July 26, 2012
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Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Wednesday I came into work Market to Laguna to Eddy to Larkin to Post to Kearny to Clay to Sansome. Over lunch I look the bus to Kaiser to pick up some prescriptions and then walked home. I started off in Japantown Center where I saw this super fantastic castle I hadn’t seen before. Nifty:
I came out of the main entrance and got a few pics of Peace Plaza:
I’m not sure when they repainted the Hotel Kabuki but I’m not loving the orange long time:
I headed over to the Cathedral. Which I love. It’s just so modern and wonderful:
And it’s super gorgeous inside:
I love the feeling of volume and thrust that the structure conveys:
Me:
The view from the north porch of the Cathedral:
I headed over to St. Mark’s which is kind of hidden because it’s in a dead end alley that was created when the northbound direction of Geary was rerouted to go up O’Farrell. It’s very easy to miss which is a shame because it’s so pretty and it predates the earthquake:
I headed down O’Farrell to Van Ness and got a pic of the pretty former Cadillac Dealership which is now a movie theater and condos. It’s richly detailed and easy on the eyes:
This is the side of the O’Farrell theater which is one of San Francisco’s more notorious strip clubs. Why they have whales painted on the side of the building I don’t know but it’s a pretty mural and I’m not gonna complain:
I walked down to Union Square on O’Farrell. This is the view from O’Farrell and Grant:
I headed over to Kearny and picked up falafel at Ayola on my way back to the office. It’s crazy how good their food is. A little messy to eat but then isn’t everything delicious??
After work I headed off 2nd to Howard to 6th to Brannon and stopped at REI. I was hoping to defer all of it to the fall but my commuter bike is behaving strangely in a way that makes me think something important on the drivetrain is coming looses and I didn’t want to have to deal with that drama so I took it in. They’ve revamped their tune up menu and it seems a little more expensive but for $200 they’ll do everything you practically imaging to your bike including an ultrasonic cleaning of the drive train. They didn’t have the machine that did that back in 2009 when they rebuilt that bike and I’m pretty sure that some of the grime on it is older than people who are old enough to drink. From there I walked home through the Mission for dinner. We finished packing and went to bed early. We’ve got an early flight in the morning. We’re going to a family reunion in Iowa. Stay tuned!
