Day Two:
Had breakfast at the Loft...
Took a swim in the Merced River (f'ing cold mountain water)...
Reconnoitered back at the billets, rested before the afternoon activity...
Afternoon activity: drove to "El Capitan" (see above), walked to a shady area of the meadow across the way, sat and meditated for 1/2 hour before the most daunting of facades in Yosemite Valley; J. using a variant of Buddism, and me reprising my 70s daliance with TM... Beats the 12-8 shift any day...
Drove the nephew to the Ahwanee Hotel for his 6-10 gig in the main lounge; went back to the billet to get cleaned up before heading back to the Ahwanee in time for the previous posting...
Day Three:
Drove to San Francisco...
Hung out at Fisherman's Wharf...
Apparently these guys like to hang out at Fisherman's Wharf as well.....
Drove atop Knob Hill and looked back...
Drove to Haight/Ashbury, had a microbrew in a pub a block away at the corner of Haight & Masonic...
Climbed the freakin' hill (which J. says was steeper than "Half Dome" back in Yosemite) and back to the car... sucked wind...
Drove to Berkeley to stay with Nephew J.'s lady friend...
Went out to dinner at the Cha-Ya, had the Vege-Tofu Curry w/Buckwheat Noodles -- w/Sake, of course...
Home again home again, jiggity jig...
Tomorrow: Berkely College campus, and then off to Santa Cruz for dinner w/an old college friend...
The day after: the beaches of Big Sur, and then back to Yosemite...
It's been a day...
It's being a week...
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UPDATE: Two more pics of SF, viewed from Fisherman's Wharf:
Alcatraz...
and, of course, the Golden Gate Bridge in the distance...
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