The weather has been warming up and my bike has been calling me. I can't deny a pretty lady. Especially my beautiful Nora!
Nora.
I've been going on some pretty epic bike rides lately. I just moved to this island a couple months ago and I've been taking any chance I have to explore it. I live a mere 10 minute bike ride from the beach. There is a perfect view of San Francisco, I'm pretty sure I'll end up here quite a bit as summer approaches. Last week my friend Janine, my girlfriend Brittany, and I all rode to the abandoned Navy base on the other side of the island. Our goal was to creep ourselves out by hanging around empty buildings and take a picture or two. What I didn't expect was all the AWESOME things we would find. There were a bunch of signs all around that said "bike shop" and pointed whichever way. We finally decided to check out this bike shop. We found this building with signs made out of old bike parts. It was the strangest thing. We walked inside and it was this bike MECCA in the middle of no where! A bunch of kids were being taught about their bikes and a guy came out of no where and gave us a tour. Apparently the place was to help homeless people get bikes.. and while you were at it, you could work towards getting your own bike. Pretty awesome. There was a spot to fix your own bike or get cheap help. I'm pretty sure I'll be going back a whole lot. So far I'm totally digging all the bike places in my community. Every one I've been to so far has been filled with ultra nice people that are actually helpful and don't make me feel so dumb not knowing everything about my bike (yet.) The guy that gave us a tour insisted that we keep riding down the road and find the distillery. A distillery? Who knew! So we did! We rode on down the road. We passed a skate park (what?) and some basketball courts and kept going until we found Hanger One. I really didn't expect any of this. We went in and found out they did alcohol tasting. Um, yes!
I'm not a huge liquor fan, I'm mostly a beer girl but we were here, we were queer, so why not? The entire wall behind the bar was windows that faced San Francisco.. it was pretty awesome. We tasted pear vodka, raspberry brandy, whiskies of all sorts, and this tea alcohol that tasted like honey. To top things off, we had absinthe. Although a lot of it made me cringe (you know, alcohol face) it was pretty good. While sipping one of our many drinks, Janine was telling me about a hula hoop class that goes on every week and is only 2 bucks! I totally want to go. I think the bartender girl overheard us because she opened the giant door to the distillery and said "Hey, you guys wanna hula hoop?" What? YES! There were all these hula hoops just hanging on the wall so we each grabbed one and started hula hooping all over the place. So much fun!
Along with fun bike rides have come a couple new friends, an awesome show and the roller derby. More on this soon enough.
