Friday, May 15: Berkeley to San Francisco. (Mid-Day Edition)

Walking to Shattack Street

Good morning all you West Coast wonders and East Coast eccentrics I was awakened around

Nice BIG Breakfast

7 o'clock by my brother we woke up his roommate Marcia. John and I talked for a bit and then I got a call

Sconehendge 4 Breakfast!!

from my friend Molly. It's pretty cloudy and overcast here and it's A cool 54° outside as of 8:57 AM I

It's Bountiful Here!!

got this delicious avocado omelet at a place called gun hinge bakery and restaurant. It was delicious and filling the kind I really needed. Thinking of taking a nap I got a text from Peter Sisson. I'm gonna

Near BART Station

Ready to Board BART @ Ashby

take the BART to Mission Avenue in San Francisco meet him in about an hour that's to be about 1245.

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Well I landed in the Mission district this little deli and got myself an Orangina and an emergency charge for my iPhone.

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on my phone. I'm attempting to save my portable battery for when I really needed. This guy seems to cleared

I Arrive in the Mission District

up a little bit since this morning. Now I'm at a place called La Noisette Café and Deli.

Mission District

The coffee is very average but the little cream it's fine. So I'm going to charge my battery blog out

Cool Public Art

and hit the restroom then I'll be ready to  Peter. I just have to say that the OkCupid out here a lot different

Little Place to Charge My Phone

and a lot nicer here. I have never met him and I probably won't but I'm just saying. There is a healthier life

 La Noisette Café

style and it shows. Let's put it that way thay are quite attractive in my age group! Will I have to contact Peter. The big news 4 this afternoon at 1:11 PM Pacific time is that sentence the Boston Marathon bomber to death.  http://news360.com/article/292886101       I guess it takes over the Amtrak disaster in the 24 hour news cycle. Well Peter met me at 16th and mission. Mission district is nothing like anything I see in Philadelphia.

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Peter

It is inherited the destitute right next to up-and-coming area. You have to be seen to be believed We

Mission District

then went to me vegetarian be at meanies place and I've noodle soup. It was very delicious

Observing San Fran

curry noodle soup. And took me on a drive through different sections of San Francisco. We drove through

Lunch Leftovers

the Castro district went on hate Street and with the Presidio with the military used to have a base there.

Street Scend

I thought Goldengate Park which is very large and very nice. I got some fantastic use of the Golden Gate.Bridge.

Nice View of Downtown

Next we went to a national Park called the Lands End. Exhibition of the Salro baths It was a glorious.

Hills Galore

looking bad right on the Bay. It is no longer there but the remnant support you have to be. It was a beautiful

Golden Gate Bridge

view. We then got pizza coffee and snack why were there and continued onward. There was no way I would

Nice View of the Golden Gate Bridge

be up to see all the sights this year if Peter didn't have a car. Since Peter knew the city, I got to see so

Another View 

many different sights i've been San Francisco before,  but I saw parts of of the city I had never seen

Peter's Place

before in my previous visits. Back in 2003, the last time I had an extended stay in San Francisco, 

Peter in His Year

I walked so much that my knees were for a month afterwards. So behalf of all the readers the Route 55 blog, I want

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to thank Peter Sisson for his time with with me. I would've missed so much of what San Francisco has

Entering the BART

to offer. After the tour, he drove me back to his place. It was very nice and beautiful backyard and

the garage to myself. He did a nice job but the place is well. I'm really glad I got to see the place after 17 years.

Rocky the Squirrel

Peter then drop me off at the Civic Center BART station which is near City Hall and other government

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buildings. I then realized I needed to get home and get a nap etc. I needed to be feeling normal when

More Fun

my family was going to show up starting around 7 o'clock &  8:00 PM. I got home took the meds and took a

Playing Cornhole

nice hour-long nap. That was really a good idea!😄 When I got home I saw Becky and Mimi respective

Aiming for the Hole

boyfriends. They were going to meet Alice at a great place. It turned out that we had a pizza party in the

Here Comes the Pizza

backyard. John it set up some games. One was cold beer pong & The other was called corn hole.

Delicious Pizza

It was basically like shuffleboard but beanbags and you try to put them in the whole three points and the

Chillin in John's Backyard

beanbag on the other side for a point. The corn hole game what's the favorite with her family. We gave

Party Time

played a couple games as a group which included Ale John, Alice, yours truly, Becky, Hannah, Mini and

John's Roommate and her Friend

her boyfriends. John made his backyard to look very festive with Carol colored balloons and napkins.

Marcia and John

We got three boxes of the races pizza with the cilantro sauce. Again the food was excellent. It has been

Becky & Kate

the case during this whole trip. I ended the night by taking a look at old pictures of thinking she was person

Mimi and Shemir

and when she was a toddler. My mother and given her baby book. John them showed  a picture of our

Hanging  Out in John's Backyard

family Seattle in the picture, we were all posing next to on  Rent-A-Wreck boat that we rented. We were

Checking Out Baby Pics

acting all framing and it was a funny memory. I also feature and Amish beard. Then again it was 1983.

John and Becky

The Phillies win the World Series against Baltimore and 76ers won the championship. Moses Malone and famous 4-4-4. The

76ers won all their playoff games except one. That's how long ago 1983 was. Ono very good day was had by all.