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Trip Report - Part Two
The next day was "Car day."
We drove back into downtown. I wanted to drive the waterfront.
I got lost because of all the one-way streets and we drove by this
place.
I don't know what this is about - but I want some.
We noticed the wacky architecture, a reminder of the Mark Twain days.
Finally we found the Escargot Road, or whatever it's called, that rings
the city.
We drove by the place where Barry hits balls into the Bay.
Barry's going to break Hank Aaron's all-time home run record.
Sidebar: Because baseball is made up of punk-ass, goody-two-shoes,
bean-eating nancyboys, the best hitter in the history of baseball can't
get in
the Baseball Hall of Fame and the best slugger in baseball won't get
in, either.
Sports shouldn't be about vengeful dickhead racists deciding who played
best.
The Hall of Fame should be about the most hits, the most home runs,
etc.
If they're going to decide the Hall of Fame that way, why keep
score?
Why not have a panel of judges vote after nine innings to say who they
thought played better and we'll call that baseball, the
sons of bitches.
Back to the trip report.
We intended to do Muir Woods
the following day, but that big bridge
was calling to me so I called an audible and we headed north.
Funny, all these clouds and no rain?
San Francisco weather is like the opposite of Tulsa's!
That's a nice bridge - even Mrs Bart was impressed.
We stopped now & then to get closer to the ocean.
Look! I see $100,000 homes that sell for $6M!
But then, how can you put a price on a view like this?
So we're still driving around and we came across...
Never before has my motoring progress been impeded by a brood of quail.
Finally we made it to the Muir Woods. Mrs Bart has been wanting to see
this since forever.
Ten feet inside the gate we saw this:
That's a big, tall tree, maybe older than our country.
Strange to think this tree outlasted the American Constitution...
We also saw a giant one of these...
When this bird wants to hide from a predator, it barks out a signal
and the
sun dims and suddenly it's nighttime and that confused its prey (and
me)
Eventually we got tired of nature and headed back into the Big City.
Question, possibly a dumb one:
Why is it free to leave the city, but it costs $5 to come back?
In Okie-homie, you have to pay to move in or out of the city,
so there are at least two differences between San Francisco
and Tulsa.
Click Here for
Part Three - the part where we visit one of the best places in
America.