After returning home for a short time, I repacked my bags and hit the road again, but not until after a nice Thanksgiving with the family. How good it is to see them again!
When I arrived in San Francisco, I quickly headed to the smoking room after saying many hellos to staff I have met. For a few minutes I just melted at the sight of the painting. Still there and caked in tar from cigarettes. It can be washed so I wasn’t too concerned. The sheer sight of the murals was breathtaking. I remember every brush stroke. I loved being there again.
That night I met Sune, a Danish traveler who was currently located in Los Angeles where he is pursuing a career in movie editing. Parting ways for the night I went off to meet an old friend from the East Coast – Mike.
Mike and I set off the next day to visit the sights, namely the Golden Gate Bridge that I didn’t get to see the first two times, and the fort that sits below it. That night we had a nice exploration at the Wharf and viewed some amazing photographs in a gallery that sits near the water’s edge.
“It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first.”
– Jane Austin and Seth Grahame-Smith, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
“And everywhere people asked him why he was walking through the country. Because he loved true things he tried to explain.”
– John Steinbeck, Cannery Row
“The human mind was able to formulate the idea of a universal calculating machine at the very moment it became obvious that we cannot calculate everything mechanically; that there are questions that we know as answerable only once they have been answered, and not before.”
– Tor Norretranders, The User Illusion
“That is to say, depth is a measure of how many surprises the object has been subjected to in its history.”
– Tor Norretranders, The User Illusion