San Jose Fire Stations

This evening I started an on-going quest to visit all 34 of the San Jose Fire Stations (map here). Figured it would be a good way to get some miles on the bike and also learn about my new home town.

Pictures to be posted here.

I visited the first three on a short ride this evening (map here). I'd visited part of the route before, but never the section past 17th street. San Jose is a *big* city. Lots of areas that are completely off the map for most of us Silicon Valley types. The highlight of the ride today was seeing an old Vietnamese lady walking back from the store with her walker/cart full of produce and wearing one of those stereotypical cone hats. It seemed weird to see the hat worn in a non-ironic way, though these days its hard to know. Even if she's 80 years old, she's probably aware of the symbolism and just likes to wear it anyway. :-)