September 20, 2007

  • Thursday, September 20

    It was still pretty cool this morning but thankfully not as windy as last night.  I rode out Cobett to Portola to Woodside to Dewey to Taravel to 15th Ave and then down to Vincente and Saint Cecilia's .  I'm fascinated by the ornate bell tower at Saint Cecilia's because it's so beautiful and so intricately detailed:

    Then I continued down Vicente to the ocean and came up the Great Highway to Geary and up to the Palace of the Legion of Honor, which as usual looked glorius:

    This is me with the Lincoln Park golf course behind me:

    Then I continued down into Seacliff where I got a nice shot of the Golden Gate Bridge:

    from there I headed dwon into the Presdio.  This is a view to the SW taken from just above Crissy Field:

    And the Palace of Fine Arts from the same vantage point:

    I rode around the Presidio and left via the Lombard gate and then took Greenwich to Steiner to Green Street.  This house must be late 1860's or early 1870's which makes it very old and very unusual for San Francisco because it's got a Mansard roof.  They're working on it and I hope when they're done they will be able to do better than the white on white color palette it's currently in.  I think the left half of the building (over the garage) isn't original and neither is the porch over the front door.

    It's also highly detailed.  What a gem!

    I continued on Green to Polk to Broadway, through the Broadway Tunnel, which is totally scary (eek!!!) on the
    bike even though it's a bike route, to Columbus and then into work.