I really enjoy your posts, Lloyd! And I also enjoy city walks, as I used to call them, all around San Francisco. I worked at the Exploratorium and lived in the Marina district for quite a while, and I loved being able to walk out the door and be gone for hours. To be able to go farther, walk one way and take a bus back.
As long as I'm here, I'll tell you my favorite walk/hike in the area. From the Ferry Building take the ferry to Sausalito. From there hug the water as you walk towards the Golden Gate bridge, stopping at Cavallo Point Lodge for a snack or beverage. Then across the bridge, heading east through the Presidio, the Marina Green, through Fisherman's Wharf and along the Embarcadero until you're back to the Ferry Building. It's about a 10-mile walk and pretty tiring but so beautiful. Cheers!
Your writings are the best thing on the Internet in these days of nothing but bad news coming from you know where… I love this particular roundabout that you took on foot past all these particularly fun and visually appealing, restaurants bars, cafés, and apartments….Lucky us!
Loved this about the Fillmore and your night out in SF. You just popped up on an email from Substack. It was the video of you swimming in The City coming out of the Buena Vista after imbibing in an “adult beverage”, biking in Bolinas, and in your garden with your potatoes.
I love your spirit, curiosity and joie d’vivre! And now I subscribed.
Looking forward to future posts and looking back at your previous ones. I am not as old as you but in my early 70’s. I have lived up in The Bay Area and Santa Cruz. Santa Cruz in college in the early 70’s, Sausalito in my early career in the late 70’s, and later in Mill Valley and Stinson Beach in the early 80’s. Total great memories of those times! 💓✌🏼
I’m loving the mental images I’m having in my head as I read your words about ducking into live music venues to watch bands. I’m betting more than few minds were blown as you walked through the door. Party on, Lloyd! :)
I really enjoy your posts, Lloyd! And I also enjoy city walks, as I used to call them, all around San Francisco. I worked at the Exploratorium and lived in the Marina district for quite a while, and I loved being able to walk out the door and be gone for hours. To be able to go farther, walk one way and take a bus back.
As long as I'm here, I'll tell you my favorite walk/hike in the area. From the Ferry Building take the ferry to Sausalito. From there hug the water as you walk towards the Golden Gate bridge, stopping at Cavallo Point Lodge for a snack or beverage. Then across the bridge, heading east through the Presidio, the Marina Green, through Fisherman's Wharf and along the Embarcadero until you're back to the Ferry Building. It's about a 10-mile walk and pretty tiring but so beautiful. Cheers!
Your writings are the best thing on the Internet in these days of nothing but bad news coming from you know where… I love this particular roundabout that you took on foot past all these particularly fun and visually appealing, restaurants bars, cafés, and apartments….Lucky us!
Thanks Lloyd. I'd forgotten about the Vanilla Fudge. Great to see the old posters, those were great times.
Those photos! Those shops! Those high-end doorways! Sorry for all the exclamation points but the photos are infused with meaning(s).
My parents met at The Fillmore… and it’s lovely to see my old building in those photos…
Really great photos ~
So much to see in this city...I'll check some of these out, next time I'm there. Thanks for the tour Lloyd!
Loved this about the Fillmore and your night out in SF. You just popped up on an email from Substack. It was the video of you swimming in The City coming out of the Buena Vista after imbibing in an “adult beverage”, biking in Bolinas, and in your garden with your potatoes.
I love your spirit, curiosity and joie d’vivre! And now I subscribed.
Looking forward to future posts and looking back at your previous ones. I am not as old as you but in my early 70’s. I have lived up in The Bay Area and Santa Cruz. Santa Cruz in college in the early 70’s, Sausalito in my early career in the late 70’s, and later in Mill Valley and Stinson Beach in the early 80’s. Total great memories of those times! 💓✌🏼
Wonderful post and photos
SF building details more visible at night
I’m loving the mental images I’m having in my head as I read your words about ducking into live music venues to watch bands. I’m betting more than few minds were blown as you walked through the door. Party on, Lloyd! :)