{"id":782,"date":"2016-10-23T05:12:27","date_gmt":"2016-10-23T09:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/?p=782"},"modified":"2016-10-23T05:54:57","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T09:54:57","slug":"san-francisco-day-1-october-6-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/?p=782","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco Day 1 – October 6, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nick and I have a long history of visits to San Francisco, both individually and together. I don’t know when his \u00a0started, but mine began in 1973, when my friend\u00a0\u00a0Arlene and I decided to take a trip\u00a0to California. Our vacation\u00a0was great fun, and it had\u00a0two elements that stand out in my memory. One was that I \u00a0drove the entire way from San Francisco to San Diego. The other was that I spent much of the time telling Arlene about the man\u00a0I had met a few months before, whose name was Nick. \u00a0Most recently, Nick and I had gone to San Francisco in 2013 to visit our son, Nicholas. I wanted to go back this year, and as soon as our doctors gave their consent, we made our plans. Most\u00a0people’s travel plans begin with places they want to see, but mine always begin with friends and family members with whom I want to \u00a0connect or reconnect.<\/p>\n

I was surprised to find out how much traffic there was on I-95 at 3:45 A.M on a Thursday morning! Ninety minutes later, I was not merely\u00a0surprised, but amazed to see\u00a0what seemed to be \u00a0thousands of people \u00a0on lines to board Jet Blue planes at JFK at 5\u00a0A.M! Find the right line, print your own luggage tag, load your luggage\u00a0onto the conveyor \u00a0belt yourself, and remember to take a picture of your luggage in case it gets lost. And we were more fortunate than most of our fellow travelers: We were allowed\u00a0 to keep our shoes\u00a0on! Our\u00a0\u00a0plane arrived in San Francisco at 10 A.M.<\/p>\n

Nick was able to find a few available hotel rooms for the night of our arrival, but the cost was $800 for the night. Oh, yes, he also found a room in a basement that had a bathroom we \u00a0would have to share with the residents of two other rooms, but that was not going to work for me. I asked my cousin Carol if she had any ideas. She and her husband Cy replied by graciously inviting us to stay with them for the night. I was thrilled, because I knew that we would spend our time together catching up on our Family Tree.<\/p>\n

Carol and I are actually second cousins. Although our grandmothers were sisters, Carol’s childhood experiences were different from mine. She and I met for the first time three years ago, the first time Nick and I visited our son, Nicholas, in San Francisco. Having grown up\u00a0in the borough\u00a0of Queens in\u00a0New York City, \u00a0 I was familiar with \u00a0dozens of relatives who lived within twenty miles. \u00a0Carol grew up\u00a0in upstate New York, so spending time with\u00a0family members was not typical for her. That changed when Carol decided to go to college in New York City. She lived in Brooklyn, \u00a0visited her grandmother often, and \u00a0learned about the Parmigiani\u00a0sisters and their families.<\/p>\n

Carol and Cy took the day off, picked us up at the airport, and took us to their lovely home in El Segundo. After preparing a delicious lunch of quiche and lentil salad, Carol \u00a0sat down \u00a0with me to talk about\u00a0our\u00a0family history. Nick had prepared a\u00a0genealogy chart for her, and I was so pleased to have been able to add to what she\u00a0 had \u00a0known about both her mother’s and\u00a0her father’s ancestries. Then Cy shared his genealogy chart with me. Talk about amazing, he\u00a0can trace his family back\u00a0to the prophet Muhammad!<\/p>\n

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Carol and Cy’s son Cyrus joined the four us for dinner at their favorite Italian restaurant. The chef, who was actually from Italy, was pleased\u00a0to see how much we enjoyed\u00a0his food. We shared an appetizer of calamari and shrimp, and I loved\u00a0my entree of pappardelli with short rib sauce. We shared three desserts, but everyone’s favorite was the zabaglione. After a \u00a0long, fulfilling and happy day, we settled in quickly back at Carol and Cy’s house for the night.<\/p>\n

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