Burning bridges

We drove back from S.F. across the Bay Bridge yesterday afternoon, and there was (as the locals say) hella traffic and detour signs. It turns out the ramp to the 580E, which takes you across the Bay to Oakland, Hayward, Livermore, and eventually L.A., was closed. We crept back across Emeryville to get on track, and could see that a section of the bridge was melted off and hanging down. We found out later that a tanker hat crashed and exploded that morning. Traffic is going to be jacked for months!

Bait-and-switch photo #1. This is not the Bay Bridge but the Golden Gate Bridge, as seen from the W hotel. You can see the Academy of Arts in the foreground. The school is older than the hills, and sometimes advertises in GR!

Bait-and-switch photo #2. Terence and Dan not going across the bridge. We were on our way back to the hotel from a rock show at the El Rio, which is in the Outer Mission. We made a pit stop at El Farolito.

Tangent photo #1. Wendy styles a Girlyfries hairclip and sips a strawberry agua fresca while Pat orders a lengua burrito.

Tangent photo #2. "No one is cooler than" Dan looks forward to a sweaty brow and the ring of fire.

Last time we saw a truck jackknife on the I-5 during the drive home, and now this. I wonder what happened to the driver? The other drivers? Details will come out, and they won't be pretty.