Tourists

After living in San Francisco for years, you sort of get used to the tour buses packed full of people. Or the smaller trucks/cars that take people around like Mr. Toad's Adventure Tours. This imagery becomes a part of your daily fabric.

Moving up to Marin we thought we'd leave those days behind us. Apparently not. Now don't get me wrong I am all about tourists! (I cannot tell you how many times that I helped someone get to the Haight from the Cole and Carl N stop.) Our first night here we were standing on our deck admiring our new backyard (which is really water and a marina parking lot). Low and behold a tour bus drove up. Drove around the parking lot and stopped and we could see people run to the other side of the bus and then begin to take pictures, of us. We had become the spectacle. They were here to see the houseboats. Yes, it is an interesting place to live, but this is not what we thought we'd see.

As we have traveled around Europe we have rented bikes, because it is a great way to cover a lot of ground and see a ton of stuff. When we see the Blazing Saddle bikes here we chuckle at how many people must rent them and then deal with the hills in the bay area. Sauasalito is pretty flat, so it makes sense that people would rent them up here. Low and behold people appear in the same parking lot on bikes just sort of cruising around and checking life out down here on our little houseboat marina.

Overall, it is just another added interest in where we live. Not only are we curious about it, our friends and family are curious about it, but so are tourists!