Across the Golden Gate Bridge at Sunrise

And a day in the city…

6:30 AM this morning, on my way into San Francisco in my 26-year-old Mercedes 320 E for latte and waffle at Café Greco in North Beach, then swim in Aquatic Park cove (water 52.3° today — I wimp out by wearing a shorty wetsuit— unlike most other hardy cove swimmers),

A SF recommendation: the Maritime Museum at Aquatic Park Cove: wonderful art deco building designed to look like an ocean liner. Great exhibits, including the actual little homemade sailboat that Kenichi Horie sailed single-handedly across the ocean from Japan in 94 days, and came in unannounced under the Golden gate Bridge in 1962…

Then an Irish coffee at Buena Vista Café, then sushi lunch in Japantown, followed by shopping at incredible Super Mita Japanese grocery store at 1790 Sutter St. It’s a staggeringly abundant and exotic (and inexpensive) place to shop; check it out. Then back across the bridge to drop off my chainsaw to be sharpened at Jackson’s Hardware cuz there’s a lot of downed trees on the roads (from storms) to be had for firewood. A productive and fun day in the city that I love.