Return from Alcatraz

We had no idea what to do, this was the first time such a thing happens to me and my brother. I checked the time and it was 7pm. that means that there is approximately 14 hours until the first boat in the next morning. My brother is unusually calm” We have to find a place to stay at until the next morning” he said, I said “Lets head to the middle of the island and see if we can find something”. The streets were empty and quite on the way there. it’s hard to believe that we are stuck on an island which once was a place for the most known dangerous criminals around. An hour later it got darker, the streets lights turned on... luckily, we reached the middle of the island. Suddenly my brother pointed and said “Look, look there someone is over there”, I looked where my brother pointed at and I saw a person walking, it was like 150 meters away, “Hey, can you help us” I yelled, but he just kept going, I guess It didn’t hear me. It went into the street on the right, so we followed it. We got nearer and nearer. we could see that it was a tall guy with a black jacket on. We yelled “Hello, can you hear us?” still, he didn’t turn around, my brother then touched his shoulder from behind. The guy turned around and said “Oh you scared me, I didn’t know someone lived here” I said “We were calling you since 5 minutes and you were not answering” He answered “Well, sorry I had my earphones on so I couldn’t hear you, what’s wrong” My brother said “We are tourists from Denmark, we came here with the tourists boat from San Francisco but it left without us”. “I was on my way to sail with my boat back to San Francisco shore” he said, “You are welcome to join me if you want to”. We said, “That is a wonderful idea”. On our way to his boat, we asked about why he was still on the island at such a late time, he said that he owns a restaurant on The Alcatraz island, and he was just done with cleaning it and closing it. “Many tourists eat at my restaurant, its very busy because of its important site” he said. We got to the shores and we saw his boat and it was not that big and at the same time not that small. “It takes around 20 minutes to sail back to San Francisco” he said. On the way he started telling us some interesting stories about the prison. His father’s father knew a person named Ben who was in prison, in Alcatraz prison. He even told us that many of the prisoners not were as bad as people thought they were. Of course, they have done terrible things to other people, but maybe there was a reason they did it. It does not make it better, but all people have good things in them. I know that. I hate judging people of what they did in their past, because everyone change at a time in their lives. After a while we finally reached the San Francisco shores, we thanked the man for his massive help and took a taxi back to our hotel. We were so tired after that little adventure but at the same time it was a story I will never forget about.