Miscellaneous Debris – Archive

The Bay Bridge (top) connecting San Francisco and Oakland.The Golden Gate Bridge (bottom) connecting San Francisco and Marin County, including Sausalito. Bonus fact #1: The ugly color that the Golden Gate bridge is painted is called “International Orange“. Bonus fact #2: Even though the Golden Gate Bridge’s San Francisco end is inside a park, and […]

One of the rivers that criss-cross Vancouver, hosting a large marina. Mountains in the background. Some clouds. Yes, you can go see for yourself. Click it. It’s fun. The Granville Island Public Market, which I think I mentioned before. As seen from the bridge. I think it’s the same bridge from the last picture.   […]

I was told by several people recently that I don’t post enough pictures of my trip in this here blog. I reckon that this is true, and I think the reason for that is that I think of this blog as primarily a verbal medium. I post pictures when they accompany a story or an […]

It’s Fleet Week in San Francisco. Hundreds of Navy boats moored in the harbor, and thousands of sailors wandering the streets – loud, tattooed and very drunk, they fill the bars. They shout out to each other from across the street when they see someone they shipped with in the past. They drink gallons of […]

The Golden Gate bridge. 3 kilometers of concrete and steel and girders and triumph of man over nature and blah blah blah. You know what I mean. For all that the bridge is a gate into San Francisco and a major transportation hub and all, it’s ridiculously hard to get there and back. It’s in […]

I have taken a minor vow to spend the rest of my time in San Francisco in a state of intoxication. There are simply too many good beers, too many microbewery pubs, too much good stuff to drink. I can hear my mother now (hi, Mom!) going “Don’t you turn into an alcoholic on me”. […]

I drove a lot today. Initially through the highways of Oregon and northern California, but at long last I arrived in golden San Francisco, which might end up hosting most of the rest of my trip. I also ended up driving quite a bit inside the Bay area – I found myself attending a lecture […]