{"id":853,"date":"2016-10-26T11:43:43","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T15:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/?p=853"},"modified":"2016-10-26T11:43:50","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T15:43:50","slug":"san-francisco-day-5-october-10-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/?p=853","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco Day 5 – October 10, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a delightful\u00a0breakfast conversation with tourists from Germany, we planned to spend the day at San Francisco’s museums. Fortunately, we checked our tour book and discovered that many of them were closed on Mondays. Plan B was to visit various districts\u00a0 in San Francisco with which we weren’t familiar.<\/p>\n

Our tour book told us about the hundreds of outdoor murals in the Mission District that had enabled residents to make \u00a0statements through art for decades. We figured out which\u00a0bus to take, and we were off.<\/p>\n

We found the majority of San Francisco bus drivers to be helpful and courteous. One even announced, “The passengers looking for the Twitter Building should exit here.” It’s fascinating to see how San Francisco’s buses are set up to enable\u00a0disabled passengers to use them.\u00a0The bus has a fork-lift apparatus that can lift a wheelchair from the ground into the bus. The seats in the front \u00a0fold up to make room for a\u00a0wheelchair, and there are tethers on which to attach\u00a0a wheelchair so that the passenger \u00a0will remain safe during the ride. I haven’t been on a New Your City bus for several years, but I don’t remember anything like this during my bus riding days.<\/p>\n

Nick loved photographing the murals. He has selected a few to include here. He will\u00a0\u00a0have a link to more of them when the blog is finished.<\/p>\n

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\"dsg_3225\"<\/a>Our tour book recommended that we stop for lunch at La Taqueria, calling it “burrito bliss.” Everyone else’s tour book\u00a0must have recommended it, too, because it was very crowded, but many \"dsg_3244\"<\/a>locals were eating there as well as us tourists, which is always a sign that the food is good. I had never eaten a burrito before, and I loved it! \u00a0I had noticed an Italian pastry shop a few stores away, where I thought\u00a0we’d\u00a0get \u00a0cannoli for dessert. Instead we decided to share an almond horn. The customer after us was from Alabama, and he wanted to\u00a0order many pastries that would be his breakfast the next day. I had fun explaining\u00a0the variety of pastries and cookies to him.<\/p>\n

\"dsg_3295\"<\/a>After that, we decided to take another bus to Haight Ashbury, a district that neither of us had ever visited before. There were a few shops that reminded us of “The Summer of Love,” such as those selling tie-dyed clothes, but most people who were\u00a0there then would be amazed at\u00a0\u00a0how upscale the area\u00a0is now. We found a\u00a0coffee shop that sold gelato. Because we had shared the almond horn, we\u00a0\u00a0decided we could share \u00a0a gelato, too.\u00a0Then it was time to return to our B & B for a rest!<\/p>\n

While Nick was resting, Nicholas called. “Would you and Dad like to see my Electronics Club?” he asked.\u00a0\u00a0Of course we would! We decided\u00a0that it would be easier if we went together rather than for \u00a0us to try\u00a0to find it ourselves, so we Ubered to his office to meet him. The Club met in an old factory building in a darker, quieter part of the city. Along our way, there\u00a0were several\u00a0men, and some women, sleeping on \u00a0sheets of cardboard on the ground. I hoped that the city could\u00a0find ways to help them, and that \u00a0they\u00a0will\u00a0accept help.<\/p>\n

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We were greeted at the club by about a dozen of Nicholas’ friends\u00a0who were both very happy to see him, and to meet us. Called Nick by his friends, he was in his element. He\u00a0showed us every part of the Electronics Club’s\u00a0floor of the building, demonstrating a piece of equipment in each area. His friends told us how helpful our son is, and what a great teacher he is, too. Can you imagine how thrilled I was to hear \u00a0this? I thought \u00a0of several of his teachers through the years, especially those who assured me that all would work out well for him. One of his teachers wrote on his report card, “Like a gem, always sparkling.” He was sparkling \u00a0with his friends. As for Nick, he would \u00a0have enjoyed going\u00a0\u00a0back to play with the machines himself!<\/p>\n

It was way past our typical dinner time when we left, but many of the restaurants in the area were already closed for the night. Luckily, we\u00a0found a Tex-Mex restaurant that was still serving. Fish tacos, steak fajitas, and chicken enchiladas satisfied us very well before we\u00a0each went back “home” for the night.<\/p>\n

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