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David on the Castro! Incidentally, that "Hot Cookie" sign is for a shop that sells cookies. Curiously, mine was not hot, but it was tasty.
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We walked through a lot of Chinatown, which is (I believe) the biggest in the US. Here's the gate!
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A poster for vaccines - public health at its best!
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Me under a giant statue of Sun Yat Sen. Amusingly, my camera's face detection picked up his face, not mine :-)
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Old St. Mary's Church. The text under the clock reads "Son, observe the time and fly from evil."
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A view down a main thoroughfare of Chinatown.
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The old Bank of America building.
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Inside the Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Factory! The flat cookies come out of the machine and then are twisted and folded by hand. We had a fresh one, and it was quite tasty.
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Tin How Temple is the oldest Chinese temple in the US.
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The first public school in California!
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In Portsmouth Square, there was a Falun Gong rally. There were a lot of people around but I didn't see any unrest.
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David in front of the Chinese Cultural Center. (which was closed)
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A monument to Robert Louis Stevenson, who spent a lot of time in Portsmouth Square.
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An electric vehicle charging station! I wish I had an electric vehicle to try it out...
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The San Francisco MUNI had this very cool display of where all the trains/streetcars were. Actually, even the buses are all GPS-enabled - you can see how long until they'll be at your stop by going to a website!
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There were a lot of spiders hanging around in the trees of our B&B. This one built a very impressive web.
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A few blocks down from our B&B was the nicest-looking middle school I've ever seen.
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This house was refreshing to walk by every day :-)
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The obligatory Golden Gate Bridge picture. (well, picture_s_ :-) )
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The towers felt very tall to drive under.
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At the Jelly Belly Factory!
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I'm afraid that this picture doesn't convey the scope and awesomeness of the Jelly Belly factory. But this picture is what you get.
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Portraits of presidents made from lots of Jelly Bellies.
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We're about to take the Jelly Belly factory tour! Unfortunately, cameras are not allowed there. But it was very cool.
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The Jelly Belly-mobile!
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On our way out from the Jelly Belly factory.
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Now it's time for our requisite game of mini-golf. The course was pretty cool - you had to hit it through the windmill.
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David in front of another cool hole.
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On our way back to San Francisco, the toll booths after the Golden Gate Bridge has a neat looking clock.
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One last Golden Gate Bridge shot.
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This shot, however, is where the Klingon Bird of Prey landed at the end of Star Trek IV :-)
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An outside patio at the B&B. We spent a lot of time reading here.
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A comfortable-looking room we didn't spend much time in. Maybe I should have played the piano?
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The front room/front desk of the B&B.
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At the cable car turnaround at Market & Powell streets. The poor driver has to physically turn the car around!
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A good head-on shot of the cable car. We had to wait for a few more to actually ride, though.
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While we waited, these guys were tap dancing to Michael Jackson's Thriller, which is exactly as awesome as it sounds.
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In a cable car, the operator has to grip one lever to attach to the moving cable, and a different one to brake. Coming to a full stop seemed to take two or three hard squeezes which was a little frightening.
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A view from the top of Lombard Street, which is amazingly steep.
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Near Fisherman's Wharf, we stopped by a sock shop we had read about. I was devastated to find that it was closed :-(
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David wearing a curiously appropriate shirt to be visiting a spy shop!
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A map of Alcatraz Island, which is our next stop.
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From the Alcatraz Ferry, a view of the Oakland Bay Bridge as well as a ginormous cruise ship.
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A view of San Francisco from the bay.
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Arriving at Alcatraz Island!
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This is Alcatraz's version of "Welcome!" sign.
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Me below a giant guard tower.
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David in front of some cells. The audiotour was very informative!
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Apparently autobridge (a one-player version of bridge) was very popular among the inmates!
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Ah, if only I had brought a harmonica...
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A memorial to a guard killed in an escape attempt.
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David outside of the prison building. You really get a nice view of the bay and San Francisco!
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A closer view of San Francisco - you can really see how steep the streets are...
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After Alcatraz, we headed back towards Fisherman's Wharf and Pier 39. Here's a nicely decorated bottle of Coke.
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Unbelievably, we found another sock shop...and this one was open! I proceeded to go a bit delirious with joy.
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The famous sea lions at Pier 39.
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Faygo is a regional root beer, best paired with a delicious cookie.
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The California Academy of Sciences has a penguin exhibit!
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I believe this is a clownfish.
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David on the living roof of the California Academy of Sciences. It was pretty impressive with the hills (created to add surface area), although cold.
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The Academy had a rainforest environment which contained a lot of butterflies flitting about.
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Fun fact: I'm terrified of hordes of jellyfishes. Even if they're in a tank.
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Us at the Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park. You can see my camera in the reflection in David's sunglasses!
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The Tea Garden had this surprisingly steep bridge to climb up.
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These ridiculously tall trees are probably redwoods. For some perspective, I took this picture on the ground and had David stand very close.
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A pretty pagoda. I like tea gardens!
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Me in front of a zen garden. It was peaceful.
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A lot of the city buses (especially near downtown) were powered by overhead power lines. Unfortunately, sometimes the connections would come loose, and the driver would have to get out and rehook them. This was particularly annoying when the bus was in
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A statue of the creator of Beach Blanket Babylon. We saw the show - it was pretty funny.
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We visited the Metreon, which is a mall that turned out to be really boring. (apparently it used to be cool when Sony owned it) But they still have the Walk of Game! Here's me with Link's star.
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StarCraft!
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Sid Meier! (he made the Civilization series of games, including Civ 5 which is being played in this house even as I type this caption)
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Final Fantasy!
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Mario, of course!
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Last but not least, Lara Croft!
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We took a bus tour to ride around and relax a bit. Here's Union Square.
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City Hall, which apparently has the fifth-largest dome in the world.
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Our bus tour guide pointed out the funny looking bricks on a lot of these buildings - apparently they were pulled from the rubble of the devastating 1906 earthquake and reused! We had serious concerns as to whether this was structurally sound, but I gues
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A shot of the bottom of Lombard St. - yes, those are cars going down. Brave!
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For one day, it was vaguely foggy in San Francisco. Weather: what the heck?
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Me with some neat modern art at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
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David preferred this modern art.
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But we both liked this mobile.
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This painting by Gerhard Richter really appealed to me. It's called "256 colors". I bought a postcard of it.
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From the tower of the deYoung Museum, you can see the living roof of the California Academy of Sciences. Golden Gate part is pretty!
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The site of Harvey Milk's camera store. Later I read a history of Harvey Milk, and I kinda wish I had done that before seeing the site. Oh well.
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David in another reading nook of our B&B. We didn't spend much time there...
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...but we spent many happy evenings reading here :-)
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This women's building had a giant mural painted on it. Check out the faces on the left and right!
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The San Francisco airport had an aviation museum, which I was quite distraught to find was closed on Saturdays. (come to think of it, I should have taken a "sad picture" under the sign) Anyway, this is a sign for the old Pan Am's Clipper Club.
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