April 27, 2007
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I went for a walk ove lunch today and it was unbelievably warm and beautiful downtown. I walked down the Embarcadero. There’s this puzzling sculpture in front of a new pier they’ve built. It’s a little “Night of the Living Dead” for me:
Then I went and visited Chris and David and Sofi at South Park where they were having lunch. We’re babysitting Sofi again in a few weeks and we’re really looking forward to it. Especially me:
I walked home through Yerba Buena Gardens and it seems like everybody was outside enjoying the sunchine today:
The DeYoung building continues to emerge from the scaffolding. I can’t believe that the ugly WAMU building had this underneath it and that they would ever cover it up in the first place. But there are a bunch of buildings like this all over the city just waiting to be unwrapped.
After work I headed off on the bike up Columbus, through Fort Mason, the Marina, and into the Presidio. I went up Arguello and then turned on Washington where there’s a beautiful viewing platform:
Then I headed up to the Palace of the Legion of Honor. Here’s the holocost memorial. It’s very evocative:
I headed down Geary to Ocean Beach and along the coast and came up on Ulloa. When I hit West Portal, I went through Saint Francis Wood and into Monterrey Heights:
Then I headed up and over Miraloma and up Portola and then up Twin Peaks up to the viewing platform. Gorgeous views for such a pretty day!
Nick got us Yum Yum House for dinner and you don’t even want to know how much of it I ate in a sitting, but it was a whole, whole lot. I’m going to bed early because I want to get up early to go biking in the morning. Big surprise. Total mileage for the day: 36.
