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At Haight & Ashburn Street, San Francisco  Las Vegas is not the negative I thought it would be. The very large hotels are a tourist experience in itself. For example, the Venetian Hotel has a full scale model of Venice including the water canals and gondola canoes with many upscale shopping stores. Of course there was some places to gamble, but the focus was more on very large hotels and shopping. From Vegas it was a 10 hour drive to San Francisco across the mojave desert past miles of tumble weeds and cactus. Then I visited San Francisco a few days ago and Napa valley. Seeing is not only believing but is really seeing for the first time. Pictures alone are not enough to fill in the live feel of a place. At Haight & Ashbury street corner I saw and remembered the hippie movement that changed me and the rest of the USA. In my opinion the revolution in personal relationships they began has continued to the point that now the breaks need to be applied. In my opinion this is what the Occupy Wall street movement is about as the purpose seems to be to bring back enough regulations to make the economy and job market fair to everyone. The Hippies gave us the freedom of expression we needed, and the Occupiers will give us the regulations we need for fairness. I talked to some of the Occupiers and gave them encouragement and thanks for the price they are paying for all of us. San Francisco is one of the most interesting cities. It is a cross culture intersection of the world. It has, I am told, the second largest China town population. At Berkley University just across the Golden Gate Bridge I talked to the occupiers who were just outside the Berkley Student Union Building. They were peacefully protesting social engineering. Napa Valley is indeed full of wine vineyards. These winery's are sometimes older than I am. Some of the more famous name brand winery's are gone now like Gallo and Inglenook. I saw Robert Mondavi winery. I visited two winery's. Now back in Texas I plan to write and share pictures for some months. |
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As long as you like the pictures I will try to post them. I never knew taking pictures could be fun. They help me recapture the moment. What is also interesting to me is that sometimes looking at a picture I can see what I missed in real time and the reverse what I would miss just looking at the picture.
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I was only blocks away staying with some friends. Someday I will likely be back and if you are available it would be nice to meet. I only got a glimpse of SF over two days. I can not remember a city with such diversity. The financial district was impressive. I loved taking pictures from twin peaks and just going up and down the streets. Riding the cable car from the beginning to Powell street was fun.
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It would be very nice to meet for coffee and conversation. I won't be in Dallas during those days, but in the future I will try to post my itinery.
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I will be in south texas during those days.
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