now – where did I put the notes I wrote while in San Rafael? No clue, thought I saved it in notes or email, but then my phone was down to essentially no battery so it could have been completely lost…
Ok – Best stop sign ever. I was in San Rafael. It isn’t all that far from either Berkeley or El Sobrante but since going across the Richmond Bridge is involved, it feels a lot further than it really is. Of note, if you are into bridges – go see the Wiki article on the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge, Seme might want to put the town names in the other direction, but I am in the East Bay rathe than Marin County – so of course “Richmond” comes first in the name.
The bridge – 5.5 miles long in old money has a bike lane on the upper level of the bridge on the northern side. I don’t think I have even not seen bikers and more than the occasional foot traveler happily striding along. For the most part, the bridge is too high for fishing, so that is something you might see only within a few hundred meters of the west end of the bridge.
But anyway – back to the stop sign. I wish we had a number these here in Berkeley.
This one in San Rafael is right at the city offices and courthouse, It has a solar collector at the top. See those red dots on the edges? Those are small light bulbs. They blink on and off, making the sign both attention getting and extremely visible even in bad weather. The intersection is a T junction which, I think, is why the “all way stop” where my mind keeps wanting to put in the standard “all stop” or
“four way stop”
In any case both the drive up and back were problem free. My friends who stayed with us over the weekend successfully navigated BART, SFO, and the rest to head back home to Australia and I am ready for sleep.
