We're done with the E's! And, incredibly, there are no "I" buildings nor any "U" buildings. So, hey, only one more vowel to go! That's something, huh?
We headed off across campus to the Environmental Safety Facility which is pretty much the farthest building to the west. Again, it is way out by the new power plant. I'm not sure exactly what goes on in this building, but environmental safety has to be a worthwhile cause. On the list of buildings on the map, it says "Environmental Safety Facility and ESF Annex," so we felt like we should find the ESF Annex, if only to be thorough. According to the map, it is right next door (see "annex"), but the building itself had no sign. Stupidly, we jogged all the way around it looking for a sign, but there just wasn't one. Is there a Stanford "signage" department we can complain to? We could see in the windows, where there were big yellow containers marked with red lettering saying "danger" and "toxic", so we were pretty sure we had the correct place.
Then, we had to head all the way across campus - more than two miles, according to Ira's pedometer - to Escondido Village. This had to be the longest single stretch in our entire journey, since we pretty much spanned the map west to east. We checked off three buildings right in a row. The first was a pre-school called Escondido Village Center: Rainbow School. I'm afraid I have to quibble with the map again: if you had no idea where you were going and you were looking for "Rainbow School", you sure wouldn't look in the E's, would you? Add this to things we need to discuss with the mapmaker.
We then ran right across the street to Escondido School. Ira made us go in and touch the door to the main office. Again, this is a place Ira knows pretty well, for several reasons.
We headed off across campus to the Environmental Safety Facility which is pretty much the farthest building to the west. Again, it is way out by the new power plant. I'm not sure exactly what goes on in this building, but environmental safety has to be a worthwhile cause. On the list of buildings on the map, it says "Environmental Safety Facility and ESF Annex," so we felt like we should find the ESF Annex, if only to be thorough. According to the map, it is right next door (see "annex"), but the building itself had no sign. Stupidly, we jogged all the way around it looking for a sign, but there just wasn't one. Is there a Stanford "signage" department we can complain to? We could see in the windows, where there were big yellow containers marked with red lettering saying "danger" and "toxic", so we were pretty sure we had the correct place.
Then, we had to head all the way across campus - more than two miles, according to Ira's pedometer - to Escondido Village. This had to be the longest single stretch in our entire journey, since we pretty much spanned the map west to east. We checked off three buildings right in a row. The first was a pre-school called Escondido Village Center: Rainbow School. I'm afraid I have to quibble with the map again: if you had no idea where you were going and you were looking for "Rainbow School", you sure wouldn't look in the E's, would you? Add this to things we need to discuss with the mapmaker.
We then ran right across the street to Escondido School. Ira made us go in and touch the door to the main office. Again, this is a place Ira knows pretty well, for several reasons.
Then we ran back across the street to the Escondite Cottage. We knew were it was on the map, but we never really saw a sign that said "Escondite". We found one door that said "Cottage Room", and I'm sure we had the right place because this is the headquarters for checking into graduate housing in Escondido Village, and we saw all sorts of signs that said so. We even had to run around one grad student checking in with all his luggage, so we wished him good luck. I wonder what he is studying.
That was all for today. Ira is off to Atlanta for a business trip for a few days. If you know of any fun things to do in Atlanta, please add a comment, because he knows he's going to have a few hours to kill.
Total: 4.3 miles (61.1 total)
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