Today was a day for wandering the city. Mostly good, with a few not so good things. In the latter camp is the headache I woke up with: by mid-morning it was gone, but came back in the afternoon stronger, and I finally broke down and took meds after dinner (so I’m an hour in after meds, when it gets worse for a bit). I was really hoping they would lighten up this vacation, but they’ve still been a bit more frequent than I like.
Anyway, back to wandering the city. After breakfast, we drove up to Pacific Heights to see Elaine Magnin, a needlepoint store. Karen got a few canvases there. Then we drove over to the Haight. While Karen and Erin trolled the thrift stores (there are quite a lot of them in the area, including Goodwill, Buffalo Exchange, Aardvarks, and Crossroads Trading, I went over to Amoeba Music and trolled the used CDs. There was one casualty in the Haight: somewhere the book I was reading (“Good Omens”) fell out of my pocket. It left me in a bad mood as I wasn’t done reading it…
After the Haight, we went over to the Mission District. After hitting Out of the Closet on Church St, we walked over to 15th and Valencia (I also lost my scribbled map, so I was going by memory). Karen and Erin had lunch at a Yucitan restaurant, while I walked back to Church to repark the car. After I returned, we walked a few blocks on Valencia hitting a few more thrift shops, including Clothes Contact (Vintage by the Pound) and others. By then we were getting tired, so we drove down to 20th St, where Karen had coffee, and I replaced my missing book at Borderland Books. I then walked down with Erin to near 24th, where she hit her last thrift store.
We then returned back to the hotel, but along the way, I stopped by the Chevron station on Van Ness… which is still signed as Standard to preserve Standard Oil of California’s rights. Reaching the hotel, Erin went back to the room while Karen and I went next door to Sushi Toni for an anniversary dinner. Karen had yummy sushi, I had yumnmy Udon and sushi.
Tomorrow it is “on the road again”. I’m guessing we’ll be in the Davis area by 12:30p-12:45p, and we’ll meet whomever shows up for lunch with us at The Farmer’s Kitchen at 624 4th Street. If you want to try to coordinate, you can call us at eight hundred and eighteen, four hundred and thirty eight, five thousand seven hundred eighty one.
