This one is way out of order…I just realized that I had forgotten to post it on my last day in SF.
San Francisco
Our last day before heading for home. We just had time for a cable car ride before it was time to do. The last time I was in SF, all of the cable cars had advertising for Rice-a-Roni (the San Francisco treat), and this time I didn’t see any. Upon reflection, I wonder if the stuff even exists any more, and if it does, if anyone would admit to eating it. The cable car must have seemed like an incredible improved over having horses drag wagons up and down those hills; it is said that the motivation for inventing it was a horrible accident in which a horse fell.
While SF would be a beautiful city to live in, in many way, I find it to be a city of uncomfortable contrasts. The weather is lovely, and so many plants grow easily here that it would be a great place to garden. The architecture is very interesting as the climate allows for much more innovation than we are used to. I find the number of apparently mentally ill people on the street very depressing, also the large number of people sleeping on the street. We saw a man hitting himself in the head and yelling, “fuck, fuck”, and a woman stamping on the sidewalk and yelling, trying to kill something that only she could see. I don’t know what the solution is, but there must be a better way to keep people safe.
Can you imagine the dung problem if big cities still used horses a D horse drawn carriages? Although in an ironic twist they’d still be quicker than the new NAIT Metro LRT line!
Something to remind people who long for the good old days…we’d be overrun with manure. Although listening to some political speeches, perhaps we already are.
Indeed