Sunday, April 11, 2010

Olympic Zip Line

It's not everyday that one gets to fly hundreds of feet through the air past San Francisco's Ferry Building. But for the next 10 days, anyone who wants to can cruise along a 600-foot zip line that spans Justin Herman Plaza, watching the Financial District lunch crowd between their dangling feet or leaning backward to check out the Bay Bridge upside down.
The Canadian Olympic folks have set up a free zip line. I went Saturday and ,of course, the line was way longer than I had time for. (but if Monday is sunny ..) How they got this much fun past the liability people must be a story in itself. But don't worry too much, the correct posture of ironic distance will reassert itself toute de suite.

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