I just got back from San Francisco. What a city to visit. I’m not sure I’d like to live there, though. Maybe it’s the anything goes mentality.
I think I’m addicted to Jollibee. It’s a Filipino fast food joint that serves amazing spaghetti. It sounds weird, but the sauce is sweet with sausage and beef. Sooo delicious.
In other culinary news, Fisherman’s Wharf smells like crabs. Everywhere you go, it’s crab cakes, crab chowder, whole crabs, half crabs, crab legs, crab withering on the chef’s table next to you on the sidewalk… The smell overwhelms you until you’re staggering like a drunkard at closing time.
I’m clearly not the clubbing type. Engineer. Swimmer. Middle of the day kind of guy. Loves the Jesus. It struck me kind of crazy that parties started at 11p, drinks stopped flowing at 1:30a, and the parties kept going til 11a. That means the prize DJs don’t come on til 7a and everyone’s sober! Wow! I’m toast at midnight, but I did my best to survive 2a the two times we went clubbing. Not likely to reoccur IMHO.
For as much as SF touts its MUNI, BART, and many other forms of public transit, they’re clearly not all that and a bag of potato chips. It seemed like OCTA, but runs twice as fast. That’s nothing to sneeze at, because if you miss an OCTA bus, you’re stuck there between 40 and 90 minutes. SF was about 20 minute’s wait. I kind of wished that all the forms of transit were unified. BARTs are different than the MUNIs, with different fairs and tickets and everything. I am kind of in love with the MUNI logo, though. It’s so psychedelic. So 1960s. So hard to read.
Union Square was a lot of fun. Sucked all the cash out of my pocket, though. A 5 story Macy’s Men’s store!!! What the heck? I was surprised to find that among all the couture men’s fashion was a lot of athletic clothing. I mean a lot. Like tons.
The random art shows in the park were also entertaining. As were the people watching. 
Much more wholesome than, say, taking a walk down Folsom Street, which I found quite startling.
All in all, it was a super much fun trip (with a tip of the hat to Ray).