Arctangential

It’s almost the end of our second full day in San Francisco. We’re having a good time so far: we got into the city around 2pm yesterday, the drive was fine apart from some horrible traffic at the Oakland Bay Bridge. We met my folks near our hotel for lunch (Alioto’s) and walked around the Wharf for a little while. They left to go home and then for dinner we went to a kind of out-of-the-way place called Scoma’s, which was very good.

Today, we first went to the SF Zoo, which is a pretty good zoo, and we enjoyed the visit. I might write more a more detailed zoo entry later, once I see how the pictures turn out. After the zoo, and sore feet from walking, we went over to Chinatown, had some mediocre and touristy dimsum, and then back to the hotel for some rest. Episode I was on HBO, so I explained in detail to Meg (never having seen it) why exactly it was so very bad. After this, a very nice dinner at Bistro Boudin and now, sleep.

One observation from today; either San Francisco is just a particularly beautiful city, or I got very lucky today in my choice of driving, be we got to see some very pretty sights during our drives around the city. On the way to the zoo, we drove along Great Highway, which just follows the shoreline and provides a wonderful view of the beach and ocean. After the zoo, we took Portola down the hill, which allows for an incredible view over the whole city. We must have passed half a dozen people taking pictures from the side of the road. Portola turned into Market, which took us across the very interesting Castro St, and then after Chinatown, a scene in its own right, we drove down Broadway St at night, which boasts a truly amazing array of strip clubs, each having its own multi-story neon sign, many animated.

I hope the rest of our trip is this fun.

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