Return to Ingress

For the first time in over a week, it wasn't pouring rain and I wasn't overly exhausted or stuck at work after quitting time.  I decided to try my luck once again in the Book of Mormon lottery and played Ingress through parts of the Financial District and Chinatown along the way.  I made some links at the so-called bankers heart statue and got some resonators hacking other portals, but not much love from the sea of green that has surrounded San Francisco since the departure of josh when he hit Level 8.  

I passed by a cable car being attached to a tow truck on the way past the Powell Cable Car turnaround portal.
I lost the lottery and decided to try my luck at Union Square.  I got distracted and traded control back and forth for a while with Enlightened fighter Daravinne for the fountain on the stairs next to the Levi's building.  I placed some resonators on a building where Robert Louis Stevenson once rested and was about to call it a night when
Latrix, a Resistance ally visiting from Minneapolis, announced in the faction chat that they were going to attack Union Square.

I circled back and claimed two portals, assisting Latrix in their cause.  I ran out of resonators and was super hungry, so I gave up for the evening at just over 100,000AP.  

The location services have definitely improved with the latest Ingress build and they added a ton of new portals, including the much needed Millbrae BART/Caltrain station.  I sadly don't have portal keys for my SF Zoo/Doggy Diner portals any longer, so I will need to visit there soon to reclaim them.

Using Ingress as an excuse to go exploring is awesome.  I am around 50,000AP away from Level 5 at this point and getting points and experience is certainly not getting easier.  I kind of like the challenge though and hope the game continues to be fun once I can spend a smidgen more time playing.