Recent Trip to SF

In early October I visited some friends and family in San Francisco. I came with my partner and we met my sister at the Oakland Airport.

During our stay, we saw many of the sites filmed in Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo; The Legion of Honor, Fort Point at the foot of the Golden Gate Bridge, and I drove through Nob Hill where Madeleine's apartment was.

We got a chance to see the fog's silent velvet advance over the Golden Gate Bridge while driving through the Marina. We had breakfast in Sausalito.

We also wine-tasted in Sonoma, visited the De Young in Golden Gate Park, and shopped at used book stores in the Mission District after dining at a wonderful Spanish tapa restaurant.

I think the book store was called Lost Planet.

Also, I got a chance to buy a couple of books at City Lights bookstore. We saw Jack Kerouac Alley, and shopped in China Town.

San Francisco is a very walkable city. We had to park the car in a garage in China Town, though.

I had lived in San Francisco for nine years before moving to Seattle with my partner.