Vroom, Vroom!

This evening Flannery and I went to a warehouse in West Oakland where a oddly majestic cardboard track made several loops through the air and passed through a cardboard mountain. Watching over the track was the front of a cardboard ship with a cardboard lady on the front. Those scared of spiders may not have enjoyed the giant cardboard arachnid, but everyone would have like to see the tiny cardboard people living in the intricate cardboard mountainside dwellings.

The point of all this papery goodness was to divide ourselves into teams and drive cardboard covered, radio controlled cars around the track. There were four different paths to take, and you had to follow each path to completion to win. My car, The Olde Broad, only made it around a disappointing three times, two of which were on the same path, and one of which was made possible by the helping hands of the crowd after the motor crapped out. My team (Flannery, Lori (a guy from Scotland), Robin (a girl from Montclair)) and I came in third.

Oakland is strange and entertaining and I have the pictures to prove it.