Friday, February 17, 2006
San Francisco 17 February
We got up at 4:30 am Wednesday, April 15, to catch our limo ride to Logan Airport. We enjoyed an easy and uncomplicated flight from Boston to San Francisco. Lynn sat next to a delightful lady from Carlisle, MA, part of a large contingent of Coldwell-Banker agents and brokers heading to San Francisco for a company-wide conference. American Airlines provides no leg room for anyone over 5 feet 8 inches, so 74-inch Ken endured the customary transcontinental discomfort. During the flight we watched “Walk the Line,” the cinematic biography of Johnny Cash and June Carter. The acting and singing were excellent.
We drove our rental car across the San Mateo/Hayward Bridge into Castro Valley, just east of Oakland and Hayward in the East Bay, where we are staying with my sister, C’Anna, and her husband, David. Thursday, Lynn and I took a 3-hour hike/bird-walk in Redwood Park, onen of the great East Bay regional parks. Thursday evening, C’Anna and David took us into San Francisco for “Beach Blanket Babylon,” a long-running musical review that incorporates current events (such as the Cheney quail-hunting episode) into a campy account of Snow White’s search for a prince. Today (Friday) we’ll drive down to Fresno to visit my brother Ron and his wife, Susan, and daughters Emily and Katie.
The images show that spring is arriving already in California, though temperatures here have been quite cool (low 50’s by day with frost at night).
We drove our rental car across the San Mateo/Hayward Bridge into Castro Valley, just east of Oakland and Hayward in the East Bay, where we are staying with my sister, C’Anna, and her husband, David. Thursday, Lynn and I took a 3-hour hike/bird-walk in Redwood Park, onen of the great East Bay regional parks. Thursday evening, C’Anna and David took us into San Francisco for “Beach Blanket Babylon,” a long-running musical review that incorporates current events (such as the Cheney quail-hunting episode) into a campy account of Snow White’s search for a prince. Today (Friday) we’ll drive down to Fresno to visit my brother Ron and his wife, Susan, and daughters Emily and Katie.
The images show that spring is arriving already in California, though temperatures here have been quite cool (low 50’s by day with frost at night).
# posted by Ken @ 9:39 AM 
