It's time to start winding down now as we only have a couple of full days left so the only thing we were going to do today take a walk along the 606 which is an old elevated rail track that runs for 3 miles just north of the city and has been turned into a linear park. It's a bit of a pain to get to on two buses and don't think it's the nicest of neighbourhoods where you change buses but it was something we had planned on doing.
We didn't set off until about 12.30 because I'm starting to feel it now going out every day, as soon as we got out of the hotel the heat met you, so it was time to get a big bottle of water to take with us. It was a relief to get on the bus as the air-conditioning seems to work on all the buses here the downside was when we got off as the temperature was now around 34c with a real feel of about 36 or 37c. We started off walking but after about 20 minutes or so realized this was not going to be the best idea I've I have had lately even though there are plenty of water fountains to get a drink from the heat and humidity were just too much not to mention the blazing sunshine with very little shade as this trail has only just opened in the last few weeks the trees haven't grown yet. It was time to call it in on this one before we ended up getting heat stroke or something so walked back the way we came, at least it was a nice flat surface to roll on. The odd thing about this track is that it's an elevated railway but there is also the Blue Line that crosses above this one so that is about 40 or 50 feet in the air and runs for about 15 miles like that.
It's also the train we got on to and from the airport but I wouldn't want to live in the apartments that are right next to it because it's incredibly noisy.
By now we were starting to wilt in the heat but as luck would have it there was an Aldi shop on the road near the bus stop so went in there to get out of the sun and cool off. I would have killed for a pork pie or scotch egg but they don't have them in this country so we got a big bottle lemonade and a giant pack of sliced ham and eaten that in the car park all for 6 bucks.
Now it was time to head across the road and catch the first of two buses back, that was a long wait for the first one, I think there were people waiting for it even before we went up onto the 606, at least the next one turned up quicker thankfully but after a couple of stops somebody got on who literally smelled like he had been dead for a while, it was really that bad. We only had to suffer that for about 10 minutes or so and this bus dropped us off outside the hotel so we were back in the cool air of our room by 4.30 and a cold beer.
After cooling off a couple hours we went out to the Target superstore a short bus ride up the road to see if there were any bargains.
When you see how big the store is inside they should run a bus service from one side to the other.
In here we found what I had been searching for, a baseball glove that didn't cost the earth.
So with that complete it was a ride back on the bus 4 stops and into Plum Market which is a bit like Waitrose but cheaper and everything is perfectly lined up on every shelf all time even the fruit and veg is the same, there are lots of people buying stuff but they are constantly making it all look nice. It was across the road then to China Doll for a takeaway to eat back at the hotel after I had got some booze, it would be rude not to.
