Target

Last week I figured I needed to buy my own sheets, blankets and pillows because well, the ones we can hire from I-House aren't too crash hot. When it comes to bedding there are a few choices: go buy them at Wallgreens Pharmacy, go to IKEA, go to Target, or buy them second hand.

Target was the cheap but still good option. Now a trip to Target back home would be like a 2 minute drive down Parry to Bull Creek Shopping Centre. Not so in Berkeley. It's a 45 minute bus ride out of Berkeley to El Cerito, where the 52L bus dumps you off in some ghetto suburb bordering the train tracks. On the other side of the train tracks is a vast freeway, and somewhere along the line (but still on the other side) is the oasis called Target.

We bumped into some chic on the bus who actually got on the wrong bus, but decided to come with us to Target anyway. She was probably regretting it 15 minutes later when us three guys started leading her into bushes by the train tracks...

Anyway, basically a massive Target resides in the middle of nowhere. But it sure as hell was worth it. They had trolley escalators! And Starbucks! It also turns out that the chic had a friend who ended up driving us all the way around the train tracks back to the bus stop. Which was really nice, except we had to fit 4 of us in a Toyota Yaris and we each had pillows and other crap.

It was a huge effort, but I got all my bedding gear for $25, which makes it all worth it. Plus I got to use trolley elevators.