Alcatraz, Amobea, the Beer&Oyster Festival and Björk
As you can see - a lot of stuff happened during the last couple of days and everything was good fun. We went to our Alcatraz trip right after the baseball game. A ferry took us to the island and the views of Golden Gate Bridge and the San Francisco skyline were truly amazing. I saw the “Escape from Alcatraz” flick with Clint Eastwood as Frank Morris really often - at least 15 times. The whole Alcatraz thing always had some “effect” on me - especially the story of Morris and the Anglin brothers with their successful? escape. So two weeks ago I finally had the opportunity to visit the island. Although it really was a touristic thingy - its basically the only opportunity to get there - it was a fantastic trip. Walking around in the building, checking the various cells and the D-block, the ouside area - cool shit. Especially if you image some guys spending quite a bit of time there and always the lively San Francisco so close and at the same time so far away - strange. And you can also see the cell of Frank Morris and the actual whole he dug into the wall…
Another main trip objective was to check out the Amoeba record store in Haight-Ashbury. What a record store! I spent more than 3 hours there just digging around. They have so much stuff there - awesome. I took a 10 minute video of just walking around the store - unfortunately I cannot up it because I am just unable to get the file off my camera - no idea why. But I am confident to manage that when I am back in Dublin.
I went to San Francisco again yesterday with some team mates to visit the Beer&Oyster Festival. Haha - a taste of Ireland I would say. The sun was shining and it was quite a relaxed atmosphere - with some Guinness as a catalyst…
We didn’t spend too much time there though - we had some tickets for a Björk concert at Shoreline Amphitheatre. Good show! Loads of people and as we bought the cheap tickets we were pretty far away from the stage but still - it was worth it!
This is my last weekend here in California. I am flying back to Dublin on Friday! I uploaded some of my pictures! Check them out!
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Axl O'Evl May 30th, 2007 at 12:58 pm
Ich senn immanoch dai vadda!