Travel Tips #3

 When you're on a vacation, you must keep moving.  You should try to make every moment count and pack in as many events and as many steps and as many stories as possible.  #1Son and Rachel were here for just a blink, but get this. We did a lot, as you can see from the following bulleted list

• Cesar Chavez Park windy walk, views of the bay
• Sister Pizza in Oakland.  Ooh La La
• Mission Dolores.  DIY tour through the oldest structure in SF (1791)
• Mission district.  Murals and burritos and old book stores.
• Amoeba Records on Haight Street. I didn't go to this part, but records were purchased.
• Monumental Reckoning in GG Park.  Incredible installation.  Quite moving. Dana King = artist.
• SF Botanical Garden. Redwood Grove.  Cloud Forest. Looking for coyotes.
• Thai food next to Lake Merritt.  Sorry I can't remember the name of this delicious place.  We ate outside near some boats.  Beautiful.
• Lands End Hike.  Come on.  This is the best hike on the planet.
• Picnic in Alamo Square.  We used to live on Alamo Square so this was nostalgic, plus, we had great sandwiches from Lucinda's.
• SF MOMA Nam June Paik exhibition.  This exhibition is phenomenal.  Nam June Paik liked to fool around with music and image and technology and really knew how to shake things up. Thanks to CB for the tickets and the friendship.
• Sales Force Park.  This is an elevated park that has been compared to the High Line in NYC.  V. beautiful and relaxing place to chat.
• Dinner at Tropisueno.  Great meal here.  Lots of great discussion of the newly discovered term, "cheugy." 
• Chatting in to the night at the Airbnb.  So fun to have a family together.  And too rare.  

So my travel tips today are twofold.  Do more than you think you can do and feel all the feelings while you're doing these things.