavor was a street food festival in a parking lot near Civic Center. I rolled in with a suit case full of bread and set up my stand. Other vendors sold things like jam, marmalade, sweet parfait desert, dumplings, Indian food, pulled pork, egg rolls, and other hearty yummy food. I was the only one selling bread, and it would have been smart if I had strategically placed myself next to the jam person and the marmalade person. Instead I got a spot next to the organizer, Kathy, who also did the Alamany farmer's market for a couple of decades. She was selling 'elixirs'... (?)

People were extremely friendly and I sold about half of my stuff. Which is okay, didn't make too much of a profit, but I didn't exactly lose money either. At the end, Kathy told me that she'll go and sell my left over stuff at another food event today (Sunday). I think she wants to see if I can sell my stuff at this lady's store. How awesome that Kathy wants to arrange that for me.

For breakfast this morning, I woke up and sliced a couple of slices of the honey-wheat-raisin-sunflower-seeds and made an open face sandwich with avocado and some lettuce sprinkled with old bay seasoning. It was really yummy, and I think I really did do a good job on the wheat. (I got tipped from my mom about how to make the wheat rise more - add honey)


What I made:
Cheddar Cheese onion roll/loaf
Honey wheat raisin sunflower seeds roll/loaf
Sweet potato onion rosemary loaf

I sold out on the Sweet Potato Onion rosemary loaf, and the Cheddar Cheese onion rolls were also a big hit. I think my brown bag packaging was good too. I love my little printer that can. You can pretty much stick anything in it, and it'll shoot something out.

I would want to do more of these. I figured, it's a great way to meet people and get some sunshine. I let people know that my day job is a designer. Dontay, who had the pulled yummy pork stand next to me said that him and his buddy were working on a restaurant, and may need some design assistance. Card exchange. Yay!

bread making

Well, so the conception of this blog and the food making and unemployment were all done through myself and my friend Kelley. A lot of the ideas expressed here are actually things that we were inspired about and discussed on a daily basis. We liked things like food, biking, coffee shops, food, biking, the lake, and jogging.

At the coffee shop event above, I was studying for the Architect Registration Exam, and Kelley came up with the business plan.


This is my current bread making activities. I started to make bread last year, and I'm sort of obsessed with it. I'll see if it goes anywhere.