Conceived to raise consciousness about regional ecology. On October first, people from all over the San Francisco Bay Area converged at Civic Center BART Station in time to catch the 10:26 AM train. We boarded the train together and gained and lost people throughout the day. Everyone received a folded map with Bay Area ecological information printed on the back and the day’s itinerary. We were amused by swarms of people with cameras, a psychological performance art piece by Lori Gordon, dance by Nicole Krauch and Jenny Selgrath, participation exercises lead by Levana Saxon and unexpected Hula dance lessons from Hawaiian tourists. Reck Prelinger provided riders with a detailed guide to the local radio frequencies that ride our air waves. Ted Purves, Susanne Cockrell and their son Oliver greeted during the lunch stop with a cart full of fresh pairs, apples, homemade preserves and bread. Among flourishes of activities and story-telling by Bill Owens, we succumbed to all other likely BART activities; we lost our balance when the train stopped abruptly, we napped and wrote in journals provided by Toph Woodward, and we got to know each other. Before we exited the system at 6:30 PM, we'd ridden throughout the Bay Area to the end of every train line.

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