nomadic

I had a meeting downtown yesterday and was reminded that not having a car makes things take a little longer. I had not before put my bike (LHT) on the bus carrier, but it was easy and fit without a problem, although I did envision it bouncing off and being crushed as the bus ran over it.

I arrived downtown early for my meeting and sat in the sun in a little park by some government buildings downtown. The weather has been warm so I sat like some kind of lizard warming on a rock and thought about how nice the grass in the park looked. Then I figured out it wasn’t real grass – just a carpet of some sort. Everything not what it seems, I guess. Then I wondered if the trees were real.

From my meeting I rode to the Santa Fe train station to catch the commuter to Sorrento Valley – its called the “Coaster”. Here are some images from that. The station is an old-style kind of dingy train depot, sandwiched in between high-tech (and mostly unoccupied, it seems) office buildings and condos. The place seems to be, like many public hubs, a magnet for all sorts of characters. I saw I think just about every variety of human possible, I think. Here are some images …