Chapter 16
San Francisco, August 2007
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In which our author goeth to San Francisco...
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Fog from the Pacific rolling in over San Francisco. As seen from kitchen in apartment in the Mission District.
Me at the gates of Chinatown. As in the movie "Chinatown" (Polanski).
Intersection in Chinatown.
Mural on building in Chinatown.
The famous Transamerica building in the Financial District.
Union Square, San Francisco. As seen from the top of Macy's.
Left side of Union Square.
The famous cable cars of San Francisco.
The cable cars of San Francisco are one of the few protected moving artifacts of the U.S.
No two San Francisco cable cars have the same colors.
The Port of San Francisco.
Me on my birthday, about to see the San Francisco Bay.
The Golden Gate Bridge. Bridges don't get much better than this.
Fog rolling in over Sausalito.
Sausalito.
Alcatraz island.
Main prison of Alcatraz.
Watchtower of Alcatraz.
Close-up of Alcatraz.
Visitors docking at Alcatraz.
Alcatraz with San Francisco in the background.
University of California, Berkeley. Or just University of California to them.
Berkeley Library.
Berkeley campus tower.
Berkeley campus gates.
Camaro (late 60s) being driven around Berkeley town. Sweet ride.
With Laura (Stanford University), from Ireland also, at party in SF in aid of Burning Man 2007.
Dancers at party.
Random party shot (of course, the flash lit up the otherwise dark room!)
The famous Haight-Ashbury District. Scene of the birth of the Summer of Love in 1967.
Me standing under Haight-Ashbury sign.
At the edge of the Golden Gate Park, with the Pacific in the background.
Me in the naturally formed cave, which is pitch black.
With Laura at Muir Wood, in North Bay.
Laura standing beneath Redwood. They can grow to 300 ft and can live for over 2,000 years.
Redwoods and sky.
At an Asian restaurant in the Castro District.
Driveway to Stanford University.
Stanford University, in Palo Alto.
Mural on wall of church in Stanford.
Philosophy Department seminar table at Stanford. The hot seat.