Finally, the last and long overdue post on the San Francisco trip...
... which I neglected to finish here. After leaving Green's Restaurant Carmen and I continued walking along the shore through the Marina Green along the Golden Gate Promenade. We kept seeing a big dome in the distance that I wanted to investigate and eventually would. We passed by the Yacht Club and entered Crissy Field. All along our walk we could look out across the water to this thing: Alcatraz Island and Prison.
We were getting tired since we had been walking, with breaks, for hours. This picture represents about as far as we got in heading towards the great Golden Gate Bridge. We started back towards the point where we could hop a bus which happened to be in the direction of the big dome I had seen. Along the way we stopped for coffee at the Crissy Field Center. Nice place - there was an interesting little shop where I bought a book about historical San Francisco and Carmen bought a T-Shirt for her sister.
Then we found the dome - the Palace of Fine Arts and Exploratorium. A grand name for a remarkable complex of Roman ruins built for the Panama-Pacific Exposition of 1915. It could have been a great piece of kitsch, but the effect is stunning. It was intended to be temporary but the architect, Bernard Maybeck, was so effective in interpreting Greco-Roman architecture that it has been carefully remodelled with permanent materials. I loved it, as you can tell from the number of pics I have linked to. I kept imagining all the cheapo sword and sandal epics we could film there for World Civ class.
We walked a few more blocks through an expensive and architecturally eclectic neighborhood and caught an electric bus back to our hotel. I suppose I should have added it to my weird little vehicles post, but it was not little. While we passed through Fort Mason though we saw one of these little things. Oddly enough, we have seen one in North Wilkesboro! Always on the cutting edge here in the land of 'Wilkes.
Effectively it was the end of our trip to San Francisco. Now you know almost everything we saw and did.
... which I neglected to finish here. After leaving Green's Restaurant Carmen and I continued walking along the shore through the Marina Green along the Golden Gate Promenade. We kept seeing a big dome in the distance that I wanted to investigate and eventually would. We passed by the Yacht Club and entered Crissy Field. All along our walk we could look out across the water to this thing: Alcatraz Island and Prison.
We were getting tired since we had been walking, with breaks, for hours. This picture represents about as far as we got in heading towards the great Golden Gate Bridge. We started back towards the point where we could hop a bus which happened to be in the direction of the big dome I had seen. Along the way we stopped for coffee at the Crissy Field Center. Nice place - there was an interesting little shop where I bought a book about historical San Francisco and Carmen bought a T-Shirt for her sister.
Then we found the dome - the Palace of Fine Arts and Exploratorium. A grand name for a remarkable complex of Roman ruins built for the Panama-Pacific Exposition of 1915. It could have been a great piece of kitsch, but the effect is stunning. It was intended to be temporary but the architect, Bernard Maybeck, was so effective in interpreting Greco-Roman architecture that it has been carefully remodelled with permanent materials. I loved it, as you can tell from the number of pics I have linked to. I kept imagining all the cheapo sword and sandal epics we could film there for World Civ class.
We walked a few more blocks through an expensive and architecturally eclectic neighborhood and caught an electric bus back to our hotel. I suppose I should have added it to my weird little vehicles post, but it was not little. While we passed through Fort Mason though we saw one of these little things. Oddly enough, we have seen one in North Wilkesboro! Always on the cutting edge here in the land of 'Wilkes.
Effectively it was the end of our trip to San Francisco. Now you know almost everything we saw and did.
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