My Little Trip to San Francisco

Last week-end we went to visit my son, Brian, in San Francisco. He's got a job out there now, so we wanted to see him, his office, new apartment, and a few sights, too.

The trip started out great. The flight was awesome. The pilot was handing out little cards to everyone as they got on the plane. I kidded with him as I took mine "Is this a cocktail token?" I asked. It took him by surprise, he didn't know what to say. At the end of the flight, right before landing, he announces over the load speaker, "As you were entering the aircraft I handed everyone a little card with details about our aircraft. On one of those cards in my signature.Would that person please push your call button, because you win a bottle of wine" Well, what do you know. I won!

My son lives in the famous Mission District . It has a lot of Mexican influence. There are a lot of murals painted on the buildings. Can you find me in this one?

Lot's of street cars. They even had old ones from other countries. I recognised the ones from Milan. They're bright orange.

Brian took us up to Twin Peaks to get an awesome view of the whole city.

Then we went to see the Golden Gate Bridge. It just celebrated it's 75th year. Happy anniversary!

Bottomless mimosa's at one Brian's favorite watering holes. And they just kept filling those up!


Alcatraz Island.

Here's a video of the wild and crazy 10K race, Bay 2 Breakers After the runners start everyone else follows them dressed in costume (or barely dressed at all) while drinking (and I don't mean water) as much as they possibly can. So we followed them, too. I learned that nudity is legal in S.F. as long as you don't do anything lewd or obscene. Thousands of people turned out. I don't think I've ever seen so many young people, the average age must have been 26.

This is the view from Brian's office cafeteria. That's the Oakland Bay Bridge. The weather was beautiful , like this,everyday.

We stopped to rest in one of the beautiful parks along the way. This was our favorite male costume at the race. His little dog's name was Harold.

Here's a pic of my wine again, cause I can't figure out how to delete it!


This was our favorite girl costume!


Another mural in Brian's neighborhood.

We really liked Chinatown a lot. It's like stepping into China for real. Everyone was speaking Chinese. All the stores and shops were full of Chinese items. Peking ducks hanging in the window. We ended up walking into an little, authentic, eatery. We were the only non-Chinese in the place. The food was so good.

Golden Gate Bridge


What a great trip. We hope to return to San Francisco very soon. Arrivaderci, San Francisco!