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At the starting line on Halloween night of the journey<\/a>, we stood in a line that was more than 300 people<\/a> long. Chris and I had left early having prepared early. We had one small hiking backpack stuffed with additional costumes, water and communication equipment (one iphone, two blackberries). I carried my mini pocket muni bus map. I had thrown together a costume that was meant to transform throughout the night. The fox hat that I got for Chris coupled with my bag of cornstarch. Every few seconds, I would try to make my face more white. Chris was dressed as Stan from South Park, although he looked more like a Russian dancer with his glasses.<\/p>\n

I scanned the crowd. Surprisingly, it was very similar to the typical crowd I ran into at other “quirky” events in San Francisco\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe flash mobs, the cupcake camps. All of those. And there was more people than I expected.<\/p>\n

We saw people dressed in ninjas with spots of glittering jewelry, suggesting that they were also gypsies. I saw a girl dressed as a painting. Ghosts, skeletons. But all in black. And all wearing athletic shoes.<\/p>\n

Ta-ching called. He was on the F-line coming from the Mission. I said that we would save him a spot\u00e2\u20ac\u201dif he showed up before we got to the front of the line.<\/p>\n

After more than 20 minutes, we finally got to the waiver table. There I quickly signed my name\u00e2\u20ac\u201dyes, I absolved sf0 of all liability and that I intend to play at my own risk. Then we headed to the next line to get our ribbons and map.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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