If you drive across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco towards Marin County you will first hit Sau Salito which is on the right hand side of the highway after you enter the 'Rainbow Tunnel'. Then you keep driving past Sau Salito and exit the Corte Madeira and head towards Stinson Beach on Star Route One which winds its way past The Green Gulch Zen Center and heading downhill towards Muir Beach and at the corner at the bottom of the hill just before you come to Tinker's Horse Ranch, you will find this Tavern called the Pelican Inn.Rudder's County Beer was my drink here whenever my friends and I 'climbed the wall' during our Zen training periods at Green Gulch Farm a ten minutes walk from the Inn. I spent many great moments here in the company of wise men and women who came to grenn Gulch to do their 'retreat'. over a few beers i learned much about life' ups and downs from the likes of my practice teacher Edward Espe Brown and David Lueck, Bill Sterling and Peter Rudnick.
I enjoyed driving the Shoreline towards Half Moon Bay and scavengering the beaches while visiting one of my work colleagues Roy Hamamoto who had a small cottage on the beach and a diving freak. The beach is often littered with seaweeds washed ashore, most rotten and smelly. The water was always cold and uninviting, but offshore there were rocky outcrops that made for a beautiful scenery against the calm Paciffic.
The Haight and Ashbury is a historical land mark in San Francisco as it was the neighborhood where most of the Flower Power actions took place during the Hippie Ers of the sixties and seventies till the eighties and maybe is still going on toady on a small scale. Jimmie hendricks, Janis Joplin and Bob Dylon were among those who hung out they said in these parts which is located a few blocks from the Golden Gate Park, on Stanyan Avenue.I used to house-sit for a friend right on the corner of Haight and Ashbury a building annexed to the GAP dept. store, last that I knew of. I used to have my dinners at Hunan on Haight a popular Chinese Hunan type food in the late eighties when I was there. And I enjoyed the Ethiopian Restaurant across the street from The Hunan too which surprisingly had 'Tosai' and Indian type of pancake made from rice.
I think that was Ms Debra M. waiting for the food at Hunan restaurant, it was her favorite place too. The Haight Ashbury was never a dull place but even during those years when I was hanging out there there more tourists loitering around the place than locals. It was the time of Bob marley and the reggae movement as far as I could rmember where everything was rainbow colored and people were full on vinegar and toasted.
This view of the Koit Tower and the G.G.Bridge in the background is a classic view of San Francisco Bay Area whee on a clear day the colors of the sea and the hills over the Marin Headlands on the opposite side of G.G.Bridge acts as a striking backdrop for the foreground of the City itself.
Lombard Street is San Francisco -- and America's crookedest street. What does this mean? The steep, hilly street was created with sharp curves to switchback down the one-way hill past beautiful Victorian mansions.The best place to photograph the street, is from Leavenworth Street, at the bottom - looking up. You will see cars headed down slowly, daring souls walking up, and down the sides, while the flowers and buildings provide dazzling color. It is truly an incredible sight.
A mild Mediterranean climate provides the San Francisco Botanical Garden the right conditions to grow and conserve plants from all over the world, including plants that are no longer found in their native habitats. There are 55 acres of sanctuary - landscaped gardens and open spaces - and over 8000 varieties of plants from around the world!
I think that was Ms Debra M. waiting for the food at Hunan restaurant, it was her favorite place too. The Haight Ashbury was never a dull place but even during those years when I was hanging out there there more tourists loitering around the place than locals. It was the time of Bob marley and the reggae movement as far as I could rmember where everything was rainbow colored and people were full on vinegar and toasted.
This view of the Koit Tower and the G.G.Bridge in the background is a classic view of San Francisco Bay Area whee on a clear day the colors of the sea and the hills over the Marin Headlands on the opposite side of G.G.Bridge acts as a striking backdrop for the foreground of the City itself.
Lombard Street is San Francisco -- and America's crookedest street. What does this mean? The steep, hilly street was created with sharp curves to switchback down the one-way hill past beautiful Victorian mansions.The best place to photograph the street, is from Leavenworth Street, at the bottom - looking up. You will see cars headed down slowly, daring souls walking up, and down the sides, while the flowers and buildings provide dazzling color. It is truly an incredible sight.
A mild Mediterranean climate provides the San Francisco Botanical Garden the right conditions to grow and conserve plants from all over the world, including plants that are no longer found in their native habitats. There are 55 acres of sanctuary - landscaped gardens and open spaces - and over 8000 varieties of plants from around the world!
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