Bay to Breakers
Posted by Jeff Wed, 21 May 2008 01:39:00 GMT
Have you ever been to a Bay to Breakers? This is the first year that I’ve gone, and I’ll for sure be there next year.
For those B2B Virgins out there - the closest thing that bears any resemblence is a gigantuous frat party - on the streets - for what seems to be the entire population of San Francisco.
If you plan to go next year, there is quite the check list before you go.
Parts of it that I’d give mad credits to:
A) Be in a large group
B) Have a cool theme (ours’ was Team Zissou)
C) Bring lots of beer - we brought kegs in shopping carts
D) Get there early –> it’s MADNESS!
The ‘race’ - this word is definitely not accurate at all … almost everyone is walking or crawling or napping along the way when they are not doing keg stands.
Surely, you’ve heard of people completely naked and running through the streets. Let me assure you that is certainly true. There’s also tons of people on the side of the streets squirting liquids of who-knows-what into the crowd.
So I didn’t actually finish the race - and neither did most of the crowd. I ended up at some park, ran out of booze, and split from the rest of the Zissous to mark the end of a great party.
