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Originally Posted by Sainters7
Great flick. I'm still bummed on my one trip to Alcatraz they had the outside perimeter closed off: we wanted to run around there like the big ending in The Rock.
Neutral bathrooms; I'm guessing you're at the Y. Yeah I'd feel a bit weird showering in a neutral change room (unless I had to). Or to wash off my wounds from the surf simulator.
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I did that, it was a blast.
No I'm not at the Y. I should clarify, its a small Gym, so maybe 'Neutral' wasnt the right term, but its private. You go in, you lock the door, you shower and change, just dont take all day because theres only two of them!
So now its Locke's story time! Gather 'round children!
When my wife and I went to Alcatraz we got there and some jerkface knocked this older woman over while getting off the boat because he was an impatient ass, so, I helped the woman up and just started chatting with her.
She asked if we were there for the Tour and we told her that we were and she thanked me for helping her up and asked if she could go on the tour with us. I mean...why not? So we said sure.
If you've ever taken the Alcatraz tour its an audio tour, they give you the headphones and you sort of follow the path, it was so super cool, its an amazing place to visit!
So she tells us: "Leave one of the headphones for the audio tour off and I'll tell you other things."
And then at one point one point when the tour was over she told us to follow her and she was going to show us around places where most people aren't allowed to go.
That was "okay...what is going on here?"
Turns out...she was there on a book tour. She was delivering a speech to promote her book about growing up on Alcatraz. She was the daughter of the last Warden and grew up in Alcatraz.
So. We got a personal tour, we got to see normally unseen things, we got to attend her speech and she gave us a signed copy of her book.
And all of that? Only happened because my wife and I screwed up, had no idea that you really need to get Alcatraz tickets WAY in advance, the only reason we were saved?
We were drinking in a local bar the night before and this young guy realized he forgot all of his money, it was just a beer and I told him not to worry about it and asked the server to just put it on my tab. Turns out we ran into him the next day. That guy worked at our Hotel. We asked him about Alcatraz tickets and he was pretty honest.
"You've got to get those weeks in advance."
But somehow he managed to get us some.
And now you know...the rest of the story.
And he saved our asses getting us a cab to the airport because we'd never heard of the 'Bay to Breakers marathon' and had no idea it was going to be an issue. Solid dude that guy!
/coolstorybro