CalTrain

Traveling is good for people. I’m convinced that as much as it benefits our worldview and or cultural awareness, as much as it challenges us or affirms things in us, as much as it’s fun or adventure filled…it’s also a chance to remind ourselves what it feels like to look stupid! (sometimes a much needed ego ass whoopin!) Whenever I travel to new places I always have those moments when I feel incredibly incompetent or just completely dumb! For example today me and Makenna were trying to catch a train to downtown San Fran but we were having trouble finding the ticket station and so when the train was pulling in we had to start running which is also when we realized we were on the wrong side of the tracks. (and as luck would have it, you can’t simply cut across, you have to run all the way around).  We run past a man dressed in a biking uniform, who was nice enough to laugh behind our backs. When we reached the end of the station the railroad crossing signs go down and we see a HUGE sign for a 271 dollar ticket for whoever goes across while bars are down. We count the trip a bust and turn around and begin to walk back when the biker man yells….”THEY’RE UP!” we turn around and the bars are up, so we start running again! We cross the tracks and make it to the other side RIGHT as the train blows its horn and rolls past us. All that’s left when the train passes is the biker man on the other side of the tracks laughing hysterically. Well I guess if nothing else we gave the guy a good laugh. (not to mention we got our morning run in!)