Free Breakfast Travel Tip

Free breakfast is probably the best thing that Man has invented. As I walk up to the breakfast buffet I look around and assess the situation, sizing up the competition. Most people utilize the free breakfast in the same manner: eat a bowl of cereal or have a pastry with a cup of either orange juice or coffee the maybe score a banana for the road...amateurs. I realized early on that if you stuff yourself with a ridiculous amount of free food then you can last for three, maybe four hours longer than the free breakfast "amateurs". If you play your cards right you might be able to make it the whole day without having to pay for a meal. Now, there are the side effects so remember that this travel tip is only for those who are unbelievably cheap and slightly stupid.

Day One...

Today we had a little bit of a free day. A guy on our staff has a friend that works at Alcatraz so we moseyed on over to pier 33 and grabbed a ferry ride to The Rock. We took the normal tour, which is pretty interesting. I did not know that a Native American group occupied Alcatraz for about 19 months between 1969 and 1971. Bryan, our super secret tour guide, gave us a bunch of interesting tidbits about the mysterious island. He gave us a play by play of the Anglin brother's and Frank Morris' escape in 1962, as well as a peek at the infirmary where we were able to go into Robert Stroud's cell in the psychiatric ward (Robert Stroud was the "Birdman" of Alcatraz although he never had any birds at Alcatraz, he had birds at Leavenworth). All in all the tour was pretty cool but I must say that Alcatraz is in terrible shape, it's deteriorating fast.

Well tomorrow I have a rough day of free breakfast, building bikes, and reading a book or something, we shall see.