Tried to hit the important green lights this morning so no real observations made. I was walking around 9:10 so I caught the after-9 tai chi class. The weather was nice and really warm. Some commuters were just walking super fast down to financial district. It’s kind of amazing how close everything is. If you [...]
On the way to work struck up a random conversation with another commuter. (Oh and I got the guy-style stereotype all wrong). I was doing a big yawn and she agreed with me, that was the extent of the conversation. Incredible views, though, the rain managed to clear up the morning fog. The Bay Bridge [...]
I even picked up the pace today, and still it was 25 minutes.
A couple of locals in front of me. Like the Marina, where the stereotype (and it’s a proven stereotype) is the blond woman with a ponytail peeking out of her baseball hat, tennis shoes, capris, and a hoodie, here the stereotype is guy [...]
It wasn’t that bright light, but it was an odd haze hanging low over the city. Since it’s so cold, it might have been fog still. Maybe somethign to do with the ground being cold and the air being hot or vice versa?
The hike up the two blocks to Washington Square was an arduous long [...]
Coming out of dentists office, you feel like you have a new lease on life. They take these hard things jammed in your skull and they actually understand it, and can heal it. I mean, never more than in the dentists office am I glad that I was born in the 20th century. Talk about [...]
OK, there are some historical markers that are cool, like the one that shows the sunken and abandoned ships at Embarcadero and Francisco, I believe. Then there are ridiculously lame ones like the one pointing out the original owners of a business building that still looks boring and businessy. I mean, do we really care [...]
Walked from Pine & Polk to the hood last night. Heard sea lions and the fog horn! I can hear the fog horn most mornings. Uneventful walk this morning… took 17 minutes to get from home to the start of financial district. Good to know in general. Very steep streets near Taylor/Jones area.
OK so the donut shop seems to attract the crazies, or at least that was the Martin Luther King Day special. Maybe it’s not the cool 10-types-of-coffee hangout that I thought it was. I checked, and it does have that many coffees available. The folks on the street this morning: every outside table was taken [...]
The sun shines on the cable car rails, and it’s this super bright winter light, it’s kind of amazing. Walking up the hill to Mason, where the cable car swerves off Columbus and up the hill, it’s like ribbons lying on the pavement, shining.
I really appreciated the walk this morning because I had one too [...]
It’s a chilling 48 degrees. The coastal fog (I typed
fag on accident, which is kind of funny) warmed things
up from the bright glare we had yesterday. I’m
starting on a new project: write about my walk every
day on banane_blog.blogspot.com. It’s like mom’s ocean
walk but in the city, going through an italo-chinese
neighborhood.
The hugest thing happened to [...]
Shared an image: Lunch in north beach
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