Day 150: tourist for a day

Today was Carnaval, a San Francisco street fair/parade tribute to the drunkenness and ambiguous sexuality that is the real Carnaval in Brazil.

It was loud, it was colorful, it was extravagant, and some floats promoted good causes like going green or were sponsored by schools in the community.

as a parade float sponsored by a school, how did they miss that misspelling of "wanna?"

Also today, by request of a friend who needed a San Francisco tour guide, I found myself riding the cable cars for the first time in some 15 years. Thing is, most locals would never ride the cable car on their own whim considering the steep $5 fare and the fact that other transit is faster. However, as a native of the bay area who works in the transit industry, I felt like such a failure when I had to ask a tourist how the cable car fare structure worked and couldn't answer a simple question as to how the cable cars function. I later found out at the Cable Car Museum.

if you don't know, now you know