San Francisco Bay Area Trip Report III

In order to avoid what Google Maps said would be a very un-rapid rapid transit ride, I Ubered into San Francisco on a Sunday morning to meet a friend for dim sum in Chinatown.

If you get something at one of the take-away places, there is a nice patio above the Rose Park Station at Stocktown and Washington St. where you can eat it. After Chinatown, we walked to the City Lights bookstore:

We didn’t prepare by reading A Black Queer History of the United States, unfortunately, but enjoyed a visit to the USS Pampanito (a couple of days later, a U.S. submarine sunk an Iranian frigate).

“Essential” marijuana is available down by the water, right next to the In-N-Out Burger that was closed by authorities for its refusal to demand vaccine papers (remember that California marijuana stores were open for the entire 18-month period during which schools were closed):

Transportation variants:

Then back to Berkeley for coffee the next morning:

To be continued…